Monday, April 30, 2007

Ancient Inhabitant

our Mezuzah

I find it interesting that whoever painted the house last respected (or perhaps failed to understand) the mezuzah enough to leave it be.

edit: Wikipedia said a thing. I'm willing to bet you nobody who's lived here since the scroll was affixed has cared enough to find out what it was.

Anyway, welcome to my front door.

Addenda

So that's it, today I cleaned, today I turned in the keys, and today I turned the page out of a two-and-three-quarter years chapter of my life.

I'm sick of sweating; remind me not to move again for a while.

Jim Henson back there is the last picture I got out of my second set of Olympus Camedia branded lithium CR-V3s. That puts it at IMGP4537; my last battery change was at St. Marks in December; that image was... IMGP2812. 1725 images on one set of batteries this time. First change was at 1,125, second was apparently 1,687.

I replaced them with regular Energizer lithium AAs. We'll see how well that works.

Now to try to get you a new picture...

Saturday, April 28, 2007

oh, hello

I missed three-a-week for the first time this year, but I think it's for a good reason.

I get to sleep in my new place tonight.

I took a shower in my shower, I washed my hands in my sink, and I'm looking at the big spread of crap in my room.

Delightful!

Hopefully, you all can forgive me. I'll make up for it this week if it's sunny.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Jim on a bench

Jim on a bench

I don't know why I found this compelling all of the sudden this afternoon. I wish the light had been better today, but I don't think it's that bad (given the circumstances).

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

I found Merlin

Today, there was a small stuffed bear on the floor of the union. I asked, "WHAT HAVE WE FOUND???" to which the only real response was a university employee of some sort picking the bear up. I figured it was over because he moved it off toward a trash can/recycling bin.

Lucky me, he put it on top of the recycling bin instead.

Merlin looks sad

He looks so sad and underexposed. I decided to take him for a life. First stop?

Merlin lives up to his shirt

He lived in a safe all day because a contractor was installing a ceiling fan today, but once I left, I took him out to get some fresh air.

Merlin likes flowers

I'm going to take him on a grand tour.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Calling Out the Internet

Today, I received an interesting email:
John Wrinn has left a new comment on your post "Update on stylesheet progress"

Really?

John Wrinn appears to be a Highly Successful Internet Loan Communication Agent On The Internet's Web 1.7b5. Why would John Wrinn comment on a seemingly inconsequential post from January of this year?

This is the post in question. John Wrinn found the post by this amazingly eloquent search string on yahoo: site:.edu "post a comment" -"you must be logged in"-"log in required" "blogspot".

Perhaps most surprising of this whole event is the entry in the logs for this visitor -
15 Apr 14:22:24 Firefox 2.0.0 Windows XP 1280x1024 United States 30.sub-70-208-203.myvzw.com (70.208.203.30)

So John Wrinn used the Power of the Internet Search Box to locate my website by a search for .edu sites that allow comments but don't require login, then posted spam on the results that he liked. He paid Verizon Wireless by the byte for this privilege, meaning that John Wrinn probably never bothered to investigate the fact that spending money on advertising to someone who is smarter than to click on links on his internet blog's comments sections posted by random people who are too useless to have real internet isn't a worthwhile investment in terms of his precious phone network data transfer totals.

Good Job, John Wrinn.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Linguistic Humor

fire chicken

I still think it's awesome... Fire Chicken. What's sad is that I sort of now remember how to write the characters for that, but didn't then. That's okay, though - whoever sees that monday, maybe they'll appreciate the joke.

New Growth

new growth

Monday, April 2, 2007

For what it's worth:

I'm going downtown tomorrow to take pictures.

My supervisor as much as ordered me to.

I'm going to be shooting RAW again, because I've discovered that Adobe Bridge + ACR is almost a delight to work with, and I seem to be getting better results locally with that setup. I need to figure out how to get the color profiling to work properly, though, before I move to that exclusively. Also, six more hard drives and a better backup system might be in order.