The Amazon.com shopping screen filters have a missing item when searching for camera lenses: no “Prime” ((Also called “Fixed” although that can be confused with a fixed aperture)). 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. Some prime lenses …
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Grandma(s) Came to Visit
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 seem to have put up any of Grandma Brooke’s visit on Flickr, so I can’t …
Lantern Idea
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 image. The little glowy-green sphere is Creeper. Minecraft is a wonderfully fun and addictive game …
Grice Consulting Group
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. ((The most interesting part of this story was when I came by to drop off my paperwork and the accounting manager asked me, “Are you the new VP?” That …
DragonCon 2013
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 this DragonCon and go to WorldCon in San Antonio, instead. Alas, a certain someone put …
Richat Structure
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 the Sahara. It’s pretty cool.