D70 sequel
Nikon has a teaser site for the D90 (or whatever they’re calling the D70 sequel). It’ll be released in 20 days, beating my expectation that Nikon will upgrade the D70 later this year.
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stem cell fun
“…just as I am in favor of mandatory abortions (and, of course, recreational abortions), I am in favor of mandatory embryo harvesting. Actually, that doesn’t go far enough I want to create embryos, develop them in a lab, wait until they become fully-formed 14-year-olds (which they absolutely, positively will do in the lab), then steal […]
A series of tubes
Ted Stevens gives us his “wisdom” on the issue of network neutrality: “They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled […]
Cats that look like what?
Too funny. Their term for it: “Kitlers!”
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) 1/800sec @ f/5.4, iso 200, 50mm (75mm) The key to this shot was a simple […]
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. Here is why.
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 turned on. Well I have the data, I better do something with it:
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 work on Mac OS X, this might save you a lot of websearching. How to […]
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 that the vast majority of the American public has been forsaken, left, right and middle…We […]
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.