November 30, 2006
Pass It On
There are precious few times in life when I feel truly clever, tonight (eerrrr, make that this morning), however, happens to be one of this times.
A few days ago I saw a cool little addition on a blog that I was reading. Basically, it was a little automatic set of links that allowed readers a simple way to submit the blog post to all the various social networking sites, like Digg and del.icio.us.
I instantly decided that I simply must have this feature on my journal! (If for nothing else than figuring out how it worked from a technical standpoint.) A quick scan of Movable Type plug-ins on the Six-Apart website turned up an interesting plug-in called "Promote This!", which appeared to add just the functionality that I was looking for.
The installation instructions were sparse and thank goodness I knew about the little addition that's required for running MT cgi scripts on Version 5.0 of Microsoft's IIS server (Linux users may stop snickering now!):
use File::Basename;
use File::Spec;
use lib File::Spec->catdir(dirname($0), "lib");
(Trust me, that's vital information right there!)
Anyhow, after a little fiddling around, I got the plug-in up and mostly running, one of the news service links didn't work and there were 3 services that I wanted to add to the list.
So, after taking a deep breath, I jumped head first into the actual PERL script of the plug-in. You must understand, of course, that I know almost nothing about PERL, but after swimming around in code for a little bit the basic structure of the plug-in started to make sense.
In the end I was actually able to correct the problem with the NewsVine link and add the 3 services I was interested in: Linkroll, StumbleUpon and BlogMarks.
Pretty sweet for somebody with no functional PERL coding experience! I passed the updated version to the original author of "Promote This", here's hoping that the updated version goes public!
In the meantime, if you visit permalinks for my posts you will find a new section called "Pass It On", which, if you deem an article to be of worth, you can use to instantly submit the article to your favorite service.
Thanks and Enjoy!
Mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism Solved!
After having set for decades, this strange lump of bronze salvaged by a sponge diver off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera was finally recognized by an archaeologist as some kind of analog computer a number of years ago.
What's the big deal? Bronze clockwork mechanisms are pretty common, after all. Well, this particular "computer" happened to be over 2,000 years old, having come from the wreck of a Roman vessel from around 65 BCE.
What is even more amazing is that this mechanism had over 80 parts, including differential gears which were previously thought to have been invented in the 16th century.
After years of painstaking research, including x-rays and hi-resolution surface scans, the purpose of this device has finally been revealed; it's actually a very accurate device for measuring the movement of astronomical bodies, such as the sun and moon through the phases of the zodiac. As well, the device allows for the precise prediction of eclipses and accounts for the first lunar anomaly, which is an irregularity in the orbit of the moon.
Read the full article here. (This article contains an irregularity of it's own, stating that an astronomer named Hipparcus of Rhodes discovered the first lunar anomaly in the 2nd century BCE and that some scientists believe that he my have been consulted in the design of the device. However, the same article suggests that the device was constructed between 150 and 100 BCE, a good century before Hipparcus would have been around to consult with, strange!)
I have often wondered how close the ancient world was to a full blown industrial revolution, we'll never know for sure, but I think it may have been a lot closer than most people suspect! Imagine where we would be today if digital computer technology had been invented 2000 years ago!
November 29, 2006
No Comment
I categorically deny any knowledge of the events which inspired Draxenn’s latest Grumbleduke episode of A Jagged Mind.
Discover Manitoulin
About a gazillion years ago (in 'net time at least) I used to moderate a tiny forum as part of my Manitoulin Link website. It was powered by an older PERL BBS system called the "Mr. Fong Device" that was basically a customized version of WWWboard put out by the now defunct CyberArmy. Looking back, this was actually my first foray into working with dynamic web content. The final result was fairly successful, however, I was forced to change web hosts somewhere along the line, which caused a technical issue with old Mr. Fong that I just wasn't savvy enough to correct.
I had always meant to find a replacement, but just never seemed to find the time, until now! (Drum roll, please...)
Introducing the new "Discover Manitoulin Forum", powered by a narfy PHP script called SMF (Simple Machines Forum). It's elegant, powerful and very easy to set up and configure!
