Why is Adobe Lightroom so slow?

Adobe Lightroom is one of worse applications in terms of proper usage of computational resources. I’ve recently upgraded to the latest 5K iMac, quite the snazzy with ‘Kaby Lake’ Intel Core i5 processors and AMD Radeon 500 series graphics, which one would think should chew through Lightroom tasks with surgical ease. 

Completely not the case.

Lightroom ran the same on my new 2017 iMac as it did on the 2014 Mac Mini it replaced(!), which is to say, inadequately slow. It’s unacceptable for a company like Adobe to be putting out products like this (Premier Pro users on the Mac platform should understand my pain), wholly unable to utilize the computational reserves to the maximum. How on earth can there still be agonizing lag when applying sharpening to my Sony A7R2 RAW files when the iMac’s got 40 gigabytes of memory and the fastest consumer flash storage yet available?

And it isn’t like I can simply switch to another editing platform. Apple has long abandoned it’s once glorious Aperture app, and my blood isn’t rich enough for Capture one. At least Adobe has recently (finally) acknowledge the utter slowness of Lightroom and is supposedly working hard to remedy the situation in future releases. 

Perhaps late this year, Adobe? Pretty please?  

Not putting miles on the Ferarri

“Not putting miles on your Ferrari is like not having sex with your girlfriend, so she’ll be more desirable to her next boyfriend”

— Jim Glickenhaus

Fear of looking ridiculous

“I feel rather strongly that it is not fear of death that prevents most people from achieving everything they want in life, but rather fear of looking ridiculous.”

— David E. Davis, Jr.

God's glory and power

“The creation of man whom God in his foreknowledge knew doomed to sin was the awful index of God’s omnipotence. For it would have been a thing of trifling and contemptible ease for Perfection to create mere perfection. To do so would, to speak truth, be not creation but extension. Separateness is identity and the only way for God to create, truly create, man was to make him separate from God himself, and to be separate from God is to be sinful. The creation of evil is therefore the index of God’s glory and his power. That had to be so that the creation of good might be the index of man’s glory and power - But by God’s help. By His help and in his wisdom”

— Robert Penn Warren, “All The King’s Men”

Wanderlusting

Right, I've largely recovered from my brief cold, so it's just a matter of getting back into the regularly scheduled programming. Not having worked out at all the entire week has left me with palpable withdrawal symptoms. Looking forward to a hardy run round the lake this Sunday. 

Been posting lots of pictures from my venture up north a couple of week ago, and they will only keep on rolling as I edit them. I'm really happy with the photographs, and post-processing them in the newly acquired Lightroom 5 has been an absolutely joy. The sort of manipulations possible in that program is practically cheating. 

Also, I've been wanderlusting pretty bad post that trip. Sometimes you just want to get up and go, to see new things. Everyday I'm setting the foundation to allow me to do exactly that, so am fervently looking forward to the next opportunity. Got a few trips lined up for June and August, though always on the lookout to add more dates. 

Climate control is awesome

In what was a tremendous Mother's Day weekend for me got bookended by a terrible case of the sore throat sickness. Obviously, it hasn't been much fun these couple of days. It's definitely passing out though so hopefully I'll be alright by the latter half of this week. 

Temperature has returned to the 90s here in San Francisco once again, which can only be described as torture. At least its forecasted that during the nighttime the mercury will come back down to sane levels, so at the very least I don't have to lie in my own sweat just to get a decent sleep going. Because you're delirious if you think we got air-con here in San Francisco. 

Air-con in the car though, is very nice indeed. Who cares if it degrades my car's already horrendous gas mileage. First world solution to nature's problem, yo. I bet there's a huge subset of people who couldn't care less about climate change because they're so used to man-made climate control in cars, building, and homes. 

Vulnerability

“The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.... If I “try” to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability”

— Stephen Nachmanovitch