Monday, May 23, 2005
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Say what you will, but California voters are interesting. Congratulations Tony Villaraigosa!
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
It's not tinitus I hear hissing in my ears. I'm now convinced that my head makes a resonance chamber and I'm hearing the amplified Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. That is radiation which is the redshifted energy of the big bang, which happened about 14 billion years ago (also rather far away... well, no it happened here.) Forty years ago Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, a couple of Bell Labs scientists with a government surplus antenna, discovered this startling and unmistakable evidence of the birth of our universe. In 1978 they received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their troubles. Way to go guys!
... Or maybe it's my Mac's fan.
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Monday, May 16, 2005
Friday, May 13, 2005
Antares is in the tree.
Antares is the eye of the Scorpion. Also pictured in this photo is the place where the 'thirteenth' constellation, Ophiuchus, crosses the ecliptic. Here is a map:
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
D100 with 85mm f/1.8 @ f/1.8, 1/125sec., iso3200, spot metered @ +0.33, aperture priority and no flash
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Go vote for Julie's blog, Sexy Magick at the Blogette contest. Personally, I don't think it's necessary for blogs to have a gender identity, but, some do. So go and vote for our favorite 'chick blog'.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Monday, May 2, 2005
The Good, the Bad an ... no, wait. It's all good. I won't say that it went off hitchless, but it was pretty easy. The aforementioned hitch was that OSX wouldn't install at first. It verified it's self, then verified my hard disk. During that, it would end with an error: Please Try Again. Nice and Mac friendly, but decidedly Microsoftian in it's content.
Since it quit during the disk verify step, I ran Disk First Aid (part of Disk Tools) on it, and DFA could not repair a problem it found. Then I ran Disk Warrior, and it found some overlapping files, which it fixed. Afte that the new version of OSX (10.4 to be exact) went smoothly, in exactly the 42 minutes the program predicted.
Photoshop CS2 went even better, taking only 7 minutes to complete, with no errors at all.
Of the two packages, OSX wins the greenie award, producing no garbage, while the Photoshop box left three plastic wrappers that I had to throw away. I've only begun working with these, and I will need to work on a work flow for Raw files using the new Photoshop, but it looks like there will be many more tools available for Raw photo processing.
The movie was great. Julian asked if re-reading the books was a prerequisite. No, the story is actually based on the radio serial, so watch the BBC series if you can. Then watch the characters in line at the galactic bureaucracy.
A lot of reviewers are panning this movie. Realize this is their problem, not that of the movie itself. In 200 years or so, it will be recognized as one of the great epics of our time. Too bad we don't have that long.
Now that I have a new OS, I want to clear out my dock:
- Ron Silliman's Poetics blog
- In Photography -a 'fits and starts' blog about photography
- Canon shooter Dan Chung saw the D2x and hasn't posted since.
- Out of Africa opens in Camp Verde soon.
- Deblurring with the Lucy-Richardson Algorithm ... Matlab?
- Gil Friend slogs through my blog.
- "Hays Island Cafe" pictorial photo processing
- Tripple Point, a Portuguese chemistry blog
- Thomas Hawk's blog about digital stuff
- A link I just got from Julie's site
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Sunday, May 1, 2005