Hopefully this new forum will become the happening spot for residents (full and part time), as well as visitors to discuss their favorite freshwater island!
November 28, 2006
Etsy.com
I had a bit of a 180 with the design concept for my Art of Chainmail website this weekend, I decided to put all my renovations on hold and go with a complete minimalist outlook. Basically, I just wanted to focus on the two things that are important to me right now: my chainmail jewelry work and my books.
Part of my new design philosophy was to start listing my jewelry on Etsy.com. I had been eying Etsy for some time; it's basically a very cool web 2.0 (be sure to check out their cool Time Machine and Geolocator tools) version of Ebay that is exclusively for handcrafters.
So, please check out the new Art of Chainmail and my jewelry on Etsy and let me know what you think!
November 24, 2006
Wizpy
I love music, my personal playlist spans somewhere over 2,000 (which actually isn't that many, compared to some, for example, I have repaired customer computers that contained well over 8,000 ,mp3s!). I listen to music constantly while I work at my computer and really enjoy listening to music while I drive (every good road trip needs a soundtrack). However, I am pretty fussy about what I listen to, not that I'm close-minded to new music (if it's good), which means that I really prefer listening to selected songs, as opposed to the limited selection present on commercial radio (not like we even have access to that many radio stations on the Island and don't even get me started on my objections to paying a monthly fee to listen to satellite radio).
Which means that when I am out and about I am limited to the few tracks I can burn onto CD-R compilation and listen to in my car's CD player. All of this means that I'm a total 'natch for owning a portable MP3 player, however, I still live an MP3 player free lifestyle, why?
The answer is simple: I really don't like any of the MP3 Players on the market. First of all, you can automatically strike out any el cheapo model from questionable manufacturers. This leaves about four brands: Apple's iPod, Microsoft's Zune, Creative's Zen and Sandisk's Sansa.
Let's start with the "big dawg" on the block: Apple's iPod. The long and short of it is that I will never forgive Apple for dumping the Apple II line in favour of Macintosh. A lot of Apple II users, including myself, were left out in the cold with thousands of dollars (back in the 80's and 90's thousands of dollars meant more than today) worth of equipment that was now functionally useless due to Apple's non-support.
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November 22, 2006
Let's Get Ready to Grrrrrrrrrrrruuuuumble!
One of my favorite shared running gags with my good buddy Draxenn involves a very mighty, boisterous and forgetful warrior-type character that we dubbed “the Grumbleduke”, after an obscure reference from the “Witchsmeller” episode of the original Black Adder
series.
Among other things, the Grumbleduke is rather fond of biscuits, mistaking anyone with a lute for a Minstrel he once knew named “Sam” (an even older running gag) and making many grand pronouncements that end with “so mote it be” or “and that is the way of things”. (Basically, the goofy sort of thing that you get up to when you stay up all night talking on IM to your friend that works graveyards at a call centre).
Well, at one time we had a grand idea that we’d do a sort of collaboration comic strip, with Draxenn supplying the characters, myself supplying backgrounds and a storyline that we’d both work on. Unfortunately the project never got going, however, Draxenn has just resurrected the dormant Grumbleduke as a new recurring character in his “A Jagged Mind” comic strip! Yay!
And, just for fun, here is an ancient test panel that we created for the Grumbleduke ages ago, character by Draxenn, background by Dylon and dialog stolen from an episode of Father Ted
entitled “Tentacles of Doom”.
Road Warrior
Ok, so it looks like something out of a Mad Max movie, but this is actually one of the most advanced and energy efficient motorcycles to become commercially available.
It’s actually designed to run on either pure vegetable oil or diesel and has an incredible amount of torque.
Now, if I could just figure out how to strap client computers onto the back for a motorcycle…. Oh ya, hafta figure out how to drive one in the snow and ice of winter… hmmmm… Well, back to the drawing board for me!
November 19, 2006
Stumbling Along the Artist’s Path
Recently I received an email from an artist that visited my dad about 14 years ago. It’s funny to remember “the old days”, growing up with all sorts of people dropping in to visit our home and talk to dad about art. Life is so different now, living with Audrey and the cats and taking great comfort in the fact that (thankfully) hardly anyone ever drops in!
