Category Archives: life

Unboxing!

In lieu of the standard unboxing of some new electronic gadget, I present you with my version of unboxing photos.

On snow and grocery store madness

Why do people rush to the grocery store when snow is imminent? Do they not plan ahead as per any other week? Do they expect to suddenly drink twice as much milk as normal? Do they predict sudden bouts of diarrhea, hence the mad rush on toilet paper?

Conan on Comcast

Since this has been sent to me many times today, I’ll share:

Image to test screen color

Open the file in Preview, hit Shift--F and see if the two bars look the same.

System Preferences and the Magic Mouse

Did you notice 10.6.2 updated the System Preferences icon for the mouse to a Magic Mouse?

The shore at Deep Creek

Grey skies, fallen leaves, and creeping darkness make for bland photos, so time to try some HDR.

The obligatory super-tonemapped version:

New 27″ iMac

Interesting detail on the 27″ iMac:

Mini DisplayPort.
The Mini DisplayPort lets you connect an external display, including the Apple LED Cinema Display, to your iMac. On the 27-inch iMac, the same port offers input, too. So you can connect any external source that has DisplayPort output — including a MacBook or MacBook Pro — and use [...]

Don’t like mouse buttons?

Then you’ll love the just announced  Mighty Mouse. It’s a multi-touch enabled mouse with no buttons. The two touch multitouch is pretty slick and should be an improvement over the current Mighty Mouse’s wacky right-click-but-don’t-have-your-index-finger-even-grazing-the-mouse system.
It also appears that two finger scrolling will have acceleration. My now-discontinued Logitech VX Nano has a flywheel which [...]

Weekend dinner

Photos from a wedding

Posted some photos from the Benish wedding (Paulie and Lori) taken on 11 July 2009. Gratz, guys! Enjoy the honeymoon!
Benish wedding photos