About three weeks ago I had lunch with a coworker. Ruth is a coworker of mine like Stephen Davis was a classmate of mine. We inhabit the same space, pass each other weekly about our daily business, and exchange smiles of anonymous benevolence that are shared among familiar strangers. But this digression is not precisely relevant to my story. I upped the relationship and asked Ruth out to lunch which resulted in her loaning me a copy of a book she enjoyed, The Game, by Neil Strauss. This book has set off more than one interesting conversation among friends and the Grand Experiment.
About Photo Editing…
Today I stumbled on two examples of photographic manipulation. One in the post-processing with Photoshop and the other by setting up scenes that did not actually occur.
Cortes Pictures Posted
Local hero Ricardo Cortes returned to Miller Lite Fight Night last Thursday and I was there to capture the images. My selection of images is now on-line so check them out and let me know what you think.
My Nieces Are Cooler Than Yours
This past week I hosted my two nieces (Jessie and Maria) with my sister, Molly, for a whirlwind tour of the bay area. They came out around 3:00 on Tuesday and I left them dazed and confused at Union Square around 1:00 on Wednesday. In that time, we saw the wharf, the Haight (for an east-African dinner at Masawa), Chinatown, the top of Coit tower, and the redwoods of Muir woods. I’ve posted the few pictures that met my stringent quality requirements on the image section in this folder.
Blitzporn
Man, there’s a lot of porn on the internet. And it’s not just the meat-and-potatoes, slap-ass, money-shot-in-your-face kind of porn we all grew up with. It is some sick shit! Well, I know that “sick” is all a matter of degrees, but I’m just saying that it appears that most porn ads that bombard this blog (about 30 a day) are of the more extreme sort than I’m accustomed to.
If you have already been offended by the language in this post, don’t go any further. It’s going to get a little worse.
The Shame of Intel
I just arrived back in San Jose after a long Memorial Day weekend near Nashville with my family. One planned event for the trip home was the replacement of my parents’ PC purchased from Dell in 1998. That Pentium II was hopelessly out-of-date and a severe bottleneck even for web browsing. My Dad wanted my “expert help” in selecting a replacement, so we decided to shop retail on Thursday. The results of that research saddened me.
Coin Age Distribution
Because I had nothing to do on Sunday but babysit my sourdough starter, I decided to do an analysis that has always interested me: finding the distribution of ages among a random sample of coins.
McClendon-Camacho Fight Pictures Posted
Last night I again had the privilege of working Miller Lite’s Fight Night at the Tank. I got many incredible pictures of action but have only posted a few for the moment to market to some boxing periodicals. I’ve put a few pictures in the images section for those of you that want to see what I’m working with.
Express Cameras Bait-and-Switch
A couple of weeks ago I got my press credentials renewed for the 2006 series of Miller Lite Fight Night at the tank. I wanted to buy a flash for the event that was recommended to me by friends and seemed like the right price. I typed in ‘buy 550ex’ (the model number) in Google and ended up in a scam a second time. I guess I didn’t learn the first lesson completely…
2006 Oscars
Nicole and I have already started the back and forth analysis of this year’s Oscars and I wanted to share a few of my thoughts on the ceremony. They sucked. Actually, I guess I just wanted to share that one thought. Seriously, though, they sucked.