I bought a 1000W halogen shop light from Home Depot today, and did some quick n’ dirty white balancing in Picasa for my second attempt, which I think went slightly better than the first. The lights only cost $20, so this is still a pretty cheap setup. Macro pictures of this type are best viewed [...]
I had a wild hair to expand my photographic range, so tonight, I experimented by making an el cheapo lightbox as documented at the strobist blog. Screwup #1 was getting matte posterboard instead of the shiny stuff. D’oh. Luckily that mistake can be fixed for another $1. Screwup #2 was more like an equipment failure. [...]
Snowing in Fort Collins already! Winter’s here, I’m hoping the flu stays away. Playing around with the format of photos posted here. What do you think? Is the large too large? My home monitor is 28″ and my work one is 30″, so it’s hard for me to gauge. :-)
… aren’t all that bad. Great score at the thrift stores today. The new Goodwill in Fort Collins, near Harmony and JFK has quite a bit of stuff if you’re willing to wade through it all. btw, this photo actually captures a decent slice of my reading interests — classics, political treatises, climbing escapism, pulp [...]
Decided to ride my roadie to work yesterday and I flatted on the way home. No problem; one tends to be prepared for these things on a roadie. Opened my saddle bag to grab the spare tube (check), compressed air (check), and tire lever (whaaa?). Oh drat, I took the lever out the other day [...]
The HP B9180 is a great printer… except when it’s not. Watching it go on the fritz, munching its way through expensive consumables is one of the most frustrating feelings in the computer world. One common problem is this annoying band that gets printed near the top or bottom of the page. The HP solution [...]
☑ hike Longs Peak (more photos on flickr) ☑ sleep 14 hours in recovery ☑ finally join the intarwebs revolution (twitter.com/_achiang [ht @jvyduna]) ☑ get face melted off by Ozomatli ☑ ♥ Colorado
I tore my labrum in 1996 in a wrestling injury. Had surgery on it once, went through rehab, and promptly injured it again. My right shoulder has been extremely unstable since then, subluxing all the time, sometimes in my sleep. So 13 years later, I finally decided to get it fixed. Again. It was outpatient [...]
Big shoutout to Big E who scored this excellent condition Schwinn Twinn for me! Readers playing along at home will observe that this acquisition is the exact opposite direction of my “100 thing” quest, but a), I’m going to try and find something else to give up and b) a tandem is perfect for the [...]