The Digital Garden Of Alan W. Smith
Hi There!
Welcome to my digital garden!
I just moved to new software. Things are still a mess, but that’s part of what makes this a digital garden. Some things are fully fleshed out. Fully grown. Others are just being started. Planting designs and ideas to see what grows.
I sincerely hope you enjoy your visit.
~ Alan (aka @TheIdOfAlan)
Next Digital Step
If someone wants to buy me a really expensive present, this would do just fine: http://www.dpreview.com/articles/canoneos5d/ Full of digital…
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Ender's Opening
An excellent friend , who happens to be in Japan right now, was the first one to tell me that you can generally tell how good a book is…
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Walgreens 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 -- Photo for August 15, 2012
Walgreens is helping kids learn to count.
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No more spell checking emails
The email program I use at work doesn't have an inline spell checker. If you want to do a spell check, you have to click on a button and…
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Chic-fil-a at 10:31
If you have never had a Chic-fil-a chicken biscuit for breakfast, you need to try one. When I first heard about them, it didn't really sound…
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I made Cool Tools
I deciede to send some stuff into Cool Tools . Since I love seeing what comes up on that site I figured I should contribute as well. I've…
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Minor changes
Finally got around to updating the default header for the blog. One thing that I am often surprised with about designs people make for web…
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Configuration Files and Multiple Ruby Object Constructors
A way to remove conditional logic from initialize methods and make testing smoother.
- Ruby
Jim Marshall: Proof
I saw " Jim Marshall: Proof " a year or so ago at Books-a-million and loved it as I flipped though. I'm not a big buyer of books (I prefer…
- Photography
Create High Quality GIFs with ffmpeg
TL;DR This command uses ffmpeg to convert a video into a high quality GIF: This is the same thing, but it clips out a section of the video…
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Yep. Found a lab.
And we have a winner: whcc.com These guys a really smart. They ask you to send in up to 5 8x10s for them to print as a test. Part of this…
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Streaming and Stream Notes
ahhhhh. feels good to have slept good. Not that I don't usually sleep good, but this was one of those nights where it worked out just right…
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New (to me) Music: World Leader Pretend
Like the sound of "Lovey Dovey" by World Leader Pretend. Would be right at home on the Garden State soundtrack. As an aside, what the hell…
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Keyboard Maestro Continues To Impress - Journal for October 27, 2020
Oct. 27, 2020 Writing the date helps. It gives me a better sense of the days passing. So does taking a couple days off. A two day weekend…
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Mixonic
Several years ago I discovered a company called Mixonic that provides CD and DVD services. They do one off and short run disk duplication…
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Fever Dreams
I've had some weird illness over the past couple days. Not sure what it is. Doesn't feel quite like a cold or the flu, but I suppose it…
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Degrading The Shopping Experience As Best They Can
Here's a run down of today's interaction with a cashier at the mall. This is why I do most of my shopping online. To set the stage, I was…
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Adding Tag Links to My Hugo Site Posts
NOTE: TODO: This page needs updates to work with MDX youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t10aFJRpggU Goal: Get tags working on this…
- Live Coding
Emmy. Who would have thought
This easily falls into the category of things I would never have dreamed my name would be involved with. None the less, one of our PGA TOUR…
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Pretty Printing JSON via JavaScript or Extension
Making JSON viewable by humans with JavaScript and/or browser extensions.
- Development
Convert a Ruby Array into the Keys of a New Hash
A quick way to setup a hash with keys from an array that point to empty values.
- Dev
Photo of Stephanie
Did another photo workshop a few weeks ago. Just now getting to the edit stage. Here's one of the first ones of a model named Stephanie. I…
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Full Spectrum CFLs
Doing a little more research of CFLs trying to pick some to put in my office for viewing prints. Seems that the important factors are color…
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Cold medicine
I've been kinda running myself into the ground with work the past few weeks for work. My average time for hitting the sack has probably been…
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Video Testing my OBS Setup
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDFHCDcKQl4 This is a test of different video and font settings to figure what the best thing to…
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Remote Control Storage Solution Mod
Don't be afraid to use power-tools on the coffee table.
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Exploding porcelain photos
I've seen these before and loved them. They just came back up on boingboing so i figured I'd post: link
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Movie list
just posted a copy of the AFI top 100 list so I can check off the movies I've seen . Right now, I'm about half way thru. There are some…
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New quiet case
I've been trying to make my computer as quite as possible for a while now. Just got a new case to help the cause. It's an Antec P180 that…
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Farewell, Galactica
While I'm sad that Battlestar Galactica is over, I'm happy with the way it ended. Going into the last few episodes, I would wait longer and…
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Video capture tool: CamStudio
A video capture tool I need to checkout is CamStudio . It's open source and let's you make flash files. According to the main page there is…
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HTTrack - Website Copier
If you ever need to make a copy of a web site to keep on your local machine, you can use HTTrack . It grabs local copies of the files…
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Laaaaaazer Printer
Just got an HP LaserJet 1020 printer. A huge portion of the stuff I print is just for the text. Articles, receptings from online purchases…
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Glocks
When I was a kid staying with my Grandparents in Tennessee my Grandpa and I would go out sometimes and shoot .22 rifles at tin cans. Also…
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Sunpak FlexPod Pro Plus is a P.O.S.
While planning a trip to photograph the launch of space shuttle Discovery, I decided to it would be fun to try to shoot a little video as…
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Finding SATA Cables for SeaSonic Power Supplies
A rare case of Google not providing instant links for a product sales page.
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Don't drive while looking at your laptop
Coincidences are fun. Driving into work this morning there was a story on NPR talking about the recent trend toward adding full fledged…
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Copyright in Photoshop
For those of you that use Adobe PhotoShop. If you want to add a text copyright stamp to your image while using the text tool you can do it…
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Stream Notes for October 23, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-J4gQsp-2I Timestamps Links From The Stream 5 Ways to Check Who Is Tracking You Online | MakeUseOf…
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Using the Twitter API without 3rd Party Libraries
Ruby, Python, and Perl examples of how to connect directly to Twitter's API without the use of 3rd-party libraries.
- Dev
Sound of a Shuttle Launch
When STS-133 launched on Feb. 24, 2011 from Launch Pad 39A, I was fortunate enough to be in the VIP viewing area. At about three and half…
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Skunk Works and Bootlegging
I mentioned that I do Skunk Works projects to a colleague who was unfamiliar with the term. Turning to the all-knowing Wikipedia I…
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Otis Taylor
I just heard an Otis Taylor track that I didn't know I had. I think it came from a SXSW music sampler, but I'm not sure. The track is…
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Reading and Writing Files with SQLite
Quick commands for working with an SQLite database.
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Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 21, 2020
My trip around the web for Oct. 21, 2020 "Reverse Toonification" of Pixar Characters A very brief introduction to PQL (Publisher Query…
- Browsing History
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 15, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 15, 2020 #958816 - "pipx makes unsupported use of pip internals" - Debian Bug report logs (1) attempted…
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T-minus four days and counting (with elephants) -- Photo for August 28, 2012
Counting down to the Crimson Tide season kickoff (with elephants)
- Photographs
Four Links for April 26, 2011
The theme for today's collection of interesting/useful links is "Time". When you want see The Time - A little flash clock that tells you…
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Webmentions Content Engine
NOTE This is a work in progress. It's the seed of an idea. We'll see where it goes and how it grows... Goal: Create an open web content…
- IndieWeb
Back in town
Took a little time off from work, posting, thinking and everything else I could over the past little while. Took a trip back to HSV for…
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Other peoples computers
The Help Desk was working on my laptop for about 5 hours today trying to solve a firewall/printer problem. For some of that time I went over…
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Beaten to the punch on one iPhone App idea
I've got three ideas for iPhone Apps that I'd like to try. Up until a few weeks ago, no one had done any of them. Then I discovered the…
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Saturn V at The U.S. Space and Rocket Center - Photo for September 15, 2012
Where I grew up, lots of folks are rocket scientists.
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Filtered Opinion
I haven't been posting in this blog very much over the past few months. Largely, that's because i have been so slammed with/at work and have…
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Journal: Sept. 9, 2020
I don't know if I want to address the audience. You know, something like "Hey, Folks! Welcome to today's journal...." Yeah, no, I don't. So…
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Video for April 25, 2011 - Iron by WOODKID
Some of the nicest black and white footage I can remember seeing.
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Django Tutorial Progress and Focus
I'm running out of things to write about. Except, of course, I'm not. Just because the days are more similar to each other than they used…
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Without Paper
I've gone completely paperless at work. For the past few days, I haven't printed anything out, using only e-mail and web postings for…
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DRAFT: Advice for New Streamers
NOTE: This is a work in progress. It started when someone on a discord asked me if I had any tips for streaming. Right now, it's mostly…
- Streaming
Post Yahoo List
I wrote a little script to print out the current music set I have from Yahoo. This is all pretty new stuff since I had to start over after…
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Machete Slingshot Crossbow - Video for May 1, 2011
This guy is thinking ahead for how to survive after the Zombie Apocalypse.
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Requiring One and Only One Argument In A Bash Function
This is an example function you can add to your .rc files that requires exactly one argument to run. It checks to make sure there's an…
- Programming
Cat's Cradle
Just finished reading my first Kurt Vonnegut Novel, "Cat's Cradle". Pretty quick read and it's was a bit bizarre, but I enjoyed it. I was…
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Things I love about work
There is nothing quite like going into someone's office for a meeting with three other people and then 5 min in, they pick up a call and…
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Writing My Morning Journal #LiveWriting
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BWDpYLdvcg
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I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the Terror
I'm hoping that eventually the "always looking for the next thing" spirit will move us away from the constant Terror, Terror, Terror thing…
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Not a good year for the Tide
I was really hoping the Tide would pull out a win against Auburn. Fumbling the ball three times is just a little too much to recover from…
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Running with Lola
Watch out if you listen to the Run Lola Run soundtrack with the windows down on a nice sunny day. Some of those tracks are of the variety…
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How to Fix AWS CLI Tools When Homebrew Breaks Python
I installed stunnel on my mac via homebrew. I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition. Homebrew did a giant update including some…
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Hi Ted (plus Battlestar)
Hello back to you Ted. Good to hear from you. Or, read from you, or whatever. Chalk another one up for the internet on the reconnecting…
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No One Is Going To Steam My Code - Journal for October 24, 2020
Third Saturday In October . Roll Tide. I'm watching Django tutorials before the game. The ones from CodingEntrepreneurs . I think they're…
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Commentary on the idea of reading everything online
Bruce Schneier has a new entry up on wired discussing Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell's desire to monitor everything…
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Cool URL
I don't know what you would do with it, but a great way to take advantage of the old saw "When pigs fly" would be to get the domain…
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Nostradamus Cell Phone Gremlin
I think my cell phone can see the future and is possessed my a gremlin. The batter ran all the way down last night for probably the first…
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Town Center Foliage - Photo for October 10, 2012
Flowers to enhance your shopping experience.
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Flash manual designed for digital cameras
I found an amuzing item while reading through the manaul for my Canon Flash. There is a footnote that says: If the flash exposure…
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Adding Time Zones To Make ISO 8601 DateTimes ~ Stream Notes for November 12, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOJsdjDcTes Notes I've got a service that sends date/time stamps that are basically ISO 8601, but…
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The Right Stuff
Took it easy tonight and watched The Right Stuff. I had not seen it before even though it was from 83. I wish I had seen it back then. I…
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Laying Granny to Rest -- Photo for September 12, 2012
Hattie Sue Waggoner Jones - Born February 20, 1914 - Died September 10, 2012
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Learning Django By Making A Tutorial - Part 1
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLDcoPLJcxA I spent a few hours working through the official Django tutorial over the past week…
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names.whatever 2020
In 2015, I grabbed a list of 'alan.whatever' domain names and prices. Figured it would be fun to look at them again. I'll do a comparison…
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Loving the Drive
Sitting up in Huntsville right now. Ended up driving this go round. I really love a good road trip. Normally it takes almost exactly 1…
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Favorite Icons - new tool
I just discovered that the free IrfanView image software can make favicon.ico files. These are the little icons often show up that show up…
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Pressure
Haven't noticed this before, but I pulled up beside a cement truck the other day and saw this on their tires: I'm gussing the driver can…
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From beyond...
I've seen a couple of references to this, but was hesitant to read it. I'm glad I did. It's a post penned by an American Solder who blogs…
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gmail
I've recently starting a migration over to gmail. I've played around with it on and off for a while but didn't make a move for two main…
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The Reason I Stream: It Makes Me A Better Developer
NOTE: This is my first second version of this piece. I publishing it now as part of the Digital Garden philosophy of doing more work in…
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Quote from Ayn Rand
Last week, I finally started on a book that Traivs had suggested. Came upon a nice quote by Ayn Rand's character Kent Lansing in The…
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Tricks get you the kill file
From time to time, I get individual emails (not bulk spam) from people trying to sell me a product or service. It's a part of the gig and I…
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Size
If you want to mess with your mind a little, load up this flash piece from Nikon that puts the size of things in the perspective of orders…
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High speed video and full resolution in an SLR
I don't really do anything at all with video, but the idea of having a camera that can shoot high speed stuff is way fun. Back in Jan. Casio…
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ATL
Incidentally, I'm in Atlanta right now. Sitting in the hotel lobby at the Sheraton Colony Square Hotel surfing on their free wireless…
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Might need business cards
I've been doing a lot of thinking about getting back into weddings again. This is a topic I flip-flop on a lot. I won't be able to really do…
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And We're In Business - Photo for October 24, 2012
In which I officially start my own LLC.
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Trying new Open Source Software - RSSOwl and MusikCube
I'm trying out two new peices of software that I read about on this blog posting . The are RSSOwl and musikCube . RSSOwl is a java based…
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Part 2?
Netflix just threw up "Final Destination 2". Funny. I suppose the first one wasn't so Final after all. I think I saw part of the first one…
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Apparently, I'm a Spammer
I've been toying around with the idea of making a new blog. Last week, I finally started to set it up on blogger.com. I create the opening…
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Stream Notes for November 15, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOtS6LFGtUo Notes GOAL: Figure out how to use "entry points" and pipx to install a python script as…
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More falling barriers to entry
I had a really good conversation with some friends over the little holiday I had talking about the barrier to entry into certain professions…
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Condensed Mythbusters
I really get a kick out of the show "Mythbusters" on the Discovery channel. Problem solving, science, not infrequent explosions and urban…
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Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Dec. 20, 2020
My trip around the web - Dec. 20, 2020 A Known update Adding a Table of Contents that updates on scroll | Nicky blogs Airtable - Mechanical…
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Ecto - Desktop blogging software
I'm still in the process of deciding what software to use on my machine since my transition back to using a Mac. Today, I installed " ecto…
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Model Rocket
I've fired off model rockets a few times before. It's a lot of fun. I never would have thought to use them to get rid of drugs. Check out…
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Making Progress on Video Assembler V4 - Stream Notes for November 7, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_Dd8DQvDs Notes Working on my Automatic NASA Video Assembler and general messing around. Links…
- Live Coding
Cognitive Surplus
This article entitled "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus" has come up a time in the various sources I visit. While I don't buy into it…
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SpeedCasts
Our brains can process the spoken word faster than we tend to speak. An idea for a new service based on that is to take podcasts and…
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Thoughts on Rogue One
SPOILERS! - I'd skip this one if you haven't seen Rogue One yet.
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Public Domain and the Internet
Just found a link to LibriVox . From their front page: "LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain". That's awesome. I'm a…
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Birthday
I just discovered that the Wikipedia has a calendar which lists birthedays among other things. I've got the same birthday as Jimmy Page…
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Subversion GUI for Mac
When I was running a windows machine, I installed TortoiseSVN to make Subversion a little easier to deal with. It worked well, but…
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Solar panels with holograms
I think solar energy makes an incredible amount of sense. The prices aren't there yet, but they are getting closer. Technology Review has a…
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Live Plasma
Nice idea: liveplasma.com Put in the name of an artist or movie you like and it'll show you related stuff based off of Amazon's sales list…
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Word to watch out for
Cascade. I hadn't heard the word in general use in a long time, then heard it twice in the course of an our from two seperate sources. Keep…
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Online Photo Editor
I haven't given it a spin, but this looks interesting: picknik.com . An online photo editor that can tie into other sources like flickr for…
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Tide's in town
Bama is playing FSU today in Jax. I've got tickets, and am headed to the tailgate in a couple hours. Drove to Chick-fil-a for a little…
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New toilets and cleaning the house for the plumbers
Dude. holy shit. I feel good. Not like wooooo whooo good. But, like having just taken a good shit on the fourth day into a two week beach…
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Sweet Home Alabama with the Red Army Choir
Apparently this is from a 1994 MTV awards show. The Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir performing Sweet Home Alabama. I'm not sure…
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Three degrees of IM seperation
AOL has a little page up called AIMFight that shows you the number of people connected to you through three degrees of buddy list…
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Domain Bot
If you are ever looking to setup a web site and are trying to decide on a name, this site might help: http://www.domainsbot.com/ You put…
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Moving RegEx Patterns Into Unittests - #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ngfaO4Esk8 Timestamps Start: 00:00:00 Setup testing for the regex patterns in my page archiver…
- Live Coding
Learning Django By Making A Tutorial - Part 3 - And a Red/Green Output for unittest
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al7PxVscCog Start: 00:00:00 - Testing Django I spent most of the stream learning how to do testing…
- Django
sub eMail addresses
Someone needs to build a sub email address feature. Or, perhaps it would be called prelude. The way it would work is you have a base email…
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Refined Communication
I deal with a lot of little things in my gig. I expect lots of folks do. Often, after I take care of one of these little things for someone…
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New Camera Lust
Canon announced their new top of the line EOS-1Ds MARK III ( press release ). It's 21 Megapixel. TWENTY-ONE. Canon put up a page here with…
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Wireless IR to RF repeater
I've become a decent fan of the wireless TTL that is in canon's flashes these days (assuming you have at least one expensive one that can…
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Kids TV Nostalgia
If you watched these, I don't know how you can help but grin: The Electric Company 3-2-1 Contact! another from The Electric Company In the…
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Musician Josh Rouse
Heard an NPR interview this morning with Josh Rouse about his album that is about to come out. Really liked both the interview and the…
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Converting from Blogger to WordPress
A script called import-blogger.php came along with the default install of version 1.5.2 of WordPress. This didn't work on my system (which I…
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Next generations moment in history
I wonder what the defining moments in history will be for future generations. I'm sure I'lll have as vivid a recolleciton of the Sept. 1…
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Blog may go bye bye for a bit
I'm about to move my site from one host to another. In this process, I'm probably going to break lots of stuff, including the blog. So, it…
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Check your tires
While driving home this morning from a night out, I came across a 1 car accident that must have happened about 45 seconds before I caught up…
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Poor drive support web site
I was screwing around with my computer and deleted a peice of software that I needed to make my wireless internet connection work. Silly…
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Now, You Too Can Write On My Site!
