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Retro-Photography Update
April 10th, 2009, No Comments
I posted a while back about my experiences repairing and using a Bencini Comet S 127 film camera. Since then I’ve acquired a few more interesting old cameras. One is an Argus C, an American 35mm camera made in 1938. I bought it at an estate sale for $10. The Argus C series cameras were [...]
Advogato and Syndicated Blogs
March 4th, 2009, No Comments
Over on Advogato, cdfrey asked whether syndicated blogs were good or bad for the recentlog. He asked whether the authors who allow their blogs to be syndicated into Advogato’s recentlog stream actually stop by to read the recentlog anymore. I’m sure some of them don’t but I’m equally sure some of them do. In any [...]
Adventures in Retro Photography
February 4th, 2009, No Comments
Susan and I frequent estate sales these days. For my part, I’m usually looking for interesting metal objects and potential robot parts. Occasionally, I see something I’m not looking for that’s weird or interesting enough that I have to buy it. That was the case recently when I spotted a Bencini Comet S 127 film [...]
Merry Christmas
December 26th, 2008, No Comments
Another Christmas has come and gone. On Christmas Eve Susan cooked a pot roast in the traditional style I grew up with. The meat came from a small order we placed with Dominion Farms, a local organic farming operation. All their animals are fed natural diets, no hormones or antibiotics. The meat was really tasty, [...]
Thanksgiving weekend
November 30th, 2008, No Comments
On Thursday we had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at our house. In addition to Susan and myself, my brother Randy and a friend of his attended. After eating turkey and dressing, we played a dominoes game called Mexican Train that’s perfect for holidays since it can takes hours to complete. In the evening Susan and [...]
National Novel Writing Month
November 11th, 2008, No Comments
It seems like everyone I know is writing novels this month as part of the National Novel Writing Month event. The idea is that you write a 50,000 word first draft during November. You have to start from scratch on or after the first and you have to upload the finished work by Nov 30. [...]
REMEMBER TO VOTE TODAY!
November 4th, 2008, No Comments
If you’re in the US, this is the last day to vote. I voted last week during the early voting period. We’ve got two good choices this year and either one is so much better than what we’ve had for the last eight years, that there will be cause to celebrate tomorrow. This is the [...]
Austin Maker Faire 2008
October 26th, 2008, No Comments
The Austin Maker Faire was last weekend and I was there, of course. I got a different view of it than last year because I spent part of the time as a maker. I helped out at the Dallas Personal Robotics Group table, where we showed off a variety of a small robots. We had [...]
