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Recently it became apparent that our trusty iMac G5 (a.k.a., “Malkovich”) may not be long in its continued operation. The iMac seems to have shut itself off randomly on at least two occasions over the past week or so – one minute it’s chugging along, playing music and/or exporting photos from Aperture and the next […]
A video interview with my Granddad, an Air Force F-4 pilot during the Vietnam War, from Timeless Voices of Aviation: Link direct to the video
Goodreads calls its 5★ rating “Amazing”. I don’t know if Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil fits that specific superlative, but I would agree that it is approximately one of the most perfectly constructed and tightly written narratives I have encountered. First, a note about the book: My feelings toward “creative non-fiction” are […]
Is there really a better, more apt, more semantically appropriate expression in modern English 1 than “trophy wife”? Consider it: There is (perhaps) a hard-won battle in leading up to the “winning” of the trophy. But once you have that trophy, all that’s left is the memory of that winning… …the trophy itself is dead […]
Allegory for spousal secrets, marriage woes –but more explosions.
After a two years and about 200 hours 1 of use, my Mad Rock Flashes climbing shoes finally gave up the ghost. They wore clear through at the toes. There was no saving them. The shoes had served me well and had always been pretty comfortable 2, so with that in mind, I was sad […]
My life is now complete: Image seen in gene_gene234’s photostream on Flickr.
Recently, I downloaded the OmniGraphSketcher public beta to give it a quick and dirty trial. As you may have noticed, I can be a bit of a graph/visualization nerd. The first screencast 1 of OmniGraphSketcher made it look super easy to use and the output was (visually) very appealing. In my first trial run, I […]
My first ever Ebay score, the Canon EF-S 17-85mm lens (featuring image stabilization) was a much coveted item around here 1. It had come highly recommended and seemed to be a great complement to my beloved 50mm prime 2 and a perfect replacement for the 18-55mm kit lens that shipped with the XTi. Initial, first-night […]