Jekyll 1 , the software I'm now using for this site, doesn't come with a built-in comment system. When I was first deciding how to relaunch…
- jekyll
Geek Desk Color Change
Changing the original Geek Desk gray legs to black and not turning into a slug.
- Recommendations
iPhone Wish List
Rumor is that the new iPhone is on its way next week. It's a little late for Apple to respond, but here's my wish list for a future version…
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The Compact
I've seen a couple things about this idea recently and like the basic idea though it's perhaps a bit extreme for me: The Compact . Here's a…
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202,942 and done
Friday, June 27, the Camry stalled out on me. I limped it to the shop over the weekend. Seems the oil seal on the distributor cap had warn…
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Litmus Test Movies ~ Or, How To Know If We're Gonna Be Friends
Saw a great question come across twitter: @kerrizor - Do you have films that are litmus tests for you? Super fun! I went through my list to…
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Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 17, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 17, 2020 /proc on Mac OS X /status/1328563515494260736 /status/1328769909543886848 Access Data from…
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Learning Django By Making A Tutorial - Part 4
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI-u3Drx77Q Start: 00:00:00 - Review Started off with a little review of the process and how we…
- Django
Driveway Reflection - Photo for October 6, 2012
A nice reflection pool (puddle) in the driveway.
- Photographs
TwitchIO Examples
Here are three ways to use TwitchIO to respond to commands, respond to messages, and to work without interaction. (Note: I'm using os…
- Programming
Playing with Selenium for Scraping and Screenshots
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orD-U9_qoRs Slimer.js (Nope, Selenium) - Time: 00:00:00 I ran into Slimer.js in one of my feeds…
- Live Coding
Windows Explorer Shotcut
I don't like the way Windows Explorer opens on default. From that view, I almost always have to close something in order to get at what I…
- Miscellaneous
More about money
I will likely be writing a lot more about money and finance. That may sound like a big turn off, but I encourage you to read and think about…
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HUGE Photo from the inauguration
David Bergman setup a GigaPan system at the inauguration. Check out the 1,474 Megapixel photo that was created. That's 1,474 not 1.47…
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Full Moon Prints
Starting a Wishlist on the blog as single entries. First item in the new format. A print from the "Full Moon" exhibit by Michael Light…
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Hybrid Prices
I like the idea of a hybrid car, but they are going to have to do way better on the price before it makes sense from a financial perspective…
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Journal: Sept. 8, 2020
Not sure how to start this one. I'm getting more used to the idea of people watching, but I also don't want to write too much for the…
- Journal
Big Ass Grasshopper
While hanging out at CJ's family place a few miles north over fourth of july, this little guy showed up: Took this photo with my most…
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New Music
Check out "Hiatus on the Horizon". I've heard a couple of tracks so far and like them. -- Tags: tagMusic
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The Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75
The Golden Gate Bridge turned 75 yesterday. I was completely oblivious to this fact until the day before. As luck would have it, I'm in San…
- Photographs
Using Google to Find Thing You Can't Remember
Justin sent me a link today about the announcement of the new Lego Mindstorms NXT . That's right, soon you too will be able to build your…
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Photoshop Softfocus
I'm still looking for a soft focus effect in photoshop that I like. The latest one that I'm working with that I quite pleased with so far is…
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Black Velvet
I went to a fabric store today. A place called JoAnn's in the new St. John's Center. The store itself was quite large and there were maybe…
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Wet Socks
We've been having a monsoon here in North Florida over the past few days. This morning, I had to go to a meeting in another building. It was…
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More of My Journey ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 21, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 21, 2020 -us/work/shop/monitors-monitor-accessories/ar/4009?appliedRefinements=2828,2586 10 Best Django Books…
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Buying cars
A few years ago I checked out from the library one of the Motley Fool's ( http://www.fool.com ) books. I think it was The Motley Fool You…
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Changing the screenshot directory on a Mac
On Macs, there are two great hot-key combinations that can be used for doing screen captures. command + shift + 3 = full screen capture…
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F3 Nostalgia
I'm watching the move Kalifornia. In it one of the characters is a photographer. She is using a Nikon F3 which was my first real camera and…
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Western Sunset
Well, not really Western for some people, but I figure since this was taken in Key West, it counts. Went down there over the weekend for a…
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Save 10%
Since my early 20s I've been trying to increase my knowledge of money and how money works. A main goal is to be able to retire sooner rather…
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Audio Books on iPods
If you have CD audio books that you want to convert over to play on your iPod, this page has instructions for doing just that. I haven't…
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Canon
When I went to Tuscaloosa back in October for the wonderful Bama v Tennessee game I had the opportunity to shoot an AR-15. Here's a photo CJ…
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Follow up
By the way, that lady really wasn't having a good day. She was on the way to the courthouse to bail someone (I didn't catch who) out of jail…
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Photos of Matt and Matt
Just posted the shots from last weekend. There were several that didn't make the cut because of the newly discovered problem with back…
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Amazing Flashbacks with Smell
Doing little work in the office I ordered a Pappa John's pizza for dinner. I don't think they have been in this area very long and this is…
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New Music: Mike Doughty
Just came up on random. Mike Doughty 's track "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well" which is on the album Haughty Melodic. If…
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AWESOME example of 80s trailer
A buddy at work was talking about the movie Firefox which I'm familiar with but don't think I've ever seen. He sent me this trailer on you…
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Focusing On The Work, Not The Raw Material
Video files are big. I'm running out of disk space. Been juggling video file for the past couple of days. As I continue to shoot more on the…
- Journal
How I Discovered I Have Bipolar Disorder
A copy of the note I sent letting co-workers know why I was out.
- Miscellaneous
Folder creation bug in Adobe ExtendScript ToolKit
ExtendScript ToolKit uses "/Volumes" instead of "/" in some cases.
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Bugs in my chair?
Okay, this is a photo of the bottom of my office chair at work. What the Hell is that wire doing there? Seems to me that the loop its in…
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Journal: Sept. 12, 2020
Writing in a different app today: Bear. Normally, I write in Sublime Text, but, I changed my setup a little bit for the live stream and it…
- Journal
Contact Info - In case of an emergency
Here's a good use of technology. Florida has a system in place now where you can go to this page and virtually add emergency contact info to…
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Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 26, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 26, 2020 #Analytics ― Raindrop.io #APIs ― Raindrop.io #Boto3 ― Raindrop.io #BuyingGuides ― Raindrop.io #CLI…
- Browsing History
The tease is enough of a trailer
A few weeks ago I saw the 30 second teaser trailer for " Taken ". All I really got out of it was: Liam Neeson plays a dad who is some kind…
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New Hard Drive..... and the cable
Just got a new hard drive to get some more room on my computer. This one is the first "SATA" hard drive I've bought. Only problem so far is…
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Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery - STS-128
Last week, I spent roughly three days doing reseach/planning, eight hours driving (split between two road trips) and stood around for…
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Down time
So, I finally got a little down time with this past Monday and Tuesday off. Of course, the only reason that happened was because I was sick…
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Journal: Sept. 15, 2020
Starting to get the hang of starting up the Twitch stream. I still need to finish setting up my checklist. I've got a good start, but there…
- Journal
Lost
I missed the first few episodes of Lost when it first started so I haven't watched it. I like seeing things in order and didn't want to jump…
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Quixotic
I forgot how to pronouce the word "Quixotic" and was asking an office mate if he knew, but he didn't. Turning to the magic of the net I…
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Oh, The Places I Went! ~ Oct. 16, 2020
Ana Flávia (@anafsnt) | Unsplash Photo Community Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash break - JavaScript | MDN Can't insert shortcode…
- Browsing History
Boston Retinal Implant Project
That's right, these folks are working to make a replacement eye. Right now the goal is to treat blindness. Once they get it working, one…
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Python SQLite3 Cheat Sheet Examples
TL;DR I couldn't find a good, single page set of basic Python SQLite examples. So, I made this one. Notes This is all one run of code. I…
- Programming
Tiger Sign
Since today is the Chinese New Year, figured I'd look up my sign. Apparently, it's Tiger .
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Controlling Subversion svn with Perl
Controlling Subversions "svn" command with Perl can be a little tricky. The biggest issue is the fact that svn errors are sent to STDERR…
- Miscellaneous
Building a local version of Giphy - Part 1 #LiveCoding
NOTE: Currently commented out to get working with MDX - TODO: Get working with MDX Goal A web page on my local MAMP server that displays my…
- Live Coding
Partially Picking Up Python with Head First Python
Quick review of Head First Python. Not bad, but there's a lot of non-python content that gets in the way.
- Reviews
Secret
Welcome to The Digital Whatever Thanks to @Wgaffa for the name 👍 Things to Play With Python Tesseract Vimeo Links RAW Font Screen Res Test…
- Secret
Costume
This will tell you just how behind I am. I'm just now getting to pull images off my point and shoot camera from Halloween. I usually end up…
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2009?
Was looking at the Toyota web site and noticed on their front page that they are promoting their 2009 Corolla . Now, I understand if you…
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Answer Fun
Go to Google . Put the number "42" in the search box and click "I'm Feeling Lucky".
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Digital ICE
I own a film scanner that I've used maybe 20 times since I got it. When I made the purchase my plan was to go through a bunch of my old negs…
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Thermostat
Just installed a programmable, digital thermostat in the house. With summer effectively here we'll see what type of difference it makes in…
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Moving the code
I created another blog that I'm going to use for code snippits since few people other than me are likely to be interested in that besides…
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My First Bout of Suicidal Ideation
The story of my first (and hopefully last) trip to the hospital for suicidal ideation
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Why I won't shop at Best Buy anymore
It's been a while since I've bought a computer game. Mostly this is due to the fact that once I start working on something I tend to get…
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New Music: I Saved an Airplane by Cat Scientist
I Saved An Airplane - Cat Scientist Found via the SXSW Music sampler. (After digging around a little for more info on the band, sadly…
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AWS Pricing Calculator Save Data Feature Request
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNZacrN2os Quick feature request for the AWS Pricing Calculator : Save the data on the page so…
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Steve Inglima Teaching at Photoshop World
Teaching at the Canon Live Shoot pre-conference workshop.
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Photos from the air show
I just posted the images from last weekends air show which was very fun to shoot. Next year I'll bring a monopod though to make tracking…
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Video draws traffic and the 3 rules of the net
More and more the content I see come across my new reader contains video, and the quality of that video (both technically and content wise…
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Remote Assassination
As more and more of us become electronic cyborgs (via pacemakers, internal drug delivery systems, etc...) the potential for detrimental…
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Digital Breakup -- Photo for August 23, 2012
A fine example of how things breaking can look cool.
- Photographs
Better computer sleep
If you have a computer that you happen to leave on a lot when you aren't using it, check out this article about using "S3" Standby. It's…
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IR Camera Shipping
Just an update for those following the progress. I've gotten a note saying that my camera has arrived in Washington, has been converted and…
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The Illusionist
Saw "The Illusionist" this weekend. Very enjoyable film. There was surprisingly little music in it, but that didn't detract from it. The…
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200,000
Last Wednesday, April 2, 2008, just before I pulled into my neighborhood, my car turned 200,000 miles. Speaks well for Toyota. I replaced…
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Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 7, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 7, 2020 Alteryx nyt-2020-election-scraper/master/results.json /status/1302968497698418689 /status…
- Browsing History
The future return of film?
I've been doing more and more looking around at photography web sites and it seems like there is increasing tendency for them to be more…
- Miscellaneous
Mundane Practice
Nov. 17, 2020 This one's for you. I write each morning. Sometimes I post. Sometimes it's private. Recently, they've all been private. Not…
- Journal
Video for April 24, 2011 - Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right - Revisited
In case you weren't one of the 2.4million+ views already served. (Not surprisingly, NSFW language) Bonus points for More Cowbell Cameo.
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IMAX
According to a wired blurb I was reading today there are 250 IMAX theaters. I've been lucky in that all the towns I've lived in (with the…
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Setting Up a Redshift Cluster #LiveCoding
Messing around with setting up a RedShift cluster. This isn't a how-to though. It's stumbling around. Getting one up and running takes way…
- Live Coding
Online Graph Paper
Found myself at work today needing a piece of graph paper. So, go to google and type in pdf graph paper and sure enough, the first link…
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Losing Confidence, But Saying Fuck It
GoPro is officially in action. I bought it in April but am just now getting it hooked up for the car vlog. (god, I dislike word vlog, but…
- Journal
Learning by doing
I've always been a fan of learning by doing. Just jumping in. It's the way that I've picked up most of what I know. No surprise to me, but…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 3, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 3, 2020 Example Domain Exercism Google Search: tydie Wikipedia: Docendo discimus
- Browsing History
Watch for more video reviews and demos
Video product demos are such a good idea. Compared to reading a few bullet points, seeing a thumbnail image and maybe a slightly larger…
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A few proof sets
I've finally gotten around to building my new "gallery" web page tool. Of course, since I'm a web geek this actually involved transfering my…
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May The 5th Be With You
Yesterday was Star Wars Day (i.e. "May The 4th Be With You" Day). For Cinco de Mayo, "May The 5th Be With You" is a wonderful, natural…
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Virus?
The guy who sits across the hall from me has been out sick this week. Tuesday someone told me it was the stomach flu. Today, I hear that…
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First Post - Yeah, yeah
I finally broke down and started a blog. I figure I run across some neat things from time to time and this would be a good way for me to…
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Project Cartoon
For those of you have who ever done development work in a company this will be extremely funny: Project Cartoon . Further example of the…
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Akismet Spam Killer
I've been having some problems with spam getting in thru the comments on my wordpress blog. I tried a couple CAPTCAH tools but they didn't…
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Stream Notes for November 15, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1vBLYaO1A Notes Spent this stream figuring out how I want to setup the directory structure for my…
- Live Coding
Bama vs. The Braves (A Logo Comparison)
A quick visual comparison of the differences between the "A" that Bama uses and the Braves logo.
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Not a good day for the Tide
Well, it was still a good season. Would have loved to have won in the Auburn game. There was much drinking during the game and then things…
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Marketplace Money and Credit Cards
I really started paying attention to money when I was in college somewhere around the age of 20. Largely after I started listening to the…
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Flying with new eyes
Took my first flight yesterday with the new eyes. Very cool to be able to see ground detail even better than before and without the hassle…
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Crayon Sculptures
Sometime people use the tools designed to make art into art themselves. The results in this case are whimsical and neat. Check out some of…
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Bug on my windshield
To continue with the bug postings, I'm going to move over to an actual insect. While driving this weekend I hit a bug going about 45MPH…
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Relaxed, but not really rested
I took a much needed break from the day job a week and a half ago and attended another Supershoots event. Was gone for about 7 days and it…
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My Google FooBar Challenge Streams
Google has a code challenge they throw in front of developers from time to time. It starts when you do a search and the results tip back to…
- Programming
Restoring calm
Listening to the raido this morning there was a story about some rioting and two times during the story they mentioned "Sending in troops to…
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October Sky
I love the weather this time of year. Especially nice is the part where the humidity goes away and the sky crisps up. Currently: 82 and…
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Surprise Visitor
Moving some stuff around my garage a couple months ago I almost put my hand right into a spider's web. No big deal really, save for the type…
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CF bulbs
My local Home Depot currently has a sale running on Compact Fluorescent bulbs. Six for $10. I've been wanting to get some CF bulbs to try…
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Fifteen (plus) Years Building This Website
Today, this site is officially fifteen years old. TODO: Restore image here: {{% img src="screengrab-20150713--1032-01b.png" %}} Crazy as…
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Personal Finance Encouragement
I've mentioned before that I really started paying attention to my personal finance while I was in college. For several years now, I've paid…
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How To: Create an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Identity and Access Management (IAM) Policy That Lets Users Manage Their Own Credentials and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
I've been digging into Amazon Web Services (AWS) 1 user administration. One of my first goals was to create a user, send them their…
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Starting WordPress Notes
As I mentioned before, I've moved over to my own copy of WordPress for the back end for my blog. This not only give me more control over the…
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Install Django and Pulling URLs and Titles from Safari Tabs - Parts 1 and 2
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoAD9nUEQJA youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDlonZSL6q4 Time: 00:00:00 TextExpander ISO…
- Live Coding
Belt
Apparently I need to keep an extra belt in the trunk of my car for those time when I forget to put one on. Like today.
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Trick question: How many seconds in a year?
Time sure seems stable. Except for the part where it's not.
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Tree Frog -- Photo for August 24, 2012
Turns out that backlighting a frog reveals some skeleton.
- Photographs
Farewell McNulty, Bubbles, Lester, Omar, Kima, Bunk...
... and the rest of the crew on The Wire. I'm bad about doing the "What's your favorite Movie/Song/Album/Show" game, but the Wire would…
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No more technotes
I wasn't useing stimulatingpixels.com/technotes so I've moved the things that were poste there over here and am killing it. Much easier to…
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Starting My Project Tracker
I built the start of my project tracker last night. I've tried several. None work for me. I'm after ease and speed of use. The all fall…
- Journal
Dot Matrix Sky Writing
A few weeks ago I was driving when I noticed what I think can best be described as Dot Matrix Sky Writing. There were 5 jets crusing along…
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Found a lab
I think I found the photolab that I'm going to use. I've been looking for a lab that offers an API to their services. (API, for those that…
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Three Years to Stability
Three years ago, I had a full blown manic episode. It landed me in the psych ward where I learned I've been living with undiagnosed bipolar…
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Zip Codes
If you ever want to know where a zip code actually is, you can use this: http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm
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That's Not Photoshop
Here's one of the images I was scanning. One of my favorites out of all the ones I've ever shot. Yes. The flames are real. Dave ended up…
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Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 30, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 30, 2020 [AIRFLOW-3583] Fix AirflowException import by chinhngt · Pull Request #4389 ·... Airflow fails to…
- APIs
IronMan, Worth the price of admission
Saw Ironman last weekend. Even at $9.50 FL movie prices, it's worth seeing on the big screen. Saw a preview for the new Indian Jones too…
- Miscellaneous
Four Links for May 1, 2011
The theme for today’s collection of interesting/useful links is: Questions and Answers RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines - * This document…
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Learning Django By Making A Tutorial - Part 8 - #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaQ8TNdHSIM No real notes from this one. Just working through Django.
