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Last year (summer 2006) a good friend gave me a used Canon S9000 wide-carriage color photo printer. I already had a high-quality Ultrachrome inkset photo printer (an Epson R800), so I was thinking the older (and thus relatively lower-quality) Canon would be good for making posters and printing regular documents. But I didn’t want to [...]

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I picked up a Lensbaby at Photoshop World a few weeks ago … they were sold out of them at the show, so they mailed mine. It finally came yesterday:

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It’s no secret among people who know me that I have been an Macintosh enthusiast from the first time I played with a 512k “fat Mac” in the library at college, in the autumn of 1984. I remember that the following Spring a dorm-mate lent me his compact Mac so I could write a term [...]

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Kitchen is almost done … click to see bigger image:

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Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, performing at an outdoor concert at the local university. How did I get that spectacular angle? Why, it’s the old “put the camera on a monopod and hold it over your head” trick. The concert itself was spectacular. I had never heard the Flaming Lips before. After the concert, [...]

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I’m kind of pleased with how this one came out. It’s an HDR image of Point Judith Lighthouse, taken yesterday evening.

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My poor old dad has been having a very rough time since Mom died. In fact, he’s suffering from an extreme case of depression and anxiety. He can’t sleep, he can’t think straight, he’s even having trouble eating and drinking. He’s been in the hospital twice, and he can’t function well enough to stay in [...]

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Son lookin’ good in the bath.

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This is one of the most interesting things I’ve read, from the always interesting Thomas L. Friedman, in today’s Sunday New York Times cover story. The Power of Green Basically, it’s a manifesto that environmentalism should be the “unifying political movement for the 21st Century”. An aggressive policy of pro-environmentalism will bring our country greater [...]

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Daughter won first place in her class for this drawing on the theme of “Catch the Reading Wave.”

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