Chanel and Trish bought a house in Portland, Oregon earlier this week, or so my mom reports. She just called, very excited, because she has all-but-committed to buy a 2BR condominium in downtown Portland. The building hasn’t been completed yet, and her apartment won’t be finished until May 2007. She’ll…
My trip to Las Vegas the week of 25-MAR-06 for TheServerSide Java Symposium will be, I hope, my last for several years at least. Not my favorite place. But I dutifully brought my camera and tripod along with me to capture a few pictures. My first target was the skyline…
Hans Greimel, an Associated Press reporter, recently wrote a great article initially titled “A Farewell to Film” recapping the last 10 years in the photographic industry. The article gives a perfect description of disruptive technology and its impact on the existing market. A disruptive technology, if you’re not familiar with…
MoveOn.org recently sent out an email to collect donations to help CommonCause promote the development of electronic voting machines with a verifiable paper trail. I’m absolutely fascinated by the issue of paper trails because, well… have you wondered about the line “Your call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.”…
When I got off the train this evening, the rain was coming down so hard that sheets of water were running down the sidewalks and streets of Potrero Hill. I don’t know why, but biking in a downpour is simply exhilarating. I started singing along with my iPod (an Indigo…
Biding my time at the airport. No one’s even here so I can check-in. I neglected to explain what I was doing in Guanajuato’s tunnels back when I was dazed and confused. For background, Guanajuato was founded in a river valley, and sometimes during the summer monsoon season, there was…
La Mina de Valenciana is closed. In it can’t be closed permanently, because there are too many touristy shops at its entrance (which is big enough to accommodate more than just a few tourist buses). But it wasn’t open today. Only Boca Mina de Valencia, a much smaller, older mine…
I am exhausted. I should be out taking pictures of the mariachis or something. But without a nap, I’m just dead to the world. Got in a little shopping today. I bought at a painted devil mask, and some pottery. Apparently, Guanajuato area is famous for its pottery, called Talavera.…
Next to El Museo de las Momias was a small exhibit on the “Culto de los Muertos.” I didn’t quite get it. For example, there was a coffin containing, according to the sign in Spanish, of a man whose name was not recorded. The man who “we” know was German…
El Museo de las Momias was a little bit disturbing. It wasn’t the desiccated cadavers that I found alarming. It was how obsessed I became with photographing the naturally mummified corpses of people so poor their families could not afford to bury them when they died over a century ago.…
