I finally found someone to go with me to the free showing of Cloverfield last night, at the Grove. I didn’t know it, but KROQ 106.7FM was hosting the screening. Young showed up at 6:30, half an hour late due to traffic. Shouldn’t be an issue right? We pull into the parking lot at [...]
In addition to recently upgrading to Wordpress 2.3, I installed a new plugin called iWPhone. Hopefully, this will make reading this blog easier for people with iPhones. Now if only I had something people with iPhones wanted to read!
I’ve upgraded to Wordpress  2.3, beta 3. Hopefully everything still works fine. Biggest change you might notice is the tags field off on the right of the page. These are self inflicted by me, and the goal would be to reduce the  number of categories listed, and move some of those over into the tag cloud. At [...]
Casio is developing a 300 fps CMOS based camera. 300 frames per second in VGA/ TV size quantities, and 30fps at 6 MP! Â Not for sale yet, just in the development/show off stage, but wow. Â Talk about blowing away current high definition TV. Â 1080 P HDTV is about 2 MP, this would be about 1.7 [...]
It was recently pointed out to me that Tamron has a Focal Length Comparison webpage. It shows you a picture, then you adjust the focal length to see what size zoom lens you’d need to have. Pretty nifty trick, and it encourages people to buy their products. I’m covered in any case, but it’s fun to [...]
A week ago, I went up on the Angeles Crest Highway to look at the Lunar Eclipse. Unlike the recent meteor shower, I was able to get some decent pictures!
Clarkvision: Digital Camera Sensor Performance Summary I need to reread this article in the morning, regarding camera signal to noise ratio. Just looking at it, the Unity section of the article says which ISO ratings not to put your camera to. Â
Presidential Candidate Selector
I seem to really like this Theoretical Ideal Candidate guy. I wonder where on the primary ballot he’ll fall. I’m a bit surprised by my listing. I had no idea I’d have John Edwards and Al Gore ranked so high, with Fred Thompson so low. His supporters will be disappointed in me I [...]
Well, I finished of reading Annals of the Former World last night. Not something I had tried before, it is a narrative about the geology of the United States, primarily around Interstate 80, from California to New York. Five separate books published from the 1980s through the 90s, bound into one volume. I purchased it [...]
Airbus landed their new A380 at LAX yesterday, with gray cloudy skies and almost no passengers, about 15 minutes after a full plane landed in New York.
I was able to take a few minutes off of work, and stand on the roof, trying to shoot some photos
First, here’s a United 747 for comparison
Then the Airbus [...]
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