The Woodwork

Morning coffee seemed like a good idea. I never have a regular sleeping schedule, I had 18 holes ahead of me (for the first time in two years), and it was 7 in the morning.
My father says hi to man behind the register. He asks about me.
“I live in the Bay Area,” I respond.
“Oh? You [...]

Since I don’t get to watch broadcast/cable TV much, I’m getting my fix from my father’s new DISH Network. Besides the obvious debut of hard alchohol adds, one for

Some of you remember my my strange hack for getting the LX1 working in Aperture.
A year later, and I still have to do that. This model has since been replaced with the Panasonic DMC-LX2 (a.k.a. Leica D-LUX 3) which on paper sounds like this same trick should work for the RAW files. I don’t know, [...]

What did I cook this in?

Sweet & Sour Chicken closeup
Sunnyvale, California
Panasonic DMC-LX1
1/30sec @ f/2.8, iso 200, 6.3mm (28mm)

From: 11/24/05 11:24 AM
Yesterday at work, I had a long discussion on whether or not Teflon causes cancer. The paranoia is best outlined in articles such as this. (Nora, stick to romantic comedies, because I’m going to rip [...]

Sent this to some of my friends two weeks ago…
I don’t know if I remembered to mention this but Adobe CS3 is in public beta. It requires your Adobe CS2 authentication to use past two days.
One big thing is that this version is native on Intel Macintoshes. According to the latest benchmarks it now runs [...]

Well I’m stuck in the Bay Area for Christmas before I drive home to San Diego tomorrow.
What do I find but a photo of mine finally made the Flickr Explore frontpage!

Thanks for the Christmas present, Flickr (and Leviathor for pointing this out)!
[Finding yourself on Flickr after the jump]

Catching up on some of my RSS newsfeed, I see that Hoya will buy out Pentax to create Hoya Pentax HD Corporation.
I think this makes a lot of sense, Tokina (a Hoya trademark) already markets Pentax-designed lenses for the Nikon F-mount and Canon EOS-mount. My next lens purchase is going to be a Pentax-designed Tokina.
Most [...]

Found on Flickr:
Ok so the deal is right now I’m looking at either a Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 or a nikkor 80-200 2.8. But I see there is the AF-D and the AF-S version of the Nikkor. I can’t find the AF-S anywhere on B&H or anything.. is this an older model? What are the pros [...]

iLounge has a great overview of their site’s resources.
Their Free iPod Book and Buyer’s Guide are my favorite because they’re drool-ready and a free download. Remember when this stuff was published in book (and later magazine) and you had to pay for it?
I’ve been using them since I got my first iPod in 2001—they were [...]

The origins of this rant begin with a question about Canon’s camera roadmap that occurred during a Christmas party. It built up steam when reading Ryan’s excellent series on camera purchasing and overtopped my levies of tolerance when I was reading this thread on Flickr.
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it [...]