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Yates Mill
June 09, 2009
Earlier this year my wife and I took a quick walk at Yates Mill in Raleigh. I made a bunch of photos. Nothing spectacular.
While testing out a trial version of the Silver Efex Pro plugin for Aperture, I decided to throw in an old photo and see what happened.
I’m really pleased with how it came out. So much so that I just may make a print.
On Moleskine Poseurs
June 09, 2009
Things I Like: Moleskine Notebooks:
However, you must be careful when approaching “two moleksine” people. If you’re in one of those coffee shops and you see someone with two notebooks, if the oldest one isn’t full and stained with coffee cup marks on the cover, and covered with a sticker from a brothel in Uzbekistan, then you’re probably looking at a poser. Steer clear! Order your redeye, move to the side of the room, find a Robert Ludlum novel, settle into the comfy chair and start mubling softly about the meta narrative of the Jason Bourne saga. You will be left alone.
*snicker*
Reflect
June 02, 2009
Starting Friday evening, this photo will be hanging as part of the second series of photographs selected to be in the ”Portraits of Raleigh” exhibit at the Raleigh City Museum.
This was taken in 2005 on the old Fayetteville Street Mall (now a street) just outside of the Raleigh City Museum.
- Rands In Repose: A Deep Breath - “A sigh is associated with despair. We’re screwed. Sigh. My interpretation is different; this long, deep breath is one of preparation.” (-)
- NPR: R.I.P. Jay Bennett - Former Wilco member dies in his sleep on Saturday. *cues up Yankee Hotel Foxtrot* (-)
ABC is Jimmy Kimmel’s punchline
May 24, 2009
At ABC’s upfront meeting, Jimmy Kimmel tore into ABC and its advertisers:
To the ABC advertisers, Mr. Kimmel said, “Every year we lie to you and every year you come back for more. You don’t need an upfront. You need therapy. We completely lie to you, and then you pass those lies onto your clients.”
Funny and true, but some (including the New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff) think Kimmel is out of a job because of the stunt. In a jab at the failing newspaper industry, commenter Brian puts it best:
I’m sure his monologue went over fine. People in the TV business don’t take themselves nearly as seriously as you newspaper people do. Probably because we get paid a lot more.
Ouch.
- AWS Import/Export - Send Amazon a drive with your data and they’ll put it in on of your S3 buckets. Faster than uploading (like I’m doing with JungleDisk) gigabytes of data. Cost: $80 per storage device and $2.49 per hour to load the data. (-)
The Bain Project
May 17, 2009
From my photo set of the The Bain Project, a public opening of a former water treatment plant.
- The story behind Two Buck Chuck - Fascinating read on the bulk wine business and how Napa both supplies and spurns the man and company behind Two Buck Chuck. The entire article isn’t available without paying, but it’s worth the cost of picking up the issue. (-)
- Hivelogic: Top 10 Programming Fonts - I’m also a user of the top choice. Now how about top 10 Terminal configurations? (-)
- Studio Bonus Tracks - Free screencasts of iPhone development tips from Pragmatic Studio. (-)
- Bank of America will raise credit card interest rates if you carry a balance - This is a good thing, right? (-)
- How to get started developing iPhone apps - Pragmatic Studio creates a handy iPhone roadmap that lays out the steps to making your first iPhone app. Lots of links to excellent resources, tutorials, screencasts and books. (-)
- Hivelogic’s Review of the ingenuiTEA Tea Infuser - We’ve been using two of these daily for the last 3 years and they still work great. (-)
- Kindle 2 Screensaver Hack - I’m not going to do this, but you might want to. (-)
- The Book Cover Archive - Beautiful. (via Yewknee) (-)
- Tethering the Kindle 2 - Not sure how practical this is, but still cool that someone figured it out. (-)