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Bad week for the mail

Wallaby — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:07:41 +0000

My sister (hi!) sent me a birthday box, rushing to get it in the mail in time for this weekend. (It’s an exciting

Data to Desktop

Wallaby — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:35:57 +0000

One of the more interesting things to do with data – at least certain types of data – is to look at it. As the “Small World” Photomicrography competition puts it, “…a good photomicrograph is also an image whose structure, color, composition, and content is an object of beauty, open to several levels of comprehension [...]

Morning visitor

Wallaby — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:57:07 +0000

Had a nervous little visitor sleeping on my window sill the other morning – he didn’t stay long after I

Kodak’s sensitive sensors

Wallaby — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:43:34 +0000

One trouble with the Nikon CoolPix L12 that my sister got initially (see the last post) was that it was a little too quick to boost the CCD sensitivity to compensate for very low light. It only got into that mess because the lens is so small – I know, I know, you can’t put [...]

Photo Joy and Woe

Wallaby — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:01:40 +0000

My faithful companion has died. My Powershot A85 is no more. Actually, it’s just fallen once too many times, and now it can’t adjust the zoom. It *is* stuck on the wide end rather than the tele end, at least, so it’s not totally hopeless. And in particular it makes me far more open to [...]

Updates! I live!

Wallaby — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:06:54 +0000

Trying to update more often but there’s a few other things on my mind right now. Like the invisible eyelash poking

Valentine’s Day Picture

Wallaby — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:58:07 +0000

One of the coolest pictures I’ve seen in a long long while: here

Full Rodent Jacket

Wallaby — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:31:05 +0000

That’s right, folks, it’s a wearable hamster home. Doesn’t it look like fun? But don’t copy it

movin’ on out, to the west side

Wallaby — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:00:13 +0000

Actually *from* the west side to downtown. Which sort of brings me back to the starting point, after living on the north

Celtic festival!

Wallaby — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:37:59 +0000

Went to the 10th Annual Saline Celtic Festival on Saturday… another check on my informal list of places/events I

Narnia trailer

Wallaby — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:09:06 +0000

Saw the Narnia trailer yesterday (download from AOL). It’s hard to tell in a few seconds, of course, but it did look pretty good. (At least they didn’t make Aslan female, or give one of the four siblings an inexplicably diverse skin color, for the sake of being “correct”.) I heard someone complaining that the [...]

The return of the police box

Wallaby — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:52:24 +0000

Watched the new “Doctor Who” last night with some die-hard fans (I’m perhaps a die-soft fan, thanks to a friend’s valiant efforts to get me hooked on the classic series). There are much more comprehensive reviews than this. I liked it, except that I don’t see how they’re going to develop any particular suspense in [...]