my laptop is the machine that i do most of my non-photo processing work. email, IM, and web browsing are mostly done on this machine. i’ve been trying to keep this machine as commercial software free as possible. i’ve also been trying to change the user experience of this laptop as much [...]
the announcement was just made to the company so i guess it’s safe to talk about this now. i’ve been thinking about leaving the company for quite some time now but it has only been recently that i’ve felt compelled to act on these feelings.
two days ago, i gave notice to the company. [...]
my new LCD came today. i tested it and it has one stuck on green pixel. dammit. oh well, aside from that it looks pretty clean so i’m going to have to go home tonight and figure out what i’m going to do with my desk. i suspect that i will [...]
paul: hey, did you see the 21″ widescreen LCD for $384?
me: shut up!
paul: unless i’m reading this wrong, go check it out.
me: no way!
paul: it’s for real, right?
me: are you getting it?
paul: yeah.
me: ok, me too.
dammit, what am i going to do with ANOTHER one of these things? my desk already looks like a [...]
i already have a multi-flash studio light setup for my portrait work, but i’ve always sort of wanted to have some hot lights so that i don’t need to do so much guess work sometimes when taking pictures. i’ve always been torn about whether or not to get some dedicated lights or softboxes. [...]
i think my camera addiction is getting out of hand. my early birthday present is the canon eos 20d. now…i told myself i wouldn’t buy this camera because i didn’t really need to, but for some reason, unknown even to me, when it came down to thinking about what to get [...]
man, i didn’t know that REM had released a new album last year, but i am in love with around the sun. it has a very calming, soothing sound to it. it sort of helps me lose myself while coding away.
oh yeah, i forgot to mention that i got a tennis racket. my roommate had mentioned that she wanted to play, but my racket broke a few years ago and i never bothered to get a new one. so today while i was out shopping for my lighting bag, i also took [...]
today was quite the productive day. so many things have just been thrown by the wayside lately and many things have been piling up to do. this morning i finally went to home depot to pick up some things to build out the storage gear for my lighting equipment. paul has been [...]
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they sent me an email to send to my friends, so now i’m sending it [...]