This is from last weekend.

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This is a game I have been waiting for ever since I played New Super Mario Brothers on my borrowed Nintendo DS.  This is the purity of Mario.  Screw all this 3D stuff.  Yeah, it rocks to have a 3D space to run around in, but that’s not Mario.  Mario is a side scroller and its charm comes out best that way.  Or maybe I’m just an old codger nostalgic for what I grew up with.  It’s probably the latter given that the Mario theme in New Super Mario Brothers Wii (NSMBW henceforth), a modified version of the original with a little “ah” a capella thrown in, excites me in ways I cannot express. Apparently it also excites the goombas and turtles because they do a little dance move during the a capella parts.

The latest version of Fedora is out.  Get it here!  I’ll probably give it about a month to get all the kinks out and then I’ll give it a shot and talk about it here.  I’m excited for some new versions of programs like gPodder.  I also want to check out Gnome Shell, the new interface for Gnome starting with 3.0 next fall.

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When I saw this guy in a Georgetown cigar store I knew I had to photograph it before the day was over.  On the way back to the train, I captured this shot.  It creeps me out, but I had to capture it.

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For my cousin’s wedding I wanted to have a f/2.8 lens.  I had had bad luck with my current lenses at Richard’s wedding because I couldn’t get good enough low light performance.  So I decided to rent a Canon EF 24-70mm L f/2.8 lens.  So not only will it be an f/2.8, but it will also be an L lens so this should be the best quality photos I have ever taken.  After a lot of looking around, I ended up choosing Pro Photo Rental.

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This photos is my most viewed photo on flickr and today it reached 10,000 views!  The pace of views has been insanely quick.  (for one of my photos)   It only had 5,000 views 18 months ago and ever since then I’ve been wondering when it would reach 10,000 views.  Now the next milestone on the flickr views groups is 25,000 views.  It’ll probably take a while to get there.  I know there are some who get 25,000 views in one day, but I’m not one of those, so this is pretty exciting for me.  10,000 pairs of eyeballs have seen this photo and that’s awesome.

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I can’t believe Firefox has been around for five years!  I remember first being introduced to tabs and it totally changing the way I surf the web.  Back then it was a plucky upstart and didn’t even work with many websites that had been coded specifically for Internet Explorer.  Now it has around 20% market share!

The conclusion catching us up on my 1 A Day set(not including Project 365 photos).