Back in the Saddle Again

The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, February 4-10, 2025

Feb 11, 2025

I'm ridin', I'm loadin' up my pistol
I'm ridin', I really got a fistful
I'm ridin', I'm shinin' up my saddle
I'm ridin', this snake is gonna rattle

I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back

Editor’s Note: I build the columns in Substack, then copy them to LinkedIn. Apparently when I put together the February 9 column I finished LinkedIn, then forgot to hit Publish in Substack. Which is the way I found it when I went back to work Monday night. So I hit Publish then-sorry for the delay!

Also, thanks to everyone for your patience as I took the first week of February off to commemorate another turn around old Sol, and supplemented the Perfecting Equilibrium publishing schedule with Best of Perfecting Equilibrium pieces from the archives.

Perfecting Equilibrium Stories

More Ektachrome 100 and the Pentax 17

Christopher J Feola

Feb 7

I shot three more rolls of Kodak Ektachrome 100 with the Pentax 17 half-frame 35mm film camera. In general the Pentax 17 punches well above its weight, but the combination of the 17’s triplet lens and Kodak’s slide film is just magical! Here are shots meant to show the resulting color palette in a variety of light.

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The 2024 election was irrelevant

Christopher J Feola

Feb 11

Perfecting Equilibrium Volume Three, Issue 18

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Buy Me a Cup of Coffee

Easter Eggs

My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.

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