Listening to NPR on the way to work, the program was about job prospects for high school graduates. The first person interviewed was a kid who was selling Cutco knives for Vector Marketing. I’m sure Mark will get a kick out of that. Though I was spared the opportunity of thinking selling knives was cool, […]
I get e-mails often of companies looking to hire me or find a hot-shot front-end Ajax-style PHP coder. It’s very difficult to help and I don’t know who to recommend. My policy is to cast a wide net and then grill the people in interviews until they break in order to see where their real […]
Canon enthusiast, Ben Long, posted a nice little article on how to customize Aperture’s book printing features. That’s pretty cool because I haven’t really had a chance to mess with the book layout capabilities yet (except to note that it puts iPhoto to shame). The article is a shorter version of Ben’s new book on […]
During a discussion of the intermittent CPU contacts problem you get in F-mount lenses, Ryan pointed out something I didn’t notice: Nikon makes special-order “light grey” lenses: My comment: “That grey body is wrong in so many ways.”
Out of nowhere a Bed, Bath and Beyond and a Best Buy sprung up within spitting distance of the Costco. To give you an idea how close that is to me, I gauge my trips to Costco by how much stuff I need to carry. If it is a “real” Costco run (you know those […]
Mike Fletcher asked me about shooting the Golden Gate Bridge because he is coming up here soon. I was shocked to find I haven’t processed any photos of it, even though I drive over it on my way to hikes in the north. In fact, I only took photos of it on one day, and […]
I was born 35 years ago. My dad was 35 years old at the time. Our time on earth is fleeting. To all of you, I wish you the best day on my birthday today. 🙂
J was working on analyzing some of our website data warehouse statistics today on Excel. M (sarcastically): What are you doing using Excel? You should totally be using Google Spreadsheet for that!
I‘m trying really hard to avoid blogging about politics, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to gloat a bit. In light of the primary election results, I thought I’d ping two of my previous political threads: CA-50 is dead to me and Immigrants are the new gay. Here is a quote taken from a […]
Crumpler has updated their website to celebrate their 10th anniversary. They also added a quirky product: The 10th anniversary with this wierd embroidery on the inside: