Monthly Archives: June 2009

Cowbells

June 17, 2009
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Sometimes things just happen. Like silence in a crowded restaurant. Recently I had back-to-back songs with cowbell pop up on my iTunes random playlist. Quite eclectic collection. I’m sure there are others. Dance the Night Away, Van Halen Don’t Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult Hair of the Dog, Nazareth Lay Lady Lay, Bob Dylan Time Has Come, The Chambers Brothers I’m sure there are plenty more, but these have it pretty front-and-centre. And whenever I hear a cowbell I think of Gene Frenkle and that Saturday Nigh Live sketch.

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Cool “camera” hack

June 9, 2009
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I’m not a camera buff. But I know a cool camera hack when I see one . This hack by a Japanese camera buff is totally cool. Although it only works for stationary objects being photographed, the resolution is absurdly high (130 megapixels). And I can think of some pretty cool uses such as photographs of the nighttime sky, for example. Hooking this baby up to an equatorially mounted telescope would result in stunning photographs. Totally cool.

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Musings

A blog of my musings. Some folks find it interesting and so I continue. Hopefully it will remain fairly interesting. At worst, it'll keep me writing orthogonally to my day job.

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