Anyhow, this artist has a cool blog (that I’m adding to my Allies) with tons and tons of different art links, lots of stuff that you wouldn’t normally come across just surfing the ‘net at random. His site is part of Stumbleupon.com, a fun site that’s actually dedicated to helping people find all those weird and wonderful sites.
I also wanted to mention that my father has an art show coming up (or on now, we’re not sure) at the Lennox Contemporary Gallery in Toronto.
Sérgio Artigas
This art blog belongs to a cool ‘net friend from Brazil that does some amazing illustrations. I got to know him while discussing some technical points of chainmail for his fantasy illustrations.
November 18, 2006
Hitori Hanzo Steel
The most beautiful piece of metalwork that I have ever seen in my entire life was a 14th century Japanese sword. Through a pair of acquaintances I managed to gain an “audience” with a very interesting gentleman here on the island, who, at the time, was the president of the Japanese Sword Society of Canada, under the auspices of delivering groceries from the local health food store where I was employed at the time.
The gentlemen in question knew about my work with chainmail and interest in blacksmithing, so showed me many, many, beautiful swords that afternoon, but there is one that I remember with perfect clarity. It was from the 14th century and was what he referred to as a “100 point” sword, meaning that on a scale of 1 to 100, it was considered “perfect” (I am sorry to report that I can’t remember the maker’s name).
He allowed me to hold the sword (which had just returned from 2 years in Japan, where it had been expertly polished) at certain angles in the sunlight, so that various details of the pattern-welded blade could be observed. This kind of blade is made from layers of low and high carbon steel, welded together and folded in layers (no easy feat, as low and high carbon steel have different optimal working temperatures). The softer, low carbon steel is used for the back of the blade, where flexibility is required. The harder, high carbon steel is used for the edge of the blade, where it is suited to holding the sharpest edge possible.
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New York to Seattle…
…one heck of a road trip, tons of pictures (and loads of blue tape!)
Solid State Storage
Over the past few months I have come across various articles about the amazing technical advancements being made in the area of high speed solid state storage. Basically, the technology that powers the flash memory cards we all use in our digital cameras today is moving forward at breakneck speed. The eventual outcome will sound the death toll for mechanical hard drives, as they are replaced by solid state flash drives. The first solid state drives will make their debut in laptop computers, as they are very energy efficient operate without creating nearly as much heat as a mechanical drive.
It’s amazing to consider that in the early 90’s, during a tour of the CBC building in downtown Toronto, I was allowed a glimpse of a 9 gigabyte hard drive that was the size of a small freezer and yet, here I am today, barely a decade later and my home computer has over 100 times as much storage in a space of less than half a cubic foot!
Mother of All Road Trips
This is possibly one of the longest and most stylish road trips that I have ever read about. Imagine going over 20,000 miles in a pair of Ferrari 599 GTB Fioranos! Of course, this sort of thing only comes about when it’s sponsored by a mega-oil company, which means that I don’t think this really qualifies as a road trip as defined by the "true spirit of road trippin’", but it’s still pretty cool in its own way!
Adventures of Ange
I just remembered that I ran into the mother of a friend from the local Farmers’ Markets, who is travelling in Europe through an organization called WWOOF (World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms).
She’s a pretty amazing young lady to venture overseas by herself, I have always been impressed by the art she brought to the local markets and I totally miss her coffee-laden cookies! (Some mornings that extra jolt of sugar and caffeine really got me through the day!)
You just have to admire anyone willing to go on a grand adventure, please enjoy the “Adventures of Ange”, the newest addition to my Allies.
(BTW, there are actually tons of excellent adventure blogs on the main Travellerspoint Travel Community website!)
Mega PixPix
Well, I finally took the plunge and picked up a digital SLR camera to replace my Nikon S4, which I loved dearly, but which gave me nothing but grief when it came to photographing jewelry for the website update I'm working on.
