Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Recently the only hours I have are occupied hours. The work situation is stable, but so busy that I don’t even take lunches properly any more. This has cut into my daytime light photography quite a bit. Not that I can find much in a 30 minute circle from work to go visit that hasn’t [...]

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I just finished the full length adaptation of Blade Runner (the book), which is the stretching out of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, both by Phillip K. Dick. First, it’s not the movie. It’s not even the same story. The thing that impressed me most is the split personality he exposes between the priority [...]

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2 books to skip

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I think it’s time someone took those old cameras out of circulation, and I think I’m the man. So I’m holding a photo contest of a different sort. Send me a photo of your oldest camera body or other equipment in the act of being violently destroyed, and I’ll pick the best one and send [...]

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Brisingr, or why the heck after 3 books does the hero still annoy me? I went back and dread the first two books because I couldn’t pick the fine details from memory, and that was annoying. But I do have this to report, the book gets better around the two-thirds point.
I also think I figured [...]

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So we’re using this thing at work called staf to trigger tests, copy files, collect results, that kind of thing. I mention this because at least my experience with it is marred. This is at least partially because I’m using it on groups of virtual machines that are resumed in the middle of their dhcp [...]

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I want to bring up something that maybe is not particularly obvious to people considering a repeatable panorama head (specifically, the 360 Precision family). I have what is now called the Absolute from them, and it’s incredibly precise. For instance. Last week we had fires burning in California and the smoke blew across the hills [...]

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I’m in process clearing out my garage/basement/laundry room/closets. But I live in modern liberal California. So even your household trash becomes cumbersome. Bateries are now toxic waste, and have to be recycled. But the recycling service you already pay for won’t touch them. And light bulbs. California power companies encourage you to use CF bulbs. [...]

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We’re out there. You know us by the mark.

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I have a deep desire to upgrade (sidegrade?) my iPod Photo 40gig to something newer, specifically to play video, and maybe more. The complexity of this problem falls in many places. I don’t mind doing a simple upgrade – the 80 or 160 gig iPods are cheaper and bigger than what I paid for my [...]

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