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it’s hard to concentrate on work and school

but this station helps me focus. http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh200531185537022814
and sometimes it just puts me to sleep.

just made bacon deep fried in …

just made bacon deep fried in peanut oil. its a yes.

want a job riding a cargo bike?

wenzday is a friend of mine.

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navigating tonight. we’re goin…

navigating tonight. we’re going to my playground.

do this before you die

as i was wondering around on my bike last night, i came across a new kids playground by lechemere, and i found something wonderful. obviously, kids playgrounds are always fun, but this toy is an order of magnitude more fun. it’s just a crooked pole that spins on a rubber platform, but it’s sturdy, has good bearings and is scalable (if you’re bigger, you spin harder). you start out with a simple boring spin and then try to pull yourself in. that dang centrifugal force makes it exponentially harder to get close to the center. i’m a little guy, but i’m strong for my size. i’d get to a point that i was quickly passing out, and my body would then go limp, and i’d get thrown off. go do this before some kids crack their heads together, and it gets taken out. invite me.

there are three of them in this half-circle.

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just ran through portal

now, i know that the cake is a lie.

fun game. i love the female version of HAL9000. http://itsthedoc.net/music/portal_still_alive.mp3

This was a triumph
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at the MIT steer roast

its good to know the glitch crew and SMGU.

defection

i’m leaving you picasaweb. flickr is my new paramour.

go barefoot oftener

this hit me right tonight as i sat reading lens reviews.

http://www.carefor.org/component/option,com_mamboboard/func,view/catid,5/id,4533

nube photographer musings

no, not “nude”. not today.

one of my revolving hobbies is photography. i have no formal training in photography or any visual art. the photo toys have been just for fun, and i’ve somehow been published here and there in small/local publications without any self-marketing. (i’m including our company security badge photos as a publication)

so, where am i going? what i’ve been doing….. taking generally boring with an occasional, “oh, that’s kinda cool”. i see interesting cityscapes as i ride around, shoot them “as a test” to get to know my gear, delete most shots when i get home and then file them and forget them for a few years. i’ll visit a party/group-ride/event/convention and badly shoot people and shiny things and then send a few shots to some people that were also there, and they thank me, glance through them and forget them. i’ve had some requests to do product shoots which i have chosen to do or not based purely on my personal interest in the subject.

after playing with my newly acquired nikon d300 for the past few days and renting various lenses that i hadn’t tried before, i’ve reached a point where i feel the need to choose more specifically what i plan to do with this expensive and time-intensive hobby. will i ever do photo work for money, and do i really want the extra responsibility that goes with that? should i pass paid work off to “real”, trained photographers or photo students that have given more focus to photography? san francisco photographer Thomas Hawk seems to have skill/gear/exposure without too much defined purpose, and i’m drawn to his less-serious-but-very-active position. his images are used for tech publications that i keep seeing in my feeds. i’m also becoming more interested in dramatic portraiture like Annie Leibovitz does so well.

ok, less rambling. i’ve narrowed my shooting style enough to know i want fast, semi-wide angle lenses for hand-held low-light shooting. other than that, i’ll find out as it happens.