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On this log I try to document things I find interesting on my day-to-day. The idea is to look back at it over time and see how things have evolved, and since I am logging them I may as well share them here on my site.
I don’t usually eat stuff with too many artificial colors, but today I ate these at the same time… Probably not good for me but I guess once in a while it doesn’t matter (I hope).
I saw this “Canon EF 70-200 f/4.0 L IS USM” coffee mug online, apparently Canon was giving out to photographers at the Vancouver Olympics. I want one, supposedly they will begin selling some in April but it’s also already out of stock even for pre-orders.
It’s snowing and it’s March 2nd. Spring should be around the corner but still no sign of it.
Infrared
This week I got a camera that I had converted to infrared, they replace the regular low-pass filter and use a 720nm filter that doesn’t block out IR light.
The colors look very different than normal, on this photo the jacket and cap were all black. Some light does not reflect at all, if the sky is a certain shade of blue it just shows up black, and all trees look white. Definitely a fun thing to try out and get a different type of photos.
I had made a ‘fake’ IR photo in photoshop, and a couple with a filter on the lens, but that’s a bit more complicated because you can’t see anything to frame the shot before taking it and it takes longer to expose it.
40 Days — 2.0
So it’s that time of year again, a week or so ago I started lent, and just like last year I don’t do it because I’m very religious, but more to see how much self control I have to avoid something I like for that long.
This year’s choice is red meat (last year was chocolate), I’m doing pretty good so far, at least better than my friend Mike who’s been changing his and not being very enthusiastic about it this year after getting me into this lent thing (j/k man! :)
I’ll check back in in 40 days, hopefully it will be the same result as last year.
My inner 10-year old thought this was funny…
It’s snowing around here today, from what they say in the news it will snow the rest of the day, and maybe Sunday too. When it snows here it doesn’t seem to be as cold as other days when the sun’s out.
I heard a song by Zee Avi and thought it was kinda of cool, turns out she’s under Jack Johnson’s label Brushfire Records.
Today I got Google Buzz in my gmail account (just like pretty much everyone else in the world it seems) and I got to play with it for a while. I think it’s much better thought out and executed than Wave was, there are a few things I like:
Now, the BIG flaw, which they brought over from Wave by the way, is the horrible handling of following and followers. I understand they want to be helpful, but why on earth would they think that because I sent an e-mail to someone years ago, that person is a friend or that I would be interested in their “buzzes”. The very first time I clicked on the Buzz link I was already following 25 people!! and if I had decided from the start who I was going to follow, I would have picked at most 4 people out of those 25. Also, they should not allow people to follow me without asking for my permission, I can’t find a way to remove some of those followers from my list (while some users have a link and I can block them, some don’t and there doesn’t seem to be a way to get rid of them).
One of the things that will surely be fixed (I hope!) in the future is the poor integration with other sites, they only have twitter and flickr at the moment and there are no options, you either add your link or delete it, and the twitter import is useless if you have your tweets protected (I’m sure they’re smart enough to figure out how to use OAuth).
Overall, I believe it’s a MUCH better attempt than Wave was but for now I don’t think I’ll be using it . The poor support for linking my other accounts, the lack of intuitive privacy settings, and the awful handling of following/followers are enough to make me stay out, not to mention it does not work on Google Apps which is where I have my real e-mail address so monitoring Buzz will be as much of a pain as monitoring Wave since it’s a browser window I’ll need open just for that. I also think it will just fade over time and most people won’t use it in the long run, but of course I may be wrong.
Good try google!
Another difficult photo to get, this is my mom. I have only been able to take 2 photos of her in a long time because she doesn’t like her picture taken. Here’s the other one.
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