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Found some old photos from 2001
I was looking for another file and stumbled across these two photos. Add in that new Photoshop action and you get one cool image. These photos were taken from Bishop Street in Midtown, and the subject is what is now Atlantic Station.
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My favorite commies and the Blasters
Out soon
- 4-11-44 by the Blasters will soon be released ! Their first studio album (with both Dave and Phil Alvin in decades)
- Freedom and Weep by the Waco Brothers (my favorite left wing band who sadly only makes it to Atlanta every 5 years or so) is finally putting forth another new record.
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Nice
A guide to Black and White photography with digital cameras.
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Light blogging lately
I finally got the prints in (yay!) and now I just need to get more frames from Sam Flax, but they look very nice.
Blogging has been very light as I deal with the work that has been piling up lately. And as I spell check this before I post it I see that the word “blogging” is flagged as a misspelling.
And happy birthday Adam.
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They said it
From Paul Krugman’s latest column, where insists that there is a housing bubble, albeit not in areas with better geography
Housing prices move much more slowly than stock prices. There are no Black Mondays, when prices fall 23 percent in a day. In fact, prices often keep rising for a while even after a housing boom goes bust.
The bubble (construct that it is) pops and prices still increase? We have such happy problems in this country, it reminds me of our obesity “epidemic”. It reminds me of the old adage “Economists have predicted 14 of the last 5 recessions”.
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Computer annoyances
Last night my computer was randomly freezing. I reboot and find that my two CD-rom drives are no longer working. Not really a huge problem.
I wake up today one of the CD-rom drives door is locked open. Later email goes down. What’s the deal?
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Ordering prints
I’m ordering more prints from the Kodak Gallery, who has done good work for me in the past. I took/created the photo above which will pair with the similar photo (with the same text) that I have of Schaef.
To upload the photos (65 megs this go-round) Kodak asks you to install an Active X control, making this the first time I’ve used Internet Explorer in around a month. It seems to work quite well.
In related news, Sam Flax has some extremely good deals on picture frames. While the high end frames are quite pricey, the medium is extremely low in cost.
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Last call for Freedom Parkway
I think this will be my last photo expedition to Freedom Parkway for awhile. I have been photoshopping the photos a bit more.
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The Lonesome Fiddler Series begins
I hereby launch my lonesome fiddler photo series. The goal is to have many different people and places playing fiddle in silhouette. The below is the first draft. Much thanks to Jason for his help.
What I was shooting for is the image below. For this happen with a real person and not my angry nun bottle opener I would need a light bulb 4 feet tall. All thinks in time I suppose.
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Wednesday Rapid Fire
- From Yglesias
…The article claims that “In Israel, American Jewish men are considered nerds,” which seems reasonable. To this Jewish American man, Israelis seem like goyim. The older Ashkenazis, often born abroad, still have some connection to the tradition, but your average Israeli makes a mockery of Jewishness. The idea of a Jewish fireman or a Jewish sailing instructor is ridiculous, and everyone knows it. Of course to many American Jews the very outlandishness of the notion that you could not only have an entire army filled with Jews but that it could actually win wars is much of the appeal of the Zionist enterprise. Still, not the sort of thing real Jews do. One wonders how they find enough non-nearsighted fighter pilots.
- Sand Bullets in Israel – which is conveniently close to many deserts.
- .Net DNS component – and only six months after I wrote my own. This one looks better than mine though.
- Sortable Lists via CSS and Javascript
- This editorial from the Middle East Times discusses the possibility of the West closing the door to immigrants and visitors (which is probably what will happen if current trends continue) and this one from the Belgravia Dispatch deals with similar matters. I think history will eventually judge the current European assimilation problems as a failure of the welfare state. I was going to do a longer post on nationality and self-identified moral class but I think that will have to wait.
- From Yglesias