- Live Coding
Hot Chocolate
Just made the seasons first cup of Hot Chocolate. Please note, that it's 64 degrees right now. I have definitely acclimated to Florida.
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Pano Stuff
Been looking into doing some digital panoramic/virtual-tour type stuff. The site panoguide.com has some good info and equipment stuff on…
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Etymology of the drinking world
Fun link . Haven't had a chance to go thru it all yet, but what I have is interesting. I don't know if the first statement, "There are more…
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Introducing My Van
Today, I added another mark to my scorecard's eccentricity column. Instead of using the money I was saving to replace my cheap 32" with a…
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Limiting Communication and Availability
Several people I know use e-mail like it is instant messenger. They keep it open all day and read every e-mail as it comes in. For me, this…
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Scanning film
I'm scanning in some old film negs that I want to have printed. I had forgotten exactly how time consuming it used to be to get a digital…
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View
After watching the Crimson Tide beat the tar out of Florida and then hitting the bars for several drinks, I ended up crashing at a friend's…
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Drug Scenarios
Looking around freevibe.com (the federal government's anti-drug web site) you can see what will happen to you if you smoke pot. Be sure to…
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Vegas and Bama
I've been traveling a ton recently. Mostly my trips were work related. Jumping back and forth to Atlanta for a few days at a time. Last week…
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The Digital Pin Hole
Front and back view of my pin hole body cap. The foil is taped on the inside. I should be able to use the body cap pretty much as normal. Of…
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Amazon's Kindle iPhone app is pretty good but needs a dictionary
I've only used it a little, but Amazon's Kindle iPhone app is a much better reading experience than I thought it would be. I'll let you know…
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Flying Scorpion - Photo for October 8, 2012
The stinger hasn't fully developed yet. When it does, we're in trouble.
- Photographs
Noia Theme
In Firefox, you can apply Themes to change the look and feel of your browser. I use Noia . I don't really care about the skin itself…
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Book to read
Read this review on Boing Boing. Adding John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" to the list of books to read. Also, starting a new Category with…
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Sites that don't let you copy URLs are stupid
I'm making a little bit of a wish list and one of the things on it is a Craftsman Ratcheting Screwdriver . The link to the sears site on…
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Exactly how accurate are the expiration dates on pills?
This Probably Won't Kill Me, Right?
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10% off at Lowe's
I'm not sure, but it looks like if you just give Lowe's your name and address on this site they'll send you a coupon for 10% off. http…
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Loads of free music from SXSW
I've mentioned before that South by Southwest releases music samplers with free MP3s on them from artists that play the festival. I just…
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Bugs in my head
Odd things going on in my head today. I woke up around 5am at which time the fridge just happened to be running its cooling cycle. It's one…
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MarketPlace Music
One of my favorite radio shows is NPR's Marketplace. Among the positive points is the music they choose for the few second breaks between…
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Buliding A Fast Turn-Around Election Tracker - Stream Notes for November 6, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZwpk5HrTQw Notes Seeing if I can build my own election tracker before the election is over. Made…
- Live Coding
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Dec. 24, 2020
My trip around the web - Dec. 24, 2020 Green screen & hair problem.... : AfterEffects Amazon.com: NICETOWN 100% Blackout Window Curtain…
- Browsing History
Cocaine
Eric Clapton's version of "Cocaine" came on the radio the yesterday. I don't often listen to the radio (thank to my mp3 player) and I hadn't…
- Miscellaneous
Adding Styles to Hugo's YouTube Shortcode, Getting Frustrated with Django's Tutorial, and Building a Screenshot Renamer
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jqDicoxB00 Start 00:00:00 - Add CSS Styles to Hugo's Youtube Shortcodes Hugo comes with a…
- Hugo
Backup Software: PowerFolder
I haven't played with it yet, but there is an open source backup application called " PowerFolder " that looks interesting. It is SoureForge…
- Miscellaneous
FireShot - Firefox screen grab extension
If you ever need to do screen grabs of web pages and especially if you need to annotate them, check out the FireShot extension for Firefox…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Feb. 5, 2021
My trip around the web - Feb. 5, 2021 Criterion Trailer 2: Seven Samurai - YouTube Seven Samurai - Drama Through Action | The Cinema…
- Browsing History
An almost hit with an online catalog
I'm looking for a few small pieces of lighting gear. Checking out the Bogen/Manfrotto web site (who manufactures what I'm looking for) I…
- Miscellaneous
MySpace lacking RSS
I have a ton of stuff I try to keep up with on the web and one of the main ways that I do it is by using an RSS Feed Reader called RSS…
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Secure Gmail
When I first started using gmail, there wasn't a setting to secure it, but you could do it manually by changing the first "http://" part of…
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Financial Data
For all you hackers out there who are into finance, if you want a data feed of stock info, check out Yahoo Finance's stock quotes . On that…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 16, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 16, 2020 #958816 - "pipx makes unsupported use of pip internals" - Debian Bug report logs (1) how create…
- Browsing History
The Spelling of "blog"
I just posted an entry with the word "blog" in it. When I ran the BLOGger.com spell check, it wasn't recognized as a real word and there…
- Miscellaneous
Get a shredder
I shred pretty much everything. If you don't, read this article about a torn up credit card application .
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Idea: Personal Progress Meter
I've never been a particularly "Goal Driven" person. I just go where the wind takes me, but recently I've been making some specific short…
- Miscellaneous
Nice Code Formatting Conversion On Python Site
A quick flip between two formats with the same code.
- Design
Fake File Systems ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 22, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 22, 2020 #6375 ([bug][regression] Too many packets buffered for output stream) – FFmpeg 17.5. subprocess…
- Browsing History
Music to get
Heard a review of the Edsel Gomez CD Cubist Music on Fresh Air tonight. Sounded really nice.
- Miscellaneous
John Butler
Current Random tune is from John Butler Trio . Saw these guys at the Austin City Limits  festival two years ago. Great live and their…
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Moonlanding On Windows
Everthing changed. Or, really, I changed everything. ` I'm writing this on my new [Moonlander keyboard. It's a while ride. A split…
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Killing the IE Clicking Sound
I use Mozilla FireFox most of the time, but have to check stuff I'm working on in IE (since it has the vast majority of the market place…
- Miscellaneous
Lean, Step, Rinse, Repeat
I have alarms set for 10:45pm and 11:00pm. They're to remind me to go to bed. The first one is the warning to start winding down. The second…
- Journal
Even Better Batteries
From an environmental perspective, I love rechargeable batteries. Not throwing old used batteries in a land file is very nice thing. Also…
- Miscellaneous
Virtual Photo Tourism Software
This is an amazing use of software and public images to create something new in the world. I saw a video with the original version of this…
- Miscellaneous
Rorschach Test - Photo for October 22, 2012
Don't think too hard about what your looking at.
- Photographs
"Take it to the Bridge" Fire Escape
Another example of poor design at The Omni. This time on the In Case Of Fire wall plaque. Normally, these signs have dotted lines that show…
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Key Patent Idea
If I had the money to get a patent attorney I'd go after a patent on a combination USB drive and your car alarm remote clicker and a flash…
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Wal-Mart
Just watched " Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices ". I haven't really shopped at Wal-Mart in a long time. Generally speaking I wasn't a…
- Miscellaneous
Lazy
I've been being lazy with my blog or late. A bunch of stuff picked up at work and I've been trying to get a bunch of other things in life in…
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The ATF's Phone Number
Around the 4th of July, I was kicking around Phantom Firework's site ( fireworks.com ) and came across their page on Homemade and Illegal…
- Miscellaneous
The cost of power
I would hate it if this happend, but it wouldn't surprise me. Pay for Power. Attache some type of payment system to power outlets in public…
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Why We Buy
Another for the to read list: " Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping " by Paco Underhill. I stared thinking about this book again after…
- Miscellaneous
Working With Bash, Thinking About Keyboards and Monitors ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 13, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 13, 2020 (1) r/MechanicalKeyboards for all the Click and None of the Clack! 2015 MacBook Pro: Only the High…
- Browsing History
An XML Schema (XSD) Definition to Prevent Leading Zeros in Integers
Beware: XSL Schema's built in integers don't protect you from the curse of leading zeros. Here's how to protect yourself.
- Miscellaneous
Keyboard Maestro, Second Brains, and Python Command Line Searching ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 14, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 14, 2020 Twitter: mdx_js Twiter: jhooks (1) how create folder in root of project? : vscode /status…
- Browsing History
Defrosting - Photo for October 1, 2012
The good news is that someone managed to get the Coke out of the freezer before it exploded.
- Photographs
Photography Assignment - 252
I've got a few friends who are getting into photography. For all of them and anyone else that is either starting or heavily into photography…
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Repartition Hard Drive
If you ever need to repartition a hard drive and don't have Partition Magic, you can do it with a Linux LiveCD like knoppix using an…
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The Booth will soon be no more
This sucks. I heard a couple of weeks ago that The Booth is closing. I frequented a fair number of the bars in Tuscaloosa, but The Booth was…
- Miscellaneous
Rusted A/C - Photo for October 29, 2012
Florida is hard on A/C units. Especially on the parts that can rust.
- Photographs
Black Curtains Installed - Journal For Jan. 2, 2021
I hung blackout curtains in the home office (aka studio). It's great for helping the lighting for my ThisIsHowToCode.com videos. It also…
- Journal
Today I Learned: How to replace minitest-reporters with minitest-rg in the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (3rd ed.)
A simple change for a nicer MiniTest formatter.
- Ruby
Vanity Marketing
This is the most creative use of a vanity plate I've seen. Points for creativity. x2 deductions for sketchiness. -- Tags: tagPhoto
- Miscellaneous
Vegas Looks Like Tron -- Photo for September 7, 2012
They just need to pipe in music by Wendy Carlos.
- Photographs
Journal: Sept. 7, 2020
Well. I almost started doing some other stuff on the computer. Nothing so big. I had a process running to copy the photo archive from my…
- Journal
Andriod Dreams
Another for the book list: " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? " by Philip K. Dick This is the book Blade Runner was based on. Love the…
- Miscellaneous
Automatic Video Assembler Work - Still Working On Testing Approach - Stream Notes for November 5, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC4_ARrwebs Notes Working on a tool to automatically assemble music videos from NASA API footage…
- Live Coding
Neutrally Buoyant Shirts - Journal 2020 12 24
Dec. 24, 2020 I just ordered a couple black polo shirts from Amazon. They are super cheap at $12 per. I'm checking the size. Once I know…
- Journal
Fast moving robots are awesome (and a little scary)
This is awesome. The fact that it can catch things blows me away. This thing would totally be able to pull off the Bishop knife trick from…
- Miscellaneous
Test The Small Stuff
Preface: While I generally prefer shorter examples, these are functional pieces that actually do something. I'm using them instead of…
- Python
Business Idea - Web based replacement for Power Point
I've been in my fair share of meetings where a Power Point presentation was the key focus. Even if print outs are provided, you'll often…
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Shiny screens seem to be okay.
Last few times I've been to a computer store I've noticed that more and more of the displays on laptops are of the ultra shiny sort. Looking…
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Reusable bags
In college, I took a seminar course on environmental studies. In addition to the overall theoretical education, a fair amount of practical…
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LED light isn't quite ready
I forgot to give an update on The Everlasting Light Bulb . Unfortunately, the verdict is not so good. The light puts out roughly the same…
- Miscellaneous
RAW Images
Took the new camera out last night to do some shooting of a friend's band for him. Well into the night, after not a few 7&7s I also shot a…
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Sync
For those of you wanting to sync up multiple mechanical metronomes, this looks like a good way to do it: Ahhhhhhhhh.... Physics.
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Keep on learning
I would not have guessed that at age 31 I would learn a new way to tie my shoes . Thank you, internet for reminding me that you can always…
- Miscellaneous
Monopoly
McDonald's has done their Monopoly game on and off for years. I always wondered what were the key peices to get to actually win something…
- Miscellaneous
No Ninjas in E-mail
At least not in my work e-mail's spell check dictionary. A little sad, but not really surprising.
- Miscellaneous
2 quarts
A relatively slow way to set money aside. Throw all your loose change in a bottle. For example a 2 quart juice bottle. A friend of mine…
- Miscellaneous
The song Powerhouse is one of those things I just never looked up
Skimming through my RSS news reader, I came across this video of "The Philharmonicas" playing a song called Powerhouse . It sounded…
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Can see shit
Inspired by Nuge's "Can't see shit" , I figured it would be a good time to contrast our weather again. So, here's a shot I took out of my…
- Miscellaneous
More fire in the eyes
Here's another shot of Dave with his eyes on fire. Not one of the picks, but it shows the fire even higher. I should mention that I shot…
- Miscellaneous
Digital Cameras - A Technical Marvel
Today I shot my first completely digital wedding. I'm still shaking my head a little in disbelief. I'm on my second digital camera body, and…
- Miscellaneous
Hold music should be mutable
I ran into some issues installing the upgrade to Adobe Lightroom that required me to call their Customer Support. My standard operating…
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Figuring Out What Good Feels Like On Antipsychotics
There's a thing I've been trying to feel for. A seeming simple question: Do I feel good? I wasn't sure. Until today. You'd think that by…
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InfraRecorder
I'm trying a new (to me) open source CD/DVD burning piece of software called " InfraRecorder ". So far, seems pretty nice. I've said before…
- Miscellaneous
Video Assembler V4 Working (minus a change in format from exiftool) - Stream Notes for November 7, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnYr6WrGRgU Note More work on my Video Assembler. Got it going. Just ran into an issue at the end…
- Live Coding
Touch
A few months ago when it seemed like I was on the road more than I was at my house my several year old MP3 player finally gave up it's…
- Miscellaneous
Congress, please stop worrying about the transition to digital TV
Dear Congress, Now that you have gone through it again and decided not to push back the date for the transition to DTV , please drop the…
- Miscellaneous
No idea
Not sure where this is from Though I'm sure the internet would tell me, I prefer not to look this time. Sometimes it's fun to just let the…
- Miscellaneous
Turning Up the Volume with Sub Titles
I watched Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Red" last night. It's the third film in his "Three Colours" trilogy. It's a French film so I was watching…
- Miscellaneous
Pistol Purchase
Recently, I've been wanting to try my hand at pistol target shooting. After having gone out to a shooting range to shoot a couple Glocks, I…
- Miscellaneous
Don't use PVC for Fireworks Launch Tubes
Using PVC pipe for fireworks launchers is bad news. These videos showing the difference between it and "HDPE" show why.
- Miscellaneous
Photo Books
Another find from Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools is Blurb for printing photo books. I haven't used the service yet, but it sounds like Mr. Kelly…
- Miscellaneous
IR Proofs
Here is the first real batch of Infra Red shots that I took a few weeks ago. It's a raggae band named "De Lions of Jah" playing out a bar…
- Miscellaneous
Drawing From The Right Side Of My Brain
I bought Drawing On The Right Side Of the Brain sometime in the '90s. Flipped through it a few times. Always meant to read it. Never did…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 8, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 8, 2020 About - pygame wiki Advanced Usage — Requests 2.24.0 documentation Amazon EC2 Instance Types - Amazon…
- Browsing History
Today I Learned: Quickly Copy a Directory Path
Probably one of my top 10 most used aliases.
- Today I Learned
Roxanne thru Songsmith
If you haven't already heard about Microsoft's Songsmith, you can check out the the official Microsoft Research Songsmith page for a quick…
- Miscellaneous
Stream Notes for October 27, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syD3nPoKLEk Progress Made Making the Browser URL Restore Script Looking at NASA's APIs Working to…
- Live Coding
Non-Verbal Communication
At the grocery store today I saw two guys talking in the aisle. The trick is that one of them was deaf and the other was using the text…
- Miscellaneous
Photography is what I'm supposed to do
I've been having this thought a lot lately. I just watched a documentary on Ansel Adams (that's right, I'm a photographer AND a geek). At…
- Miscellaneous
The tornado missed me
I was in ATL again this week. Spent a few days this go round including Friday night when a tornado hit downtown including the Georgia Dome…
- Miscellaneous
Practicing On The Small Stuff
I spent a couple hours last night modifying a script to do the same thing it was already doing. Refactoring, but not really. I was trying…
- Journal
Cold Calling
I get cold calls from time to time about tech stuff. Usually staffing agencies. Just got one today on voice mail and the caller had such a…
- Miscellaneous
Lost Wings - Photo for October 18, 2012
I'm not sure what bug left these stuck to my car window, but it must like walking.
- Photographs
Pandora Radio
If you haven't seen Pandora and you are a fan of music, go there now. It's a way to create online "radio" stations by choosing some songs…
- Miscellaneous
Clips of content
There has been an increasing trend of video used for posts on the web recently. Often, this is taking the "embed" code and putting a video…
- Miscellaneous
Compound Interest
I like looking at what compound interest can do for me (or anyone else). So, I made a little page with some javascript on it to create a…
- Miscellaneous
More exploding things
I don't think I've posted this one yet, but it follows along the same lines of not putting your beer in the freezer . That makes things…
- Miscellaneous
Quick Copy For The Current Directory Path
Copying the current command line directory path is a frequent task. On a Mac, this can be sped up using pbcopy . A little command Apple…
- hacks
Quote on photography
All photographs are accurate. None is the truth. - Richard Avedon
- Miscellaneous
Post launch, but still going
We just launched a redesign of PGATOUR.com this Sunday to help promote the new PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. Redesigns are always…
- Miscellaneous
Checking web page efficiency
This is more a note for myself so that I can find it later. But if you ever want to see more about what's going on when your web browser…
- Miscellaneous
Ken Is Cool
Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is cool! Ken is…
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A new/old word: bromide
Toward the end of Rand's "The Fountainhead", the word "bromide" is used a lot. I've only ever heard it used in its chemical reference before…
- Miscellaneous
Alien watching the pres
Check out this video of the President and notice the alien reflection in the window pane over his right shoulder. (found via boing boing…
- Miscellaneous
Spelling Inbox
The word "inbox" isn't in Thunderbird's default dictionary. That's amuzing.
- Miscellaneous
The Morning Ritual and Maybe Getting an AWS Person to Stream With Me
Welp. I didn't journal yesterday. I got up and started messing around on the computer. Before I knew it, I completely forgot to journal. I…
- Journal
Photoshop Light Room - First Impression
Installed the trial copy of Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom today on my laptop and dropped some test images in from my 5D. I haven't done much…
- Miscellaneous
Photoshop theme: Literal translations of popular idioms
From Fark. A bunch of these made me chuckle. link
- Miscellaneous
Unprocessed film
Dave mentioned that he just processed a lot of undeveloped film. Here is a little of what I still have in the same pre processing state…
- Miscellaneous
Time Off
I've taken a little time off, and man, I needed it. Office holidays were for the 3rd and 4th so I took the last three days of the week of…
- Miscellaneous
Collection of photos from the Inauguration of President Barack Obama
Boston.com has posted this collection of photos taken on Jan. 20, 2009. The day that Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of…
- Miscellaneous
Why Dropbox Wants My Location Data
Dropbox is a great service. The 2GB of free storage that's shared seamlessly across computers, phones and iPads is incredibly useful. Their…
- Miscellaneous
Learning Django By Making A Tutorial - Part 10 - #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxTD5xklnz8 Timestamps Start: 00:00:00 - Digging In From Where We Left Off - getting a checklist…
- Live Coding
Testing An SM58 Mic Setup
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmWC1vInUrA Goal: Figure out what I want to use for my audio setup √ End result: SM58 wins over H…
- Miscellaneous
Halloween Looks
From the amazing Austin Halloween party. Jaime = Media Me = Johnny Depp's character from Once Upon a Time in Mexico One hell of a party…
- Miscellaneous
Sarah Connor
I'm just catching up on some shows and finally watched the first two episodes of " TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES ". They were…
- Miscellaneous
Not Broken
So, I shot a wedding for a couple of friends on Saturday. Overall, it went very well. At least I think it did. I'm not sure yet since I…
- Miscellaneous
Finding And Restoring A Deleted File In Git
TL;DR If you delete a file and need to restore it but don't know the path you can search for it with the argument to the last grep in this…
- Git
T-minus one day and counting (with elephants) -- Photo for August 31, 2012
Counting down to the Crimson Tide season kickoff (with elephants)
- Photographs
How to stop credit card offers
After I got my house the number of credit card, refinance, home equity line of credit, etc... went up to between 20-30 a week. After doing…
- Miscellaneous
FireFox Tracking
Someone should bulid a firefox extension that lets you track FedEx, UPS, USPS, etc.. direclty in your browser. Like in the status bar. You…
- Miscellaneous
Awesome video of a moment in time
Found via Laughing Squid. I would hire these guys. Created by Stink Digital.
- Miscellaneous
Video sampling
While this isn't fundamentally different from creating an audio track from a bunch of samples, the fact that it's from youTube clips gives…
- Miscellaneous
Continuing To Get Used To Creative Pursuits On Lithium, et al.
Writing still feels weird. Or, getting started does. We'll see how it goes once I get a little momentum. I'm not that worried about it…
- Journal
ffmpeg and video ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 24, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 24, 2020 #3686 (ffprobe returns incorrect duration) – FFmpeg /KSC-20171031-MH-SWW01_0001-Innovation_Expo…
- Browsing History
Trying To Make The Video Assembler Go Faster - Stream Notes for November 8, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMAN_GSyeU Notes Updated the Automatic NASA Video Music Maker to try to speed it up a little by…
- Live Coding
More comicbook nostalgia
Just discovered that yet another old comic-book/cartoon world is being brought back to cash in on gen-x nostalgia. This time, it's G.I. Joe…
- Miscellaneous
Short Straw - Photo for October 9, 2012
As a kid, this was awesome. Riding to work in crappy weather, not so much.
- Photographs
Merriam-Webster using distaseful ads
When I used to think of the dictionary folks at Merriam-Webster a scene of an refined, well kept library came to mind. A high class…
- Miscellaneous
Symmetry from Radiolab - Video for April 27, 2011
The follow up to the "Words" video. Right powerful piece of work.
- Miscellaneous
Alan is Currently Listening To David Guetta - Shot Me Down ft. Skylar Grey
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id="3x2ABSAMVno"
- Music
Stay One Undo Away from Green
An excellent refactoring guideline from Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen.
- Miscellaneous
Juggling
Some day, I'm going to teach myself how to juggle. I don't think I'll ever get quite to this level though.
- Miscellaneous
Monopoly
Fun internet thing. A list of the "rare" monopoly peices in the McD's game. Now you don't have to wonder if you have the one from each…
- Miscellaneous
iPhone seems quite nice
okay, I wasn't all that hyped about the iPhone. It looked cool, but none of the ads I was really got my blood up. Today I was out running…
- Miscellaneous
FileZilla - Windows FTP Software
If you need an FTP client try FileZilla . It's open source so it's free. There is also a FileZilla server if you need to setup an FTP…
- Miscellaneous
... And we're back... again
So, toward the end of 2009, I decided that I wanted to move this blog back from stimulatingpixels.com (where it was for a while) and at the…
- Miscellaneous
Public Library Access
Sitting in the Austin Public Library right now using their free wireless. I love free wireless. There is a lot that is very cool about the…
- Miscellaneous
Putting Writing First
Nov. 2, 2020 I almost forgot to write. If I don't stream too late, I upload a copy of the stream the same night. When I'm tired, I save it…
- Journal
Mythbusters - Photo for October 14, 2012
Risking bodily harm for the betterment of all mankind.
- Photographs
Commercial Volume
I find it super annoying when the volume on a TV commercial is about 5 times as loud as the show you are watching. I'm fairly certain this…
- Miscellaneous
Finishing and Practicing
I finished something. For the first time in a long time, I finished something. My Daily Link Grabber is live and in production. It grabs…
- Journal
Lots of Visual Charts
This is a neat table of charts . Mouse over an "element" to see an example. Found this on cool tools .
- Miscellaneous
Finishing V1 of the Random Video Assembler - Stream Notes for October 29, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyYeHEQ2t3E Progress Finished v1 of the random video assembler. Still need to remove some hard…
- ffmpeg
DVD Flick
Haven't tried this one yet, but it looks quite nice. A free, open-source piece of windows software that purports to allow you to make a DVD…
- Miscellaneous
Yahoo Music Unlimited - still very Beta
So far, not so good as I had hoped. Ever since MP3s first made their way into existence I've been looking for a service like Yahoo's Music…
- Miscellaneous
Learning Django By Making A Tutorial - Part 2
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CWUY-6DK8s Overview This is the second part of exploring Django to make a tutorial in order to…
- Django
The Everlasting Light Bulb
I've heard a rumor that the first bulb Edison made is still burning. Don't know if it's true or not but I've always thought it would nice to…
- Miscellaneous
Brendan Eich, Ward Cunningham and Me
There are two languages that make web pages work - HTML and JavaScript. While attending the O'Reilly Fluent Conference 1 , I had the…
- Photographs
zallybags' Final Project
zally with with me on day one of the digital garden. while chatting about our histories he showed me his excellent final project.
- Miscellaneous
The beginning of the end for Nikons with film
I had pretty much accepted that it would come sometime in my lifetime, but Nikon UK, today has announced that it's starting the phase out of…
- Miscellaneous
Up to date photos
While looking around for some packaging options, I can across DNL Photo. After a few clicks I got to this page . Me thinks they need to get…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 25, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 25, 2020 peggyrayzis schickling #3686 (ffprobe returns incorrect duration) – FFmpeg 'It's the screams of the…
- Browsing History
OpenDNS
The DNS service of my local ISP sucks. It looses itself quite often which is a bad trick. I've just found OpenDNS and am going to give…
- Miscellaneous
Morning Music, Gaining Confidence Through Streaming, and Making a Red/Green unittest Enhancement
I wake up to Spoon. Specifically Small Stakes . It's been the first thing I've kicked off for a month now. If the process of waking up goes…
- Journal
Being carded
Tonight I went out with a few friends for a quick drink after work to celebrate my 31st birthday. I got carded and no one else (most younger…
- Miscellaneous
States
For those times when you can't remember the abbreviation of the state you are trying to send a letter to. http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups…
- Miscellaneous
Wikipedia list of Open Source Software
I think the Wikipedia is one of the best things on the internet. I think Free and Open Source Software is one of the best things of our time…
- Miscellaneous
Passwords
I have a lot of passwords.... I mean a whole lot. And with what I do, security is important so they can't all be the same or easy. A while…
- Miscellaneous
Nuge in ATL and the 31fd
I've mentioned that I've been traveling to Atlanta a lot over the past few days. On one of the trips, I managed to catch up with Nuge and…
- Miscellaneous
Weed Eaters From Hell
At work today they are doing yard work. For the past three hours there has been a constant barrage of weed eaters, leaf blowers and edgers…
- Miscellaneous
Back in my day, we didn't have the internet
It's a good thing the world wide web wasn't around when I was in high school. Especially not in the state it is today. I did enough stupid…
- Miscellaneous
One line of code
For an example of when programming can be a pain in the ass. I spent about three hours today coming up with this one line of code: convert…
- Miscellaneous
Stream Notes for November 17, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPEQxn5Eq0A Notes Working on my snake_case_renamer Links From The Stream Automatically find and…
- Live Coding
TV Rule of Thumb
I have a subscription to the site rulesofthumb.org in my RSS reader. One that just came up today is: Look good, sound good, and do…
- Miscellaneous
TED cool stuff
There is a conference called TED that takes place every year. Some amazing tech stuff is shown there. One that I saw last year was of a guy…
- Miscellaneous
Four links for April 28, 2011
Today’s collection of interesting/useful links: Ken Jennings Uses Google to Spell Check - The fact that he spell checks using Google may…
- Miscellaneous
Why Did The Snowy Egret Cross The Road - Photo for October 30, 2012
The question has to be asked. Do snowy egrets taste like chicken?
- Photographs
Local radio show
There is a locan NPR radio show that I listen to most nights called "Electro Lounge" that comes on at Tuesday- Friday 9p-11p and Saturday…
- Miscellaneous
FinePix F30
Anybody seen a FinePix F30 in action. Specifically, shot at a high ISO. I upgraded my point and shoot to a Canon SD600 a while ago because…
- Miscellaneous
Learning Django by Making A Tutorial - Part 5
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXd0bIcK5zE Start - 00:00:00 - More Work On Django This stream was all about making forms. Toward…
- Django
Streaming For The (Second) Wind
Whoops. Almost didn't write today. Had meetings first thing that just kept going and going and going. I didn't think about writing again…
- Journal
Quote on E-mail length
I've found the time it takes to reply to emails is a rather steep function of their length. Two-liners I often respond to immediately. Very…
- Miscellaneous
Butterfly Effect
Just watched the director's cut of The Butterfly Effect care of Netflix and really enjoyed it. I can't remember how it did in the reviews…
- Miscellaneous
R60
We just got new laptops at work. This model is a ThinkPad R60. It's not a super fast machine by todays standards, but it's really very…
- Miscellaneous
Deleting Makes Me Nervous
I'm sure that I only have things in the trash that I really want to delete. Still, numbers like this make me nervous: (/aws-20120524--210…
- misc
Creative Types, Use A Contract
Photographers, Designers, Website Builders, Audio Engineers, and anyone else who does creative work for a living, if you don't use contracts…
- Photography
Traveling Van
I've always liked the idea of having something like an RV to travel around in. Going to Bama games and general traveling both being high on…
- Miscellaneous
Fun while it lasted
I was expecting to spend a little time on the Four Links and Daily Video projects. Ended up taking way longer than I expected. Even when I…
- Miscellaneous
Enjoying The Non-Creative
I'm in my head right now. This is the first time I really started thinking about an audience when writing a journal entry. Or, at least, it…
- Journal
De_Magicking Words
The wonderful KatieKodes wrote a piece on making her minimum viable build tutorials. The process includes staying as far away as…
- Miscellaneous
Completing The Fountainhead
Last night, I finished up Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead". There probably couldn't have been a better time for that book to find its way to me…
- Miscellaneous
Tune in vs. Available
What you always here on the commercials is on the order of: "Tune in Thursday at 9-8 Central". Things like Tivo have been around for a while…
- Miscellaneous
T-minus two days and counting (with elephants) -- Photo for August 30, 2012
Counting down to the Crimson Tide season kickoff (with elephants)
- Photographs
SEC Schedule App for iPhone
If you are a fan of the SEC and own an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you'll want the free " SEC Football Pocket Schedule " from SilverTree…
- Miscellaneous
Going VOD - Journal for Dec. 23, 2020
Dec. 23, 2020 Yep. Pretty much done streaming for a while. Going all VOD for ThisIsHowYouProgram.com I was going to do the introduction…
- Journal
Lightroom Resize not so good
I've been batching up some photos to get ready to post and was using Adobe Lightroom to resize them down to the proper dimensions…
- Miscellaneous
It's Been Dry
Even with the decent amount of rain we've gotten over the past week or two, it's been dry in my area. To wit, I'm in the dark red "D…
- photos
T-minus three days and counting (with elephants) -- Photo for August 29, 2012
Counting down to the Crimson Tide season kickoff (with elephants)
- Photographs
VMWare Player
For all those Windows users out there that want to play around with Linux (or develop on it like I do), the fine folks at VMWare have…
- Miscellaneous
Hippie Food
Just walked over to Publix and picked up some Green Tea and Granola bars for a snack. The goal wasn't even to pick up healtheir food, but I…
- Miscellaneous
I have no faith in "Lost"
I just read a post titled " How Lost bends the rules " on Boing Boing . I'm one of the people the article talks about that dropped out of…
- Miscellaneous
Grimoire Publisher Spec
I'm starting a script to copy notes from my nvalt grimoire to my hugo digital garden . I almost just started coding it. Partially…
- Miscellaneous
Kickoff Saturday Elephant -- Photo for September 1, 2012
As a matter of fact, I am ready for some Alabama Football.
- Photographs
A.W.S.
I think it might be a moral imparative that I do something with " Amazon Web Services ". After all, we have the same initials....
- Miscellaneous
Excellence in almost anything tends to amaze
I've said before that even if I'm not into something at all, I pretty much always like seeing examples of excellence in any category. Some…
- Miscellaneous
Golf Hazard
In golf, red stakes mark a water hazard. On the Valley Course at Sawgrass yesterday, the hazard on hole 15 took on an additional meaning.
- Miscellaneous
One more from Ken Rockwell
I'm really enjoying kicking round this guys site. Here's another one I really like: The Seven Levels of Photographers . Of course, I think…
- Miscellaneous
Just Some Travels ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 23, 2020
Bouncing around the web yet again.
- Browsing History
Hugo to AWS S3 Deploy Command
Here's a quick snippet of code to put your shell aliases file that cds into your Hugo directory, builds the site, deploys it to AWS S3, and…
- Hugo
New Music
A track from "Duo-Putty" just came up on random. I got it from C-Nets music downloads. "Aquasurfactant" has a very chll groove to it. You…
- Miscellaneous
Six Stages
Sitting in a hotel room on yet another trip to Atlanta and after having had a few drinks myself to unwind. I find the The 6 Stages of…
- Miscellaneous
Facial Flex - Filed Under Bizarre - Video for April 30, 2011
Starts off a little slow. Make sure to stick around till at least 1:15. You'll probably be too weirded out to turn it off after that. Facial…
- Miscellaneous
iHeartTransplant - Photo for September 26, 2012
OS updates always make me a little nervous.
- Photographs
Creating a JavaScript Alphabetize Form #LiveCoding
Part 1 - before an internet outage youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR6FOgDLAH4 Part 2 - after the outage: youtube: https://www…
- Live Coding
Monitor Shopping and Spinning ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 20, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 20, 2020 (1) 34"+ Ultra Wide 5120x2160 : ultrawidemasterrace /status/1329502643409051651 13-inch MacBook Pro…
- Browsing History
Protection from Adobe Creative Cloud's Folder Erasing Bug
If it's gonna delete something, make sure it's something you don't care about.
- Miscellaneous
Mac Software: Max - CD ripper and encoder
I've added one more piece of software to my Mac's Toolbox: Max from http://sbooth.org/ . Max is CD ripping and encoding software. For…
- Miscellaneous
Assigning Ruby Variables with a Case Statement
Reading Refactoring: Ruby Edition I came across an example of assigning a variable via a case statement. For example: Using the return…
- Ruby
The blog is dead, long live the blog
This is the first real post in the new blogging software. I've moved everything over from the former blogger.com account. I like the idea of…
- Miscellaneous
Unix Command Line Tools for Windows
I work on Mac, Linux and Windows machines during the course of an average day. A lot of this work is done on the command line . Since…
- Miscellaneous
New look and Cloud photo test
I've updated the "theme" of this blog to a new look. Mainly, I wanted to get a wider base width. If you are on a smaller monitor size, sorry…
- Miscellaneous
Hacking audio books
I'm on yet another trip. This time by car to North Alabama to visit the mom. Before I left I went to the library to see what books on cd…
- Miscellaneous
High Speed for Slow Motion Punches
When you shoot a normal video, the camera captures individual frames at a rate around 30 frames every second. When viewed normally, and at…
- Miscellaneous
RSS Bandit
I had a hard drive go out on me a little while back and am in the process of re-installing all the software on my machine to rebuild it…
- Miscellaneous
WordCount
It would be interesting if you could do a word count on the everything you say. With voice analysis software getting better, this might…
- Miscellaneous
Backups, Command Line Tools, and Thank Yous ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 19, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 19, 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro - Space Gray - Apple 20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Surprisingly Sage Advice on…
- Browsing History
Offline Post Creation
Inspiration for blog posts can strike at any time. The fact that blogs are by definition on the web, this can make it difficult to post if…
- Miscellaneous
Shuttle launch lens determination
I have no idea if this will work, but I'm trying to use Google Maps to figure out what lens I should shoot the Shuttle launch with tomorrow…
- Miscellaneous
Manufactured Accent
While listening to one of the generic pop stations on the radio recently, "Our Song" by Taylor Swift came on. I wouldn't have classified the…
- Miscellaneous
Free Music from download.com
Kick around music.download.com and you can check out some new music. Most artists have at least one full MP3 track that you can download.
