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Military Reading List
Military Books – Recommended Military Reading Lists. I admit it, I’m a student of military history as our family knows all so well. There are lots of books out there that aren’t of the usual blood and guts sort. Like all such things, there aren’t great recommendation sites. Here’s a great one. Organized by service…
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Guide to Notebooks: August
I haven’t covered notebooks before as this is a big topic and don’t buy many, but with the model change to Dothan, they are becoming pretty interesting. Given the performance improvments of the new Intel chips (AMD doesn’t play in mobile much), you should probably wait until notebook folks swap to the new 7xx series…
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Monitor Calibration
How do you make sure the red you scanned in, looks the same as the red you see on the monitor and the red you print? Welcome to the arcane world of color management and calibration. Some good guides are: * “About.com”:http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa031003e.htm. A good basic tutorial on how to set your monitor (6500 Kelvin, 2.2…
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Minolta Dimage 5400 Quirks
DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 | KONICA MINOLTA. Well I finally sprung for a 35mm and slide scanner. The price got right and the features too. Haven’t really given it a full workout, but there are a bunch of quirks about this machine that don’t seem to be documented anywhere. So here are some of the…
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Linksys NSLU2: Home NAS gets even better
Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 Part 1. With the first network printer that actually works easier running in our house (the Brother HL-5170DN is cheap and works well), I’m on to figuring out storage. For a long time, because network attached devices just plain didn’t seem to work (I’ve tried print servers, media servers, etc.), I’ve…
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Spending a Day in Seattle with 3 boys…
Jim Meyer is going to be in town and was wondering what to do. Will be in San Juans on Tuesday. Thursday to the Mariners game. Friday open. Boys 14, 11 and 7: * Mariners Game. Already going to one on Wednesday. That’s a great idea, although I’m sure it will be a sad event.…
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Top 10 Things for an 11-Year-Old Boy from Iceland
What if you are 11 years old, what is there to do in Seattle if you’re from Iceland and have never been here. Here’s a short summary for all those little boys who would be bored taking a walking tour. The top ten are: * The Boeing Everett Tour Center Home. Tickets are $10 each…
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Armadillo Song
LONDON HOMESICK BLUES . One of my favorite songs to sing to Alex when he is a little baby. I’m sure he never understood the words, but all the kids loved it. Has always brought back memories of me growing up and hanging out with a next-door neighbor, Mark Fraser, who would play cowboy and…
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Ultralight Business Travel: Packing
OK, besides getting the right travel bag (analogous to getting the right backpack), what else can you do? Like ultralight camping, ultralight business travel consists of looking everywhere for an ounce here and an ounce there. Here’s an example of before and after when I think about packing for a say a 3 day trip.…
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Dad's Login Page
One of the hard things about the internet is making favorites really work well. When folks are on different machines, it is really complicated. It is too bad there isn’t a central repository for folks settings for simple things like the links on a browser toolbar. So instead, a blog is a good way to…
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PC Buying Guide for August
Well, its that time again for PC buying recommendations. This time, great kudos to AnandTech’s June Overclocking Guide. I love this particular guide because it includes what machines overclock well to get you additional price/performance. I’m also in the middle of building up a high-end PC for my own video editing, gaming and digital photography…
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Tour de France Photos
www.cyclingnews.com presents the 91st Tour de France, 2004. Great photos from the Tour de France. The race may be over, but the memory lingers on.
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Scanners Guide 2004
Scanner Reviews (Editorial) Sorted by Date – Page 1 – eCoustics.com . eCoustics is getting better and better, they now are a meta-review site that looks at reviews from many magazines and also trolls for user reviews. Very smart. Here’s a quick list of recent scanner reviews that would have taken hours to get: *…
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Ultralight Business Travel: Your Travel Bag
Ultralight backpacking seems to be all the rage as is ultralight equipment in bicycling. I don’t see why there isn’t the same trend as people slep bags from one end of the world to the other. The technology is getting better all the time, but I see all kinds of folks dragging gigantic laptops, huge…
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good piece on filters
Filters. very confusing what to use now that photoshop exists. Two most interesting are a haze filter and a polarizer. I have a UV filter on all my lenses. He says B+W or Nikon are best, but Tiffen is half the price and probably OK. Don’t get ultracheap filters though.
