I was sitting in my driveway, about to get out when I heard this hilarious commentary by Lori Gottlieb called NPR : Think Partnered Parenting Is Hard? Try Going Solo I think I am about half of the husbands described, yet Brandi still finds thing about me to gripe about. She just doesn't know how lucky she has it.
I've been wanting to get into Macro photography, and now that I have a tripod, all I need is a macro lens and a light source, like a ring flash. Through the magic of MAKE, i've found DIY guides for building an extension tube, and a LED ring light. One of the old school tricks to macro photography is to just reverse the lens, allowing for high magnification, depending on length from the sensor. The problem with such a long lens barrel is that your flash will be obscured, leaving all or most of the subject matter in a shadow.
LED ring light
Extension/Reversing tube
Listed the Audi. Also created a little home for the ad on blogger.
http://buymyaudi.blogspot.com
digg turned me on using my miniDV camcorder & ieee1394 connection to perform backups onto miniDV. According to the article 60min miniDV's can hold up 18GB compressed in LP mode, and take an hour or so to backup. I'm currently searching around for a cheap possibly broken miniDV camcorder on ebay. I looked around for a miniDV deck, but they are professional grade, and cost thousands. An old sony dcr-trv8 would do the same thing. With some tinkering, I could also utilize the LCD attached.
I'm currently working on a new project, part diversion, part yak-shaving. All the cool kids are doing it, so I thought I'd give it a try. While everyone is waiting, here is a cool program to check out. http://www.songbirdnest.com
A site that I've been watching for awhile has some really funny comics, drawn one per day. I found the site from BoingBoing.
The artist's wife also does a comic, and together they have started a joint comic.
Summary:
Willy Lowman goes to his boss to ask for a better job.
Boss turns him down.
All the hopes and dreams (or perhaps delusions) that Willy had of providing for his family are irrevocably lost.
