Downtown for ice cream after our anniversary dinner. Enjoying the people watching.
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Steph
Read on »My Lenses – Let me show you them!
I’ve been knee-deep in photography-related activities lately but have barely written about them here, other than posting a few pictures. Let me fill you in on how things have been going. Looks like I wrote about my camera back in July after I got it, outlining how I made the decision to go with my
Read on »Where is your anger?
It’s a question I’m asking myself. I get caught up in the day to day struggle of just getting through the work week, and I feel like I’m not doing enough and I’m letting too many things go.
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Adorama Learning Center (tags: photography howto camera)
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Telegraphics – Free plugins for Photoshop & Illustrator…and other software (tags: webdesign photoshop tools plugins favicon)
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25 And Over « Tomato Nation ast the quarter-century mark, you see, certain actions, attitudes, and behaviors will simply no longer do, and while it might seem unpleasant to feign a maturity and solicitousness towards others that you may not genuinely feel, it is not only appreciated by others but necessary for your continued survival.
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Infinite Summer The Challenge: Read Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009 – You've been meaning to do it for over a decade. Now join endurance bibliophiles from around the web as we tackle and comment upon David Foster Wallace's masterwork, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages1 ÷ 93 days = 75 pages
Read on »Fast Friday 2009 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
I finally managed to get my Fast Friday photos edited and up on Flickr.
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25 logos with hidden messages – Amazing Graphic Designing tricks! | Graphic Design Blog (tags: logo design) To score, keep your goals to yourself: Study a series of experiments shows that when others take notice of our plans, performance is compromised because we gain "a premature sense of completeness" about the goal. (tags: productivity psychology
Read on »Knitting project
I’m learning to knit. This piece will be a scarf alternating brightly-colored stripes with stripes of black. 2022-03-12 Update: After starting and stopping this 12 times, I ended up knitting it in the round and then stuffing it as a bolster pillow that is uneven and lumpy. It’s now in the attic. I should get
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The Circle City Sidewalk Stompers Clown Band We met Ed Toll from this band downtown while taking a stroll, and he let me take his photo, so I'm saving the link so I can add it to the photo caption. (tags: indianapolis music) cavil – Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary to raise trivial and
Read on »Lamb Brains
Taken with my camera phone at a yard sale in Herron-Morton Place. I didn’t have time to compose the shot because Stephanie didn’t care for the can at all and really wanted me to put it down and get in the car. But I couldn’t let it go, so I bought the can so I
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Triptrop NYC: extraordinarily pretty subway maps from anywhere to everywhere in new york city (tags: nyc travel visualization maps)
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt, Available in Various Sizes For those folks who don't get my repeated jokes about why werewolves are cool. (tags: funny amazon) Lifehacker – TiltShift Makes Your Photos Look Like Miniatures – Tilt-Shift Photography (tags: photomanipulation photofinishing photography) Penguin considering DK options | theBookseller.com Interesting, since I'm currently redesigning
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Airport AirStreamTM Professional photography equipment – camera bags, camera cases – from Think Tank Photo (tags: wishlist photography camerabag cameras) Photography Pinhole Products and Prices by Lenox Laser, Your Photo Pinhole Source Pinhole lenses for DSLR cameras. (tags: photography camera equipment pinhole) Photoshop Insider Blog By Scott Kelby » Blog Archive » It’s “Guest Blog
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Better Living Through Torture I hear that torturers make the big bucks and have lots of career advancements. I gotta get into that business. (tags: torture Bush corruption violence)
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Geotagger 2.0 software download – Mac OS X – VersionTracker (tags: geotag geotagging metadata geocoding gps) My Photography Workflow 2009 | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection (tags: photography workflow)
Read on »Sarah Haskins comments on the Michelle Obama Gun Show
How do you get Michelle Obama’s arms? First you go to Princeton, then Harvard…
Read on »Objects of Obsession
Taken with my iPhone. (of course, because my camera is IN the photo.)
Read on »Fast Friday
Cell phone pic taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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graphpaper.com – Who Watches the Watchman? An elegant solution, designed and patented in 1901 by the German engineer A.A. Newman, is called the “watchclock”. It’s an ingenious mechanical device, slung over the shoulder like a canteen and powered by a simple wind-up spring mechanism. (tags: gadget design history time security)
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Digital Photography Tutorials (tags: photography tools tutorial) Joe The Plumber Slurs Gay People: I Would Never Let "Queers" Near My Children I wouldn't let Joe the Plumber near my children, so I guess we're even. Except that I don't enjoy the same basic civil rights that Joe enjoys, causing me anguish and frustration and heartache
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[link deprecated: http://www.indianapolismonthly.com/articleNew.aspx?id=77262 ] The Great Families – Indianapolis Monthly Prominent Indianapolis families (tags: indianapolis indiana history)
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Digital SLR Camera Disassembled An "exploded" view of an DSLR camera so you can see all the bells and whistles – very cool. (tags: illustration graphics photography camera)
Read on »Whence this fragrance wafting through the air?
What sweet feelings does it’s scent transmute? Whence this perfume floating everywhere? Don’t you know, it’s that dear forbidden fruit. It’s that time of year again – Time to sing one of my favorite songs ever… The Lusty Month of May. (Preference goes to the version sung by the divine Julie Andrews, of course.) Happy
Read on »Photos I took in April 2009
Conservatives
I don’t dislike conservatives as people, I just think the conservative ideology is morally and ethically bankrupt, utterly repugnant, intellectually stunted, and should be eliminated from the philosophical arena. Conservatives themselves are just fine, so long as they don’t either act on their conservative ideology or demand special privileges such as being able to vote.
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