Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Last weekend my wife and I went to Candlestick Park at San Francisco and took a Car Control Clinic with the local BMW club chapter. Let me just get this out: IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! I highly suggest it. There are three activities that each take two hours. Braking and steering while braking where [...]

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Grr. Car has to sit 4 days waiting for a part. Is it time to part with Old Stiggy?

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We’ve mentioned in the past that we’re preparing for the 24 Hours of Lemons, a much less pretentious racing series than that thing in France with the shining carbon fibers and titanium bolts and so on. Ours is more duct tape and welded steel. But one of the side effects is that you come across [...]

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Transcribed from an email to my family, but suitable here as well: Saturday, as I’m sure you all know, is/was the 24 Hours of LeMans (the real one, in LeMans, France), which is still running and will end in about 5 more hours. Audi has lost two cars to spectacularly devastating crashes, with both drivers [...]

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I was just walking back from the break room at work and overheard someone abusing the adage “need for speed”. This got me thinking about my reaction to this. I want to go back to the track, although I’ve only been once. I feel the proverbial ‘need for speed.’ Bloody hell, that means I’m insane. [...]

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I took the kids hiking on the fourth, which for you who don’t know me well means an 8 year old, a 4 year old, and a 1 year old. We went to the bay area hiker web site and picked a hike, and off we went. 2 miles was the projected loop and we [...]

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I, like countless others before me, have found a need for the occasional HDR photo. Mine was showing off a particular piece of furniture with a lit lamp on top. But, I, having no desire to drop $100 for dedicated HDR software, was in a pinch. There are countless faking efforts, but then I remembered [...]

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I don’t consider myself a knowledgeable photographer. I’m experienced in a casual way, yes, I’m stubborn perhaps, I guess I lean to one edge or the other of photography, but I didn’t exactly get how much I do actually know. For instance. I went to a meeting with someone presenting information on multi-flash shoots, specifically [...]

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I have a perfectly good car, my camera is in great condition, my lens collection is already too big, and yet, while I wait on installers to finish locking up my computers at work, I’ve been looking at the new BMWs, the new D3, the lenses that are better than mine, and so on. What’s [...]

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One day I should do a D2x love and hate list. Remind me about that. Today can be that day. I love a lot of things about my Nikon D2x, but there are a couple things I could wish were different. And just to be different, I’m going to set about it in Con-Pro order, [...]

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