Darktable Negative Inversion

Blog, Photography

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

Blog, Photography

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

Blog, Photography

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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Posting from Email


Blog

Hey guys, I’m testing the new Jetpack features. One of them is posting from email. Another is the auto-sharing to social networks. I have plenty more to write but it’s a whole bunch of different posts. Maybe I’ll get around to writing a few of them this weekend. Maybe.

November 8, 2012

My First Gray


Blog

In an exciting development, I recently became old and distinguished. How, you might ask? Be the discovery of my first gray hair. For some reason (probably because it means you’re getting older than you care to admit), a lot of people fear that gray hair, but I’ve decided to embrace it. I’ve long looked forward […]

November 1, 2012

Interviews, Ubuntu, Awards, and Paintings


Peace Corps

The past couple days have been weird in the best of ways. Everything that’s happened seems to have ended up as a welcome surprise. As you know, I was eagerly waiting for Ubuntu 12.10 to drop yesterday (ask Lyuda who was here for tutoring and she’ll confirm that I kept checking every 15 minutes for […]

October 19, 2012

Ubuntu Gets Me Excited


Computers

Okay, time to nerd out all over my blog. It’d be a lie to say I’m not excited for Thursday. “Why Danny? What’s so important about Thursday? Do you have the day off?” Yes, I have the day off. I have every Thursday off at the moment but that’s not it. Thursday is the day […]

October 16, 2012

Cooking the Old Warsaw Cook Book


Blog

So a while back I was in the Peace Corps office looking at the “take one, leave one” bookshelf for volunteers. Rarely do I take books from the shelf because I have such a wonderful Kindle loaded with the books I want. However, one thing I’ve found is that cookbooks are better in paper form. […]

October 15, 2012

Collective Creative Writing at School


Peace Corps

Friday, I had some of the most fun I’ve ever had with two of my classes. I worked with a 9th grade and a 10th grade class and we did the same lesson with both. It started off with me reading a story and asking them to understand. Then, they read the story and told […]

October 14, 2012

Proposed Writing Retreat


Peace Corps, Writing

If you remember last year, I had an ambitious November. I wanted to take 30 days to make myself a better man, and I did. I wanted to do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups each day, and I did. I also wanted to complete NaNoWriMo, and I did. It was ambitious and by the end I was absolutely drained […]

October 12, 2012