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Monthly Archives: July 2006
50mm luck
The 50mm group has a bi-monthly contest. I threw a photo in and won. My lucky day! Yellow flower backlit Point Lobos, California Nikon D70, Lensbaby 2.0, Tokina macro adapter DxO (lighting, noise), Adobe RAW, nik (pro contast), Photoshop (flipped) … Continue reading
Posted in photography, photos
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The LX2
I’ve owned an LX1 for a while now and a number of my friends were wondering why I admonished them not to purchase it.
Posted in photography
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I guess the GPS works
As part of my evil plan for world domination and assorted avoidance of doing real work, I purchased a GPS. (There is a reason, but that’ll be a future blog entry.) During my failed commute, I accidentally had the tracklog … Continue reading
Posted in Plaxo, about me, stuff
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Uploading maps onto a Garmin “x”
I ended up wasting a lot of time trying to get my Garmin 60CSx working on a PC when it turned out I didn’t even need it now. So for one of you out there trying to get maps to … Continue reading
Posted in stuff
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The middle
“When the President wants to dismantle our Constitutional system of checks and balances, what’s the moderate position? To dismantle HALF the system?” —pericles, a comment on ”The Radical Middle” …it is not that the “middle” has been forsaken. It is … Continue reading
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Criticism and debate
“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.” —David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), Founder of Israel From “A Beautiful Friendship?: In search of the turth about the Israel lobby’s influence on Washington, The Washington Post.
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More white lens madness
“The problem solved by a white lens casing is exactly the one you mock. A black lens heats up at a different rate from the lens elements and other mechanical parts. There are little motors in there, and plastic and … Continue reading
Posted in photography
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Liebermann
“Evidently low approval ratings can be contracted by saliva.” —Steven Colbert on Joe Lieberman’s primary challenge
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A typical response
“Five ropes, five robes, five trees. Some assembly required.” —Mischa, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, on what to do about half of the Supreme Court ruling
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Democratization and Imperialism
“The democratization claims were a lie, an attempt to paint naked imperialism with an idealistic face.” —emptywheel, “Weakness and Lies”
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