I finally gave in and bought a hardware color calibrator. With four LCD monitors in the house, it was becoming impossible for me to have any confidence in the colors I was getting for photos. There are some good perceptual calibrators available: Apple ships quite a nice one built-in to MacOS X, some people prefer …
Category Archives: General
Quest for clam sauce
In the early 1992 Stella’s Trattoria in Seattle’s U-district was a regular, late-night haunt for my particular group of friends. Dave Dawson had a habit of ordering the creamy, clam sauce and resulted in getting several of us addicted to the stuff. It was especially surprising when I became addicted since I generally dislike all …
Rumors Apple Acquiring TiVo
Reuters is reporting on speculation (as if that represents news) that Apple is targetting Tivo for aquisition. Personally, I think this is a natural play for Apple. There has been rampant speculation that the Mac Mini is positioned as a Media Center Device (DVD-Player/Writer, HDI interface); add Tivo software to the Mac Mini and you …
re: photos
The photoblog is chugging along. I’ve managed daily posts for the last week. The good news is the next couple of days of photos are queued and should pop up on their own (no late night updates for a bit). I’ve been watching my rating over at photoblogs.org drop pretty regularly; from a high of …
Huzzah!
The Powerbook is back from Apple Service! They erased the hard drive, but I made a backup just to handle such an eventuality. I feel much better now, thanks.
Make magazine
Saw the review of Make:Magazine over at Slashdot, and couldn’t help myself; I picked up a year subscription. Based on the samples they’ve got up, I’m going to be a happy geek (and an even worse graduate student than I am now). I’ll post a review as soon as my first issue arrives.
I should probably worry
Another Valentine’s Day come and gone, and I’m still single. The single part doesn’t really bother me, that’s probably why I should worry.
WHFS redux
Driving to dinner tonight, I was surprised to hear Neci, once of WHFS fame, back on the airwaves at 105.7FM. As a little background, WHFS 99.1 FM went off the air on January 12th, 2004 at noon, replaced by an all-spanish format station. In the ensuing ,angry fans protested, and Live 105.7FM in Balitmore picked …
Random numbers, the future, and me
Red Nova is running an article about scientists examining the possibility that events in the world effect (or are predicted by) a random number generator. I haven’t checked the credentials of the scientists involved, nor do I care to. The fact is I’ve believed the basic premise of this article for several years, and I …
Photo friday: luscious
This week’s topic for Photo Friday is “luscious”, and I’m having trouble coming up with an image I want to use. Merriam-Webster Online defines luscious as: having a delicious taste or smell sexually attractive richly luxurious or appealing to the senses Any one with a good idea on an image that conveys “luscious”?