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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Damn, you Ice Cream truck!
It seems lately that that my neighborhood has been bombarded by Ice Cream trucks. You really can’t miss them - at least by sound. That silly musical bonging playing the same thing over and over and over. The thing of it is, I’m outside working, listening to this thing go up and down one block […]
No Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows?, rant by ralph
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Canon T1i review
I bought the Canon Digital Rebel T1i, the 10-22mm Canon lens and the 70-200 F4 L lens + 1.4 extender, along with the kit lens, 18-55mm.
Having previously owed the original digital Canon Rebel, I found my T1i to be light years ahead of the original. But I was expecting that, having researched things so completely, […]
No Comments » - Posted in pictures, zoo, review by ralph
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Meta Phography Equipment Review - Canon focus
def: meta Something of a higher or second-order kind - AskOxford.com
Or, this is a review about review sites. Specifically, photography equipment review sites.
First some talk about where I’m coming from. I’m an intermediate skill-level photographer that recently had most of my equipment stolen. I had a Tamron 28-200mm lens from my film days that was […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Computers, pictures, internet, review by ralph
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Flower of the Day out of Nowwhere
Little story behind this picture. I’ve had this mystery plant popping up a few leaves in my rock garden for about 5 years now - I think it showed up as a hanger on with one of my purchased plants. Every year, it popped out a few long leaves from a bulb, then it would […]
2 Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows?, pictures by ralph
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Wacom Tabet saving my wrist so far this spring
I got a Wacom tablet this spring to help stave off carpel tunnel on my mousing wrist. I was expecting to use it only for drawing site maps, where the continual mousing all day drawing was becoming a strain. I have yet to draw much with it but I find that I’m using it more […]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers, review by ralph
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
1TB External eSATA/USB unit @ $150
‘Ya know, having to buy computer stuff for work means you end up buying a lot more stuff for yourself. But based on the previous 2 days happenings, I think I have a pretty good excuse. Besides, $150/TB of external HDD goodness seems like a good deal, but what do I know? I don’t follow […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Computers, review by ralph
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Madly waving the Rubber Chicken to Kill Bad Computer Mojo
The title sums it up for you non-computer types. For the rest of you, long, nerdy, techy rant follows.
It all started with a RAM upgrade about two months ago. It wasn’t something I was looking forward to, since I moved my main computer to a CPU rack attached as part of my desk. the CPU […]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers, rant by ralph
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
If I was King of the World
So let’s pretend I was King of the World. One day, the people’s representative comes to me with a problem
Person’s Representative (PR): King, we have a problem. The kids these days are too irresponsible and we want to change the legal age they are allowed to do certain things.
King Ralph (KR): Eh? So right now […]
1 Comment » - Posted in WhoKnows?, The system, Podium by ralph
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Random tomfoolery
Farewell emails in this recession era are one of those things where people have gotten bitten by technology they don’t fully understand. First of all, why, oh why do companies give there employees the ability to send globally in the first place? As a rule of thumb, if you can’t remember the name of every […]
2 Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows?, Food, internet, rant by ralph
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Really Good Tiki Bar TV interview with the Doctor
Check out this interview with Jeff Macpherson, creator and the Doctor in Tiki Bar TV. Lots of interesting stuff I didn’t know about the show. Nice to see one of my favorite podcasts starting to figure out how to make money. He points out something interesting in that it’s hard to hire people to edit […]
