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Nov - 2nd

Thinkpad homelab upgrades

Posted at 10:35 am | Filed Under journal

You can spend a lot of money building a homelab that competes with small office networks. Or, you can do what I did and build a network of cast-off, unwanted hardware. A thrift-store Synology NAS, “parts-only” Thinkpad laptop with a cracked screen and broken keyboard, and a $5 goodwill router, flashed with OpenWRT forms the […]

Aug - 15th

Proxmox 9.0 released

Posted at 10:32 am | Filed Under journal

Proxmox VE 9.0 is out, and it brings a solid set of updates. Built on Debian 13 “Trixie” with Linux kernel 6.14.8, it improves hardware support and overall performance. Core Updates The virtualization stack includes: QEMU 10.0.2 for better VM performance LXC 6.0.4 for improved container stability ZFS 2.3.3 with RAID-Z expansion Ceph Squid 19.2.3 […]

Jun - 4th

Chief Hotel Court

Posted at 9:02 pm | Filed Under journal

Jun - 4th

Cirque

Posted at 8:57 pm | Filed Under journal

Dec - 18th

LEGO Detail

Posted at 11:51 am | Filed Under android, journal

May - 26th

Depth of Field

Posted at 9:51 am | Filed Under journal

Depth of field is easy with a film camera and a fast prime lens, and tricky to get with digital cameras – most have small image sensors, slow zoom lenses and image stabilization. One of the reasons I bought my Pentax MX-1 was that it has a large, relatively fast (f/2.8) zoom lens and a […]

Apr - 15th

Mission, Carmel-by-the-Sea

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Apr - 4th

Harmony, CA

Posted at 8:40 am | Filed Under journal

Jul - 26th

Name That Font

Posted at 7:39 pm | Filed Under journal

Dec - 18th

Faded Door

Posted at 12:41 am | Filed Under journal

Jul - 16th

Cart/Tracks

Posted at 8:30 am | Filed Under journal

May - 21st

Window Grid

Posted at 7:57 pm | Filed Under journal

Mar - 23rd

Texture 32

Posted at 9:36 pm | Filed Under journal

Jun - 21st

Roxy Music album cover outtakes

Posted at 4:01 am | Filed Under art, journal

Here are some outtakes from Eric Boman’s shoot for the classic Roxy Music album Country Life, and the shoots for the covers of Stranded and For Your Pleasure. These are some of the most striking album covers of the glam-rock era, and there’s something weird and compelling about seeing them in this half-formed state. Ready […]

Jun - 30th

Marillion

Posted at 2:48 pm | Filed Under journal

Jun - 30th

Hogarth

Posted at 9:09 am | Filed Under journal

Dec - 5th

Service

Posted at 6:28 pm | Filed Under journal

Sep - 23rd

Woops!

Posted at 8:56 pm | Filed Under journal

“No, you need to rewind the film BEFORE taking the film out!”

Jul - 21st

New test

Posted at 7:50 pm | Filed Under journal

I started poking around the menus on my Elph 100 HS, and noticed that it’s got a “Toy Camera” mode – looks like it vignettes the shot. I’m torn – there’s a lot more flexibility with an iPhone and the dozens of applications available for it, but sometimes you can’t beat 12 megapixels, 3200 ISO, […]

Jun - 9th

June 11th Instawalk in San Francisco’s Chinatown

Posted at 6:48 pm | Filed Under journal

An Instawalk is an Instagram themed photo walk. Users are encouraged to shoot, process, and upload their photos as the walk is happening. If you haven’t done one yet, I highly recommend it. It’s a bizarre experience to be seeing what your fellow photographers are seeing as the walk is happening.

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