We survived black friday with a massively discouned 7.5″ christmas tree (artificial fir, LED). Decorating our tree together has, to this point, been the neatest thing in our relationship.
November 30, 2008
November 6, 2008
October 22, 2008
Laptop Exists
I now have a laptop again. 15″ Macbook Pro. Nice matte aluminum look with a trackpad that makes my iPhone look small.
October 7, 2008
Color IQ
Came across this on a blog dealing with photography. I’m fairly good at colors (even at 1am!) but it was challenging anyway.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
September 26, 2008
So… site overhaul… I really should
I think that almost every day. I never get around to it.
September 19, 2008
Biggest Print Yet
Random bit to start off with, apparently none of my posts from Long Beach got posted… um… I feel bad about that, I’ve looked in drafts but not found them there.
Anyway, I’ve been for some time now trying to figure out what my first print on the 17″x40′ roll of Ilford Gallerie Gold Fibre Silk. Couple of options presented themselves, a standard 16×20 or a panoramic 16×36. In the end I decided to run off my most popular print “Man in Car” at 16×20. The image quality is absolutely incredible. Unfortunately I somehow managed to get it both crooked on the paper and not 16×20. But… first try.
September 13, 2008
Hi, I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC.
So, I’ll admit, I was somewhat looking forward to Microsoft’s $300 million ad campaign with Gates and Seinfeld. Not really because I expected to be hugely swayed by the arguments but because I thought the goal was direct competition with Apple’s Mac v. PC ads… which are funny.
Well, first one last week:
It was 3x as long as the Mac v. PC ads and didn’t actually have any sort of competition… but, I came very close to laughing at a couple of points. I didn’t laugh, but I came very close.
This week:
9x longer than the Mac v. PC ads. I intellectually thought of laughing at a couple of what I was able to realize were jokes… they just weren’t funny.
Now, I’m not going to weigh in on if this ad is effective at whatever Microsoft’s goal is. But… I was hoping with Seinfeld and Gates it would be funny. I was disappointed.
August 4, 2008
SPR site
Since I’ve just finished up working today I figured I’d post about it. Lately I’ve been putting time into a website for a real estate company. I’ve learned to dislike MLS companies. Anyway this is also an excuse to figure out how to post links from the iPhone.
The test server is (link removed) (forgot that there is no user bits yet, and would rather people not overly mutilate the database)
August 3, 2008
Insomnia and What to Do
Insomnia is slightly different with an iPhone. Normally there’s are just a few levels with limited options. Now there’s one more.
If one is fairly awake work is a decent option (I’m a freelancer) and I can go sit at the desk and do a bit of coding. More tired, but still fairly awake is the late night tv/movies/games. Then the laptop in bed reading something mindless and stupid (icanhazsleep?).
The new option goes here: poke at the phone. There are whole new levels of sleepy sleep-resistant boredom. I’ve got facebook, photo galleries, audiobooks, ebooks (even War and Peace), and, of course the rather nice worspress app to entertain my handful of remaining readers (Hi 4!!).
So, at amy rate, I’m too tired to even roll over but can’t sleep and am now out of entertainment ideas.
July 22, 2008
iPhone Arrives
I write for you today this entry on the iPhone.
Wordpress has a decent (and free) app for blogging.
