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2011 Toyota Corolla decided to try and give me an enema while I was stopped at a stop light. Lady was cell phone browsing, but no way to prove it. Testament to modern car safety that no one was injured. PITA now to deal with insurance and repair. (her car in the picture btw). I […]

Where’d it go? Not sure how this new fangled “glass” technology works!

Best Buy memory card priced at $89. Walked out if the store with it for $23 after a B&H Photo price check/match! It pays to do your online research. Also gives you an idea of the markup at big box stores.

Watching Google I/O live. Amazon made a huge impact with their Echo (aka Alexa). But Google isn’t going down without a fight. They’re ramping Google Assistant up with “Google Lens” to combine both audio/voice context with image recognition. The demo is showing some amazing stuff on the way. Just goes to show… when giants truly […]

Well I am BEYOND pissed off. The very expensive high speed/capacity memory card in my very expensive “pro-sumer” camera just failed. The Canon 70D gave absolutely no indication that there was a problem. It allowed me to see images in preview and then simply and silently didn’t write them to the bad card. I lost […]

Playing around a bit with Adobe Photoshop. Learned a cool technique for turning any photo into something that looks like a charcoal line drawing in just a few clicks of the mouse. Here’s one of my bike shot in the Northern CA redwoods.

If you own a desktop computer older than 3 years and have never cleaned it, do so now before it bites the dust… literally. Note… this puppy ain’t mine. It died via thermal shutdown about 30 minutes after power on. Recoverable…TBD.

My first ride in an airplane was a United 747 to Hawaii when I as 7 years old. I remember marveling at the lounge upstairs and the little airplane given to me by the pilot when I visited the cockpit. Truly one of the world’s great planes headed for retirement. http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/uniteds-747-retirement-plan-marks-end-for-iconic-jet-in-us/ar-BByaBG4?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Anyone remember Ender’s Game? It’s begun… http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38569027

Ignorance and an unwillingness to think is the cradle of self-righteous bliss.