- Miscellaneous
Absolute Sandman
Was browsing around the library yesterday and saw "Absolute Sandman" sitting out and waiting to be re-shelved. Here's what Wikipedia says…
- Miscellaneous
Internet find: Electronics Training from the Navy
United States Navy Electricity & Electronics Training Series - NEETS * In the introduction, the texts are defined as a "self-study course…
- Miscellaneous
Backup Your Stuff
If you don't have it, get backup software. Let me say that again. Get backup software. If you still don't have it, set a deadline before you…
- Miscellaneous
Apparently, they still teach cursive - Photo for October 27, 2012
Cursive - Soon to be as foreign to most folks as hieroglyphics
- Photographs
Sugar Water
A long time ago, I saw this video for the song "Sugar Water" by Cibo Matto. While trying to see if I could find it online, I was looking for…
- Miscellaneous
WordPress 2.0
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.0. You may see differences, you may not. It's new to me. And yes. This is what I'm doing on a Friday night. I…
- Miscellaneous
A Contingency Speech for the First Moon Landing
Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for seasons four and five of The West Wing. (Of course, those season are a decade old. So, you're…
- NASA
Dilbert
I saw Dilert a few times when I was in College. Didn't find it funny at all. I now work in a fairly corporate environment and find it…
- Miscellaneous
Look! My house.
For those of you who wanted to see where I live: Scary. What's really wild is that you can look down on the Forbidden City in China…
- Miscellaneous
Sudoku - for when you want to drive yourself mad
I've heard of Sudoku before, but never saw a free online version to play till today. Granted, I hadn't really looked. When I stumbled on…
- Miscellaneous
Proprietary Cables and lots of storage space
I'm notorious for taking forever to get my photos in a state where people can see them. In the old days, this meant that I had a lot of film…
- Miscellaneous
April Fool's Day lasts for years on the web
The web has its own version of the time/space continuum. It's kinda two dimensional when you look at it on a screen, but those dimensions…
- Miscellaneous
Digital Work
Here is the best example I've seen of the produciton work that gos into making a fashion photo that hits the public. Yes, I'm linking to a…
- Miscellaneous
Mushrooms - Photo for September 25, 2012
If you ever want to get weird looks, prop yourself on a curb outside your local Tropic Smoothie with a giant camera to take photos of…
- Photographs
Eneloop batteries
Back in October, I wrote an entry about better rechargeable batteries I had recently discovered. At that time, I hadn't bought any, but I…
- Miscellaneous
The new blade
It has amazed me how much printer technology has imporved. I bought a $100 photo printer a couple years ago that easily bested the $5,00…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 2, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 2, 2020 - Find & Share on GIPHY /status/1323198797825101824 /status/1323252338413490177 /status…
- Browsing History
Hello, Geminoid (and welcome back to the uncanny valley)
That's right, he's a robot. Not as creepy as others and for the first time I can see how it might be possible to create something that doesn…
- Miscellaneous
Getting the ass kicked
Work has been a blur these past couple weeks. Found out about somethings that got sold that we have to launch on short deadlines. A bit…
- Miscellaneous
Meteor
I just heard someone say the phrase "Meteoric Rise". This is one of those phrases that doesn't really make sense to me. Meteors are falling…
- Miscellaneous
Pet sign
This is the sign in the window of a pet store. They had a few offering their various services: vaccinations, boarding, etc... This one was a…
- Miscellaneous
In Which I Have an MRI and a CT Scan (Both of Which Turn Out Fine)
Nov. 3, 2020 Allllllmost missed this one. It wasn't as much because I didn't follow the routine as I didn't have a way to hold onto the…
- Journal
Clouds and Lampposts
(/aws-20120614--2009-03.jpg" caption="Clouds and Lampposts) I always enjoy scenes that look almost black & white even in color.
- Photographs
Cool Looking Tree
Had the camera on the golf course yesterday, and took this shot of a neat looking tree.
- Miscellaneous
So, you wanna be a photographer?
This is an older article that I just saw by a guy named Ken Rockwell . It's called How to Become a Professional Photographer . It's long…
- Miscellaneous
Fixing A Wrong (Old) Version Of django-admin
I ran into a problem where django-admin wasn't working properly. It kept making projects based on an old version of django. For example…
- Django
Wedding Editing with Lightroom
If you have to edit a wedding, having Lightroom with a pretty high end machine is a great way to go. I'd guess I spent 10 hours editing the…
- Miscellaneous
It's Getting Hot In Here - Photo for September 16, 2012
Not sure how long my A/C was out while I was away. I'm guessing my house hit 90 at some point.
- Photographs
Someday, I'll get to Inbox Zero
I should make Inbox Zero a higher priority. Ironically, I feel like I have too much going on right now to mess with the way I work.
- Miscellaneous
Funny quote
"Shooting the Leica is like going out with Pamela Anderson. The camera keeps saying you can make me clean, cook, raise the kids, but I won't…
- Miscellaneous
Now with Feed! (Adding an RSS/Atom Feed to Jekyll)
I've added a news reader feed to the site. You can grab it here: http://alanwsmith.com/feed.xml Note: If you're not a techie, and terms…
- jekyll
Firefox 2 spell check
I moved to Firefox 2 a little while ago. One of the nicest features in it is the fact that it has spell check built into it now. So, when I…
- Miscellaneous
Clear Cache Button - Firefox extension
One more Firefox extension to help out anyone who does web development work or is otherwise interested in a quick way to clear your Firefox…
- Miscellaneous
SXSW Showcase
And here is where you can get a copy of the showcase (assuming the torrent is still live which I can't check right now). When I hit the…
- Miscellaneous
Driving Range Bugs vs. Off!
I went to a public driving range today after work to hit a bag of balls and try to practice some of the things from my recent leson. As soon…
- Miscellaneous
Medication Station
Managing several prescriptions can be notoriously difficult. As we get older the general decrease in eye site and sharpness of memory can…
- Miscellaneous
Syntax Highlighting and Responsive Images
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Oo_2nPfcw 00:00 Styling Single Line Code Blocks I setup an external CSS stylesheet to do syntax…
- Live Coding
Repeating myself
Please bear in mind that it's very likely that I'll repeat myself more than a few times with this blog. I was just responding to a comment…
- Miscellaneous
Audio Video Setup Test
Going through some audio and video tests to improve the streaming setup. youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytjt2frBNyU
- Miscellaneous
Budget Wino
I like wine. I know very little about it. I generally pick my wine based on the label when I go to the store because I've done no prep work…
- Miscellaneous
Temptation, thy name is Bubble Wrap
In which I contemplate how awesome it would be to pop an entire roll of bubble wrap.
- Photographs
Net Library - almost cool
While browsing thru my library's online catalog, I noticed an entry marked "electronic resource". Clicking on it took me to netlibrary.com…
- Miscellaneous
QQQDirect
I was looking for a NASDAQ index fund and came across this article about QQQDirect . It is a commission free way to do dollar-cost…
- Miscellaneous
Hot
I bought an oven thermometer and left it in my car on Sept. 6. Here's a shot of it after about 2 hours in the car. A little over 15…
- Miscellaneous
New Lens - 24-105 - awesome
Not too long ago, Canon introduced a new lens: the EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM . I've been lusting after this lens from the day I first heard…
- Miscellaneous
Improvement that isn't really one?
I subscribe to a service called Safari Books Online for one of the premiere computer related book publishers: O'Reilly . Here is a snip…
- Miscellaneous
Working On A snake_case_renamber in Bash ~ Stream Notes for November 13, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nFsFDfG0U Notes Working on a snake_case_renamer to batch rename files in bash. Links From The…
- Live Coding
About This Web Log
UPDate: I need to update this. As I've kicked it around a little, it's changed..... I'll get to that someday. We live in the "The Age of…
- Miscellaneous
Copyright Free Audio Test Music
These tracks can be used for audio tests. The music is from YouTube's copyright free audio library. The images are copyright free from…
- Miscellaneous
Learning to Fly in Time Lapse - Video for April 28, 2011
I see your Laser Light Show and raise you one batch of Time Lapse. According to timescapes.org , this is footage from an upcoming film that…
- Miscellaneous
Today I Learned: Simultaneously opening Ruby gem source files in Vim tabs
One quick command for a full set of tabs
- Vim
Get your skulls in the Home and Garden section
I've heard one of the reasons you see skulls in old paintings so often is that artists used to keep one around as a reminder of their…
- Miscellaneous
Donating Computer Gear
There is a local company in Jax called Unlimited Solutions, Inc. that has some pretty good karma. They take donations of old computer gear…
- Miscellaneous
Digital Garden Thoughts
TL;DR Doing the mental upgrade to think of my site as a Digital Garden has been awesome. Highly Recommended. Some thoughts on turning my…
- Miscellaneous
New Music: Feist
Just hear an interview with Feist on NPR this morning. Nice and chill. Will have to pick some up.
- Miscellaneous
Building An Python Module For Alteryx That Enables The S3/RedShift COPY Command Thru MFA - Part 5#LiveCoding
- Live Coding
Framing Size
I'm writing this in here so I can find it later. I'm about to make some prints for my office of some of my old stuff. My office isn't that…
- Miscellaneous
Variable Vivitar 283/285 - follow up
Yep. It works. I stopped by radio shack on the way home yesterday and picked up a box of assorted resistors (my local shop didn't have a…
- Miscellaneous
It's about creating
I'm pretty much the only person at work who does what I do in terms of technology. To the point that I've been told (several times) not to…
- Miscellaneous
Download the skill set you desire
IBM has started releasing a new set of offerings they are calling " Skill kits " built on their Toolkit for Custom and Reusable Solution…
- Miscellaneous
Changing PermaLinks (but it won't really matter)
So, the theory behind "permalinks" is that they are supposed to stay the same. I'm breaking the rules and changing mine. The good news is…
- Miscellaneous
Journal: Sept. 10, 2020
Welcome to the first journal entry that's live streamed. No talking in this one, just writing. When this is done, I'm going to make a…
- Journal
Impressive Vocals
Picked this up off Boingboing: 1995 winner (mp3). Talk about a fast talker.
- Miscellaneous
Updating My Daily Link Grabber - #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIHhUYzuMVc Start: 00:00:00 - Chatting and Review Just chatting. Time: 00:10:45 - Enhancing The…
- Live Coding
Interior Door
If you ever wondered what the inside of your car door looks like, it's probably something like this: My outside door handle broke off and…
- Miscellaneous
Quick E-mail Backup Hack
I just saw something about a hack that I use and wanted to pass it on. If you have some files that you need to have backed that are way more…
- Miscellaneous
Dad's Bio
There is a local radio show called Music from the Electro Lounge that I listen to a lot on the local NPR station. Tonight they are doing and…
- Miscellaneous
A few photos
I'm still working on getting my gallery up and running. I've posted a few shots here: http://www.alanwsmith.com/gallery -- Tags…
- Miscellaneous
Variable Vivitar 283
David is in the process of setting up a light kit using ever reliable vivitar 283 flashes. I think I've mentioned before that a 285 was my…
- Miscellaneous
NASA Images
Just discovered the recently launched NASA Images web site. From this article that talks about the launch: The launch is the first step…
- Miscellaneous
Odd recommendations
Just logged into Netflix. One of the features it provides is recommendations based on what you like. The two it just gave me are "The Muppet…
- Miscellaneous
Mahna Mana
And here's one to stick in your head: It's amazing how expressive the Muppets are. They still look great. Do doooo do du du! And one more…
- Miscellaneous
Java Classpath for Mac OS X Leopard
Doing a little Java development on the Mac. Just making a note to myself about XOM (an XML Object Model). According to the web site, "XOM…
- Miscellaneous
Two of may favorite things
Legos and Photography . What more could you ask for. -- Tags: tagPhotography
- Miscellaneous
$45.82
This morning I spent what I'm sure is the most on gas I ever have at any one time. Total was $45.82 for 15.9 gal. It's not as high as other…
- Miscellaneous
Getting over the hump
George Clinton had it dead on with Bob Gun. "I got to get over the hump". Thankfully, I can see the hump now. First off, we'll pass the…
- Miscellaneous
Keeping The Name And Starting The Blog - Journal For Dec. 25, 2020
Dec. 25, 2020 Christmas day. I'm happy and content to be at the house by myself. And, even more looking at another week of PTO. It's nice…
- Journal
Process ~ A Video of Writing
This is a screen recording I did while responding to a tweet. Took me some time to get the words right. I think it originally took 3…
- Videos
The Creative Process
One blog I enjoy checking in on is called Get Rich Slowly . The blog is one of the ones I use to keep feeding my brain on personal finance…
- Miscellaneous
Day Tripping
This has been a long ass day. Went to bed about two this morning (because I'm a night owl). Then, got up at a little after 4am, left the…
- Miscellaneous
Another <strike>Black</strike> Brown Widow
Found this little surprise in the garage today: (/aws-20120521--1809-02.jpg" caption="Brown (not Black) Widow in the garage) That makes…
- photos
Customer Service
I had some problems getting my number transfered over from my Cingular account to my T-Mobile because an account number was wrong. I just…
- Miscellaneous
Making An ffmpeg Command To Automatically Assemble Video Clips - Stream Notes for October 28, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqTYfDI9-88 Notes This one was all about making an ffmpeg command to automatically assemble videos…
- ffmpeg
Ad that keeps your attention
Vonage has an ad going right now that does a great job of holding your attention. In the foreground is a guy standing outside a building…
- Miscellaneous
Good little (open source) clip art site
While looking for an open source clip art light-bulb the first site google returned was openclipart.org . However, it looks like they are…
- Miscellaneous
First Test Of The NASA Automatic Music Video Maker
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qska1R4Roc This is the first full run from my automatic music video maker. The song got clipped on…
- ffmpeg
Oh, The Places I Went! ~ Oct. 18, 2020
BIG TEXT Letters Font Generator (𝗛𝗜𝗧 𝗳𝗼𝗻𝘁) Coding For Entrepreneurs Command Synonyms, Command Antonyms | Thesaurus.com CRUD Dan Bader…
- Browsing History
Stream Notes for November 1, 2020 #LiveCoding
Notes More fun with the NASA API. Pulling down the manifest files. Links From The Stream /224_StarMagneticFields/224_StarMagneticFields…
- Live Coding
Divesting of Nikon
I'm on my way to Huntsville for a few days. I've decided that I'm going to drop off most of my Nikon gear at Southerland's to sell. On the…
- Miscellaneous
Team Gulp
Was just trying to remember how big the original 7-Eleven Big Gulp was and got to the 7-Eleven Wikipedia page and noticed that they now…
- Miscellaneous
Wedding Excuse
I'm shooting the wedding of a couple of friends on Sat. This works out well because there are a few photo related things that I've been…
- Miscellaneous
An Event Apart 2013 (San Francisco) Links
A collection of links from the 2013 An Event Apart conference in San Francisco.
- Dev
Journal: Sept. 13, 2020
Okay, trying something a little different. I'm writing this directly in Hugo for my site. I had been writing them in a text editor and then…
- Journal
Refining The Stream Setup
Good stream last night. I'm refining things. Before I did the code stream, I spent an hour and a half streaming video tests. I ran thirty…
- Journal
The Power of a Commercial (and some other stuff)
Last week after 9 holes of employee golf, I went out with my group to grab a bite to eat and have a few drinks. During the round, two of…
- Miscellaneous
Photo Mechanic Bonus Points - President of the company responding on a support forum
I've been using Photo Mechanic as part of my photo workflow for a while now. The workflow itself is still evolving, but Photo Mechanic is…
- Miscellaneous
Identity Theft Protection by opting out
Aside from snuffing out a huge portion of you junk mail another benefit of opting out via optoutprescreen.com is that it reduces the…
- Miscellaneous
Fitbit Aria's Design Miss
The Fitbit Aria 1 is a scale designed to automatically track your weight. The initial impression is that it's a well thought out, but there…
- Design
Jekyll (and GitHub Pages) Liquid Date Formatting Examples
Examples of date formatting in Jekyll using the native Liquid tags
- Jekyll
T-minus five days and counting (with elephants) -- Photo for August 27, 2012
Counting down to the Crimson Tide season kickoff.
- Photographs
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 6, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 6, 2020 elections-api/AP_Elections_API_Overview.pdf /nyt-2020-election-scraper/master/results.json 014 Joy…
- Browsing History
The Devil's Beating His Wife - Photo for September 22, 2012
Southern expression of the day.
- Photographs
Back Up To Speed
Witness the fire power of this fully armed and operational cable modem.
- Miscellaneous
When I retire
I think one thing I'll do is shoot for the Wikipedia . It would be fun to see how many images I could get in. Of course, there is nothing…
- Miscellaneous
As a matter of fact, I do own a laser gun
Another "We Live In The Future" moment when I realized today that, technically, I own a laser gun.
- Miscellaneous
An Ode to Modern Medicine (Or, a search for words)
Peace. My mind at ease. In a way I've never experienced before. But, in a way that's still me. Not a me dulled or altered or bent into a…
- Miscellaneous
The LHC still won't destroy the world.... Probably.
An article at arxivblog.com discusses how scientists are going over their calculations for the Large Hadron Collider to make sure it…
- Miscellaneous
The Spider Outside My Office Window
No ID yet, but I always consider red in nature as a warning.
