links for 2008-07-21
¶ by Rob FrieselAperture Users Network (tags: Aperture photography)
Aperture Users Network (tags: Aperture photography)
Taking the Aperture plunge… After about four years and approximately nine thousand digital images collected, processed, managed, and shared via iPhoto, we’ve more/less out-grown it around this house. Yes: this coincides in large part with the DSLR upgrade and the desire to shoot RAW but iPhoto just didn’t seem to be cutting it for us. […]
We’re headed out into the country on a drive; the idea is to find this obscure camping site. We have directions but they are vague and the roads do not match up with them and many of the landmarks are missing and many of the street signs are covered with mud. David Sedaris is at […]
Fantasy and Science Fiction (tags: fiction literature magazine writing publishing) John Joseph Adams (tags: scifi publishing)
In Gun, with Occasional Music, Jonathan Lethem gives us science fiction’s worthy successor to Raymond Chandler. Though this is the easy take-home message from nearly every quoted newspaper columnist, book jacket blurb, and miscellaneous reviewer — they also all happen to be right. Even a cursory familiarity with Chandler’s pulp noir will ring through with […]
After the thrilling, cliffhanger ending to Season Two, A. and I were more than ready to get to the next developments in the series. Too bad we had a “Very Long Wait” ahead of us in the rental queue 1. It was worth the wait though. The writers for Season Three have found their stride […]
Edge 250 via B²: read for the Dyson short (tags: essay fiction google literature science scifi writing research todo) All aboard the nuclear power superjet. Just don’t ask about the landing strip via The Guardian (via /.) (tags: energy environment essay green politics science research todo)
Unthinkable Futures via B^2 (tags: blog fiction future research scifi writing todo) Dystopias via John Joseph Adams (via Ecstatic Days) (tags: fiction scifi literature writing research dystopia todo) Vermont Brewers Festival via Seven Days (tags: beer Vermont todo) Ballardcraft: Ballard/Lovecraft (tags: blog Ballard Lovecraft literature essay todo)
Revealing hidden assumptions in estimation via Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) (via DF) (tags: customerservice software tech UI usability dev work essay) Preparing a Budget? Ten Tips for Making That Budget Successful via the simple dollar (tags: lifehacks money budget personal todo)
We spend far too long at the store. Between the research and the trying out different items and then finally filling in all the paperwork for the service agreements and all of that. Since when did A. become obsessed with HDMI? And why? She has even gone so far as to say that this whole […]