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FacebookSingapore Day 1, Part 2: Pictures that didn’t make the 10 on 10 cut but I wanted to blog a bit about anyway
This is day 2 of being wide awake at 5AM. I can't blame anyone for snoring this time... I just couldn't sleep. Oh well -- in a couple of hours I'll be catching a bus to Malacca, Malaysia, and it's a 4 hour ride, so I can sleep then if I feel the need. So instead of working on my grad →
Singapore Trip Day 1: May 10 on 10, Singapore edition
Since this seems as good a place to pitch it as any (don't think I've mentioned it on here before) go vote for me for Best Local Blogger in the A-List competition on one of our local news stations. :-) I know I won't win, but it'd be fun to get some points on the board at least... ;-) Ok, so →
April 1 on 10. That was not a typo.
I'm actually in the Bay Area for work-related stuff from this morning through Wednesday night. The insanity continues through next Saturday, and then it's SSSPPPRRRIIINNNGGG BBBBRREEEAAAAKKKKKK (make sure you read that in a deep radio announcer voice, complete with reverb.) Because I spent most of today in meetings, I really couldn't bust out my camera (they weren't big meetings where I →
Dear Forbes. Stuff it.
Dear Forbes Magazine, Last week you published your annual ranking of "America's Most Miserable Cities." I somehow missed reading about it until a couple of days ago (probably had something to do with the flu-induced delirium I was in most of the week) but ever since I read it and saw that Sacramento was ranked American's Fifth Most Miserable City, I've →
Heaven: on sale for $4.00 per quart
When you look at the first picture below, ignore the cupboard door that doesn't shut. Why doesn't it shut? Because this place is almost 100 years old and has at least that many layers of paint on everything. NONE of the doors around here shut right. You can try to shut something, but it's going to almost immediately pop back →
Help me pick a 2010 picture of the year!
I meant to post this on Saturday, but I ended up posting those fireworks pictures instead, because I liked how they turned out. So here is my second and last "year in review" post --help me pick a "best picture of 2010" shot by posting in the comments with the number of the one you like. :-) Here's a link →
Take Five. I mean ten. December 10 on 10.
The idea of 10 on 10 is to, on the 10th day of every month, take ten pictures -- one each hour for ten hours. It's a "snapshot of daily life" kind of thing. :-) ~~~ For some reason, I woke up yesterday with Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" stuck in my head--I'm not sure why, but the first thing I did when →
Got leftovers? Try Thanksgiving Pie!
I promise this hasn't turned into a food blog. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, it's just not my thing. I *can* cook, but I'd rather go to the effort of taking pictures of food than actually cooking. :-) The one thing I love more than the Thanksgiving meal are days of Thanksgiving leftovers. No matter which butter →
Traditional day-after breakfast: Grant’s pumpkin pancakes
This is a special bonus post to participate in Sarah's Thanksgiving recipe exchange -- it seemed like fun, and come on, who doesn't like pancakes? :-) On Thanksgiving, family descends upon my parents' house for a couple of days of food, games, music, and vicious table soccer tournaments. Part of the tradition is for my cousin Grant to make pumpkin pancakes →
Thanksgiving 2010: warm, dry, and quite well-fed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competing, arranging, roasting, glowing, sparkling, and serving were taken by my cousin Grant -- we swapped cameras for the afternoon and I lent him my 50mm lens, and he did a fantastic job! Thanks Grant!! :-) .
