Wingsuit Flying. I love the part about 2:03 when he tucks & rolls, he's got some serious horizontal momentum going on for that. #>
TopOCR, takes a digital photo and turns it into a text file. Very handy for travel. See also: Snapter: Scan Your Documents Without A Scanner #>
Programming Language Creators. There's a surprisingly small number of beards in there. #>
New Doctor actor is youngest ever. Kills me we have to wait until 2010 for new Doctor Who episodes. #>
A freeware CD emulator for Windows. Mount ISOs directly in Windows, without needing to burn to disc first. #>
Sense of Colorado CSA. We've been thinking about joining a CSA program for a while now, it's about time to put in an application for the spring. #>
PicClick: Visual browser for ebay and Amazon. Sometimes it's way faster to just scan photos to find what you are looking for, especially with the way some text descriptions are padded with extra words. #>
Make a DIY Camera L-Bracket. Interesting (I say as I priced out tripods and monopods yesterday and my jaw was dragging the floor...) #>
It's official, as of January 1 I am now a member of the North Denver Photographers Studio. This gives me quite a lot of studio space on a weekly basis, as well as access to some very nice studio lights (White Lightening X1600s and accessories, including a massive 7' umbrella dubbed "the Sun".) Paying for studio time on a regular basis should push me into shooting a bit more regular. #>
After reading this MeFi post: JPG magazine folds and looking through the comments where someone asked what good photo sites are out there (besides Flickr) I realized I still have accounts at a few places, some that I haven't touched in years. Here's the link to places you may find my photos online:
- Knick-Knack galleries (this was the original place I put all of my photos, going back to around 1998).
- Flickr galleries, probably my most active place right now.
- TrekEarth. I still love TE for the fact it's entirely location-based, if I'm going to a new city for work I frequently research what kind of place it is here.
- PhotoSIG. At one point I was a paying member of theirs but that ended some years back, looks like the last time I uploaded a photo was in 2006 after going to Hawaii on holiday. At one point on PhotoSIG I was chastised for "uploading too many photos without critiquing enough", that was a bit of a kill-joy.
- Photographica, this may have been the very first photo site I ever joined. I just went into my account details and noticed I signed up using an email account I haven't used since 2002, so I'm a bit behind with it.
The MeFi link also mentioned Photo.net and while I remember when it started up (at the time I was a big Philip Greenspun fan), I never signed up for an account, instead I just browsed the articles on occasion.
If you look at some of my original image postings to what I'm capturing today it's been one heck of a change, or at least I'd like to think so. I've come a long way from that Canon Powershot G1 in 2001 (bought for a trip to Beijing, China) in both equipment and skill. #>
Special Perl Tools, only for experienced Unix admins. I especially like allslow (equality for all processes!) and xmanagerstat (too bad I don't work for a guy who'd buy into that anymore, my latest manager is smarter than I am...) #>
GlassMat floormat. I was at a friend's house yesterday and he had one of these. I've been burning through the Costco mats at around one a year. This looks and feels like actual glass but has a flex to it that shows it's not. Not particularly cheap at $240 for their smallest "standard" model, but this may be one of those life-upgrades that's worth laying the cash out for. Apparently manufactured in Broomfield, CO (wonder if that'll make the shipping cheaper?) #>
It's that time of year again: Best of Bootie 2008. I haven't listened to this year's album yet but I did just download it. In years past (Bootie 2007, Bootie 2006, Bootie 2005) every time I gave a copy of this to someone it was copied at least 10 more times and distributed, I know I'm responsible for copies making it to Europe... #>
Turning Ghetto in .435 seconds. In his defense if you watch the video closely you can see the size of that thing that flies into his mouth, I'd be cussing up a storm too. #>
