Monthly Archives: September 2013

The Amazon.com shopping screen filters have a missing item when searching for camera lenses: no “Prime”1. You can’t search by prime lens. (i.e., those lenses that aren’t “zoom”.) Any lens that has only one focal length is a prime lens. … Continue reading →

Griffin had the opportunity to entertain two different grandmothers over the last several weeks. First we had Grandma Brooke who was here at the end of August, and then Grandma Ruhsam who was here just this past weekend. I don’t … Continue reading →

This image I took at the Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade last Saturday has inspired me to do a lantern for next year. Notably, a Creeper from Minecraft. The reason for the inspiration can be seen in the left-center of the … Continue reading →

As of last Tuesday, I have a new position with Grice Consulting Group. I am the Director of Traffic with the official title of Vice President.1 I will be running the traffic engineering practice from my new office in Midtown … Continue reading →

Jennifer and I took ourselves and Griffin to DragonCon yesterday. It’s been our standard Labor Day weekend activity since 2005. This year was going to be a bit different as we’d decided last year that we were going to skip … Continue reading →

Thanks to Astronaut Karen Nyberg I now know about this fascinating geological formation: The "Eye of the Sahara" in Mauritania, Africa. August 28. pic.twitter.com/PMsRjtgtMv — Karen L. Nyberg (@AstroKarenN) September 1, 2013 The Richat Structure is in Mauritania, surrounded by … Continue reading →