Darktable Negative Inversion

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We took a trip to Italy recently and I brought along my Ricoh XR-7 and ten rolls of film. During the trip, I ended up shooting eight and a half rolls (three color, five black and white). At home, I had three rolls of color film I was holding off on developing until after the […]

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Zenobia Camera Test

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Picked up a small 120 folder for cheap at a thrift store and put a roll of Kentmere Pan 400 through it to see if the 75-year-old camera could hold its own against my fleet of cameras.

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Thirty-seven didn’t turn out to be the year I expected it to be, in some ways that was good and in some ways that was very much not good. Leading off with the bad because it really felt like a dark cloud over the year, work drove me to some dark places. For me, I […]

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Photographing a Lunar Eclipse on 35mm Film

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If you were to ask my wife why I do all of the hard things I do, she’ll tell you that it is because I can. And she isn’t wrong. I genuinely love to find out about something new, or old that I should be able to do and then spend days and weeks researching […]

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Six sixes. Four nines. Three twelves. Two eighteens. One thirty-six. The past year started out with my baby girl turning one. It’s hard to think she’s approaching two so quickly now. We threw her a big bash to ring in the whole year. Two months later she started walking and has been getting fast and […]

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Annoying little man


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I had the following text conversation this morning at work. Ex-Boss: Hi danny can you please come in and help me with one thing on the website…I can pay you ten bucks an hour as a consultant Me: Nope, no time. Ex-Boss: How about later Me: I work all day. Ex-Boss: What time is good […]

August 25, 2009

Not to be confused with today


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I think I might have come across the most awesome variable declaration today: $sixmonthsfromnow = mktime(0,0,0,date(“n”) + 6,date(“j”),date(“Y”)); I don’t know what it is, but it makes me smile.

August 18, 2009

The limit is one


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According to the police complaint, there have been several instances of liquor law violations since 2007, including violent disturbances, underage patrons being at the bar and selling liquor to intoxicated customers. —The Badger Herald Inc. I’m really curious how bars can exist if they aren’t allowed to sell liquor to intoxicated customers.

August 12, 2009

I hope Google is wrong


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I was reading a blog post earlier today and I was told that Google’s suggestive search was amusing if you type in ‘Twitter is ‘. So I did. Then I thought I would try other things to see what Google suggested for them. Here is the result of me:

August 11, 2009

A big recommendation


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The other day I asked my best friend to write a recommendation for me for an application I am working on. I am required to have three; one from a supervisor from a job I have held, one from a supervisor from a volunteer position I have held, and one from a close friend I […]

August 10, 2009

Denial of Service


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Twitter is fighting off a DoS attack when I finally get my code working. Such is life. I have been working on using cURL to send POST data to PayPal for almost two weeks now. Everything I tried seemed to send me to the PayPal homepage, without explanation. My tweets have been full of anger […]

August 6, 2009

I will play for most any team


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There was a short episode in Calvin and Hobbes back when it was still being written. In this episode Calvin became sick with the chicken pox over the summer. When Calvin rinds out that he will be stuck in bed for a week of his precious summer, he proclaims that he will make up the […]

August 2, 2009

In review


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Some things that I did this weekend: Boiled my carbs in lemon juice Learned how to properly reassemble my carbs Celebrated the parent of a friend’s 50th birthday Learned to kick start a motorcycle Moved my batting average from .714 to .800 Not a bad weekend, though, it would have been better had I gotten […]

July 19, 2009

Morsmordre


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I am going to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince tonight. In my world, Death Eaters should get in free.

July 17, 2009