Solar Eclipse 2024

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At the beginning of this year, I didn’t know that photographing the eclipse on film was something that I wanted to do. Heck, I don’t think it even registered for me that there would be an eclipse. Then, I saw some videos where people were hyping it up and why and suddenly I was hyped […]

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High School – Roll 9

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Whositwhatsit? I’m pretty sure that the was the name of this assignment. Find an object and shoot it from different angles and then other people had to guess what it was. I think mine was guessing in about 5 seconds or less. (It’s a bike rack!) I genuinely hated this assignment. I remember having so […]

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Photographing an Eclipse on 35mm Film

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Recently, it came to my attention that the 2024 solar eclipse will be happening next month. On a whim, I decided to take a day off, and make a day of it. I have been itching for some time to relax, and celestial events are a good catalyst for relaxation, in my opinion. However, I […]

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High School – Roll 8

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There was no assignment for this roll, and to be honest I don’t really know why I took it. Likely, some younger form of me was trying to make the camera part of his personality and was bringing it along wherever he went. Who knows? The photos themselves are blurry but an aggressive kind of […]

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High School – Roll 7

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These photos are all bad. Really, I had to pull up the negatives to make sure I didn’t make a mistake while scanning these and sure enough, they are all bad. It looks like I had some weird light leak or development issue because every single photo has some sort of rippling along the strip. […]

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A bit of paranoia


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In my last post I put in a small plug for the new support for extensions in Google Chrome. I am pretty sure that I have mentioned that this is my browser of choice and has been for some time. Speed and simplicity are what drew me in and what keeps me here. Extensions only […]

December 17, 2009

Michael’s Jersey


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Michael was born first, that’s just how it happened. In the three and a half years before I was born I’m told Michael was treated as a prince. There are shoe boxes full of photos to confirm this. Photo albums are stuffed with Michael’s chubby, smiling face sitting above Mickey Mouse shirts and his bare […]

December 13, 2009

Michael


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Michael was born in June 1984. He was the first born. Lizzi followed twenty-three months later in 1986. More than three and a half years after Michael, I was born. In the three and a half years before I was born I’m told Michael was treated as a prince. There are shoe boxes full of […]

December 11, 2009

Tougher in Wisconsin


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As some of you might know, I ride a fixed gear. I have a 15-tooth cog in the back and a 52-tooth in the front, this gives me a higher top speed. I have drop bars and road tires. My Beacon is a fast little vehicle. To me, riding fixed on a bike is the […]

December 11, 2009

Michael


Fiction

Michael was born in June 1984. He was the first born. Lizzi followed twenty-three months later in 1986. More than three and a half years after Michael, I was born. In the three and a half years before I was born I’m told Michael was treated as a prince. There are shoe boxes full of […]

December 10, 2009

Writing madman


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I wrote my 8-10 page research paper this evening. If you weren’t following my progress on Twitter (you should have) I would like to post it here for your amusement. 1:15AM: Eight pages completed. Time to write the conclusion and call it a night. 1:00AM: Seven pages complete. Whenever I want to finish now, I […]

December 8, 2009

Textual vomit


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The next three weeks are crunch time. I have one paper due before classes are done, two due after and two finals to complete. If I don’t show up in a few weeks, send someone after me. A lot of people really stress about finals. I never have. There has been two or three where […]

December 3, 2009

Time out


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*UPDATE* 11-23-09 22:22:54 EST The comic has been added. Sorry for the delay. */UPDATE* I just want to give you a heads up. There is a chance that Monday’s comic will not go up tonight and possibly not until Tuesday. I had a busy weekend with birthday festivities and now a large amount of homework […]

November 23, 2009

Put it on my card


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I did something quite important this morning. I applied for graduation, I think. I say I think because I didn’t receive any confirmation of what I did, so come May I might not actually have graduated. We’ll see. But this act, nevertheless, made me think a bit. It was over sixteen years ago that I […]

November 20, 2009