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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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Madison, Wisconsin Capitol – Fall 2006

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I don’t have the usual gallery to share today. However, I do have 20 exposures from a roll of 24 all stitched into a single image. I used my Kodak Retina Reflex S camera with a 135mm telephoto lens, all of which was mounted on a tripod. This was the first roll I shot once […]

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High School – Roll 13

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This is the last of my rolls from my film photography class in high school. Following this class, I had a semester of digital photography which I didn’t enjoy. That class had too much emphasis on Photoshop edits and those aren’t really my thing. These photos, however, are not the last of the photos I […]

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Point Microsoft


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I made a crack at Microsoft the other day. I get frustrated with their software at times. The problem is, I rely on them. Everything I have works on Windows and it would take far too long and possibly too expensive to get things running the way I want on another OS. I said something […]

July 10, 2009

Chrome knight to take down established empires


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I came into work this morning and I booted up my computer to find some interesting news. I always have a tab open with Twitter up, that way its there when I need it. I also found that ‘Trending Topics’ is the only way that I get news when the student paper is not being […]

July 8, 2009

Resignation


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We have a special today, tin signs are only $15. This is a common refrain of my boss at the Poster Master on State Street. I always wondered why no one ever called him out on this. It is not a special if, like the faded signs around the store stated, that the signs are […]

July 3, 2009

Crockpot


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I am a fan of the Crockpot. Whoever the person was that invented it, I would double high-five them while doing a triple-hypothetical-five with them also. The ease at which I can make a meal is amazing. And since my mom gave me an old Crockpot cookbook, well I have a ton of recipes of […]

June 30, 2009

Intro to Parenting


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Richard and Laura had been married for three years. Their life was enjoyable; Richard worked at law firm downtown as an accountant and Laura waited tables at the diner four blocks from their home. The house they lived in wasn’t large, nor was it small; it was a ranch with two bedrooms and one bath […]

June 26, 2009

Intro to Parenting


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I just wanted to let everyone know that I posted a new story today. I have to admit that I am quite happy with how this one turned out. It certainly received better responses during workshop than I expected. I had the feeling that I might be a decent writer after all. It’s another long […]

June 26, 2009

ZZ Tops style


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I’m growing an employment beard. It is similar to an unemployment beard but instead of not shaving because I have no reason to look good, I don’t shave because I am working three jobs and don’t have the time.

June 16, 2009

Burn it like a wildfire


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Thank you Gillette and Google for that very informative advertisement. EDIT Here is the link to the video if you want to watch it: How To Shave Your Groin – Shaving Tips From Gillette

June 14, 2009

To be afraid


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Natural isn’t always best for animals, either. It’s filled with hunger, frustration, exhaustion, weariness, dilapidation, trouble, and death. My professor once recounted a conversation she had with a philosophy student about wild animals. The student said, “There’s a fire in the eyes of a wild mustang that you don’t see in a tamed horse!”, to […]

June 11, 2009