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7
Jul 11

Shameless Self Promotion

An article on Tom’s Hardware that I helped with was posted yesterday. It’s about Wi-Fi, it’s problems, why your Wi-Fi sucks and what can be done about it. If you’re interested go ahead and read it. Please suffer through the format as it’s actually a pretty good read, but if you glaze over tech stuff just go look at the images I did for the article. I’m quite pleased with a couple of them. There’s 27 pages in the article, each with a picture (see why I said to suffer through the format?). Specifically, I did the images for pages 1, 21, and 23-26. tip: most have a “zoom” option if you hover over the image

Page 1 and 26 I think are my favorites. Page 1 (shown above) because of how it turned out and page 26 is an homage to XKCD. Page 21 has been dubbed the FrankenAP. I’m not thrilled with page 25 (the two iPads in different orientations) but there were time constraints and limitations in the room setup, and that was even the second time I shot that particular concept. Funny behind-the-scenes note about page 25. I was using a mini-bagel between the stand and the iPad to keep the iPad from leaning back and catching a glare from the overhead fluorescent lights.


29
May 11

Breakfast

Cupcake and mimosa.

Breakfast

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18
May 11

Origami Creations #40

Origami Creations #40

A turtle and a turban. I thought about waiting until tursday (heh) to post these but decided turday was turfect.

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17
May 11

Origami Creation #39

Origami Creation #39

And we are back. I’m over a month behind on these due to a heavy workload and an all-too-short vacation in Hawaii. I’m hoping to carve out enough time at the start of each day to start getting caught up.

I do have a few already made but I wanted to do some videos with them. I might still since I have an idea for one that just won’t keep it’s greasy little mitts off my medulla oblongata.

Today, enjoy this SST plane. This one will probably get as much airtime as the Concorde does now.

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15
May 11

Bay to Breakers 2011

Bay to Breakers 2011

We did it! 12k in approximately 2 hours 19 minutes. We will be hurting tomorrow and our feet kill now but it was fun. Many costumes, a little nudity (and some littler than others, heh).

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19
Apr 11

Origami Creations #38

Origami Creations #38

A couple of fishes.

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18
Apr 11

Origami Creations #37

Origami Creations #37

A "bird hat" (really? hat?) and a seal.

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13
Apr 11

Really Netflix?

Picture kinda says it all? On the Netflix website you can’t use the word “Netflix” when writing a review of a movie. <baroo>

You can't use the word netflix?

I was reviewing the copy of The Sound of Music that Netflix rents. Cathy hasn’t seen it (I KNOW!!!) and so I rented it. It’s a crappy 4:3 cropped version with a bad transfer. It’s not the 40th Anniversary copy in beautiful 2:35:1 Cinemascope. Guess I’ll have to find it somewhere else.


12
Apr 11

Origami Creations #36

Origami Creations #36

A 4-pointed star and a koala.

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8
Apr 11

Origami Creation #35

Origami Creation #35

A blue (orange) whale

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