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35mm Film Reviews
Edward C. Nemergut Photography. I’m buying another batch of 35mm film. Used 9 rolls of Fuji Superia-X ISO 400 film for nature and portrait photography. Results were Ok for the landscapes (mainly shot with a really neat 70-200 lense), but what was outstanding were the outdoor portraits (particularly on those overcast days in Alaska). Many…
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Quote of the Day (Stage 17)
Tour de France – Daily Scoop (Stage 17). _Those Texans can be so endearing_ bq. “I said to him, ‘How bad do you want to win a stage on the Tour de France?’ and he said, ‘Real bad.’ I said, ‘How fast can you go downhill?’ and he said, ‘I can go downhill real fast’.…
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Lance is a stud…Bike Lust continues
What about that Texan. An incredibly classy day today and I’m even more impressed with how hard those guys at the Tour De France work. And, for those of us looking for the perfect mountain bike, perusing Cycling news gives us the new Klein Palomino XV based on the Tuner Monoshock.
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Guide to Printers 2004
Well, it finally had to happen, but after 4 years, our HP 940 Csi inkjet printer finally died. Actually the death has been lingering. First we put in Christmas cards in and this destroyed the ejection mechanism. Then, the cool two-sided printing module failed. Now, it doesn’t power on at all. So on to a…
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Grace's Montlake T-ball schedule
Here’s Grace’s T-ball schedule for Montlake: | Date | Time | Opponent |Field| | June 17th|5:15pm|Stingers Jorrit Van der Meulen |5 | | June 24th |5:15pm|South Park Carmen Martinez |6 | | July 1st |5:15pm|Mighty Mice John McHale | 4 | |July 8th |5:15pm|South Park Carmen Martinez | 6 | | July 15th |5:15pm|Cougars Sean…
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35mm Film Processing Labs
Well since I haven’t switched to digital for yet, I’ve got 10 rolls of film that need to get developed from our trip to Alaska. Makes it worthwhile figuring out the right way to develop them. Finding a great lab, then getting the pictures developed with a good contact sheet seems smart. Then, I can…
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Marine VHF Radios
Chuck Husick on boatus.com. Darn it, the basic marine radio I bought I think I left on the boat while docked and it seems to have walked away. A good chance to get a pair that are good. Thank goodness for basic guides on the Internet. * Things you want are Receiver sensitivity. Most provide…
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Giant TCR Advanced
Jan Ulrich’s Bike. This is a Giant TCR Advanced with an integrated seat tube so you don’t actually need a seatpost or clamp. That makes it just 900 grams and you save 125 grams on the seat post and clamp. Wow.
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Backpacking gear
BackpackGearTest.org – Clothing. Just spent a great week in Alaska. More on that later. But one thing Ilearned is that you need the right kind of gear really matters. ONly used 10% of what we brought, but the right stuff if important. Less is more. Some good reviews of stuff here.
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Lance looks strong and Bike lust continues
Jen Voight’s Cervelo. Now stock bikes are easily less than 15 lbs. Here’s how: * Cervelo R2.5 frame. Now is 200 grams lighter than 2003 and is now 1000 grams if you can believe it. * FSA carbon cranks. Superlight and strong. Also FSA carbon fiber seatposts, headsets, OS115 stem, 7050 bars. * Dura-Ace 10-speed…
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Biking Identification
MILITARY STYLE SPORTS ID. No, not for your bike silly, its id you might want to carry if you are riding and get hurt. How many of us travel with ID (actually, I keep a business card, credit card, $20 and proof of insurance in my backpack, but I’m a nerd đ Here’s a $8…
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US Postal in 2004 becomes Discovery 2005
:: Discovery to sponsor Lance’s team. I’m sure the US Postal service was amazed that they got Lance to sponsor. Kind of too bad, they could never take advantage. The big boys are moving in though, next year, the Discovery Channel is sponsoring Lance. BTW if you are wondering if there is a God, check…
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Dual Layer DVD Burners are here
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Lite-On, LG and BenQ Bring 8.5-GB Recordable DVDs to the Party – 16x: The Final Destination?. At last the DVD burner market is maturing. The DVD+RW and DVD+R format seems to be the winner. Both can go to 9GB on a single side and to 16x (that’s 10,000 rpm folks…
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External Hard Drive Reviews
X-bit labs – Articles – Three External Hard Disk Drives with 120GB Storage Capacity (page 8). Well these USB 2.0 drives will never be as fast as IDE drives, but it isn’t bad. The WD1200JB stuffed into an external enclosure for $200 vs. $80 if it comes as a internal drive, so there is a…
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Tour de France Diaries
How do these guys have time to do it. Here are a collection of daily rider diaries from folks actually on the TdF: * “Tyler Hamilton et al”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/diaries/. Velonews has Tyler Hamilton blogging away. * Floyd Landis. Of US Postal fame. * “Paolo Bettini”:http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/features/diaries/paolo.php?id=paolo0411. The Quck.Step-Davitamon rider. * “Chris Carmichael”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/carmicha/ and “OLN Version”: . He’s…