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Midnight at Atlantic Station
I decided not to let last night go to waste and went to the Atlantic Station / 17th Street Bridge area for photography. The bridge (pictured above) is definitly on the list for the fiddler series of portraits.
The Midnight at Atlantic Station photo gallery.
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Just back in
I decided not to let the evening go to waste wound up having an interesting night of photography on the 17th Street Bridge and Atlantic Station. The photos will be up soon.
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Grinding irritants
Before I go off on my little mini-rant, I should say that I’ve finally worked out that Tom Waits song for the open mic.
Now, here is what’s been irritating me today:
- I still haven’t heard from 3 people with impending projects
- I cancelled my photo shoot with my fiddle model after seeing a rainy forecast. Instead, it’s the proper degree of overcast. Curse you Weather Channel.
- I’ve managed to open up my leg cut twice today, once in my sleep, and then a few hours ago, I’m not sure how. In general it’s healing fairly well, but the deeper areas don’t seem to respond to time or reason.
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Something that should exist
A mood tracker that one could click on during the day, say at 30 minute intervals. Assuming it was used honestly, it would be interesting to see what averages out to “fine”.
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The article I referred to at lunch
Where did I have lunch? What was the reference?
These things are a mystery. However, here is the article
Man accused of diverting others’ mail to himself
A man was charged with using scores of change-of-address forms to divert mail from all over the nation to his address in Beaver County.
Federal prosecutors this week charged Fred Hill of Aliquippa with wire fraud, accusing him of diverting mail from people both living and dead.
Postal inspectors said in court records that when they entered an Aliquippa home where Mr. Hill had stayed, they found “a significant volume” of abandoned mail along with lists of Social Security numbers and names of people in California, Georgia and Arkansas.
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Since January, Fred Hill had used the Postal Service’s Web site to file 170 change-of-address forms since January, authorities alleged in court records. The same credit card had been used to pay the $1 charge for filing change-of-address forms online, they said.170!
On another note, Ralph of Luttrell Guitars did a wonderful job installing the new FishMan pickup.
That’s been my day so far.
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Everyone watching everything
Bruce Schneier has a very interesting post about the current state of internet monitoring, which would seem to be pretty total. He links to a Daily Kos piece, which states
Specifically, this equipment was the Narus ST-6400, a machine that was capable of monitoring over 622 Mbits/second in real time in May, 2000, and capturing anything that hits its’ semantic (i.e. the meaning of the content) triggers. The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second.
I recommend reading the whole thing. It seems to have no direct purpose, it doesn’t break a single code, and it does absolutely nothing to discover anything about the use of steganography (messages in plain site). However it does seem like it would be useful to discover the terrorist (or whatever) networks (probably with a lot of false positives).
In any case, I think it’s safe to say we have no digital privacy anymore.
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Battle of the Banks
I’ve been searching for a new savings account lately, and my eye has been drawn to NetBank and HSBC Direct. Netbank has more fees, but they do publish their online Average Percentage Yield, whereas HSBC has no fees, but they do not list their APY outside of their promotion.
Have any of my loyal readers had any experience with these companies?
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Monday round up
- Catch and release attention
- Google Earth now tracks flights.
- Michael Yon is in Afghanistan, with some stunning photography.
- A massive list of free utility software.
- Positive imaging.
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30 miles
I decide to wreak my lonerism on the Georgia road system today and wind up going 30 miles; a personal best for the year. I also cracked 35 miles an hour on one downhill portion of the trek.
I rode to Stone Mountain and from there to Gwinnett county (Norcross I think) on Mountain Industrial, which changes names to Jimmy Carter Boulevard at some point.
I do NOT reccomend that particular route. Once you pass through Tucker the traffic gets quite scary in terms of both drivers and the actual roadway. I was the only biker I saw in the Gwinnett country portion of the journey.
The top picture was where I turned, it was some exit off of I-85. The low picture is sort of Easter-y I suppose.
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Scouting photo sites
As soon as I get my model situation sorted out, the next fiddler photo series expedition will be shot here around sundown. I arrived too late last night for any good silouetting to occur, but I did fake it a bit in Photoshop.