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I like Flickr…

Friday, November 14th, 2008 by calixton

…but Picasa is cheaper.
Max Pictures has photos posted all over the place. Well, a couple of places. Okay, four places*, I think.
We started out with a self-hosted online gallery (using the open source program Gallery, of all things), but when Flickr came on the scene we quickly jumped (our own) ship and maxpixpix on Flickr [...]

A little late…

Thursday, November 6th, 2008 by calixton

…but Happy Dharmaween!

And, iPumpkinween.

And, uh, Eyeballween.
In case you don’t recognize the first pumpkin, it’s sporting the “modernized” Dharma Initiative logo that is part of the Lost alternate reality game “Dharma Initiative Recruiting Project.” And, uh, Lost is a TV show on ABC.
Kamen Rider carved the iPumpkin. Miss T carved the eyeball. I’m pretty sure it’s [...]

LEGOs…

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 by calixton

…at the mall.
Miss T and I happened to stop by Arden Fair Mall last Sunday—I wanted to see the new MacBook, MacBook Pro, and LED Cinema DIsplay at the Apple Store (they’re all very, very nice, by the way)—and we ended up wandering around for about three hours. We hadn’t been to Arden Fair (or [...]

Domokun…

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 by calixton

…at Target®. For Halloween.
Do you know Domokun? (If not, here’s a brief article about him on Wikipedia.) For the purposes of this post, the most important thing to know about Domokun is that he’s from Japan.
Last week Autoteknik tipped us off (via iPhone photo, natch) that Domokun had “officially” landed in the U.S.—at Target. Miss [...]

Photographing microbes…

Monday, August 18th, 2008 by calixton

…giant, cute microbes.
Some time ago, Miss T discovered the anime Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture (もやしもん). The show, set in Japan, follows a university ag-student with the ability to see microbes without aid of a microscope. The kicker—and what probably caught Miss T’s attention in the first place—is that the microorganisms our ag-student sees aren’t like [...]

Tachikoma (タチコマ)

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 by calixton

Those of you familiar with the anime Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (GitS:SAC for short) will recognize the friendly, blue, soul-searching critter above as a Tachikoma. Those of you not familiar with the 26-episode series should rent and watch the whole thing right now, it’ll save me some explaining and will be more [...]

Analog-to-digital and back again

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 by calixton

Looking at the interval between the previous post and this one, you can tell it’s been a slow month. This is partially due to a lack of any noteworthy activity on my part (including blog-posting) and partially due to a near-obsessive focus on photography—specifically my own photography (photos I’ve taken, not photos of me). This [...]

Tezuka exhibit came and went

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 by calixton

Slow on the heels of the last photos-posted-late post are a batch of pics from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. They are, of course, from a jaunt Miss T and I took last month.
So, the story goes like this: after a couple of false starts, one afternoon Miss T and I finally hiked [...]

Perseid meteor shower

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 by calixton

There’s one advantage to living out in the agricultural-boonies of Central Valley (in our case, Davis), you can see the stars at night.
Miss T and I pointed the xB away from Davis and Sacramento, drove about five miles, and stopped in the middle of some God-knows-what farmland. It wasn’t completely pitch black, but the city [...]

Apple Inc. turns its attention to… the Mac?

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 by calixton

via the day job blog
Windows-only readers can skip this post.
For those of you wondering if Apple Inc. still makes computers, today’s special Apple Mac Event was a celebration of (almost*) all things Mac.

The first announcement was the new iMac form-factor. Thinner, sleeker, faster, shinier—the new, aluminimum-clad, 20– and 24-inch iMacs run Intel Core 2 Duo [...]