Since this is another popular one, and I was fixing up my new WordPress 2.3 tag cloud, which is a little painful for posts with video, I thought I’d add a link to this video:
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Author: Dave
He was born in Canada, but currently lives in Boulder, CO up in Boulder Heights.
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Dry cleaners’ revenge
Got this note on my dry cleaning receipt…
Yes, I do have cats, one of the decided to sleep on my suit before I was to get it cleaned. And I thought that’s what they did for a living
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Piano pirate
Heard the article about the mysteriously plagiarized works of pianist Joyce Hatto on one of my podcasts (On The Media). I recognized the story from an earlier online entry (Slashdot). Thought I’d link to the story here, because it’s kind of interesting.
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Bullsnake!
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Cat and mouse
We saved the mouse, it came back a couple of days later and was promptly dispatched by Boulder… Click here for the gallery.
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HDR photography
Last year in November, Cassie and I visited Bandelier National Monument (funny story, the native Americans were called Anasazi for many years, turns out this was a derogatory term used by other tribes, dirt people, they now refer to themselves as the Pueblo Indians) while we went to Santa Fe, NM. There I encountered a couple of guys with tripods, Canon SLR digital cameras, and the odd habit of taking three identical photos at a time. I asked them if they were using AEB or Automatic Exposure Bracketing on the Canon, and they said why yes. They introduced me to the fun of High Dynamic Range photography. In this technique, three (or more) different exposures (as far apart as possible, like -2, 0, +2) are used to take the same photo. Then in software (I use Photomatix Pro) the photos are combined to produce some fairly startling effects. The interesting thing is that HDR photography can capture situations where the light and dark areas could not normally be captured in a scene at the same time.
Enough talk, here’s some examples of my attempts:
More after the break, or in the gallery…
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Canada Loonie = US Dollar
September 20, 2007, the Canadian dollar traded above the US Dollar for a short period. Compare to an all time low in the 62 cent range 5 years ago.
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Now if only the US would invade just one more country, my Canadian assets could be worth a fortune!
I’ll be on the new WordPress as soon as it’s finalized, so read on…
Looks like the story of Michael Righi, arrested at a Circuit City in Ohio for failing to show ID, has reached a somewhat happy ending.
Reminds me of this story (this site) and this video.
Check out these priceless geek-jokes.
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