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Posts from November 2004

Phones…

More time spent working on phone systems again today. Phones really prey upon my retro-techishness; whereas the internet is a dumb network of smart nodes, the phone system as designed is a smart network of dumb nodes. That’s the beauty of it, almost any phone can participate, use features, make a call, etc.
Phones have become [...]


Great photo idea

Check out Kyle Cassidy’s LiveJournal entry called “Walking to Work”. Everybody, pick up a camera, a roll of 24 exposure film* and document your daily walk!
While you’re at it, check out Kyle’s LiveJournal and his web site. I’ve always enjoyed his work.
*Or memory card…


crappity crap crap

Nothing blows more than rewinding/opening up a camera at the 24th exposure and remembering that you’re shooting 36 exposure Superia Reala.
I don’t have a film leader retriever, does anyone know how I can get the leader back out using household tools?
ObPicture:
<a href=http://www.kataan.org/gallery/misc/20041125lightshadow?full=1><img src=http://www.kataan.org/albums/misc/20041125lightshadow.thumb.jpg></a>
(click for 800×600 version)


Lost Weekend

My wife is working tonight, I got my son to bed early (he got up an hour early…) and was planning on spending tonight catching up on the web, maybe playing some Wolfenstein, read LJ, and tweak some photos.
The skunk that tangled with my dog had other designs for my weekend. Luckily, this isn’t anything [...]


Light and Shadow

<a href=http://www.kataan.org/gallery/misc/20041125lightshadow?full=1><img src=http://www.kataan.org/albums/misc/20041125lightshadow.sized.jpg border=1></a>
Not bad for handheld! Canon Powershot S100, at the Sony Metreon.


Light and Shadow

Not bad for handheld! Canon Powershot S100, at the Sony Metreon.


Hi, all!

Had a pretty good thanksgiving, now I’m back in the office and killing time until the post-turkey day potluck at work. alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 had the entire fscking “Killing Joke” catalog up this weekend, I’m going to listen through them and buy some CDs with my Amazon birthday gift certificate.
Take that, RIAA! Music sharing does promote sales!
I [...]


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