Posted in adventure on May 31st, 2010 3 Comments »
It was raining and crappy this morning, so I did what any normal person would do and put on some GoreTex and headed for the other side of the mountains in pursuit of sunlight. The weather through the pass was cold and miserable but it was all worth it if only to stop off at [...]
Posted in adventure on May 24th, 2010 9 Comments »
By the time we were at breakfast, Victoria and I were already late to the offroad thing, and we had the car not the Jeep. I kind of wanted to do something with her that wasn’t the same-old, so we drove up to Vancouver and I dropped in on some old friends of mine that [...]
Posted in adventure on Mar 7th, 2010 No Comments »
When I moved to Boston from Seattle I got rid of a lot of stuff, especially half finished projects. One of which was my old R/C heli, which I never even got around to flying in Seattle. I had given it to Tom on this notion that he would fix it up, but he never [...]
Posted in adventure on Jan 6th, 2010 No Comments »
The flickering is due to the clip being shot using Av exposure, and the unstable meter taking lots of different readings even though the scene hadn’t changed at all. For constant daytime or night-time clips this doesn’t seem like a big deal (just use manual) but it complicates things for doing daybreak and sunset shots, [...]
Posted in adventure on Jan 6th, 2010 No Comments »
This very simple video was achieved off my back porch. On a lark I installed the Canon Hax (CHDX) onto a A620 we had laying around. This is something I’d ultimately like to do with my DMC-G1 but I don’t have a suitable intervalometer yet. YouTube.
Posted in adventure on Dec 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
Not much to report, but we’ve moved into our new place with a nice view of the mountains. Not in Boston anymore!
Posted in adventure on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Went over to Marymoor and gave Victoria a climbing boot-camp on rope work (she’s just done bouldering before). The pinnacle was pretty busy but it’s also so close that we’ll just hit it up in the morning when there are probably fewer people there.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Due to the destruction of the Amargosa star, we have to make a minor course correction. We’ll be heading for Erie PA Saturday, which eases the drive on Sunday. Erie 859km Minneapolis 1371km Billings 1353km Redmond 1318
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2009 No Comments »
The hitch is installed. It was a pretty straightfoward installation but it was tight, I had to use a floor jack to get it on. The issue was the tabs were just slightly too tight against the frame rails. The wiring was a snap, 2 minutes to install. We’re looking at trying to hit these [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Woke up at 0700h despite having gone to bed at 0030h. Toured the MS labs and played with a Microsoft Surface which was loaded up with some interesting demos and games. It was nice to see Sun equipment represented in the labs, although that partnership seems rocky due to the Oracle merger. No BBQ tonight [...]