Back to Cornell for today’s entry in Top 200 Photos.

photo #154 is:

One day we were just walking around campus and just pulled into the stadium to watch some lacrosse. Unlike hockey, there was no fee and there wasn’t really anyone in the stands. So I practiced my sports photography with the team. I was into photo editing back them and I decided that this shot would be perfect for a cutout (selective colouring) because we were The Big Red and red is so vivid. I think it work perfectly with this photo. I think it’d look great in a book of Cornell sports photography (without my byline/watermark, of course)

I heard something really sad on NPR today.  Kids are complaining that their parents are spending so much time on their smartphones with twitter and Facebook and so on and they feel neglected.  I had always assumed that parents from my generation would put away these stupid habits once we had children.  It’s part of the reason why I’ve been on a video game binge.  I’m hoping to have a kid sometime in the next few years and I am pretty sure that once I have one that I won’t really have any time for Civilization.  And, at least with the way I feel with other people’s kids, I feel like I’d probably want to spend every waking second with them, at least until they were old enough to be entertained with their own games and toys.

Usually for my blog posts, I write them in isolation and try to guess how my regular readers might respond.  However, for this topic, I spoke with Dan about it as I wrote it.  As someone who’s visited Hiroshima, Dan has a pretty unique perspective on the topic compared to most Americans.

Here is today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #155 is:

Ever since I moved to Baltimore, I’ve been in the city during Otakon, the annual anime convention. The first couple of times it was a complete accident. For the the past two years I’ve looked up the dates ahead of time and made sure to be there to take some photos. I haven’t yet bought a ticket, but almost all of them tend to spend some time outside and everyone’s amenable to photos. After all, they’ve spent as much as the entire last year working on their costumes in some. I usually have a great time enjoying all the awesome costumes and they usually do pretty well views-wise on flickr. So I know there are at least two more Otakon photos on the Top 200 Photos.

Today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #156 is:

Which is weird because, at the time, it was my favorite photo of Danielle and she hated it.  And the weird thing is that, looking at it nearly 4 years later, I’m not as keen on it as I once was.  I can’t figure out what I loved so much then.  It’s so weird to have feelings associated with a photo change that much in just a few years.

There will not be a #158 because it is a photo that was already covered. (Moved up quite a few ranks much faster than I thought it would)

photo #157 is:

This is a photo from the only time I was the paid photographer at a wedding. The bride was the sister of one of Danielle’s coworkers and needed to work on a budget. Working that wedding taught me that I enjoy photographing weddings a lot more when I’m not the official photographer.

And now for a completely different climate in today’s Top 200 Photos.

photo #159 is:

This is from my Honeymoon outside of Cancun, Mexico.  I love finding examples of American companies in other countries so I had to take a photo of this McDonald’s in Playa del Carmen.  While we always make sure to eat local cuisine in whatever country we’re in, we also sometimes try out the American chains to see how they differ.  McDonalds in England, for example, out-mayonaises the USA.  And TGIF in England has ham rather than bacon on their potato strips.  And the Pizza Hut sauce over there tastes weird. We did not eat at this McDonald’s in Mexico.

We stay at Cornell for this entry in the Top 200 Photos.

photo #160 is:

This has to be in the top 3 most depressing photos I took at Cornell. There’s a certain beauty in the photo, especially now that I don’t have to deal with that weather anymore, but just remembering trudging up that hill in that unforgiving weather is enough to make me happy to have graduated.

Back to Cornell for today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #161 is:

Ah, the Cornell Arts Quad. It’s where everyone plays frisbee. It’s where a large portion of Cornellians go to class. I was really into panoramas at Cornell. If I had the technology in today’s software back then, I probably would have done even more of them.

I’ve been using web browsers since Internet Explorer 1 and Netscape Navigator 3. I’ve blogged about my browser history quite a bit. I’ve ended up using Chrome on all my platforms. It works on Linux and Windows and I can have my bookmarks synced up across all those platforms. Now, I’m not a huge user of bookmarks. From my earliest days back in the 1990s when I used to perfectly curate my bookmarks into folders and subfolders to the mid-2000s when Epiphany and Firefox implemented tags on bookmarks, pretty much anything I’ve ever bookmarked has gone into a status of “out of sight== out of mind”. In fact, the only way I’ve been able to effectively use bookmarks is to use the space under the address bar to store them so I can see them. This is what Chrome looks like on my machines: