A audio and video podcast blog about finding our own Japan during our 20s, 30s, and now 40s.
June 22nd – Leaving for South Carolina
The big moving day. Mike is driving my car down behind me and we are getting ready to leave for South Carolina. We’re going to split up the drive into two days and try to get as far as we can into the south before pulling over for the night.
Sixteen hours on the road in a U-Haul, get ready for the fun..
Canon EOS20d 1/60 f1.8 20mm ISO400 Sigma20mm (full size)
It started to storm up while I was finishing my packing the other night. I ran outside with the camera hoping to grab a few shots of the storm. I was always about 1/2 a second behind the lightning, my human reflexes just could not keep up.
However, I got lucky when I tried to take a picture of the lights on the passing vehicle. Mother nature decided to give me a beautiful show. Though the clouds look truly unreal, I can promise you that there was no photoshop involved with this photo. This was raw from the camera. I will most likely never take a photo quite like this again. 😉
This is probably one of the better commercials I have seen in a long time. If only my coffee-satisfied mornings where this incredible. Thankfully, I do not yet work with such people.
As my digital life becomes more complicated I’ve run across numerous backup strategies that have been helpful. However, I recently discovered an easy way to keep a digitally secure copy of my most critical documents with me at any point in time. This article is a shortened version of a larger article I am working on regarding comprehensive mac backup strategies.
The Goal
Make a portable, secure, and do-not-have-to-think-about-it backup solution for my critical documents.
As an MBA student who is working on lots of projects at any point time, having an easy and secure backup on my iPod seems like the most practical solution. However, being a busy MBA student, this is not something I want to have to think about every week or even every day.
I have a 15″ MacBookPro, a 4GB iPod Nano, and OSX 10.4.6. Lets go…
Canon EOS20d 1/13 f5.0 27mm ISO200 (full size)
I had read an interesting post on taking more interesting photographs earlier in the week. I wish I had saved the link so I could post it. At any rate, one of the techniques that stuck in my head was to think of common objects from different angles or in different positions. As I was cleaning the bathroom today with the harshest of cleaning products, I took a quick break to see how I could make the gloves seem like a large looming monster. Meh, ok I think but not my best work.
“French fry when you’re supposed to pizza, gonna have a bad time.”
I’m off recovering from my Septoplasty and Turbinectomy operation. I’ve had a deviated septum every since I got clipped in the face with a baseball bat. I’d like to tell you it was because of some sweet gang fight or while saving someone, but it was just an accident.
The good news is that I can now breathe out of the right nostril. I haven’t been able to do this is about 15 years, its incredible. Things smell so much better, though they mostly smell like blood right now. LOL.
From Wednesday, November 16th, 2005: This is day 5 of my November trip to Japan. This morning, we were awoken by a ringing of a bell at 5:30am. We shuffled off to the services area and sat quietly while the monks performed their morning prayers. It was cold, peaceful, and humbling.
The remainder of the day was spent walking through the stone paths of Koyasan and checking out the old buildings. We ended the day by traveling back to Osaka, which I will post pictures of later.
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I just watched an amazing documentary series on the BBC recommended to me by a friend called, “The Root of All Evil“. I highly recommend it. One of the most telling quotes from the movie was one originally from Steven Weinberg, the novel prize winning physicist.
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
I think this will be one that I WILL memorize. There is also another great quote in that series:
“You can think of chimps as MS-DOS and humans as Windows 2000”.
For humanities sake, I hope the latter quote is not true. 😉
From Tuesday, November 15th, 2005: The Ryokan room, and the Yukatta Battle between Fred and Chris. Do not miss this episode. I had to break the arrival at Shojoshin-in into a separate video feed. We basically got into the room and spent the whole day just chilling out. We were both pretty beat after the day of traveling and battling Kung-fu style!
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I’m looking into various ways to support myself while I am in school. One of the possibilities is looking at selling photography online at stock photography sites. In reading the photographer FAQ at iStockphoto.com, I learned something strange today regarding photographing trademarked buildings:
“… photographs of the Eiffel Tower during the day are legal for resale, but not night shots (showing the light show)”
Odd.
