Author: splicer

Sor­ry I haven’t been able to weigh in on the rag­ing Rea­gan ver­sus Carter debate. I’ve been busy smooching with a beau­ti­ful young woman.

Oh wait, did I write “sor­ry” up there? I lied.… Read the rest

I took the D50 out today to run it through some paces. I’m enjoy­ing shoot­ing with it quite a bit. Today I went and shot tourist pho­tos, basi­cal­ly. I went to Ocean Beach and took pic­tures at a cou­ple of points along the way, then went up above the Cliff House for the sunset.

While I was shoot­ing, I was fas­ci­nat­ed by the waves. They were pret­ty big today. But when I got those pic­tures home and looked at … Read the rest

I was afraid of this, so I’m real­ly real­ly glad I checked before copy­ing every­thing to my hard drive.

My old Kodak DC120 kept track of the num­ber of pho­tos it had tak­en and num­bered the pho­tos based on the sequence. You could take three pic­tures on one CF card and they’d be named P00001, P00002, and P00003. Swap cards out and take anoth­er pho­to and it’ll be called P00004. This makes … Read the rest

Ozzy Pic­ture of Ozzy tak­en with Nikon D50 1/30th of a sec­ond exposure ISO 1600 equivalent.

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I just can’t win over here.

poindex­ter gave me two SCSI CD-ROMs to replace the CD-ROM that died the day I put it in to replace the old dou­ble-speed dri­ve. Open­ing up the case and installing the CD-ROM dri­ve into the exter­nal SCSI case isn’t that involved, but it’s still a pain in the ass to keep on open­ing the case, unscrew­ing all the screws that hold the rails to the dri­ve, reat­tach­ing all the cables and so on.

So first was … Read the rest

I’ve been tak­ing this time off from work to take care of myself. My sleep has been spo­radic, but I’m get­ting back to a lot of the prac­tices that have nour­ished me in the past. I’m spend­ing time in med­i­ta­tion, jour­nal­ing, exer­cis­ing, spend­ing time with oth­er peo­ple, espe­cial­ly in groups.

I still haven’t been draw­ing, but I have been work­ing on posters using a process that’s pret­ty excit­ing to me. It’s frus­trat­ing not to be draw­ing, but that’s got to … Read the rest

I admit I felt a bit ripped off when I first start­ed to read A B C et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alpha­bet. I bought it think­ing it would actu­al­ly be a his­to­ry of the glyphs in the alpha­bet, the ori­gins of the par­tic­u­lar let­ter­forms we use.

Instead, this is a col­lec­tion of ety­mo­log­i­cal triv­ia, more about words than let­ters. The chap­ters begin with e.g. “A is for.…” fol­lowed by the ori­gin of the word, what … Read the rest

9.05 miles in 1:29:55

All I ask these days is to do bet­ter than 10 min­utes per mile, and I (bare­ly) hit that today.

This is a great result for me. I haven’t run more than 5.25 miles in over a year.

More details at http://www.livejournal.com/community/runners/1013710.html… Read the rest

Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca on the Sci-Fi Chan­nel is pret­ty much my only rea­son for hav­ing cable ser­vice. Sure, I occa­sion­al­ly watch OnDe­mand movies, but I real­ly hate watch­ing any­thing good in low-res pan-and-scan. Con­sid­er­ing that I’m dump­ing over $120 each month on some real­ly unsat­is­fac­to­ry ser­vices, I’m con­sid­er­ing downgrading.

Apple’s iTunes has made Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca episodes avail­able less than 24 hours after the ini­tial broad­casts. Each episode costs about two bucks and can be watched over and over again with­out … Read the rest

The $10 SCSI CD-ROM I bought from eBay a few days ago is already dead. Time to look for anoth­er $10 SCSI CD-ROM, I guess.

It may be a while before this SGI box gets running.… Read the rest