Finally got the change to post some shots from Dina’s wedding. I didn’t take too many photos since I was shooting the official video. Enjoy:

And a couple videos of the kids dancing with Fran:

Mom got me a new LED ring flash for my birthday. I’ve wanted one for a while, but they were always too expensive for a niche subject (they’re mostly only useful for macro shots). But with an LED ring flash, the flash can be cheap because it doesn’t need to be TTL or E-TTL. It is always on so the camera just uses that light as the ambient light calculation. Again, it works best when you’re doing a macro shot. As a test, here’s my mom’s eye:

These guys show up during rush hour every Friday. I don’t care if you agree or disagree with their views, but it’s so annoying that it backs up traffic as people try and read the signs.

18 GB RAM on Bowser

Thanks to mom, now I have 18 GB of triple RAM on Bowser. Incidentally, it’s the first time I’ve used the Task Manager in Window 10 and it’s really slick! I like it - it matches the look/feel/usability of the similar utilities in KDE’s Plasma 5.

I created my first GPG key 10 years ago when I didn’t really know anything about encryption. So I have created a new key and signed it with my old one. You can find it here: My New GPG Key

I’ve also uploaded it to the servers supported by KGPG.

It went a little something like this.

Scarlett: “Will the leaves be back in the Spring?”

Eric: “Yes, they’ve fallen now, but they’ll be back in the Spring.”

Scarlett: “It’s like MAGIC!”

So much in there - learning things for the first time, the wonder of childhood, the reason it took humans to long to understand science vice magic.

Scarlett was begging me to do two things:

-Rake

-and jump in the leaves after raking.

We did both…

A video in which I describe my experience participating in Extra Life 2015:

https://youtu.be/mLXiWhVqHBs

People often recommend using CentOS for your desktop machine if you find Fedora’s pace to be too fast. Does this even make sense? I decided to explore the idea of CentOS 7 as a desktop computer using my wife’s requirements as the benchmark. Why? Because my wife likes long term support distros. What’s more long term support than Red Hat/CentOS’s 10 years of support for each version?

https://youtu.be/1eYBgqAsEdU

As usual we went Trick or Treating in Ellicott City’s Main Street area. Just a few photos from that evening: