The Woodwork

“Pounc-erture” by tychay

I couldn’t resist the call of the Jobs and went and purchased Aperture!
I did a computation at work today and decided that Aperture must have hit the shelves today and a quick call to Apple Store proved me correct. Apple Store Palo Alto had already run out, but there were a number of [...]

Caitlin points out a new scam job. The idea is to scrape various classified sites for services (like Craigslist) and then offer them money in return for a check (a la Nigerian 419 scam). The new ideas here are the fact that it is specifically targeting an interest (in this case, wedding photographers and videographers) [...]

Mike Johnston, former writer of the weekly opinion column Sunday Morning Photographer, has launched a blog to talk about photography.
Check it out: The Online Photographer.

“First picture of Pounce” by tychay
( Olympus C-2500L ) Æ’3.1, 1/60sec, iso 100, 18.6mm (56mm), built-in flash

Anyone who has taken a flash photo of their cat is aware of the cloudy yellow/green reflection in their eyes. Such was a topic of discussion on Flickr Technique.
The reason for this is that cat eyes have a reflective [...]

Scrubs from Zap2It/CBS.

The future Marketing division of Sirius Cybernetics corporation or proof that one industry has just too much money? Yet again, the pharmaceutical industry puts us horny computer nerds to shame.
You decide.
(A major difference is you can ignore my advice on what computer to buy, but You can’t be so cavalier with your doctor’s [...]

A friend of mine went out on a date with a SUV-driving, Fox News-watching conservative Republican. I wonder if he shouts at his television set or gets angry when people impugn his man?
I made the mistake of commenting:
Reminds me of an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm which I never saw because the last time I [...]

Caitlin noticed this today:

Aperture “Now Shipping” from Apple

I’m so excited about the release of this product that I started a Flickr group just for the hell of it which is strange for someone who is going to have to live a little vicariously—I’m probably skipping this release and buying the 2.0 like I did with [...]

If anything should be indicative of a my right-wing gen-x background, it should be this simple fact: I did cross-ex debate in high school. One result of that is my Thanksgiving meal: a burger at Jack-In-The-Box.
The University of Pittsburgh tournament is held on Thanksgiving weekend. This is not a big deal normally for a Pittsburgher [...]

I was reading the latest two entries in the Letters To The New York Times blog written by someone under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout and I was struck again by how well-written they are. While the articles have the very liberal bent, most such left-wing blogs have too much MacBethian defeatism that is missing here. [...]

As I mentioned earlier the Op-Ed articles which are behind TimeSelect paid-for subscriptions. I noticed that they have nearly completely fallen out of the Time’s “Most e-mailed” newsfeed. Before it seemed that over half the Op-Eds would be on this feed.
I wonder if the impact of these columnists will diminish?