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Another book…

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

I finished

Astrophotography for the Amateur

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

When we arrived in Yosemite on a new moon late at night, the most noticeable thing was the stars in the sky. It was so dark you could easily pick out the Milky Way. So I stayed up even later to take 30 second bulb exposures with a tripod and timer. I wanted to edit [...]

“Blowing” highlights?

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Before I go on my rant, I need to give a little background.

When Andrei purchased his Nikon D70, we discovered that we had purchased different eBooks. I had purchased Peter iNova’s book and Andrei had gotten Thom Hogan’s. So after we had read our respective books, we initiated a exchange of CDs.
The two books are [...]

The Rambaldi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HDa Vinci Code

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

I picked up an illustrated version of Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code.
The publishers have come out with this edition to exploit the holiday season. Like Harry Potter before, I’m curious what all the hype is about. Knowing my ability to absorb “genre fiction,” I guess I might as well write this day off.
When [...]