Category: fun
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Eloise in Snow White at Firehouse Theater
You can tell it was very dark in there. But she knew her part very well.
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Happy Penguins at LinuxFest Northwest 2014 Party
I felt like I had a lot of camera issues at the start (which first was needing to go back home in order to retrieve all my SD cards, pppt.) Indoor pictures are always difficult, and as such, to make these look less like snapshots, I squirted a lot of Sriracha on these. Here are…
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Give childhood back to children: if we want our offspring to have happy, productive and moral lives, we must allow more time for play, not less – Comment – Voices – The Independent
I think many teachers and parents would agree. “…a common Chinese term used to refer to the products of their schools is gaofen dineng, which essentially means good at tests but bad at everything else.” via Give childhood back to children: if we want our offspring to have happy, productive and moral lives, we must…
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2014-01-01 Skagit Preserve Heron [wide desktop]
Sometimes you just come away with all blurry photos. This is a shot to do properly I should have rigged a tripod with a 15lb weight with. However, I was just going with a monopod and leaning against a fence. Using a Pentax K10D, 300m 1/250@f/5 lens, this shot metered about ~2/3 stop under and…
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Lionel Train Board
I assembled the planks with 3/8 screw-eyes and zip ties. I didn’t want to attempt sawing any tongue-in-grove joints (that would have taken forever).
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DIY Lionel Train Track Power
I could not find the O-gauge track clip that allows you to interface with the transformer, so I got some copper wire soldered on there. I later secured the leads with another zip tie down to the black plastic base and then wrapped the wire tabs with electrical tape. The wire tabs I made sure…
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