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Final Fantasy IX Completed
I finally finished Final Fantasy IX. Took me a little over 30 hours. I didn’t do all the side quests, but that’s more of Dan’s thing. The characters I played with the most ended up at about level 52 – if that tells you anything. Except for a little bit when I was trying to…
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Spotlight on Daniel Nguyen
Just like Dina, Daniel has a great smile. This is pretty easy to capture because he’s almost always laughing. He has a great attitude towards life and you can’t help but smile when you’re around Daniel.
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flickr Top 40 Evolution
While finishing up my photographic bio, I was copying and adapting my introduction from my flickr Top 40 book. So I decided to see how the top ten photos in my flickr Top 40 have changed in the past three years. 2006 Original Rank: 1 Current Rank: 5 Original Views: 455 Current Views: 1881 Camera:…
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Eyes
I think it’s pretty interesting that my eyes can see without seeing. For example, when I’m walking through the hallways at work, my eyes often end up in collision-avoidance mode. That is, I don’t see through my eyes because I’m busy seeing something else in my mind’s eye. So my eyes become visible-spectrum sonar and…
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Introspection
My blog has always contained some degree of introspection. It has varied based on my interests at the time. While it’s not impossible to include some self-examination in a Linux review, it’s certainly not par for the course. But, recently, reading Min and Kailyn’s blogs recently has inspired me to try and include some more…
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Final Fantasy 9: First Impressions
After playing Final Fantasy 9 for a few days, here are my first impressions. the graphics are a little distracting – it’s kinda like an uncanny valley thing. It’s not quite as nice as the new stuff, but better than the SNES graphics. But there are a lot of closeups because it was state of…
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flickr stuff
My most used tag on flickr – portrait. And my most interesting photos continue to shuffle around! Here’s the latest top 10. You’ll see that this photo, which had become my 2nd most interesting photo at one time, is now off the top 10.
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Final Fantasy 9: The Legacy Continues
I have a lot of love for Squaresoft (well, now they’re SquareEnix), despite the fact that I’ve played relatively few of their games. I think Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 (originally released as Final Fantasy 3 in the US) are the pinnacle of their jRPG work. I’ve also played Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy…
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The Final Linux Review (For Now?)
All good things come to an end. In this specific case I’ve decided to end my tenure reviewing Linux distros. Being a home owner consumes a lot more of my time than being a renter. Doing a quality distro review takes a lot of time – usually at least 2 – 4 hours. And so…
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Review: PCLinuxOS 2009
note: I started writing this months ago when I did the installation and now I am finishing up by looking at the installed distro. PCLinuxOS started as an extra set of packages for Mandriva. Interesting because Mandriva originally started as a KDE version of Red Hat. Eventually, it became its own distro. It became very,…
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Spotlight on Mai
Continuing my spotlight series with Mai. People tend to really like my portraits of Mai, some of them are among my most viewed photos on flickr.
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Spotlight on Dina
A little series I’m starting with my favorite portraits for a particular person. Dina facts: Real Dina smiles are great smiles Family is really important to Dina Dina’s closest friends are practically family (see above bullet) Dina’s pretty awesome on the piano, she doesn’t play for us often enough
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Washington, DC Again
Danielle’s family came to visit so we did what we always do when company comes, we went to Washington, DC. Seriously, I don’t really know what else to do. If it were Florida I would have taken them to the beach. In NYC I’d take them to Manhattan and either just walk around or go…
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Battle of the 50mm Primes
I have as of a few months now, I have two 50mm prime lenses – the Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro and the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. I wanted to compare them to see if one is clearly better for another. After all, if I’m going to use a prime lens, why not…
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My First 10 Photos on Flickr
I wanted to see how I’ve changed as a photographer so I went to my first ten photos uploaded to flickr. The two biggest changes are that I am now really into portrait photography (although mostly natural portraits) and not quite as much into photoshop. My first two pages are mostly photoshop-manipulated photos. The next…