- Photographs
Refactoring Video Assembler To Help With Testing - Stream Notes for November 4, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQz3hpD48WE Notes Spent more time working on the Automatic Video Assembler. Refactored out a Video…
- Live Coding
Night of the Matts
Just got back from a show at Freebird Live (one of the only places in Jax that has live music). There were three acts. Two of which were…
- Miscellaneous
Another crowd egress video
This is the second video I've ever uploaded. Much like the first one , it's a crowd leaving an event. This time, it's folks leaving…
- Miscellaneous
Setting Up A Twitch ChatBot - #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT4BltFM_g4 Timestamps Start: 00:00:00 - Messing with my window resizer Time: 00:41:00 - Setting…
- Live Coding
Command Line One-Liner to Compare Files with MD5
Quick bash line to compare two files via MD5
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Places I Went! ~ Oct. 20, 2020
1x Engineer Amazon Cognito - Simple and Secure User Sign Up & Sign In | Amazon Web Services (AWS) Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash…
- Browsing History
Don't Update My Options
It pisses me off when you update a piece of software and it chooses to ignore options that you have set before. I just upgraded the Yahoo…
- Miscellaneous
What happened to 3 liters
None of the grocery or corner stores that I shop at carry 3 liter bottles of coke. Do they exist anymore? It seems like they would be a…
- Miscellaneous
Journal: Sept. 14, 2020
Okay, just got some chat spam and it kinda threw me for a second. Just made it go away, to it's better. Still getting used to this setup…
- Journal
RadioPopper
I wrote about making a IR- > RF- > IR transmitter system for eTTL flashes a while ago. I'm loving the fact that it looks like someone is…
- Miscellaneous
Music and Photography
So, I finally got a new computer put together a little while ago. Been so busy at work, I really haven't had time to do much with it yet…
- Miscellaneous
Turning Off Time - Journal For December 27, 2020
Dec. 27, 2020 I turned my mac's dates and clock off. It's kinda disconcerting to realize how much I look for it. Like, it was no time at all…
- Journal
All work and no play
I just looked up my site on the internet archive and looked up my site. Here are two grabs from July 21, 2001 and Dec. 3, 2001 . I had a…
- Miscellaneous
Frog Portrait
Found this little guy when I was leaving the office one night and decided to shoot a few portraits with my little point and shoot camera…
- Miscellaneous
BCC vs FWD
Working in a corporate environment I've come to believe there are very few times when blind copying someone on an email is a good idea…
- Miscellaneous
The Clicky Sound
Okay. Just make the clickly sound. clickity, click This isn't the start. It's just making the sound. clickity, clickity, click Don't worry…
- Miscellaneous
Donte your computers
Quick link that I saw today for tips for donating your old computers . More importantly, a search tool where you can find places to donate…
- Miscellaneous
Starting a Post About Doing Performance Art #LiveWriting
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4tArT3iiNM
- Live Writing
Invisible ID - Photo for September 27, 2012
The police can now see things that aren't even there.
- Photographs
Use tr.im to shorten URLs
There are a few tools out there that let you take a long URL and turn it into a short one. One that I've used in the past is tinyurl.com…
- Miscellaneous
Nice Multimedia
There is a great little peice of functionality on the daughter window player for this this mtvU peice . Take a look at the resize abilities…
- Miscellaneous
Don't put your beer in the freezer
Or this might happen: Of course, I don't drink beer so this is unlikely to happen to me. Whiskey doesn't freeze (or explode) in your…
- Miscellaneous
Something Happy
Not to end the night on a downer. It's going to be Friday in 21 min. which means only 8 or so hours of work will the weekend.
- Miscellaneous
Quality Music: The Meters
Cissy Strut by The Funky Meters just came up on the random. It might actually be impossible to keep your head from bobbing when you listen…
- Miscellaneous
#LiveWriting: Journal Entry for Sept. 10, 2020
I did some of these where I sped up the video and added a music bed. Leaving this one as is.
- Live Writing
Why don't washing machines have buzzers?
Just about ever dryer I've seen has one, but the washing machines don't. Best thing I can come up with is "they" figure you will hear the…
- Miscellaneous
Feeling a New Kind of Good
Yep. It feels good to feel good. Just realized there are probably folks who say "it feels good to feel god". If not, I should copyright…
- Journal
Learning Django By Making A Tutorial - Part 9 - #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5vmlqkUTS0 Timestamps Start: 00:00:00 - Review The Work So Far and dig in Time: 02:21:4…
- Live Coding
Goodbye, Mr. Wizard
It's a sad day for the world of science. The L.A. Times is reporting that Mr. Wizard has passed away . I hadn't thought about him in years…
- Miscellaneous
Stream Notes for November 18, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85WrV_oMcR8 Notes Finishing a snake_case_renamer Python Command Line Tool Links From The Stream…
- Live Coding
Initials
You know, maybe the reason I ended up in Jacksonville is because the local FOX station here bears my initials: wAWS.com.
- Miscellaneous
Beta
An hour or so ago we sent out the e-mail to our private beta user group to preview our new live scoring product. This is the thing that I've…
- Miscellaneous
The Density of Kanji
You can pack a lot more into a Tweet if you write in Kanji (Japanese).
- Miscellaneous
Scott Love
I found out earlier this week that Scott Love was killed in Iraq. He's the first person I have known to be killed in war. That's just fucked…
- Miscellaneous
Command Line XML Validation Against Schema XSD
Even though I do a ton of work with XML files, I don't use actual XML Schema documents very often. It seems like this is the case with…
- Miscellaneous
Capturing Python Log Output In A Variable
A quick snippet of code to pull console log output into a variable for later processing.
- Python
Opting out of more junk mail
Some time ago I discovered optoutprescreen.com which lets you tell the three major credit bureaus that you don't want to get all those pre…
- Miscellaneous
Pistol Report
The air pistol I order last week arrived today. I setup a little target drop and pellet trap in the living room (that's right, I'm a…
- Miscellaneous
Unmasked Superhero
I can't trace where this came from in my mind, but I was thinking an interesting super hero story would be about a hero that has been around…
- Miscellaneous
Launchy - quick launch app for Windows
Found this one via Life hacker . The program is Launchy . It's a keyboard quick launcher for windows. The default way to bring it up is by…
- Miscellaneous
Today's bad tune from random
Selena, "I Could Fall in Love with You" from her album "Dreaming of You". One thing about the auto playlists that Yahoo creates is that they…
- Miscellaneous
Varied taste in movies
When you log into netflix you get a pair of recommendations. I just got this: For those of you that were looking for a little reassurance…
- Miscellaneous
Links you've probably already seen
Probably safe for work... As long as you are wearing headphones... and they aren't tracking you. The "F" Word The Iceman Fun Town Autos
- Miscellaneous
New Rice
Next time I'm at a wedding I hope someone has a Teddy Bear Gun so I can see one in action.
- Miscellaneous
Drawing From the Right Side of My Brain ~ Part 2
This is the progress I made in a single week. It's amazing. (And, everyone did the same quality. It's the course, not the people.)
- Miscellaneous
Found New Music: The Earlies
Last year, South by Southwest release about 1.5 Gigs of MP3s from artist that were playing. One just came up on random that I hadn't heard…
- Miscellaneous
More ffmpeg on EC2, Now With Ubuntu ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 10, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 10, 2020 "SyntaxError: Unexpected token" on Debian 9 · Issue #3 · transitive-bullshit/ffmpeg-concat (…
- Browsing History
Secure Hugo (a tech talk)
The past couple years have been rough . Among other things, I haven't posted much. There were two reasons. First, I didn't feel up to it…
- Miscellaneous
Blog has moved
If you notice anything odd going on with the blog, I just moved servers for my site.... Hopefully nothing will break....
- Miscellaneous
Content
There are those times when you just feel good and for me, right now is one of them. After work I went out with a few fellow employees and…
- Miscellaneous
Audio Stream Volume Tests
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MVZ-6FdDcA Just some audio test to get a better feel of where to put the dials.
- Live Coding
Different Types Of Documentation
This is a great presentation for thinking about documentaion in a different way. https://documentation.divio.com Another thing I like is…
- Miscellaneous
Packrat Good Will
I'm a packrat. There are no two ways about it. Two thoughts enter my mind to varying degrees whenever I think about throwing just about…
- Miscellaneous
Silhouette Of Frog In Repose - Photo for October 7, 2012
These little creatures love my car.
- Photographs
170,000
My car turned 170,000 miles this morning. At lunch, the sun-roof stopped working. Thankfully, it didn't open instead of deciding to open one…
- Miscellaneous
Stream Notes for November 14, 2020 #LiveCoding
{{ youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaDQ5FA3mU4 }} Notes Using Keyboard Maestro to split Sublime Text windows for review Messing…
- Live Coding
St. Johns County Library uses Codebar
Between the library, grocery store, and various rewards programs, I've got several cards with bar codes. Since I use a money clip instead of…
- Miscellaneous
Journal: Sept. 16, 2020
Pretty well rested... Should be, got 10 hours last night. I need more sleep on these meds. Or, maybe it's that the abilify that I take at…
- Journal
iPhone 3GS Camera is Impressive
I'm pretty impressed with the camera on the iPhone 3GS. Here's a snap. All I did to this was crop a little to straighten the image, resize…
- Miscellaneous
Bent Objects
Found this on boingboing. A "wire artist". I actually laughed out loud a few times. link This one is called "Rejection".
- Miscellaneous
What I need to do
This always happens. I go shoot something one night and the next day I'm in the best mood I've been in since the last time I shot. Guess…
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The last Sunday at Reimer's
For the past five years or so there has been a Jacksonville tradition called "Sunday at Reimer's". A bunch of folks get together on Sundays…
- Miscellaneous
The Manchurian Candidate - Then and Now
Last night I watched the 2004 version of The Manchurian Candidate. I've always enjoyed the 1962 version so I was hoping that the remake was…
- Miscellaneous
Discarding Websites - An Effort to Focus on Fewer Things
Culling the websites I'm not doing anything with.
- Miscellaneous
Uptime
Big fan of Linux. Just checked the uptime on a machine I have it work. It's been humming along for 250 days. Not that that's a big deal for…
- Miscellaneous
Old School Marketing Done Right
Large companies often run sweepstakes or contests offering a a prize in exchange for filling out a form or making a purchase. The odds of…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 23, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 23, 2020 11 Useful split command examples for Linux/UNIX systems 5 Ways to Check Who Is Tracking You Online…
- Browsing History
DRAFT: Do This First - Finance 001 for Techies
This is a digital garden post. A work in progress. I'm still shuffling words. Anywhere you see TKTKTKT it means I don't know what to put…
- Miscellaneous
Invictus
The name of my high school year book was Invictus. If I ever knew there was a peom by the same name I had forgotten until recently. Turns…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 24, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 24, 2020 5 Ways to Check Who Is Tracking You Online | MakeUseOf [SOLVED] Any reason why hugo server is serving…
- Browsing History
Stream Notes for November 16, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdyGl8p7QVE Notes Worked more on figuring out how I want to structure a module. Finally ended up…
- Live Coding
Comment Math
I've been getting a little bit of comment spam. To try to defeat it, I've added the Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin . When you leave a…
- Miscellaneous
Stream Notes for November 14, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oLDboR6v3g Notes Just Hacking and Chatting Spent most of the stream figuring out how to use python…
- Live Coding
Return of the Site - Hello, jekyll
Finally! Prior to this post, the last one I made was on May 30, 2011. Today is April 23, 2012. Almost a year of downtime. I blame Facebook…
- Miscellaneous
Ideas
Publish checklists Show version history of each page Copy over the ideas from your other lists to this one. Kinda the first thing to do…
- Lists
Langhorne Slim plays Jax tomorrow night
Attention folks in and around Jacksonville: Langhorne Slim will be playing at Jack Rabbits tomorrow night. I first heard Langhorne Slim via…
- Miscellaneous
Four Links for April 24, 2011
How to kill an idea] 1 - (by Scott Campbell ) - I saw this on one site and had to do a google image search and then jump through a few…
- Miscellaneous
Wired
Damn good TV. The Wire on HBO came back after a long ass time. Love that show. If you haven't watched it, I recommend renting the DVDs and…
- Miscellaneous
Door Handles
A little while back, the interior door handle for my driver side door broke off. I used super glue a couple of times and it held for longer…
- Miscellaneous
Viewfinderless
This probably would never have occured to me and their may already be some out there, but one of Canon's new point and shoots doesn't have…
- Miscellaneous
Monitor help
I'm looking to get a new monitor for my home system. I want a good LCD one that I can use for photo stuff as well as general computer…
- Miscellaneous
Battlestar
I'm continually impressed with Battlestar Galactica. Don't let the Sci-Fi genra turn you off. It's amazing. And they keep making it better.
- Miscellaneous
Creating An Amazon AWS WorkSpace And Not Quite Getting It To Connect To RedShift On A Different VPC
- Live Coding
Oh, The Places I Went! ~ Oct. 19, 2020
"Open a File, Folder, Application" not accepting variable? - Keyboard Maestro Discourse (1) Jason R. Coombs (@jaraco) / Twitter 10 Best…
- Browsing History
Mozy backup
You should backup your stuff. It should be automatic. Ideally, it should be at an "off-site" location. Enter Mozy You can backup 2GB of…
- Miscellaneous
Civ is back
This is bad things. Civ IV is out. If I buy this game there is a good chance my average amount of sleep will go from 6-7 hours a night to…
- Miscellaneous
Stream Notes for October 24, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-r_ifdSZw Timestamps Links From The Stream Apparatus Synonyms, Apparatus Antonyms | Thesaurus.com…
- Live Coding
Fixing YouTube's Autoplay To Play Consistently With Mute If Necessary - #LiveCoding
Timestamps Start: 00:00:00 - Get YouTube Autoplay Working (Hugo Shortcodes specifically). You can read about the fix here: Updating…
- Live Coding
Another ATL trip
Took another trip to Atlanta yesterday. Left my house about 6am and made it back a little after midnight. Two flights, and several hours of…
- Miscellaneous
Public Wireless
Was browsing thru the public library when I got a call about an error on the site. Cool thing is the library has open wireless. So, I just…
- Miscellaneous
A few more Dave Ramsey thoughts
I mentioned the other day that I've been listening to Podcasts ( link ) of Dave Ramsey ( link ). Wanted to throw out a few more thoughts on…
- Miscellaneous
New Camera
This starts with a sad note. A best friend of someone I worked with committed suicide a few weeks back. I never met him, but he was a…
- Miscellaneous
Rsync --exclude List for Mac OS X
My copy and paste refernce from rsync exclude patterns.
- Miscellaneous
Using your phone with a small business
There are some simple things that you should do if you have a small business. Answering and the phone well is way up the list. I going to…
- Miscellaneous
New York Street - Photo for September 28, 2012
Barricades and Taxis and Garbage. Oh, my!
- Photographs
NATO Phonetic Alphabet
In case you ever want to know what the official telephony pronunciations for letters are, Wikipedia has an article up for ya here . It…
- Miscellaneous
Watching for Errors and Rebooting with a Bash Script
The Problem: A hardware issue on one of my FreeNAS servers 1 causes hard drives to disappear every few hours When the drives disappear, it…
- bash
Switching to Git and I'm now officially an Open Source Developer
In the software development world, where I spend a decent amount of my time, there exists a very helpful type of tool designed for what's…
- Miscellaneous
Ansel Adams and the connection of things
It always amazes me when something you haven't given much thought to in a long time suddenly pops up like three times in the span of just a…
- Miscellaneous
Space Shuttle Launch Web Resources
Just a few quick links that I've found useful when trying to figure out details about attending a Space Shuttle launch. (Of course, if you…
- Miscellaneous
It's Been Raining
A few weeks ago, I made a post 1 on how it's been drought-level-dry in my neck of the woods. Apparently, that's the modern day equivalent…
- Photographs
News Reader
Recently I've been using "SharpReader" as an RSS news aggregator. http://www.sharpreader.net/ It's one that you install on your machine…
- Miscellaneous
Weapon of Choice: Dune
Just figured this one out. In Fatboy Slims' " Weapon of Choice " (you know, the one with Christoper Walken), on of the lines is something…
- Miscellaneous
Journal: Sept. 11, 2020
Alright, I'm not sure how to start this... I'm live streaming this writing again. Not sure if I should say hi to the audience or not. Gonna…
- Journal
New Photo Storage Philosiphy
I really don't like deleting things off of a computer. You can never be quite sure that you won't need whatever it is that you are throwing…
- Miscellaneous
Superfad's Reel
The video below has been making the rounds over the past few days. It's a commercial for Durex condoms featuring condom/balloon animals…
- Miscellaneous
Sudoku (using the mini squares)
Yeah.... You definatly want to do there part where you concentrate on the 3x3 squares.... Only takes about 5 min to do an easy one with that…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 4, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 4, 2020 /127_GeminidsDawn/127_GeminidsDawn~orig.mp4 /278_PerseidMeteorShower/278_PerseidMeteorShower~orig.mp…
- Browsing History
Further Reading
I was skimming other parts of the model rocket drug launching report and saw this under Computer Forensic Jargon to Avoid Exact Duplicate…
- Miscellaneous
Building (and Finishing) a Safari URL and Title Puller - Part 3
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRAT4RzP2Tg START - 00:00:00 Finishing Up The Safari Tab URL Puller Continuing work from the prior…
- Live Coding
Speed Up Firefox a Little
This will setup FireFox to make multiple connections to a web server and pull stuff down faster. in the location bar type: about:config to…
- Miscellaneous
iPhone/iPod Touch has an odd screen size
I was looking up the aspect ratio for my iPod Touch so that I can size some photos for its specific size and came across this article . I…
- Miscellaneous
Get your passport now
Well, they have been talking about it for some time, but according to this article RFID chips will be in passports starting a year from now…
- Miscellaneous
Storing Script Passwords In Mac's Keychain
Forward I built my own functions to use Mac's Keychain Access for password storage, but you should probably checkout keyring to do the…
- APIs
Camera Stabilizer
Can't believe in all my years of photography, I've never seen this before. At least, not that I remember, and I think I would have…
- Miscellaneous
CCleaner and HijackThis
Cnet recommends a free tool called CCleaner that is supposed to have a registry cleaner as part of it. They also list HijackThis as a…
- Miscellaneous
Journal: Sept. 6, 2020
Okay... Let's do this. First journal entry that I'm recording. Making a lot of mistakes right now. That's standard though for the first few…
- Journal
Tornado in Tuscaloosa - Video for April 29, 2011
The Four Links for today are centered on the Space Shuttle Endeavour and allude to the creativity and problem solving of human-kind. In…
- Miscellaneous
Explore linux drive on windows
If you ever have a linux drive that you need to look at on a windows machine (say, one that is attached via a USB external enclosure, a tool…
- Miscellaneous
Tech Cool Hunter
I like the idea of being a "Cool Hunter". Especially when it comes to technology. I just checked and techcoolhunter.com is available. Add…
- Miscellaneous
Games you can't loose
Book for the wishlist: " Games You Can't Lose " by Harry Anderson
- Miscellaneous
List of open source projects for windows
haven't had a chance to see if this is trying to be a complete list or a list of just quality ones. I'm dropping it in here so I can find it…
- Miscellaneous
Dimmable CFL
I switched over most of the lights in my house to compact fluorescent light bulbs a while ago. I've been quite pleased with them though the…
- Miscellaneous
Predawn Parking - Photo for September 19, 2012
The Jacksonville International Airport parking before daybreak. Note the Eye Of Sauron like light on the water tower.