My choice of SLR was a Nikon D70s. I had originally avoided the D70, as it was only a 3.2 megapixel camera, but the D70s has been bumped up to 6.1 megapixels, which is just dandy for my purposes. I also checked out a Nikon D80, which has 10.2 megapixel sensor and maximum ISO of 3200, compared to the D70s, which has a maximum ISO of 1600, but found that I actually preferred the less expensive D70s.
I also picked up a Sandisk Extreme IV 2GB Compact Flash Card. At the highest resolution this allows the D70s to hold nearly 600 images and apparently the rechargeable lithium-ion battery that comes with the camera is good for up to 2500 shots on a single charge!
The camera came with a nice starter lens, which I eagerly traded with a Nikon-enthusiast buddy for a very nice general purpose/macro lens.
Being my first real SLR, I am still exploring all the various options, but here are a couple of sample shots from this afternoon. Black's Photo has a great 15 day return policy, so I want to make sure that I am completely happy with the results!
This is a test shot of on of my signature bracelets; it's European 10 in 1 pattern in stainless steel.
One of the inherent problems of translating my successful market business to the 'net is the lack of tactile feedback (website browsers simply won't be able to experience the "feel" of my work). So I feel that really top notch photographs are an absolute must. They have to convey "elegance", "sexiness", "beauty" and a whole lot more in a single glance! Which, can be quite the task for someone like myself, who is about a million miles away from being a professional photographer.
This is a mouse skeleton that my dad found inside a piece of limestone from the south shore of the Island. (Limestone from this region naturally forms deep pits, like this one, making it the über-swiss-cheese of the sedimentary rock set.)
As much as I will miss the flexibility of the S4's twisting body (which I sold to a friend to partially finance the D70), I am already falling in love with shear sexiness and power of the D70s!
Time for bed (with visions of exposures and f-stops dancing in my head), I have to be up early for the "Christmas Shopping Spree" at the Manitoulin Secondary School in M'Chigeeng!
November 17, 2006
I am 100% percent sure that I have no idea what that is...
I just came across this interesting little site called “This Is Broken”, due to a post about a subject that had always cracked me up, which is textiles that are labelled as “100% Unknown Fibres”. (I mean, come on, someone, somewhere must know what the heck these fabrics and yarns are made out of!)
Anyhow, this site is a kind of journal where people post pictures and stories about consumer products, signs, instructions and other things in our society that are just plain “broken”. Well worth checking out for a chuckle or two!
November 16, 2006
Epicureal
A new category of blog posts related to good food and drink!
Classic IQ
The Classic IQ Test
Congratulations, Dylon!
Your IQ score is (Censored)
This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.
Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns. And that's just some of what we know about you from your IQ results.
Rorschach Test
Tickle's Original Inkblot Test
Dylon, your subconscious mind is driven most by Curiosity.
You are full of questions about life, people, and your own potential. You spend more time than others imagining the possibilities for your life — and you're open to things others are too afraid to consider.
You have an almost physical need to know and do more. It's only through new experiences that you feel a greater understanding of yourself and the world. You also have a rebellious streak that shows up when you feel unable to truly influence the world or circumstances around you. Your appetite for novel experiences also shows an openness others don't have, but wish they did.
Your psyche is very rich; the more you learn about it, the more you will understand who you really are.
Dylon Whyte, At the Movies
1. Popcorn or candy? Both, real butter for the popcorn, for candy, it depends on my mood, Sugar Babies are always a good choice! (Twizzlers too, mmmm and Milk Duds and Peanut Butter Cups... Oh, uh Hello, my name is Dylon and I'm a sugar addict...) Of course, sometimes it's good to mix the candy with popcorn! (YUM!)
2. Name a movie you've been meaning to see forever. Terry Gillium's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
".
3. You are given the power to recall one Oscar: Who loses theirs and to whom? 2006 best picture "Crash" would be recalled and given to "SFrank Miller's Sin City (Recut, Extended, Unrated)
". (and the best actor award to Marv while I was at it!)
