26 February 2010

The Tunnel to the Singularity

It's time to share another great HDR photo by Trey Ratcliff:

The Tunnel to the Singularity, HDR, by Trey Ratcliff

The Tunnel to the Singularity

License: Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike

Trey is about as talented, generous, and classy a person as I've found on the Internet. And funny -- I loved this post where he gives a dramatic reading of negative Amazon reviews of his HDR book:

by Scott Carpenter on 26 February 2010 at 2:29 pm
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24 February 2010

From the Kitchen Table: new Martin Sexton!

Boom Sh-Boom

I'm very excited about a new Martin Sexton album (Sugarcoating) and a new tour. And as an added bonus, the Ryan Montbleau Band will be opening for Martin and performing as his backing band. Congratulations, RMB, you guys deserve this.
I have tickets for a Saturday night show in Madison, Wisconsin, and the next night [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 24 February 2010 at 9:21 pm
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21 February 2010

May I help promote your music?

Bob Lefsetz directed my attention to a New York Times op-ed piece by Damian Kulash, Jr., "WhoseTube?" I'm not familiar with Damian or his band, OK Go, but was interested to hear how EMI no longer allows the band's YouTube videos to be embedded, which had previously contributed greatly to their visibility and success:

Now we’ve [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 21 February 2010 at 3:34 pm
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15 February 2010

Frosted Over

We woke up to some beautiful frost on Saturday; all of the trees coated in white. I took a few pictures, but my bland suburban lot and poor photography skills didn't make for anything share-worthy.
But then I received this in my inbox:
Bigger: 4288 x 2848
A winter wonderland. I like the lone deer in the foreground.
This [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 15 February 2010 at 3:28 pm
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23 January 2010

Conjugaciones de Tugger (un poco irregular)

I conjugated our cat, Tugger:

 
presente
pretérito
futuro
imperativo

yo
tuggo
tuggí
tuggeré
 


tuggues
tuggiste
tuggerás
tuggué

Ud. / él / ella
tuggue
tuggió
tuggerá
tugga

nosotros
tugguemos
tuggimos
tuggeremos
tuggamos

Uds. / ellos / ellas
tugguen
tuggieron
tuggerán
tuggan

That's right. This is cat blogging at its finest.

by Scott Carpenter on 23 January 2010 at 9:34 pm
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21 January 2010

findr: a GNU/Unix 'find' helper

I've been more aggressive lately about creating helper scripts and aliases for common tasks, and I liked this find helper enough to want to share it. I find that I often do filename searches like this:
find -iname "*some_word*"
That's not so bad to type, but why not make it even easier for my, and maybe your [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 21 January 2010 at 9:41 pm
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20 December 2009

Soup Saver Scoop

Please allow me a promotional post. I don't get a kickback or anything from this other than some potential FNPs (Favorite Nephew Points).
My Aunt Sharon is selling these super Soup Saver Scoops:

She is retired and has started up a business to sell these things. She came up with the idea based on an old utensil [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 20 December 2009 at 11:04 am
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