- Photographs
New Program and Priority Modes
In the good old days of photography, you put in a roll of film and then had two variables that you could change to control exposure, the f…
- Miscellaneous
ffmpeg and EC2, Oh My ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 9, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 9, 2020 "rsync: failed to set permissions on ..." error with rsync -a or -p option -... "SyntaxError…
- Browsing History
New Music: Happy Up Here by Royksopp
I really like the video. The song is groovy, and I like it too. I probably would have liked the song on its own, but it got a nice bump from…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Places I Went! ~ Oct. 17, 2020
Alan's Id (@TheIdOfAlan) / Twitter Animated GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY anthonywritescode - Twitch Camera is not Recognized when Plugged…
- Browsing History
Value of Things I Learned in School
The online comic strip xkcd recently posted the following panel: For me, it was my sophomore year in college instead of 11th grade. Also…
- Miscellaneous
No Books Here - Chamblin Bookmine Spacer
Protecting light switches from books since 1976.
- Photographs
Notepad ++
Another fine piece of open source (read free) software: Notepad ++ I found this one via the afore mentioned osalt.com while looking for…
- Miscellaneous
Self Portrait at 40
Continuing the long tradition of photographs taking photos of themselves.
- Photographs
Explicit Over Implicit: More Code Is Better
I'm looking for examples to use as examples (e.g. "lists of names, lists of animals, simple math equations, etc.."). Turns out, it's hard to…
- Programming
Thinking About An UltraWide Monitor ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 11, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 11, 2020 Twitter: Logbook_Project Twitter: al_lukehart (1) r/MechanicalKeyboards for all the Click and None of…
- Browsing History
Mostly Empty Whiteboard -- Photo for August 17, 2012
You didn't really need all that stuff you wrote, did you?
- Photographs
Real Life Rube Goldberg's
Outside of the boardgame Mousetrap, I can't think of many Rube Goldberg's that I've seen. Of course there are all the ones that Wile E…
- Miscellaneous
I like matte prints better
I got my first order in from printroom.com today. It was a shot I took out at Simon's Wine bar. (I haven't posted it yet, but I'll probably…
- Miscellaneous
Four Links For April 25, 2011
Today's collection of interesting/useful links: Photo Mechanic on sale for $60 - Great price for a fantastic app (Regular price is $150.0…
- Miscellaneous
Your Tax Dollars at Work
This graphic is an eye-opening display of where our tax dollars end up getting spent. Very well done and worth a look. Most of the time…
- Miscellaneous
Serenity Now
I just saw Serenity. If you would like to know what I think, read the first comment. Please note, that it may contain a spoiler.
- Miscellaneous
32 Terabytes of Photo Storage
In which I build a FreeNAS server that should last for a while.
- Photography
Glad I missed it
The Bama game wasn't broadcast this week. Having just checked the score to see that The Crimson Tide was defeated by Louisiana Monroe…
- Miscellaneous
Finding Things in Ruby's ObjectSpace
How to search every object in a Ruby application to find what you're looking for.
- Ruby
Promo site that's note quite there
One of the current shows on NBC is "Studio 60" which is about a fictional show on a fictional network (NBS). The web page for the real world…
- Miscellaneous
My father's flag
On Memorial Day, remembering those who served in the past and celebrating those who serve today.
- Miscellaneous
Updating YouTube's Autoplay To Play Consistently With Mute If Necessary (Hugo Shortcode and Plain JavaScript)
TL;DR YouTube's autoplay doesn't always work unless you call it muted. I build some code which autoplays with sound when possible and falls…
- Development
Air Filters
Yeah. you want to change your air filters from time to time. The A/C at work froze up today and we pulled down an air filter that looks like…
- Miscellaneous
Gatsby Componenet Communication Question
I spent a few hours on this yesterday and haven't solved it yet. Hoping for a pointer in the right direction. The goal : Use N number of…
- Miscellaneous
Old Magazines
I'm cleaning out some old magazines to donate to the library. Mostly they are photo realeated ones, and going through a '95 copy of Camera…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Dec. 22, 2020
My trip around the web - Dec. 22, 2020 /webmention.js/master/static/webmention.css 7 Linux Grep OR, Grep AND, Grep NOT Operator Examples A…
- Browsing History
Added WordPress Spell Check
I'm trying out the Spelling Checker plug-in for WordPress from coldforged.org . It seems to work nicely and I like the interface. According…
- Miscellaneous
Currently Reading - Olsen, Howey and McNally
This weeks reading list: Programming, Photography and Sci-Fi.
- Miscellaneous
Fifteen Years Later
Visiting my father's resting place in Arlington National Cemetery.
- Miscellaneous
Vatican channel on YouTube
This is one of those things that seems weird even though it probably shouldn't. Yesterday, Google announced that the Vatican now has a…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 27, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 27, 2020 11 Behind-The-Scenes Pics Of Disney's Famous Scenes | Bored Panda 14 Fantastically Free Sources For…
- Browsing History
The Zen of Yak Shaving - Journal for October 28, 2020
Oct. 28, 2020 I'm making progress. It's great. Or, it's good. Or, better said, it's steady and that's good. I'm working on several…
- Journal
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 25, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 25, 2020 "Select the folder that Notational Velocity should use for reading and... Advanced Form Rendering…
- Browsing History
Complex alarm clock
I've been staying at The Omni in Atlanta while working on transitioning my work site to a partnership with Turner. I'm "The Tech Guy" at…
- Miscellaneous
Bad Ass Graffiti
This is a little shaky to look at, but you get used to it pretty quick. Totally worth a watch. There are some creative-ass people out there…
- Miscellaneous
New year
Haven't been posting much because work and holiday travel have taken their toll on me. We finally got the redesign up. Ran into a couple…
- Miscellaneous
Audiio Licenses
Notes on licenses from Audiio when YouTube hits them. Sound The Alarm - Simon
- Miscellaneous
From a comment on the Media
(This is the second part of a comment where I was responding to another post, but it got long enough that I decided to move it to its own…
- Miscellaneous
Another Fountainhead Quote
I like this one a lot. From chapter 6 of Part Four. Howard Roak in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead: "Look, Gail" Roark got up, reached out…
- Miscellaneous
On the way to Aliens
With a title like " Strap-on robot suit takes the pain out of backbreaking farm work " you know you want one even if you're not a farmer. I…
- Miscellaneous
My Moonlander Layout - Day 1 - Version 25
I bought a Moonlander Keyboard to give a split mechanical keyboard a try. Among other things, you can customize every key to type whatever…
- Miscellaneous
Self-portrait with Vertical Blinds - Photo for October 15, 2012
Standard photographer photograph.
- Photographs
Favorite Icons
I've been meaning to put a Favorite Icon on my site for some time and finally got around to it this weekend. It's on the home page right now…
- Miscellaneous
Remove CSS From Your Tutorials
TL;DR Tutorial Designers: Stop adding CSS to tutorails that aren't about CSS. It makes it harder to learn. What's This All About? I'm…
- Blog
Page Graphic Maker - pagesaver
Just found a "pagesaver" tool that's a Firefox extension that takes a page and makes a graphic out of it. Very helpful for those times when…
- Miscellaneous
Python Dates and Times and Looking at Load Balancing ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 12, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 12, 2020 (1) r/MechanicalKeyboards for all the Click and None of the Clack! A Guide to Finding Your IP Address…
- Browsing History
Losing Hours Coding Something You Discover You Don't Like
Just keeping the journal posting streak going here. I wrote in my private journal this morning. Nothing salacious, it's just that sometimes…
- Journal
Good Job Mika Brzezinski
For those of you who haven't seen this, Mika Brzezinski apparently got pissed enough about the fact that Paris Hilton was a lead story over…
- Miscellaneous
Happy Pi Day
Presenting what might be the song of the universe: Kudos to a fun idea and nice execution. Update: I did a little digging over lunch and…
- Miscellaneous
Journal: Sept. 20, 2020
One thing about writing these journals is that they give me a better sense of time. Or, better said, they give me a better sense of the…
- Journal
Temporary E-mail
If you have ever needed to have a temporary e-mail address for something you didn't want to have to mess with check out mytrashmail.com…
- Miscellaneous
Installing GD on Mac OS X 10.7
I'm installing a piece of software that requires the GD 1 library as a dependency on my Mac. Searching only turned up old articles that…
- Mac
Tracking where our tax dollars go with Recovery.gov
Regardless of your political affiliation, it would be hard to make a case against the idea behind Recovery.gov . SEC. 1226. RECOVERY.GOV…
- Miscellaneous
Sept. 11 flight
I flew up to ATL on Tuesday of this week which was Sept. 11. It was a little odd to fly on that day, but by and large I didn't sense any…
- Miscellaneous
Website to help you contact your congresspeople
CommitteeCaller.com uses open source software to let you call every member of a congressional committee in sequence. In this day of email…
- Miscellaneous
Echo Bar Studios - Live Session Teaser
A preview of the upcoming live music series from the Echo Bar Recording Studios. (The studio my buddy built with his own blood, sweat and tears.)
- Miscellaneous
Enhacing My Keyboard Maestro Stream Setup Automation - #LiveCoding Stream Notes for October 25, 2020
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTSxeORIk34 Timestamps Setup to open user/desktop/downloads/trash windows in setup for review…
- Live Coding
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 28, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 28, 2020 Abraham Lincoln - Give me six hours to chop down a tree... Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison Amazon EC…
- Browsing History
Adding ISO 8601 UTC Time Zones To Dates With Python
TL;DR I need to add ISO 8601 UTC timezone offsets to datetime strings that are missing them. Here's how I'm doing it: Details I've got a…
- Python
Holy Cow! Juliette Lewis Rocks!
I don't remember how I got there, probably one of those trips down the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole, but I just recently stumbled on the fact that…
- Miscellaneous
Airplane sign hack
My flight back from ATL last night was on a Boeing 767-300. These aircraft have three rows of seats in the main cabin. Two seats for the…
- Miscellaneous
Making a Python module for Alteryx that provides the AWS S3/RedShift COPY statement with MFA #LiveCoding
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 More to come...
- Live Coding
Open firewall for bittorrent
This is mainly a note for me. If you run a bittorrent program like the open source Azureus and have a firewall like Comodo (which I…
- Miscellaneous
We should all carry wedges
Saw these Wobble Wedges on Cool Tools . These things could make great promotional tchotchkes that would actually serve a practical…
- Miscellaneous
Found Music and how imeem beats last.fm
For the past few years SXSW has been releasing music samplers with a ton of free MP3s from artists who are going to preform at the…
- Miscellaneous
Upgrading My Photo Import Script #LiveCoding
This is my first set of live coding sessions. The work I did was to upgrade a script that I use to import photos from my various devices…
- Live Coding
That Guy In Saving Private Ryan Looks Really Familiar
Spoiler Alert: If you haven't seen "Saving Private Ryan", a minor plot point is referenced below. You've been warned. Also, you are way, way…
- Miscellaneous
Lorem Ipsum
For those designers of you out there, if you are working on a layout and you need some faux text, the site lipsum.com will provide you…
- Miscellaneous
Some Miles Davis
If you don't own a copy of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, go pick one up.
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 26, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 26, 2020 images.nasa.gov_api_docs.pdf 14 Fantastically Free Sources For Stock Video Footage [Updated 201…
- Browsing History
Changing Gas Prices
To get into work each day I pass under I-95 at a fairly major intersection. Like pretty much all such locations there are a bunch of gas…
- Miscellaneous
Another reason not to shop at Best Buy
This came out a while ago. But it turns out that Best Buy has two versions of their website. A public one and one that is only available in…
- Miscellaneous
Can't Fix Cell Without a Landline
I haven't had a land line phone for a few years now. Just my cell. The only people who ever called my landline were telemarketers and I didn…
- Miscellaneous
Fun Video: Stop Motion Piano And Drums
Crafty use of video editing: Stop Motion Piano And Drums .
- Miscellaneous
Outsourcing
For the past few years, the talk of Outsourcing to foreign companies has been increasing at a steady rate. One reassuring aspect is that if…
- Miscellaneous
Bionics
We have had cyborgs among us for a long time (think pacemakers) and some bionics where thought can be used to control an external instrument…
- Miscellaneous
Switching To Mac's Keychain App for Storing Credentials - #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQv3BivTnU Today I Learned Type -i before / in man pages to do a case insensitive search…
- Live Coding
Virtual Credit Cards and the Time it Takes to Purchase
I think I've written before about the fact that I use a "virtual" credit card number for my purchases on the internet. The way that this…
- Miscellaneous
Richer Blacks
This one surprised me. I have been getting some test prints from online labs to run some comparisons. One company ( MPix ) has amoung its…
- Miscellaneous
Some more web tools
Two web tools that can help things out: Fiddler - a web debugging proxy for Windows. It's one of the Microsoft "PowerToys". You can read…
- Miscellaneous
Battery Question for Strobes
For those photographers out there. Do you guys use regular alkaline AAs, rechargeable AAs, or a pack. I used to use a pack for most thing…
- Miscellaneous
New Background Image (Feb. 2021)
I've been playing with the design of the site. I like the white notecard look, but couldn't get a background color that I liked to work with…
- Miscellaneous
C-Nets URLs
This is one of the best setups for URLs that I've seen before. Take the following URL as an example: http://news.com.com/Passport+to+get…
- Miscellaneous
Credit Card Alerts
The one credit card I have has a feature where you can turn on various email and/or phone text alerts. The options include the ability to…
- Miscellaneous
Money Making Photography Idea
Have a photographer at an Alabama Football game shooting digitally. Setup a few Wi-Fi nodes to allow them to ship images automatically to a…
- Miscellaneous
Bad|Back Focus
My digital camera is now two generations old (the 10D). In the past there has been lots of internet talk about the a "back-focus" problem…
- Miscellaneous
Not ready for the price of gas
It seems that even local RaceTrac wasn't really ready for the current gas prices. Notice how the 3 is really a 1 that has had some extra…
- Miscellaneous
Stream Notes for October 27, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdu_qFWfxTA Notes I think I found a bug with the way Keyboard Maestro deals with menu paths. First…
- Live Coding
In My Eye
Had an odd thing happen yesterday. My eye was itching a little so I put some drops in, but it didn't get better. Looking in the mirror I…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Dec. 21, 2020
My trip around the web - Dec. 21, 2020 How do I setup keyboard cam : Twitch /webmention.js/master/static/webmention.css /webmention.js…
- Browsing History
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 22, 2020
My trip around the web for Oct. 22, 2020 All Collections on Blush Amazon Macie Announcing AWS Budgets Actions Authenticating as a service…
- Browsing History
Embedding a Test Suite in a Single-file Ruby App (Part 1)
Make sure your one-off scripts work before executing them for real.
- Ruby
Jelly and Jam
Another sign that the internaet is cool. You can learn the answer to age old questions like, "What the hell's the difference between Jelly…
- Miscellaneous
Projects for the Blog
Creating original content is time consuming. Sometimes easy and time consuming, sometimes difficult and time consuming, but always time…
- Miscellaneous
Working, working, working....
Haven't posted in a while becuase things got a little wild at work. We have recently announced that we are going to be chaning partners for…
- Miscellaneous
Hacking ringlight
Found this via Strobist . Dropping it here so I can find it again later. Great hack to setup a ringlight without having to actually have a…
- Miscellaneous
Prosper.com
This is interesting: Prosper.com . Need to do a little more research on it, but it bills itself as people-to-people lending. A massive…
- Miscellaneous
Find A Deadlock Blocking Query In Redshift
Run this to find deadlocks in Redshift: If you find one, kill it with:
- Redshift
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Was reading another blog post where the author mentioned his Myers-Briggs personality type. When I took the test a couple years ago at work…
- Miscellaneous
Perl - The Duct Tape of the Internet
In terms of my job, one of the single most important (and luckiest) things that I did early in my computing days was to start learning the…
- Miscellaneous
Quicksilver
I'm reading (or trying to read) the Neal Stephenson book "Quicksilver" right now. I've read two of his other books before ("Snow Crash" and…
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Old News/Propaganda
The National Archives and Google have teamed up to provide some amazing videos . I just watched a United News clip from 1942 . Makes me…
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Clearing the Adobe ExtendScript ToolKit Console Window
A little snippet of code to help out when developing Photoshop Scripts in the ExtendScript ToolKit app.
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Digital Photography in the White House
According to this change.gov page, this is the first time that an official presidential portrait has been taken with a digital camera. I…
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Digital Pinhole Test One
Mr. Nuge made himself a little pin hole out of cardboard . This got me thinking about something I tried back in the days of film. Making a…
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Four links for April 29, 2011
The today’s collection of interesting/useful links is: Space Shuttle Endeavour and STS-134 NASA shuttle mission page for STS-134 - Straight…
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Four Links for April 30, 2011
Today’s collection of interesting/useful links: Crayon Sculptures - I can't even draw well with crayons... Words in Kids Advertising…
- Miscellaneous
Self Portrait - November 2014
Carrying on the long standing tradition of photographers photographing themselves.
