Another month is coming to an end, and I realized I haven’t been posting much. The problem lately hasn’t been finding things to link to, but rather putting together words to go with the links. Between being busy at work, the frenzy of a holiday weekend, and a few evenings with more beers consumed than was perhaps wise, I just haven’t been in a writing mood.
I was in a picture-taking mood last weekend though. The photowalk was a nice diversion on Saturday evening, as was going to a couple gun shows with a cow-orker earlier in the day on Saturday. There were only two things that tempted me at the shows. The first was a CZ-52, but there were three of them, none in great condition, and I ended up passing on ’em. Then there was a reproduction Sharps 45-120 (the Quigley gun), but at $1500, I figured I’d pass. Especially since there really isn’t any place I could shoot it until next spring, anyhow. But it shore was purty.
And that’s pretty much the news. This coming weekend is already jam-packed with stuff, since a friend is getting ordained on Saturday, and another friend has a birthday. And I’m probably forgetting something else, too. Seeya in December sometime.
- Ray Maxwell’s A Short History of “Manufacturing” Color is a pretty good read if you’re interested in color managment (which you probably need to be if you’re taking digital photographs). Not a whole lot of new stuff for me, but then I’ve been living with this stuff since 1990 or so.
- If you’ve experienced Flat bed scanner fustrations, you might be interested to know that a lot of them can be solved. Not easily, but you can do it.
- Wow. A website full of Minneapolis Street Information. Perfect way for a history/map geek like me to spend a few hours. [metro mpls]
- Kim quotes a post about the modern man and Girly Stuff. Sad but true. [kim]
- Hmm. Did you know Bloomingon, MN police are Blowing Up Scientific Equipment in the Name of Security? Because it’s suspicious looking, natch. Plus they’ve got all those expensive toys paid for by our tax dollars, and if they don’t use ’em, we might gripe. [boing boing]
- Searching for some justice, Zombies sue city, county for abuse of locking them up for
simulating weapons of mass destruction
last summer. The sad thing is that suing the city and the police may be satisfying, but if they lose, it’ll just come out of our pockets, and none of the real villains in the story will get anything more than a slap on the wrist. Depressing. [jim] - Andy, Jim and I have posted photos from the photowalk last saturday. There’s some nice night-shots in there, I think. I’d post a preview here, but I’ve gotta run, and that’d take time I just don’t have this morning. In the long-term, I’m thinking about a better way to post photos from flickr here. Maybe I’ll work out the scripts some evening and you’ll start seeing more pictures.