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A reason to stick with Raw files instead of DNG
There was a good chunk of time where I was converting all my Canon Raw files into DNG files on the thought that it would be better and make them more readable in the future. But with KDE able to read Canon files as well as the libRaw in Linux – it seemed a waste…
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2015 Video Games Report and Game of the Year
2015 turned out to be an incredible year for videos games for me. That’s a good thing because I was playing for the Extra Life charity to raise money for Johns Hopkins. I’d heard about it when the Giant Bomb guys spoke about it, but this year I had a reason – Johns Hopkins had…
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It would be awesome if he finished by dropping the mic….
Here’s a letter Governor Jerry Brown sent to Ben Carson when he said that climate change was irrelevant: Dear Dr. Carson, I hope you’ve enjoyed your visit to the Golden State. It’s come to my attention that while you were here you said the following regarding climate science: “I know there are a lot of…
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The perfect way to explain what’s wrong with women in media…
Everywhere on the net that I go where any discussion of media takes place, people get upset whenever someone takes a critical look at the roles the women play in any one piece of media. But Caroline Siede has the perfect explanation in her most recent AV Club article titled, If you like Return of…
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Interesting Phrasing
I swear to God, I cannot play in my room by myself. -Scarlett
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Scarlett at the Playground
It’s good to play with you, but now I have to go home! -Scarlett to a playground full of kids
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Be More Like Me: Don’t Be Afraid to Do Stuff Alone
Hey, when you like bands like The Protomen, Anamanaguchi, and Weird Al, it’s hard to find someone to go to a concert with you. I’d be missing out on lots of fun if I had to go with someone else. From the article: Everyone has different internal guidelines for solo outings, and these guidelines are…
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Home Server Project Update 1
A few days ago I created a page to keep track of various computer projects I’m working on. I figure this’ll help me keep track of what’s going on and what I’ve written about it and it’ll also maybe serve as a one-stop shop for visitors to the blog who want to see how I…
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Cutting
I asked my wife if she could show me how to cut a mango. This is what Scarlett said: You use scissors! And you cut! Open. Close. Open. Close. Put your fingers in the holes. Open. Close. And then I tried to recreate the situation while recording it. Here’s what she said with my prompting:
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The Reward for Uncovering the Truth….
…is pretty universal: punishment. The man who recorded one of two videos showing Baltimore cops dragging a screaming Freddie Gray into the back of a police van was arrested Thursday night, two days after voicing concerns that police were trying to intimidate him by plastering his photo all over the news, saying they wanted to…
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Why would you think war was over?
After all, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia Afghanistan and will always be at war with Eastasia Afghanistan. The war in Afghanistan is not ending, US government attorneys said in court documents unsealed Friday, undercutting statements President Barack Obama made last December and in his State of the Union address a few weeks later…
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Martin Luther King Jr and The Baltimore Riots
I’ve been meditating on a blog post about the riot in my figurative backyard. While I’m still unsure if whether I’ll end up writing anything about it, I came across some interesting MLK Jr quotes today. A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King Jr and this one seems to apply not…
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Review: With A Little Help
With A Little Help by Cory Doctorow My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was an experiment in funding and creating a book that I’m pretty sure came out before Kickstarter was as big as it is today. You have to hand it to Cory Doctorow, he lives what he preaches. He’s been releasing…
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The MPAA members know damn well there are legit uses for bittorrent….
….but pretend there aren’t. Main quote: In some ways, this is so incredibly shortsighted. Here Sony is so committed to the idea that torrents can’t be shown to have any legal, non-infringing uses (even though there are plenty), that it won’t even allow its own staff to experiment with ways to use the new technology…
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The Long-lasting damage of cop misbehavior
The lives lost are tragic, but the constant police misbehavior has an even worse effect on society. I came across the following today on an article about Stingrays: Well, the supposed “good guys” (cops) no longer really care what is legal and what is not, so why should I? Once this type of sentiment becomes…