I just wanted to really elaborate on why I think Adobe Lightroom is a program any enthusiast to pro user should own.  Although, as I related here, LR has grown on me, going through the photos I shot at my cousin’s wedding has really cemented my love for Adobe’s product.  Here are my two favorite features.  You may want to open up the images in a new tab at full size so you can follow along.

Once again I’ve had one of my photos published by an outside source.  I always had an image used by WNYC, which you may remember.    This time it was the above photo in a blog post about Social Enterprenuership in Minnesota.  As I said before, if the most important thing to you is getting your artwork out there, use the Creative Commons.  At any rate, most artists (Van Gogh, etc) die poor.  So why not at least know others are seeing your photographs - the more eyeballs the better.  Plus, it might get you famous enough to get paid commissions.

Recently I’ve been going through my old analog photos and scanning them in.  This is the oldest picture I have that I took.  I took some pictures earlier in our first vacation to the Smokey Mountains.  But those prints and negatives were lost by the time I started putting together photo albums.  I’ve been remembering so much about my childhood and it’s been so much fun.  I’m still deciding which photos to upload to flickr, but keep up on my Analog Set which covers up until the middle of my Freshman year in college.

Instead of the usual Top 20 most viewed photos, I wanted to indulge in my geek side and show only prime numbers from my top 200 most viewed photos.

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So I did a test and found that as long as I save the metadata to the file, Adobe Bridge (even with CS2) can correctly read the changes.  So I decided to work in Lightroom to see if it was worth buying.  I can say that I am really loving it!  I’ve been able to adopt my usual RAW workflow with only some small changes.  Now I can’t see how I could ever work without LR!!  (It’s no wonder why Adobe gives a 30 day free trial!)

Here are some great quotes I’ve heard/read recently:

“It’s like asking for a rollercoaster when you want wasabi” - C.P.

Eric: “So what was your role in the musical?” CP: “I never had a role” MK: “Oh, you were mailbox #2”

“Antonio Banderas should not be doing bee commercials” - MK on Nasonex

“They’ve declared a jihad on clothes” - Dan imagines a terrorist porn tagline

“I was dreaming about cake” - Danielle

A lot of people have been warning that rules/laws that everyone considers stupid are a very dangerous thing.  Essentially, what happens when every single person you know is a “criminal”?  It begins to create a sense that rules are pointless and if everyone’s disobeying this rule, why not disobey that one and so on.  These people see the current problems with copyright infringement as potentially being the catalyst to the end of civilized society.  I’m not sure I would go that far by a long shot, but it is an interesting question.

A few days ago it was announced that the Ubuntu release after Jaunty Jackalope will be known as Karmic Koala.  The funny thing is that a few months ago my friends and I were racking our brains for a K adjective and all we could come up with was Keen.  I was sure it would be Keen Koala or Keen Kangaroo.  The most interesting thing about Karmic Koala is that they will supposedly be considering getting away from brown.  Then again, they’ve been going on and on about a new art style for a few releases now.  We’ll see what they actually do.  I’m mostly excited for the new notification style in Jaunty and to see if/how this will be implemented in Crunch Bang Linux.