There is no knowing the Evil Eyebrow
For my birthday this year I bought myself some more camera equipment. Specifically a Canon 600 EX-RT Speedlite, the Canon ST-E3-RT radio transmitter that goes with it, and some various accoutrements. ((Rechargeable batteries, rechargeable battery recharger, light stand, light stand flash/umbrella/gimbal hanger-on-thingy.)) This begins my descent into the special hell that is known as flash …
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Griffin, Jenn and I played with my camera equipment today.
A long time ago I bought one of the first versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking. Or whatever it was called at the time. This was 1997. I remember trying it out and being frustrated by the fact I had to train it to understand my speech. Fast forward to 2010 when I got my first …
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As I mentioned last week, I am transitioning from my old job to a new one. I start the Tuesday after Labor day, which is five short days from now. For the time being, I’m staying home, spending time with Jenn and with Griffin. I’m doing some prep-work for the new job, but mostly that involves …
Like several of our friends have done, we’ll be taking pictures of Griffin over time in order to display a sense of growth. In order to scale him, we have the wonderful cuddly monkey that Jess gifted to him. The monkey does an excellent job taking care of Griffin while we’re not watching. More images …
Today is my last day at Moreland Altobelli. I started back in April of 2009 and it’s been an adventure and then some. I was the project manager of the first-in-Georgia, award-winning Ashford Dunwoody Diverging Diamond Interchange; I conducted a number of traffic studies that led to other important projects being constructed; I built signals and recommended …
Yesterday, on a whim, I checked out the Wikipedia article on Unicode. I have seen the terms “UTF-8” and “UTF-16” and “Unicode” for years but I didn’t have much idea what all that meant. This tweet emerged from my reading: I just skimmed the Wikipedia article for Unicode and came to the realization that I …
Griffin came home from the hospital yesterday. We had the first day and night at home. The day was easy, the night was less so, simply because we’d spent three days getting used to taking care of him at the hospital with all the equipment, chairs, tables, etc. that were there. Now we have to …
If you’ve been following my Twitter stream, or looking at Flickr, or receiving texted images over the last few days, you will have met the birthing team. Of most importance, of course, is Jenn and Griffin, and I had some small role in helping out, but let me introduce you to Jessica Stansel and Jacob …
There are more images loaded up at the Griffin Ruhsam Flickr set. Here are a sample. As always, updates are most easily found at my Twitter stream.