Month: June 2010
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Hipstamatic-ing
When I was a kid, my very first camera ever was this Kodak 110 that I won at my dad’s company picnic, in maybe 1979 or 1980. The name Instamatic rings a bell, but after a bit of googling, I think it was an Ektra. Anyway, it used this 110 cartridge film, this grainy stuff…
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Dirty fingernails
Today I had this wise idea to get my car washed and waxed. Well, I actually just went and got it washed first, at this weird ghetto car wash within the Macarthur Maze, a place that looked like it used to be a gas station, but with all of the pumps ripped out of the…
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New Look
WordPress 3.0 got released, and I took the plunge and upgraded. After using my own scripts for a dozen years, I like the idea of a quick download adding a bunch of new features, instead of having to actually implement the things myself. The biggest change is the new default theme, which I’m using, at…
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Lost City Lost
So Lost City is an interesting blog, an attempt at documenting all of the old bits of New York that are rapidly vanishing and being converted into Subway restaurants and doggie day cares and five dollar cupcake shops in the Bloomberg wet dream of gentrification and sterilization. But I should say was, because the proprietor…
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Video Time Machine
In 1996, I suddenly decided I was going to become a filmmaker, and bought a Hi8 video camera. I’m sure some of this was the intersection of past viewings of ROX, the blooming Seattle public access cable scene, and the fact that I actually had enough money to buy a video camera. So I bought…
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The other Portland
It’s hard to realize that it was almost exactly five years ago I went to Maine. But I was messing around with WordPress, trying to figure out the easiest way to get a picture out of iPhoto that didn’t involve printing out the photo and then re-drawing it by hand into MS Paint (and in…
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Rockies-Giants
The first Rockies game of the year for me was today, and it looked to be the pitching duel of the year, with two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum versus Colorado’s ace who may be the 2010 Cy Young winner, Ubaldo Jimenez. It didn’t end up that way, but it was still a great game,…