- Photographs
Idea - wireless leash
Seeing people walk their dogs you often see them struggling against the leash. What about a wireless leash. Would come in two parts. A…
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E-Trade Savings and Online banking
E-Trade has recently started offering a great saving account that they call "Complete Savings". It's your basic bank savings account except…
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IR Test Shot
Just got the IR converted camera back at lunch today. I walked outside and took a couple of test images. Here's one: My chrome that I'm…
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Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 18, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 18, 2020 /status/1329078823871082497 /status/1329113856837300225 /status/1329116821253926913 /status…
- Browsing History
Starting off with a bang: Black Joe Lewis - Gunpowder
Now that the blog is alive again, I'm going to post more music that I like in the spirit of sharing. To start off, Black Joe Lewis doing…
- Miscellaneous
Old Eyes - New Eyes
Cleaning out some old papers I found a packing slip with my former contact prescription on it. Right Power: -4.25 BC: 8.9 Dia 14.0 Left…
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Answering prompts in a cron tab
Most commands that you are likely to run from cron should have some type of flag that can be passed to them so they run with requiring any…
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Sweet Home Nostalgia
I think this has been out for a while, but I just heard it for the first time today. I've just become became a much bigger fan of Kid Rock…
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Consumer Search
I've been doing a little research on free firewalls and virus software and came across Consumer Search . They act as a clearning house and…
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I see your pit bull and raise you a hyena
CJ just sent me this link to photos by Pieter Hugo taken in Nigeria of "a troupe of animal charmers and their collection of tenuously…
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Poor spam blocker
I don't know what's up with the spam engine we have at work, but I got four copies of the same e-mail today. One got marked as spam, the…
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Greate Credit Card Guide
This is one of the best little write ups about how to use credit cards wisely that I've seen . It's long, but worth a read. It's another…
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Practice Without Inspiration
The only reason I'm writing this is because writing first thing is what I do. Some people do yoga. I do this. I'm not inspired. I'm…
- Journal
Speaking of Movies
If you haven't already discovered NetFlix , and you like movies, you should give it a try. Great for catching up with things like the AFI…
- Miscellaneous
My first internet video post
I'm a stills guy. Not a video guy. It took me over a year with my latest point and shoot to actually think about the fact that it has video…
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Jack as Jake
ChinaTown - really good. The Two Jakes - Not so much. Pretend it doesn't exist. It's rare that I stop a movie without watching the whole…
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How to say it
The tag line for the web site Forvo.com is "All the words in the world. Pronounced." Using the power of people who want to contribute…
- Miscellaneous
6400
Was just looking around a little at Nikon's new D3. If you are a photographer and you haven't seen the sample images on this page , you…
- Miscellaneous
I'm Not Competing Against Other Streamers
Watched the debate last night. Or, at least, the first half of it. I have this idea in my head of what being presidential looks like. That…
- Journal
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 1, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 1, 2020 (Please) Stop Using Unsafe Characters in URLs | Perishable Press 224_StarMagneticFields…
- Browsing History
... like a dog
According to this page the etymology of working like a dog isn't that exotic which is a little disappointing. Never the less, I feel like…
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Name dot Whatever Websites are Available
The current list and prices of available "alan.SOMETHING" domains.
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Twitter Feature Request: Show Video Titles and Times
For those times when the tweet doesn't let you know where you're going.
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My Streaming Startup Checklist
NOTE: TODO: This page needs updates to work with MDX TL;DR Checklists are awesome. Profoundly simple. Profoundly effective. There's…
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George Orwell's Blog
George Orwell's diary is being transposed to a blog with each entry being posted seventy years after the original. That's just cool. Here's…
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Today's favorite tune from random
Beck's "Jack-ass" from Odelay! If you thought that you were making your way To where the puzzles and pagans lay I’ll put it together, itâ…
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Updating My Keyboard Maestro Stream Setup Macro And Finding A Bug - #LiveCoding Stream Notes for October 26, 2020
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsELjrRoDyY Timestamps Figured out how to use Menu Conditions to close windows in BBEdit, Sublime…
- Live Coding
#LiveCoding: Writing a python module to provide AWS MFA S3/RedShift COPY to Alteryx (Part 1)
- Live Coding
Finally Got ffmpeg-concat To Install On An EC2 Machine - Stream Notes for November 10, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MAnLKTXQIY Notes Finally got ffmpeg-concat to install on an EC2 instance. One of those things…
- Live Coding
A nice compliment
Oh yeah. Something a friend saw that was a nice compliment is this post on the Smart Mobs blog. I'm the one who conceived of and designed…
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Audio Test: SM58 - Zoom H5 - Adobe Audition Radio Announcer Preset
I updated my stream setup to bring the mic in for better audio. I'm experimenting with running it through Adobe Audition for filtering…
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Safer Internet Purchases
One of the fears of making a purchase over the internet is giving out your credit card information. After all, you have to send them all the…
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Free CD Burning Software for Windows
If you have a CD or DVD burner, but don't have software with it you can use CDBurnerXP Pro . It's free and doesn't contain any spyware…
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Improvement idea for Wordpress iPhone App
The Wordpess iPhone app is a pretty solid little piece of software. (I'm writing this very post with it.) There are a few key upgrades that…
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Video How To and DIY
Continuing on the video theme, another place where video really fits the bill is the How To and DIY instruction world. Sites like…
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Wireless Flash Mod
An amazing piece of tech in modern photography is the ability to have wireless automatic TTL exposure control of multiple strobes. The fact…
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Primarily Python URL Processing ~ Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 31, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 31, 2020 (Please) Stop Using Unsafe Characters in URLs | Perishable Press 04_Sunspots/collection.json…
- Browsing History
Google Site Search Bookmarklet
I use Firefox. I use Google. Often while I'm browsing a web site in Firefox, I want to use Google to search that site (and only that site…
- Miscellaneous
Digital and Film
Just listened to a story on NPR about Herman Leonard losing a lot of his work that was in his studio due to Hurricane Katrina. Sad, but it…
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Prep your portable player
Took a plane right out to Austin Texas yesterday. As I have done ever since I got a portable music player I charged up the batter and got it…
- Miscellaneous
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Dec. 23, 2020
My trip around the web - Dec. 23, 2020 Adaptive processes Amazon Simple Email Service | Cloud Email Service | Amazon Web Services Amazon.com…
- Browsing History
Kailh Speed Silvers Are Too Fast For Me
I picked up a Moonlander Keyboard . It's a lot of fun. One change I'd make, if I could do it again, is choosing different key switches. I…
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Pinboard Tag Bookmarklet
This is the code you can use to create a bookmarklet for pinboard that creates a bookmark for a specific tag then closes the window…
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Better Battery Meter
I went to the Jacksonville Sea & Sky Spectacular today and did some shooting. I made over 300 exposures and was using the tracking version…
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A refined thought on "Great Artists Steal"
A gentleman named Jeff Veen giving a talk at an Ignite show about the idea of "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." He focuses a…
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20/15
Just went to the eye doctor for a follow up exam after my lasik. Seems I can now read the 20/15 line on the eye chart without assistance…
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Digital Gardening
Some thoughts on digital gardening. You don't have to have things totally edited to post them. For example, I'd normally spend a big chunk…
- Miscellaneous
URL Grabber Is Mostly Working
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPD_9_PDek Start: 00:00:00 - Refactoring My Daily URL Grabber I spent this stream making progress…
- Live Coding
Manual Lock
After eleven years and 165,000 miles worth of locking and unlocking, the remote for my cars alarm is about to give up the ghost. I changed…
- Miscellaneous
Logo
Oh yeah, and if you look in the lower right corner of the photo, you'll notice my kick ass new logo watermarked on the image. For a better…
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Using mysqldump on Mac OS X Leopard
Originally found this here after lots of searching. Making my own link to make sure I can find it again. To use mysqldump on a Mac running…
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Google Spreadsheet and the top 100 checklist
Google released their "Apps" to beta recently. After playing around with them a little it seems like they are making good progress. I'm in a…
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Pulling Search Results From NASA's Images API (With Testing!) - Stream Notes for October 31, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1fyhO76BW0 Notes Spent the stream working on my process to pull videos from the NASA Images API…
- APIs
Halloween 2008
The past two Halloweens I've shot for a costume that I could incorporate my "real" camera into. Two years ago, I was a playboy photographer…
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Tune up
Just took my little car into the shop to get the timing belt changed and a good tune up done. My last timing belt broke at around 80,00…
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Speed and Angels
Looking forward to seeing this one: speedandangels.com . It looks like Top Gun (which gets referenced a few times in the clips.) Except…
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Electron (v12) Example App Template
NOTE: I spent a good bit of time figuring all this out. Then researching to make sure I had stuff in line I found a post that confirmed my…
- Programming
Black and white conversion
The ability to easily convert from color to black and white is one of my favorite things about digital photography. Most of the time when I…
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New Credit Card
My main credit card expires at the end of the month and I just got the new one in the mail today. It expires 10/10.... As in 2010. I mean, I…
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Buy a Glass
If you work in an office, you may have a scene like this: If you are one of the people who uses styrofoam cups, go buy a glass and use it…
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No more Polaroids
Yet another part of the film world of photography is about to disappear. Seems Polaroid is going to stop producing film . Trigger nostalgia…
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Comment Spam
Mutcho spam has been coming in so I'm killing comments for a bit till get time to put something in place to help limit them.
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UV
Not a big surprise, but you can skip UltraViolet. Or, do some drugs and watch the first fifteen minutes of action (that is pretty good and…
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Words from Radiolab - Video for April 26, 2011
A fun, visual exploration of a few common words.
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Smash Lab - Not good
Discovery channel has a new show called "Smash Lab" that's in the same genre as "Mythbusters". Watched what I think is the first episode on…
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Aural Assault
The paranoid part of me is kicking in. I think I'm the subject of some twisted psychology experiment. Last week they kept weed eaters and…
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Lens review site
For those interested in an Excellent lens review site, check out: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/ . The person who puts it together is…
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Animated GIFs from Adobe Premiere and ffmpeg
Came up with a new process to build GIFs. It's working great. This is the first batch.
- Miscellaneous
Just messing around with OBS #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAGFk9YZRc
- LiveCoding
Fancy Soap
The soap in the San Francisco Union Square Hilton is the fanciest I've ever seen. (/aws-20120529--1042-01.jpg" caption="Fancy Soap)
- Photographs
Daytripper
Yet another trip to Atlanta today. Left the house at about 6am, got back to the house about 11pm. So, only about 17 hours this time. I've…
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Awesome: The IR camera works better than expected
I took the recently converted to Infrared 10D out to a bar last night to start putting it through its paces with a little band photography…
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Acronyms
The other day, I forgot the word "acronym". The closest I could come up with was "abbreviation". I use acronyms all the time, but rarely…
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PocketMod
T turned me onto the pocketmod a while ago. It's bascially like a Hipster PDA , but a little more functional. I used to try to carry a…
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Mall Noise
I made a rare trip to the mall this weekend. I entered through the food court which has always struck me as a loud place, but this time I…
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Vegas shots
I think I mentioned before that I went out to Las Vegas for the first time back in October. It was just before my trip to Bama. The main…
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IR conversion in progress
Just sent my old 10D off to Life Pixel to have it converted. After years of talking about this, I'm finally starting the process.
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Open Source Alt
Happy day. I just found: osalt.com (Open Source Alternative). It has mappings between open source and commercial software so you can…
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Journaling To Slow Down Time
Writing these journals slows down time. Or, they at least give me a fighting chance to see time progress. Looking at the calendar date at…
- Journal
Trying To Deploy My Automatic NASA Music Video Maker to EC2 - Stream Notes for November 9, 2020 #LiveCoding
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFvWw2_2pg Notes GOAL: Deploying My Automatic NASA Music Video Maker to EC2. Took a LOT of work…
- Live Coding
Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Oct. 29, 2020
My trip around the web - Oct. 29, 2020 #2806 (Overlay filter with "shortest=1" drops last frame) – FFmpeg Alexander Refsum Jensenius – Music…
- Browsing History
Native Windows RAW Image Viewer
Microsoft has a download for viewing RAW files from some digital cameras without the need for an external application. RAW Image…
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Sony's Latest Electronic Gaget (from The Onion)
NSFW Language, but well worth it if your ears aren't too sensitive. embed src=" http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn…
- Miscellaneous
In Which I Discover Twitter Auto-Links To The Wrong Version Of My Site
Ahhhhh. Another good sleep. The shoulders are less tense. You know, it's funny, lots of Twitter is folks doing a kind of self-deprecating…
- Journal
Hey Look, Some Photos
Probably obvious by this point, but I'm actually making a little progress in things other than work over the past few days. It's a…
- Miscellaneous
Fun with SpellCheck
Okay, so in the post about not shopping about Best Buy I ran a spell check. Apparently I didn't hit "Ignore All" when it didn't know what…
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Beautiful Slow Motion Footage of a Shuttle Launch
Some folks at NASA got together and put together a video with footage from various high-speed cameras that are used to film a launch. Gets…
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Bipolar 2017
2017 has been a hell of a year. For me, it was mostly a good one. Personal highlights included: Attending my first national championship…
- Miscellaneous
The Lithium is Working - Journal for October 26, 2020
The Lithium is working. I did another live coding stream last night. I spent the first part enhancing my Keyboard Maestro macros that…
- Journal
Video Review: Introduction to AWS Glue (Ian Robinson - Live from the London Loft)
Some bullet points on the intro to AWS Glue video
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Daily Chapters
Nov. 28, 2020 - Road To React: 17 Nov. 27, 2020 - Road To React: 13, 14, 15, 16 Nov. 26, 2020 - Road To React: 11, 12 Nov. 25, 2020 - Road…
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Lightroom initial review
Been playing around with Lightroom a little more. Mainly using it to edit down a wedding I shot a couple weeks ago. By and large, it's a…
- Miscellaneous
and we're back...
Happy 2009. In August of last year, I started the process of moving this site. Between work and travel and general exhaustion from those two…
- Miscellaneous
Whew.....
Tide wins of Mississippi 13-10.... 3 seconds left and a field goal puts them over. Tight.
- Miscellaneous
Windows MD5 software
Lots of times when you download something from the internet you might be given an "MD5" sum as well. It's a string of 32 characters that can…
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Mission Statement
My first thoughts of mission statements are business speak. Sometimes good, sometimes not. Mostly empty and always a lie. They may be goals…
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Oh, The Pages I Goed ~ Nov. 5, 2020
My trip around the web - Nov. 5, 2020 Cheat Sheet Letter.pdf (no title) (no title) (no title) (no title) (no title) (no title) (no title…
- Browsing History
V
Just watched V for Vendetta. Moving aside for a moment the fact that I find Natalie Portman mesmerizing, I think the film is wonderful…
- Miscellaneous
McDonald's Marketing
A friend with a four year old daughter has done his best to keep McDonald's out her world. She has never been in one, and he does his best…
- Miscellaneous
Much Cooler - Photo for September 17, 2012
Remotely checking the temperature of my A/C after the freon was added.
- Photographs
Remember the Ritual
Remember the Ritual. Write, Walk. Write, Walk. Write, Walk. I missed writing a couple days ago. I missed walking for a week. To quote the…
- Journal
How To Setup Twitch EventSub
NOTE: This is a work in progress This is how to setup a subscription to Twitch's EventSub to receive follower notifications. Go here to…
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Kuler - Adobe site for color themes
Just stumbled across Kuler . A little web site/tool from adobe setup for community creation and sharing of color themes. If you are stuck…
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Elgato Stream Deck Fast Forward Hotkey for Microsoft Groove
There doesn't appear to be a way to setup a Eltago Stream Deck button to fast forward songs playing in the Microsoft Groove app. Here's a…
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Another test photo
Just posted another test shot from last night. http://tinyurl.com/am4uc Am making progress on the overall gallery, but am not there yet…
- Miscellaneous
Back to Mac
After several years of working on Windows XP machines, I've recently made the switch back to Mac. The difference is profound and makes me…
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Securing WordPress for SSL admin
I've written before about how WordPress doesn't really have a way to allow you to put administration tools in a secure location unless you…
- Miscellaneous
Band name
In an IM conversation with Travis the following message came up: "yoda talkin ninjas" If I had a band, that's what I'd name it.
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Fold ins of Al Jaffee
I'll confess to not remembering seeing a Fold-In from Mad magazine when I was a kid. I'm sure I saw them on the occasions that I could get…
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IMG_0001 - First Shot
Well, the new camera came in today. I walked out on the course and took a few shots with it. Here is, literally, the first shot from the…
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Learning Django By Making A Tutorial - Part 6
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Gt-0L5_0M Start: 00:00:00 - Going through the tutorial so far to make sure it works Just walking…
- Django
Go subscribe to KEXP's Song of the Day
If you want to discover some new music, check out KEXP's Song of the Day . I dig the general style of music they push. Combined with the…
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New Laptop
I was in HSV this past week while my mom was recovering from some minor foot surgery. She had planned to get a new laptop so that she could…
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Hearts and Minds
I'm watching "All the Presidents Men" about the Watergate break-in. There is a quote in the movie about Nixon's chief council that talks…
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Infrared Filters
The first time I tried setting up an infrared flash to do flash photography without visible light was back in the film days. The experiment…
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Four links for April 27, 2011
The theme for today’s collection of interesting/useful links is: Short pieces of submitted content. Note: All these will have NSFW language…
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Hearing a word without knowing what it means
I picked up "The Dark Tower" to read again this weekend. About halfway through the main character has an encounter with a demon. The word…
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New Car Lust
I'm not that much of a car guy. I love the one I have which is about 12 years old now and close to turning 200,000 miles. One car that I…
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Fixing Perl's CPAN on Mac OS X Leopard
One of the main languages I use for programming quick fixes is called "Perl". One thing that makes it so powerful is that there exists a…
- Miscellaneous
Memorial Day in San Francisco
(/aws-20120528--1317-01.jpg" caption="San Francisco National Cemetery) Remembering service members, past and present, on Memorial Day.
- Photographs
Full Length Software Licenses
In case you ever wondered how long an iPad would have to be to show the full Terms of Service at one time.
- Miscellaneous
Computer upgrades that hurt
At work we just did a round of computer upgrades. My machine didn't like it and took two days of work to get back to the point where I could…
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At Least I Had the Aisle Seat
This is how I sat for most of a 5 hour flight. (/aws-20120525--0741-02.jpg" caption="Seat space incursion) I was able to lean my seat back…
- Photographs
More thouhgts on still/motion combo cameras
Luminous Landscape just posted an article that also talks about the convergence of still and video cameras ( link ). A friend in the video…
- Miscellaneous
Technolust - Powerbook with Aperture
Okay, I think a friend in LA just cost me a lot of money. Damn it. I had specifically not taken a look at Apple's new Aperture software…
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Visual Basic.NET and FTP
I'm messing around with a little Visual Basic.NET. It seems that there is no native FTP functionality in it. That just sucks as it's what I…
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Consumer Action Handbook
Catching up on some stuff in my news reader, I saw a post about the Consumer Action Handbook from the Federal Citizen Information Center…
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Not so much with the infrared
It would have been too easy. I'm trying to do some infrared flash photography. The attempt was to take a piece of slide film that had been…
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Always Cut The Blue Wire - Photo for October 13, 2012
Modern day natural wildlife habitat.
- Photographs