Author: jedreynolds
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Simple LDL Measurements Are Meaningless
Recent research shows that different types of LDL pose different risks. I hadn’t know previously that LDL was classified by “small” and “large” particles. However, lots of articles that have been published through the Weston A. Price Foundation journal Wise Traditions have long claimed there is no correlation between high LDL and heart attack risk. There…
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Great gobs of FAIL from Amazon
Here’s a great write-up of the Amazon-Macmillan fight. I hadn’t realized how lame Amazon came out in this event.
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010 Call For Presenters
At LinuxFest Northwest 2010 I’m going to be presenting on Apache rewrites and MySQL Performance again this year. I see mostly professional level talks posted. I wonder if there will be user-level sessions posted, too? I was considering doing a session on using Gimp. (Think I’m qualified?) I will bring my hackey-sack and ride my…
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Bricks, Bellingham, 2010-01-18
I like the texture of the bricks and I knew I could bring out their color. Print version.
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Water Lid, 2010-01-26
This banal piece of rugged hardware has a very strong design. This is an experiment to bring out that bold design. If you’d like a bigger file to print out, please ask.
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It was a good day for cycling!
I hauled furniture in the kid trailer today. I saw a wonderful sunset illuminating Mt Baker from Aldrich Rd. on the way home. Yes, I did Aldrich Rd with a bike trailer. I did not walk up any hills.
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Stones, Squalicum Beach, 2009-01-26
It was cold and rainy. However, I needed to talk a walk. I recall that this walk I had the back of my camera dripping wet from the fog condensing onto my beard. My gloves were soaked, and my jacket sleeves were starting to soak thru into my shirt. But I had my new camera!…
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Steam Locomotive, Perris, California, 2008
This was a fun trip, but it was hot and all my photos from there were immensely bright and contrasty. I felt like I spent a small eternity comparing the quality of this photo to other photos of locomotive wheels where the grays were smooth and rich … and it dawned on me that I…
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Sweat Pea, Seattle, 2009-07-25
I love the Gimp. Tonight’s experiment was producing good looking newsprint, and using layer masks. I think I’m getting this layer mask technique. If you’d like to get a print of this, please let me know, I’d love to hear from you.
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