November 10 on 10: Daily Grind
So I decided to do 10 on 10 this month, which is a photo challenge where, on the 10th day of each month, you take one picture each hour for ten consecutive hours. I got the idea from Kim's September post, but I opted to skip October because, while it was a weekend, I spent most of the day studying. →
We’re a bunch of mixed nuts
I'm dredging a few more pictures out of my archive of old pictures -- these date back to December of 2003 (aka my point-and-shoot-and-I-didn't-know-what-I-was-doing days.) I took these at Pike Place Market when I was up visiting my family for Christmas. I enjoy visiting the market pretty much at any time of year, but there's something fun about going there →
Good anytime, but best in chilly weather
I try to keep up with photo processing/post-processing, but sometimes despite my best efforts, I get behind. I honestly don't even do that much with my pictures. I rarely use Photoshop, and most of my post-processing is limited to adjusting for white balance and sharpness and maybe contrast/saturation, but that's it. The problem is that I take so darn →
All sorts of autumn-y goodness
I've been keeping an eye on the trees for signs of fall color, but so far I'm only seeing bits and pieces here and there. I know though that any day now, I'm going to wake up and walk out of my front door, and the trees on my street will be red and orange and gold and glowing in →
The beauty of mundanity
I'm not much for collecting things and letting them sit there -- I'm all about usefulness. So I collect camera lenses (er, kind of an expensive collection) and stamps in my passport (well, so's that one.) And while these may be useful (to me, anyway) they're not necessarily all that practical. But my third collection is one I use daily →
[Homer Simpson voice] “Mmmm, beer.”
This isn't actually my beer, as I'm not much of a drinker, but this is the first official (after numerous crappy, quickly-deleted false starts) picture with my NEW CAMERA!! I have to confess that I'm not wildly in love with it yet, but that's only because it's a BIG step up from my old camera, and I'm still trying to →
Thirsty yet?
So today John and I took a friend of ours out to lunch for his birthday. Somehow this turned into a business lunch, with occasional forays into the political, and so when I wasn't rolling my eyes, I was playing with the condensation on my water glass. Then I decided John's iced tea glass was far more interesting... and out →
When going to work on time means going in late
One of the things I absolutely love about my job is its flexibility. Part of it is the nature of the job, and part of it is the way that, over the past two years I’ve worked there, I’ve managed to craft my duties and schedule around what I want, rather than having to keep to a →
Euro Trip Day 45: Nuremburg, or Nuremburg, or Nürnberg, or Nuernberg. Several spellings, one city.
I'm trying to play catch up on posts here, so bear with me. :-) ****** On Monday morning, July 19th, we got up, went and availed ourselves of our free breakfast at our hotel, and got our stuff packed to head to the train station. At this point in time, we have packing down to a science. We LONG ago dispensed with the →
Euro Trip Day 40: Getting to indulge my love of Gothic cathedrals AND geology, all in the same day!
AKA, Why I'm the biggest nerd EVER. :-) On Wednesday we headed up to Prague Castle to check out St. Vitus Cathedral, a HUGE Gothic cathedral. Now, I've known since my freshman year of high school in Spanish class, when we learned about Santiago de Compostela in Spain, that I've been fascinated by cathedral architecture. But if I've learned one thing →
Euro Trip Day 29: Art is long, life is brief.
I'm writing this post quickly because I need to get ready so we can head up to Buda Castle Hill to Matyas Church, where I'm going to a Latin high mass at 10AM. Neat! (I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it here before, but one of my goals this trip is to go to church in every country. I missed Bosnia, →
Euro Trip Day 26: Last stamp day of the trip :-(
Today was our last stamp day of the trip, and I'm oddly sad about it. Honestly, I should have realized it'd be when we crossed into Hungary, but I just wasn't thinking about it. What's a stamp day? It's any day I get a new stamp in my passport. Technically, this isn't even a NEW stamp, since I already have one →
Euro Trip Day 24: In which we ponder why the Balkans only has two kinds of breakfast cereal
You know it was a REALLY slow day if I'm talking about breakfast cereal. As much as I like Zagreb so far, today we ran into a problem that we encountered in Dublin. Namely, that virtually NO museums are open on Mondays. They open on Sundays for a whopping THREE HOURS, but Mondays? Closed. The only one that was open today →
Euro Trip Day 15: Another slow day, and I'm not complaining
Before I start my post, I have a question. Who the heck are all of you people? I just glanced at my site stats, and I had 185 page views yesterday. Now I know that in the grand scheme of blogs and things, that that's not a huge amount, but considering my average page view count hovers around 40-50 →