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This is the best I could come up with given the short window I had. ISO 200, f5, 1s. Slight drift due to subject motion.   ISO 200, f11, 30s. Very obvious drift due to subject motion. Amazing that the stars move THAT MUCH in just half a minute. Had a remote shutter release, Mirror [...]

My former mouse was dying, so I decided to head to BestBuy for a new one. I ended up getting a Logitech VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks. Since it’s for my MacBook, it was a good fit. The receiver is awesome. It’s fucking TINY. Given how tight the clearance is between the 2 [...]

Bought tickets for our Bahamas trip in February. Got round trip non-stop flights from Boston on JetBlue – which is pretty awesome. Prices were just a tad over what one-stop flights were on other airlines, so it made perfect sense. The return flight is a bit later than we wanted and it’ll require a us [...]

I’ve been oncall since yesterday. Had a few issues to deal with. Nothing “crazy” – but work to do regardless. Spent the day at home watching movies since I had little else to do. Next Friday I head to North Carolina for a few days to visit my mom. Back in Boston on Monday. Then [...]

Been a little while without updating. Not a whole lot to report, really. I was responsible for nighttime upgrades last week, so it was 2-3am nights every day. While I only show up in the office for a couple of hours and the head home (to prepare for the upgrades that need to happen that [...]

Last night was Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me (the NPR news quiz). We had awesome seats. The BEST seats. Front row, middle section. Badass. The show will be airing this Saturday, so I’m not going to say much about it beyond Peter, Carl, Amy, Charlie and Mo were all awesome. Hopefully they’ll be back in [...]

The comic con was a bit of a bust. Oh well. Ended up doing some other stuff downtown and I picked up Spore, which is installing right now. Forgot to mention it earlier, but happy Dia de los Muertos. It’s very possible that the rest of the evening will be filled with video games and [...]

I’m finally doing some image processing on the mac. The only real thing that I’ve taken pictures of (beside the shots at the museum yesterday) has been foliage type shots around the apartment. I don’t care enough to go traveling somewhere to take the “perfect fall photograph”, but when I see some good light and [...]

We went to the MFA today to check out their Art Nouveau Jewelry Exhibit that’s currently on display. The museum let’s you take non-flash photography, but unfortunately not in “special exhibits”, which I found kinda lame. Tomorrow I’m dragging Corinne to the Boston Comic Con. Never been to a comic convention before, so hopefully it’ll [...]

Despite my previous post’s bitchiness (which was squarely directed at the employees and atmosphere of the Apple Store, not their products), I’ve gotten along quite well for an absolute novice Mac user. There’s all sorts of little things that I’m learning – like when to use the Control key vs the Command Key, the buttons [...]