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November 14, 2006
Road Trippin'
Our clocks have fallen back, which means that darker days are indeed drawing nearer and the winter winds are much colder. Which means that a young boy’s fancy soon turns to thoughts of road tripping! What better way to escape all the flying snow then driving to warmer climbs as fast as possible?
The first 2 weeks of last October (that is, October of 2005) is probably the longest pure road trip I have ever taken, the first leg took Audrey (she’s very good with maps) and myself out to the Grand Canyon, via Colorado and Utah, then back home via what’s left of the infamous route 66.
Over the next while I will do my best to recall the highlights of that particular and other road trips as a little extra nudge to help out folks that may be thinking about hitting the road, but haven’t taken the plunge.
One of the best ways to get the road trip juices following is a little light reading. I recommend “The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road
” as good inspiration. It’s light, fluffy and very funny! Just don’t get too inspired!
Add a some tunes, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and you two will be ready to hit the road with your two favorite allies (the answer is yes), just don’t forget the snacks and supplies!
Road trippin' with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It's time to leave this town
It's time to steal away
Let's go get lost
Anywhere in the U.S.A.
Let's go get lost
Let's go get lost
Chorus:
Blue you sit so pretty
West of the one
Sparkles light with yellow icing
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
So much as come before those battles lost and won
This life is shining more forever in the sun
Now let us check our heads
And let us check the surf
Staying high and dry's
More trouble than it's worth
In the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
In Big Sur we take some time to linger on
We three hunky dory's got our snakefinger on
Now let us drink the stars
It's time to steal away
Let's go get lost
Right here in the U.S.A
Let's go get lost
Let's go get lost
Blue you sit so pretty
West of the one
Yellow icing just a mirror for the sun
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
Your smiling eyes are just a mirror for
November 13, 2006
Ultimate Air Guitar...
...no strings attached (literally!) .
Air Guitar T-Shirt
War of the Surreal Worlds
Start with the distinctive voice of Richard Burton:
"No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. That we were be scrutinized as someone with a microscope watches creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us."
Next insert a thunderous string arrangement and you have the opening of a rather unusual rock opera (and one of my favorite LPs of all time) from 1978: "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds
".
I was introduced to this album (yes, album) when I was very young because my father was probably the biggest Moody Blues fan in the world. He was always sitting me down with a pair of ancient headphones stuck to the sides of my head to listen to the Moody's or War of the Worlds, which we were lucky enough to have a cassette tape copy of, although, later, we also gained a copy of the album insert from some unknown source.
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November 12, 2006
Better be Good to Me When I'm Going the Distance
A few months ago I was really bored for some entertainment so I rented a vapid little flick called “Going the Distance
”, one of this silly National Lampoon films, co-produced by Much Music.
I really didn’t expect much beyond a few cheap laughs based on all today’s easiest gag material (like sex and mary jane) and in the end that’s pretty much all I got.
One thing that did catch my attention was a musical interlude where one of the main characters, Sasha, played by Newfoundland native Joanne Kelly did a really rockin’ cover of Tina Turner“’s Better Be Good to Me”.
Now, I have a pretty big soft spot for Newfie ladies, so I was really curious to find out if Ms. Kelly had actually done her own singing for this scene (which I’m very sure she did not) and if not, who’s voice was it?
Well, I never did come up with an answer for my question, but (in typical form) I did find out about another very interesting musician: Holly Knight, co-writer of “Better Be Good to Me”.
Holly Knight is seems is actually a pretty famous classically-trained singer/songwriter, having penned dozens of well known tunes.
The thing that really stuck me though, was that Holly Knight had writren about a dozen of my favorite songs, including, but not limited to:
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
Invincible - Pat Benatar
Ragdoll - Aerosmith
Love Touch – Rod Stewart
The Warrior – Patty Smyth
Obsession – Animotion
I Pledge Allegiance To The State Of Rock and Roll - KISS
and the Theme for the TV Show "Angel".
As another odd coincidence, I share the same birth date with both Pat Benatar and Rod Stewert.
Go figure!
The Scarebear as Art
The final piece of old data:
My father, Jack Whyte, created this piece of collage art after my costume called "The Scarebear". The piece of art is physically 5" x 7". It was given to me as an X-mas present in 1995.
