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¶ by Rob FrieselFun with H.: Shoot (with flash) through the “donut hole” of some Fisher-Price Rock-A-Stack rings. Simple idea, great results. (Original on Flickr.)
Fun with H.: Shoot (with flash) through the “donut hole” of some Fisher-Price Rock-A-Stack rings. Simple idea, great results. (Original on Flickr.)
If you’re a regular here at F_D and you’re wondering where my Twitter marquee is… Well, the Twitter API keeps prompting users for credentials. Related to their recent – uh? – incident? – perhaps. Whatever is going on, I can’t find any explanation for it. So I’m going to turn the volume down on the […]
Taking a cue from Mike: 2008 Powered by Goodreads.com …minus a few children’s books.
A little late in posting (compared to last year) but worth posting for the full disclosure aspect of it all. (Plus Mike said he wanted to see them.) As before, they’re like New Year’s Resolutions except measurable and realistic &c. and not vague. It’s the vagueness that’s cause for so much failure and abandonment, I […]
2008 was the second year that we tracked some SMART goals here at F_D for its humble narrator. Our accomplishments during 2007 were excellent overall, so we decided to repeat the experiment. We mixed it up a bit for 2008, tweaking the individual goals, adding some new ones, removing other irrelevant ones… And 2008 mixed […]
(Original photo on Flickr.)
A quick “Happy Merry Xmas” shout out to all my readers. A few Xmas traditions from our household that go into our annual celebrations: pizza dinner on Xmas Eve the misadventures of Clark W. Griswold, Jr. Bush Tree! scratch lottery tickets What are yours?
Winter comes, time passes. You miss some opportunities, you stumble on to some others. (Original on Flickr.)
F_D was hit pretty hard since Sunday by a major outage in the Spacey cluster in the Dreamhost network. In a nutshell: shit was down for days. Where do we stand? As of this evening, and after lots of unacceptably bad best case scenarios described, the damage is relatively minimal. Mail has been back solidly […]
New MacBook Pro via work. Yay! The out-of-the-box color calibration on the LED display seems not quite right though. Too cool. I’d say it has a blueish tinge but that’s not it. I’ve tried re-calibrating but can’t quite seem to get it right. (Meanwhile, the outboard display at the office is fine 1.) In a freak accident, […]