In writing my blog entries and my manuscript, wikipedia.org has proven an incredibly useful resource. So I decided I’d try to give back a little bit. But where could I contribute? Photography? No, I don’t know enough about optics. Scooters? Even though the Vespa entry has been flagged for poor…
My old friend, Erica, just came back from the Peace Corp. I haven’t seen her for a year… exactly. The last time she was here, it was for Carnaval: she had taken free drum lessons in years past, and had timed her trip home so she could perform with her…
That is the questionWhether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of publishers and editors,Or to hold my words to friends and family, and by doing so, conceal them. A bit pretentious, yes. But I like playing with words. I was stuck next to a frat…
My photo hosting provider, smugmug.com, has added a new mash-up with Google Earth. I can set lattitude and longitude points for every photo I’ve taken, and they show up on a map on my photo site. Now, the way it’s supposed to work is that you get a GPS card…
My brand new Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM Standard Zoom Lens arrived yesterday. It is my first pro-class lens, and it is beautiful. The autofocus is super-fast, the filter mount doesn’t turn with either zoom or focus, it’s an f/2.8 rather than an f/4 (that’s two stops!), it’s sealed against…
I will shortly have a new boss–someone I’ve talked to maybe six or seven times, and who works remotely. Still don’t entirely know what my job is. I also lost 85% of my budget.
With my mom cleaning out thirty years of collected junk in her P*******n home in preparation to moving to a much smaller, 2BR condo in Portland, and the recent sale of my father’s stamp collection, I’ve been thinking about going through my baseball card collection one more time. I probably…
I lost my best friend this afternoon. I don’t think I’ve ever tried as hard to hold onto a friendship as I did with this one. I knew I couldn’t hold onto it forever–the end was inevitable, and I’ve known that for months. But when it would end wasn’t clear,…
I have scanned in sixty or seventy photos from Guanajuato (including the seven or eight included in my April blog entries). Let me know what you think: I definitely need to pare down to one gallery with fifteen or so really good pictures. Calles de Guanajuato Las Caras de Guanajuato,…
Last week was terribly frustrating. I am working on a high-profile project at work, and something that is critical to my segment. The group that is taking the lead on this project has deep expertise in most areas necessary to the success of the project, except for one area: knowledge…
