Oh, Yes I Did

I’ve really enjoyed my four-year-long love affair with the Nikon D3, and I have absolutely no regrets. She has served me well. I will always appreciate her superb build, her heft, her ability to see so much in so little light. I still love her and plan to keep her around – forever. But honestly,…

30 Inch Monitor, 100 Year Old Photographs

One of the unfortunate aspects of owning a 30″ monitor is that, aside from thedude.com, there are very few web sites that post images at a resolution any wear near full-screen size. And, if you’re like me, you bought that 30″ monitor because you like images, right? There’s nothing quite like a super sharp image…

Hot Day, Cool Stuff

With temperatures more than twenty degrees above the average for this day, thedude decided to take the smartie to NASA’s 2009 Exploration and Sustainability Exposition, where we saw some pretty cool stuff, including a car I’d love to own. Well, OK just the car is just a brochure at this point, but it’s still a…

This is Not Kelly’s Car!

My new car is so much fun to drive, she may never give me the keys! As one of the 30,000 people who put $99 down on a Smart Car in advance of their U.S. debut, I never thought I’d actually buy one. But then it showed up at the dealership, configured exactly as I…

Audi A4

Farewell, Lincoln. Welcome Audi.

Far Out Flame Out

We made a promise to ourselves that we’d never miss another Fire Festival at the Crucible. The sights and sounds are just so cool, er, hot. So flaming-hot-stainless-pneumatic-alien-stilt-walker strange. So smack-you-in-the-face with a white-hot-stove-pipe cool. A billion BTU’s of climate-changing fun. You jus’ hafta see it to believe it. More pictures coming soon.

In the “Studio” with thedude

My dear friend Jack has an impressive collection of vintage Leica gear that he’ll be selling on Ebay. He asked if I’d take a few shots of the four cameras and six lenses. Of course, I immediately accepted the challenge, and rushed off to my studio, which in this case consisted of a wooden place…

Size Doesn’t Matter…

What matters is how BIG it is. There are many great things to say about this new configuration. I still have a vertically oriented monitor for browsing and working on portrait-oriented documents. (That’s just about everything, right?) In addition, I now have a huge, brilliant canvas for displaying and editing images. I briefly considered a…

Quiet Computer Case on Steriods

I hate to admit it, but really do want this thing. It’s sooo geeky – so beautiful! I’ve been lusting after it half the day. What makes it so appealing – aside from its thick, throbbing manliness – is that it’s a completely silent PC case. The case contains exactly zero fans and works with…

It’s Here!

Four days ahead of schedule. Those very clever folks at Apple know how to make my day. The best thing though, has been Kelly’s reaction. She totally loves it! The funny thing is that the things she loves the most are all things she could have done on her PC for the last 2 years….

Wish List Item Number 5

Here it is! The digital camera I’ve been dreaming about. Along with blistering speed and high resolution, this beauty can upload images to my network wirelessly – even while shooting! A major breakthrough – I want it now! After looking at the incredible 360 degree VR’s in my last post, I want to get started…

More Work than Work?

By that I mean that my day off was more work than a day at the office. I had to learn more than I cared to about gas lines, brass nipples and joint sealer to install our new dishwasher, fume hood, backsplash and Viking range. But, after three trips to the hardware store and nearly…

New Useless Computer Toy Almost Works!

My friend and coworker Hugh brought a auper-slick looking Apple iSight to work the other day, and I was so impressed by it’s design that I just had to rush out and buy one today. Guess what? It even kinda works with my pc running Windows XP. No sound, most automatic feautures don’t work, and…

A Better Digital Camera – Already??

Well, I have barely broken in my wife’s wonderful Canon G3, and along comes the new Canon PowerShot G5. It looks a lot like the G3 except for the number of pixels and the incredibly sexy black housing. I am tempted, but the number of pixels is not the only thing that matters in a…

606 Takes to Get It Right!

The first time I tried to have a look at this the server had been slashdotted and I could not get a connection. Well, today I finally had a my first look at Honda’s New Accord Advertisement, “Cog”, and you should too! (Four megabyte file.)

Blasted Animals

I had a chance to try out a Canon 420EX flash unit on Kelly’s Canon G3 tonight, and so to put it through its paces, I chose a couple of the most difficult subjects I know and put them into horrible lighting conditions. I threw out at least 30 images to get these three, but…