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Another Crack at the Same Idea
Last weekend Danielle and I went to Borders so Danielle could check out the Buffy graphic novels and I could pick up Watchmen. While in the graphic novel section I started looking around to see what new books were out in this space and I came across Beyond Wonderland and Return to Wonderland, two comics…
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Censor Thyself or Be Blown to Bits
In the beginning I was not a huge fan of South Park. Of course, I never gave it a chance, but it didn’t give me a reason. It was, as the creators admitted in a recent Fresh Air interview, exceptionally crude both in its jokes and its scatological humor. I heard that basically it was…
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I Think I’ve Found My Second Passion
My first passion is photography. It’s something I’ve done all my life. (I think anything done continuously from about the age of five or six is all my life) I love coming up with an idea to shoot. Composing the frame is an artform. I love the emotional effect photography can produce in others. There’s…
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Shenandoah National Park
Your Browser Doesn’t Support Iframes” Three years ago I was discussing photography with a fellow photographer, pictured below. We were discussing places for good photography in the DC-Baltimore vicinity and he mentioned Shenandoah Valley. He also showed me some photos of deer he had gotten there. He was pretty impressed with how close he got…
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Tetris: An Introspective Review
Tetris is the first video game I was unable to shut off on command. Players of Sid Meier’s Civilization are familiar with the problem of “one more turn”, similar to the bookworm’s “one more page”. Tetris was my first “one more turn” game. I first played Tetris when I was five or six and received…
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Actually, Size DOES Matter
Recently I’ve been seeing and hearing a lot of people repeating some version of the mantra, “a great photographer can make a great photograph with any camera.” They’ve then been following this up with, “therefore, why not just use an iPhone or point and shoot. There’s no reason to buy an SLR anymore.” Like everything…
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First Look Review: Braid
That a game like Braid can exist is a statement on where video games are as an art form with a well-established history and canon. To make a parallel in the paint world: without a long canon of traditional paintings of tables with fruit and bread, people wouldn’t have really understood the “parody” or “remix”…
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Photojournalism: When to Withhold Photos
Recently this photo was published by the Associated Press and has been getting a lot of attention on the interwebs. It shows Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, an American solder in Afghanistan, after being hit by a mortar attack and only hours before death. A lot of the debate participants seem to feel one way or…
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Jen’s Wedding Part 2: Jen’s Creative Entrance
Jen was no where to be found at the wedding location because she was actually across the lake for her grand entrance. None of the guests at the wedding knew about this so everyone was very excited. I went on to the docks to photograph her entrance.
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My Grandfather’s 70th Birthday Party
After our mini-vacation to Naples, we went to Hialeah, Fl for my grandfather’s 70th birthday party. I wrote in May about wanting to capture photos of my grandfather at his birthday party. I was definitely able to do that. We got to the party way before my grandfather (it was a surprise party) so we…
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A Small Trip to Naples
At the end of June I went to my grandfather’s 70th birthday party. But, before that, we went on a small vacation to Naples, Fl. My mom got us a very expensive hotel on the beach and we had a blast! I got another change to use the underwater housing I first used on my…
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About Me
I am a creator and technology geek and the two often overlap. My interests include programming, writing, photography, creating comics, building computers, and video production. I prefer free operating systems like Linux and BSD. I prefer interpreted languages like Python and Perl. I’m learning new programming languages by solving problems in Advent of Code. I…
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Choosing the right Camera
What should I buy? I often see many people asking online how to choose the right camera. They are bombarded with all the megapixels and various features on offer and they have no idea what to get. And usually the retailers (Best Buy, Frys, etc) try and get you to buy more camera than you…
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The Domo Meme
There’s something about this little, brown, cube monster that people love. I first came across Domo when chatting on AIM with my high school friend, Lawrence Kwan. He had it as his buddy icon. I asked him what the brown square with the mouth was and he directed me to a website with an animation. …
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Review: Mandriva One 2009
Somewhere in the middle of 2008 my wife’s computer kept making very disturbing noises upon boot up. She had told me she would move to Linux when her current computer broke. So I bought her a new computer and loaded Kubuntu on it because she wanted “the version that looks like Windows”. I new she…