Posted in Art and Design on Dec 30th, 2005 2 Comments »
The coolest gift I saw this holiday was this octopus massage tool. You grab the head and use the tentacles to massage. I wish it had come to me, but no such luck. It may be a piece of crap but to me it looked like a cool piece of plastic and a great design [...]
Posted in Ideas on Dec 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Hard to find 800 numbers is a list of 800 numbers that companies have made hard to find, until now. Useful.
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Dec 30th, 2005 No Comments »
I know I’m late to write about this but in spending so much time on flickr I’ve gotten used to and excited about tags. On flickr tags are words or short phrases used to describe an image. Tags for this image might be: Erin girl blond headband Clicking on a tag on flickr will display [...]
Posted in People on Dec 29th, 2005 No Comments »
There was enough going on with present opening that I was able to sneak around with the camera and get plenty of candid shots of my granddaughter Erin who tends to be a little camera shy. Either she poses (no good) or sticks her tongue out (cute but grandma doesn’t like it). You know something, [...]
Posted in Photographers on Dec 28th, 2005 No Comments »
A woman praying Hanuman, the monkey god in the superb Meenaskshi temple, in Madurai. Claude Renault, a freelance photographer and contact on flickr had a show in the UK that included this image. The exhibit site is Water and the Sacred. His flickr account is Claude Renault.
Posted in People on Dec 28th, 2005 No Comments »
The complexity of Erin’s language has taken a leap in the past six months and it’s a lot of fun to watch and listen as she uses language to affect her world. At the same time the complexity of her world is increasing and now she has things that only mom and maybe grandma need [...]
Posted in People on Dec 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Erin finally got the sweater Anne knit for her and she quickly showed the appropriate gratitude. Even posed for a picture. However, she was much more interested in fairy tale toys because the last time she was at our house we watched The Princess Bride and she adored it (we were worried it would give [...]
Posted in Our Place, Reflections on Dec 23rd, 2005 2 Comments »
Every morning I make coffee for Anne and me, feed the cat, start a fire in the wood stove and if it’s cold I sit right where I’m sitting now (near the stove) and look at email on this PowerBook in my lap. As the sun comes up it beams through various front windows of [...]
Posted in Photography on Dec 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
Photos of the year from Reuters and Time. Now that I’m looking more closely at things like this I have to say, wow! There are some spectacular photographs in these collections.
Posted in Food, Our Place on Dec 22nd, 2005 11 Comments »
This is a challah-like bread (egg bread) minus some of the eggs and with raisins. Anne just made six of them and the house smells pretty darn good, wish there was a way to get that smell into an image. On Christmas morning she’ll heat up a few of these and make a glaze of [...]
Posted in Art and Design, People, Stories on Dec 22nd, 2005 2 Comments »
My father had an uncle who was a rare document and signature collector who travelled the world doing deals and having adventures. Each time he would return from a trip he would give my father and his two brothers postage stamps, foreign paper money and coins, and other trinkets boys like. This unusual lock was [...]
Posted in Our Place, People, Reflections on Dec 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
This little bottle of scent has been sitting on the bureau and I’ve been meaning to attempt a photograph. By the way, I learned that oil is really oily (duh) and after touching this vial my keyboard now smells rather musky. The good part is that I have a bit of Anne on my keyboard [...]
Posted in Humor, Macintosh, Photography on Dec 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Leave it to me to brave new territory in making a fool out of myself. The thing is, Mac OS X Photo Booth is so much fun and will make you laugh so hard it’s worth it to humiliate yourself. I can see why Steve Jobs almost wet his pants during his last keynote when [...]
Posted in Our Place on Dec 20th, 2005 No Comments »
I was shooting ornaments (none of which came out) and I sat down in disgust to do some reading. As I reached to pick up my glasses… inspiration.
Posted in Our Place, People on Dec 19th, 2005 No Comments »
Anne was just finishing a white sweater for Erin and I tried like mad to get some images of her doing the final work on the neck and of course, I’m not happy with the results. This shot of her feet, showing delight in finishing a nice sweater for her granddaughter is more like it. [...]
Posted in Food, Places on Dec 18th, 2005 No Comments »
Note that even a relatively fancy place like Sardi’s has dented caps on salt and pepper shakers. Maybe after this picture gets around they’ll clean up their act. The cool thing about a place like (a theater district landmark) this is that my 90 year old mother ate there when she was a young “hottie” [...]
Posted in People, Places on Dec 18th, 2005 No Comments »
A good friend asked us to meet him for dinner in New York City last night. Funny thing is, he lives up here in Connecticut too but he was there for a play and thought it might be fun to have dinner together. While waiting for dinner in the bar, I caught Anne taking in [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Dec 18th, 2005 No Comments »
Taken to a New Place, by a TV in the Palm: “Consumers have downloaded three million video programs from iTunes since the new video iPod became available in October. What gives?” (Via NYT > Business.)
Posted in People on Dec 17th, 2005 1 Comment »
The reason I brought my camera to my wife’s school holiday party was to take a picture of John Alter. John is the head of the English department at the school and he’s a most interesting person who I always enjoy talking with. His father was a missionary in northern India and that’s where John [...]
Posted in Our Place, People on Dec 17th, 2005 2 Comments »
Anne knits, and what’s amazing is that for her it’s a background activity. I guess all knitters know this but for those of us who are challenged in ways that make knitting difficult if not impossible (attention, counting, pre-visualization, dexterity, patience…) it’s a big deal. In the last few months Anne has made me a [...]
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