Posted in Photo Resources on Jan 31st, 2006 1 Comment »
Rentglass.com rents Canon lenses (Nikon coming soon) and it looks like a very useful service. Canon 35mm f/1.4 L for one week – $43. Canon 300mm f/4 L for one week: $39. They pay shipping both ways and provide packaging for return (NetFlix-like).
Posted in Politics, Social Software on Jan 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Wikipedia Now Blocking US Congress From Making Edits. “Censoring information online has been a touchy subject and now the US government is banned from Wikipedia for altering facts”
Posted in Places on Jan 31st, 2006 2 Comments »
Brian Byrne has written a fascinating post on his recent visit to Dubai: Postcard from Dubai full of information, history, images and insights about this super-rich Arab country that has more modern IT infrastructure than most countries yet does things like block flickr. Fascinating.
Posted in Tech Stuff on Jan 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Matthew Levine at A List Apart has written a clear and incredibly useful article on building 3 column CSS layouts: In Search of the Holy Grail. The article is clear, has examples, and really does get to the bottom of good design and good markup habits.
Posted in Ideas on Jan 31st, 2006 2 Comments »
Is It Time To Say Goodbye to Paper Money? “…for 15 million Japanese, paper money is a thing of the past, according to the Japan Research Institute. No longer solely used for online purchases, e-money, accessed via a smart card or mobile phone, has become a way of life for many consumers in Japan.”
Posted in Places on Jan 31st, 2006 3 Comments »
The woman noticed me and rolled her eyes and giggled, then looked back at her boyfriend/husband to get the shot right. He had a very nice high-end canon with maybe a prime lens with hood on it. Aaron was behind me taking pictures of signs. Janel was behind me taking pictures of a prostitute who [...]
Posted in Movies, Music on Jan 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Pro X Fade has a terrific video up on google. Cars, people and a set of hands playing them as a DJ might two turntables. Check it out, fun. (Via kottke.org remaindered links.)
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jan 31st, 2006 No Comments »
We were on Aaron and Janel’s rooftop “deck” at dusk sucking down Sierra Nevadas and talking B and H wish-lists. All of a sudden we’ve got a load of Canon lenses spread out on the table and our three cameras and we’re going crazy taking pictures. Aaron brought up his tripod and proceeded to do [...]
Posted in Places on Jan 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Turning 180 degrees from this view one sees Bryant Park behind the New York Public Library. More sycamore trees and a lone picnic table with a grove of great spindly trees and tent with lights behind it. All of Bryant Park is open and free wifi (inside the library is too) so one could easily [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff on Jan 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Tutorial: Coding a Layout is a step by step tutorial on building a site with CSS from scratch. A very clear reference even for those who know their chops already.
Posted in Ideas, Music, Social Software on Jan 30th, 2006 4 Comments »
The New York Times had a story this morning: Teen Spirit: Arctic Monkeys Observed in the Wild which I read for some reason. New music isn’t necessarily my thing but something drew me to this title with a photo of a band member on the story. The article tells the tale of a group of [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jan 30th, 2006 No Comments »
We were standing in Bryant Park behind the main branch of the New York Public Library (building on right) and the Chrysler building was framed by some great old sycamore trees and the library. I was pretty sure that these shots would not turn out because they were hand held but I’m pleased with them [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places on Jan 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Went into New York the other day to meet up with Aaron and Janel and wow, did we have a fun time taking pictures. The great thing about getting together with other photographers who are trying to learn but know different things from you is how fast the ideas flow back and forth and I [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics on Jan 30th, 2006 4 Comments »
I have a question for Oprah Winfrey which I’ll get to in a second. Recently, it became known that James Frey, the author of the best-selling non-fiction book A Million Little Pieces exaggerated and lied a bit in telling his tale of overcoming addiction. Oprah, who had recommend this book and helped it sell over [...]
Posted in My mother, People on Jan 27th, 2006 No Comments »
My wife Anne knitted my mother a new scarf and gave it to her this past holiday season. My mother could never sit still long enough to knit, even at 90, although she appreciates what Anne does and loves the hand-made things Anne gives her. There was no label “attention deficit disorder” (ADD) when my [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photo Resources on Jan 27th, 2006 23 Comments »
A photographer up on flickr asked me how I get such nice images out of plane windows. Here’s the answer I just gave her: 1. Know the kind of plane you’re flying so you can choose a seat relative to the wing. Generally, these days most of us “plebes” sit in coach which means either [...]
Posted in Cats, Our Place on Jan 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Our 15 year old arthritic cat “Kitty” has a routine to warm her stiff old bones: curl up beside the woodstove in the morning (like now as I write this) then as the sun comes up and my wife Anne goes off to school, sneak up on our bed and stretch out in the sun. [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places on Jan 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco is a great place to take pictures. Our Macworld group hung here for hours. I caught Mamen shooting buildings with her big zoom lens. One needs to be seated to hold the thing.
Posted in Old Photos, People on Jan 26th, 2006 No Comments »
This picture, taken at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Queens, New York in 1918, has much of my mother’s family in it. My mother is the smallest child on the right. Her maiden name is Dick. She is 90 now. The old man with the beard is David Dick, my great grandfather and the husband of [...]
Posted in Beer on Jan 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Our Macworld group went to lunch and hey, people started ordering beer and the restaurant had one of my all-time fav beers: Widmer Hefeweizen, a Portland, Oregon micro-brew that we can’t get on tap back here in Connecticut, so what the heck. I can see it now: Carlos will be world famous for shooting Vincent [...]
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