I just had a pretty lousy experience at the movie theater that did not need to be bad. If this had been my first experience at the Alamo Drafthouse, I would not come back. The reality is that a number of bad decisions collided to ruin the evening for me and many others.…
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Attempt to mount Extender
I recently moved from a crop sensor to a full frame mirrorless camera. The one thing I missed was the relative loss of zoom because my crop sensor was behaving like a 480mm is now demoted to just be a 300mm zoom, albeit much sharper.…
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Seattle has a roadway that runs along the waterfront. Since it was built the city has undergone much change over the years. Until recently the view from restaurant balconies was disturbed by the sounds of traffic whizzing by. The city decided to tear down the viaduct and move it a block east underground.…
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Side Panel
Sometimes companies do things that make no sense. When I looked at this breakfast sausage package for the cooking instructions I was confronted with a basic math problem. The sausage comes in a box of 20 links vacuum packed in four neat rows in groups of 5 links.…
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The folks that brought us Pokemon Go have partnered with the Harry Potter and Warner Brother media empire to bring us Harry Potter Wizards Unite. The media says its like Pokemon Go but better with more character depth. I downloaded the free app to try it out but got stuck when I was presented with only two options to share my personal information.…
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Every year about this time, I’m tempted by the allure of a suite of new operating systems for my computer and mobile devices. This year is no different except for the addition of iPadOS which has the promise of letting my backward corporate web applications be functional on my primary daily device.…
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While browsing through Amazon’s new books I stumbled upon the latest book by Dennis E. Taylor, Outland. I did not hesitate and bought it immediately. Within three days I have finished it. Of course it is part of a series so I will have to wait for the next one to come out.…
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One of my most most memorable film-going experiences was seeing
Batman (1989) in a theater with actual bats flying around during the movie. Back in college, the choices for movie theaters were rather limited. On campus we had Rudder theater where you could see cult films like
Rocky Horror and sneak previews of movies like
Action Jackson.…
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I’m trying to get a SIM added to my AT&T data plan for 60 days. I’ve looked at pay as you go options like Tracphone. It looks like I can add a line to my existing plan for $15. Mind you that this is AT&T so $15 actually means $20.…
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Five years ago I bought a piece of kit to add to my camera. Since then it has been a near permanent fixture on whatever digital EOS camera I had at the time. The Canon GP-E2 is a simple GPS transceiver that attaches to your Canon camera on the hot shoe.…
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Instagram post from 2019-04-22 18:22:41
Spring showers bring May flowers
I used to be a big fan of eBay. It used to be a safe and nearly guaranteed way to convert old electronics into cash. Lately I’ve be come increasingly disenchanted with the experience. I’ve been a victim if hucksters in Russia and Mexico so I refuse to make my items for sale there anymore.…
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Instagram post from 2019-03-25 13:35:11
Showing off my salt n pepper haircut✨
