After ten great years at Affymetrix, thedude is moving on to what will hopefully prove to be greener pastures.

Lately, some of you have been asking about my eyes. You will recall that I had the surgery strictly to correct my vision problem, NOT for cosmetic reasons, and by that measure, the surgery was 100% successful. My vision is better than it has been for years!

 
If that weren’t enough, a happy side-effect of the corrective surgery is that my new eyelids make me look at least 5 years younger. You may have to look closely, but I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to see the difference.

My latest scanning project keeps turning up gems. I am so glad I shot this panorama of Wolstenholme Fjord — purportedly the only place on earth where three active glaciers join together. If I could have anticipated today’s technology, I might have made a much more detailed shot than this one – consisting of just two images shot with my trusty Pentax ME Super on grainy Plus-X way back in 1986.

I did a Google search, and I could not find any other photograph that shows all three of these glaciers in a single shot. Yay me!

It’s Windows wallpaper season in California. And that’s no bull.

For those who don’t know, most of California looks more like this most of the year.

You may be interested in learning more about the the Window “Bliss” wallpaper.

One more thing — if you like whacked-out wallpapers, check out these beauties.

Yes, Kelly found a stack of old negatives, and I’m back at it. These days, I basically have the scanner running whenever I’m at the computer. I load up the negative carrier, preview scan a bunch of images, and final scan the best ones. The process is time-consuming, but my new computer is fast enough that I can now run the scanner software in the background pretty much no matter what I’m doing, which is sometimes quite a lot. So, in an evening I can now get 6 or 8 scans done – sometimes without even having to reboot. Yay Windows!

So, I have this shot of Dave that is much taller than it is wide, but man, it looks really nice if you happen to have a your 1600×1200 pixel display in portrait orientation. So there ya go.

OK, I have never embedded a youtube video, and I may never do it again, but this one’s definitely fun.

Yay! I just received the 2010 Autopano Panobook, and look what I found on page 150!

View the original image here and here.

View the review of The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies” and other books on the serious subject of Dudeness here.

If there’s one gift that won’t wind up in a landfill in three months, it’s pictures of the grandkids.

“The magazine contained articles on style, music, society, politics, women, and contained seminude pictures of women.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dude_(magazine)

And while you’re at it, check out Dude Studios.

Or perhaps you can help me understand what’s going on with this other dude.

After 10 months of negotiating and waiting, the fiber is finally in!