(No, I was never influenced by Robert E. Howard pulp fiction or Jack Whyte books!)
The Lair...
Whilst cleaning up my old website, I came across the following description of myself, it's still pretty accurate (Note: that my website was formally called Kusari Kahn's Lair):
Welcome brave ones! Here is everything you've probably been wondering about your host and maybe more...
Hmmm, I don't think that this is truly "my" lair. It is more the lair of my passions and my imagination. Besides, being a flesh and blood Homo Sapiens Cyborg makes it rather hard to physically inhabit cyberspace...
Just what are my passions? Well, let's see, there's chainmail, history, surreal art, strange music, passing on knowledge and much, much more.
It seems that for every one of my passions I have a different name. The Lair is designed to introduce you to a few of them...
My main name here in Cyberspace is Kusari Kahn...
My Meatspace Name is Dylon Whyte...
Kusari is the Japanese word for Chain. I have been told that I am "Kusari no Yoroi Tsukarijin" or Literally Maker of Chain Armour, but as you can see I make a lot more than just Mail... I earned the "Kahn" from my days as an Orcish General, in the lands of Azeroth, as depicted in WarCraft 2...
I make more than Mail of course... I like to combine my knowledge of Black-Smithing, Armouring and Surreal Art with my Imagination...
My imagination is inspired by many Things : Computer and Paper RPGs (Role-Playing Games), Far more British Sitcoms than is normally considered Mentally Healthy (I was once told that I was to stop watching Monty Python immediately as it would ruin my sense of humour), Movies and Theatre, Music, History, Myths, Legends and too much Robert E. Howard pulp fiction...
Moosetape®
Moosetape® is an ancient joke from my early days on the undernet's #SCA IRC channel.
Moose Tape® - the Adhesive Strip Miracle of the Next Millenium!
Midi Asylum
The “Midi Asylum” is a simple page from my old Art of Chainmail website that I wanted to convert over so that it wasn’t lost when I complete my AOC renovation. It contains a midi track that my father and I created for a short film back in the 90’s.
Apropos for a Saturday Afternoon
The sixth planet of our solar system, Saturn, lends its name to Saturday, the sixth day of our week.
In Greek mythology the Titan Cronus (Saturn), father of Zeus (Jupiter) , not only was not only responsible for the creation of the Giants and Furies (by castrating his own father with a sickle no less!), but also heralded a golden age for Rome after fleeing his own usurper of a son after a war that pretty much destroyed the universe.
This golden age of Rome was celebrated each year with the Feast of Saturnalia, held around the Winter Solstice.
One has to wonder what has now re-awaked the slumbering titan to cast his gaze upon our universe again?
Check out the story of “Saturn’s Eye”.
Passion Takes Its' Toll
Today’s post is going to be a tour-de-esoterica, covering International Cinema, Techno Groves, a few meaningful song lyrics and perhaps a little philosophy.
At the centre of this romp is Ukraine-born model/singer/songwriter/actress Milla Jovovich (It may be technically correct to call Milla Russian-born, as the Ukraine didn’t become independent from the USSR until 1991, well after her birth). Actually, we’re going to focus on Milla’s acting and music bits, as her career in both are more than enough to snowball this post to epic proportions.
The first time I ever came across Milla Jovovich it was on Much Music and she was just “Milla”, who I momentarily confused in the wife of ex-Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, when she was announced as an upcoming live interview. I didn’t really pay much attention to the interview, but I did enjoy the music video for the song “The Gentleman Who Fell”, which has very interesting lyrics, such as this passage:
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Cinema
Silly me, I forgot to include a category of blog entries for movies! So, voila! "Cinema" has been created, so it was written, so mote it be!
November 10, 2006
Quicksilver Droplet
Here is a picture I took a couple of weeks ago with my Nikon S4. It may not be the best digital camera in the world, but it's hard to beat the twisting body for taking abstract shots.
Audrey, in her usual backhanded way, said that it was the best photo I have every taken. Betcha never thought a plant could be so sassy, wa?
April 2008
