duncan
That was a long day of shooting at #w2s. A short bit of break and then it'll be time to go out and shoot another party.
- 10/21, 6pm
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duncan
What I was refering to earlier today when I was taking about getting the track for my flight: [ http]
- 10/19, 11pm
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duncan
Travel tip: pack simple survival food in your bag. Cliff bars or whatever you like. Ensures that you've got food when/where you need it.
- 10/18, 6pm
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duncan
@alancfrancis Wow. A whole slew of peeps! What time are you guys doing dinner? Looks like it's a half hour walk from where I'm at.
- 7/25, 6am
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duncan
Arrived in London. Off to the hotel. I love London taxis. Great for carrying bags and the drivers know their stuff.
- 7/25, 4am
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duncan
Was going to be online for a bit tonight but no. Sleep calls.
- 7/21, 3pm
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duncan
@stanaway so there is!!! How bloody civilized is that?
- 7/19, 4am
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duncan
@alpower I'll be photographing the TEDGlobal conference. And the weather is fine. Hopefully it'll clear up
soonish.
- 7/19, 4am
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duncan
@base10 In my case, it was a cappuccino followed by a Heineken, but yes. Wins all around. Especially when writing about camera supports.
- 7/11, 5pm
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duncan
@Theory They'd show up in the sidebar if they're there. Odd. Akward.
- 7/10, 11am
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duncan
@patricklenz Um, THINGS. Really good THINGS. Get your brain outta that gutter! :)
- 7/7, 12pm
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duncan
@gnb Tripod! :) Try to find a nice horizon/tree/other foreground to work with/silhouette. Also, check ISS flyby times/locations.
- 7/6, 11pm
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duncan
No decent lightning shots tonight tho. I'll just have to be satisfied with the sunset shot.
- 7/2, 11pm
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duncan
@20seven oooph. No izod collar popping here. Yikes. :)
- 6/27, 6pm
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duncan
Took minute or three to convince the guy cutting my hair that yes, he could take the ax to it.
- 6/27, 5pm
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duncan
@manton Cool. I appreciate that. There's lots of the concepts that are global in nature really.
- 6/17, 9pm
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duncan
@wbruce I tip if they clean windows or the like. If they just pump gas, I don't. If you tip, it's cash. CC swipe doesn't give option.
- 6/16, 8pm
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duncan
Oh noes! Out of paper for the laser printer. Off to OfficeMax. Thankfully, that's just right around the corner.
- 6/11, 6pm
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duncan
just got home from the Objectified screening in pdx. [ http]
Really nice documentary.
- 6/9, 11pm
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duncan
@tgaul Yah. I'm sure if tethering ever works on AT&T, that I'll be using it hardwired all of the time
- 6/8, 11am
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duncan
@warneronstine in a nutshell, I'm playing with writing a book chapter more like a collection of microblog posts.
- 6/7, 1pm
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duncan
@twleung Other folks I know with the 5D2 are having the same sort of focus issues in really low light. Such a beautiful sensor but...
- 6/7, 12am
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duncan
@jwtodd Ping me when you're in. I can head over and grab coffee or something. You won't be too far away.
- 6/3, 12am
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duncan
@waxpancake Can I volunteer to be that photographer? Please?
- 6/2, 3pm
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duncan
@court3nay @seanbonner I see you guys know each other? :) I have to say, I saw it and bought it within 2 minutes. Figured WTF.
- 5/27, 10pm
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duncan
Ok, if they _do_ put video into the iPhone, I anticipate a lot of interesting video clips showing up on twitter soon. :)
- 5/27, 2pm
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duncan
Trial post of this video via Tweetie thing... [ http]
- 5/27, 2pm
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duncan
Oh crap. This jet is gonna be stuffed full. Feh. Friday night on Southwest.
- 5/22, 8pm
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duncan
@hartinet Pretty cool looking at first glance. I'll have to keep the link and check it out. Thanks!
- 5/20, 3pm
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duncan
@natevw Thanks for the link tho! :) (sorry, was more in ranty mode there... )
- 5/20, 11am
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duncan
Ok, a bunch of replies in thoughts to replies on my CF card tweet earlier: [ http] Hopefully, I hit most of the points :)
- 5/19, 11pm
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duncan
@fraying Add one more! Happy b-day. :)
- 5/16, 4pm
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duncan
@tcurdt Yah. Default personal timeline setting. I'll have to explore more of the search options tho. :)
- 5/7, 2pm
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duncan
Photos of @unclebobmartin up now. Here's one from the Q/A where he walked out into the audience. [ http]
- 5/7, 12pm
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duncan
@chadfowler How are the workout facilities at the Hilton? Decent bikes and all?
- 5/3, 6pm
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duncan
Whiskey tango foxtrot. Blister packs inside a sealed box. Not cool.
- 4/30, 7pm
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duncan
Scott Anguish (@sanguish) asked, "Why Tumblr?". My answer: [ http] (longer than 140) :)
- 4/29, 12am
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duncan
Elevators in the building just oddly shut down. Didn't get stuck but.
- 4/28, 4pm
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duncan
Quick uninformed thought on Oracle+Sun: Ewww. To all my friends that still work at Sun on Java: Hugs. Finally: JCP shouldabeenspunoutlongago
- 4/20, 12pm
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duncan
Churned through more than 4000 words today. Now to go deal with a bunch of photographs. But first, dinner!
- 4/18, 7pm
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duncan
Looking at output from an Epson x900. Comparing to other awesome printers. Wow! Holy shiznit.
- 4/17, 2pm
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duncan
@joshpuetz I'd hope they're contextual, but I can't for the life of me figure out why my profile triggers "Buy into THIS Ponzi Scheme" ads:)
- 4/15, 1pm
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duncan
Are you sure? Flashing this. Flashing that. Flashing this other thing. Now restoring. Activated. Sync in progress. Installing. Syncing.
- 3/31, 6pm
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duncan
@neophiliac Hydration++++ Me and the Gatorade have been like -->this<---
- 3/29, 8pm
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duncan
@BWJones Damn, those are sweet. I had no idea those had become so accessible.
- 3/28, 5pm
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duncan
The MASH hooks I mentioned in my "Hacking the R-Strap" post _finally_ arrived today. Interesting gizmos.
- 3/27, 11pm
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duncan
@rlepage the sunset tonight? Totally awesome. I' didn't have my tripod either. :)
- 3/20, 8pm
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duncan
Initial review of first shots indicate that I'm doing a good job with support on the long lens, but I'm gonna have to find that monopod...
- 3/10, 10am
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duncan
Zen Bound is my new favorite iPhone game. Awesome. Caveat: if you're looking for fast paced, look elsewhere.
- 3/9, 4pm
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duncan
Last of the #ecomm photos now up on [ http] enjoy!
- 3/6, 11am
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duncan
Dear speaker, please take off your name tag.
- 3/5, 9am
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duncan
@rlepage They'll juts have to let the little rascals play outside in the fountain. Luckily, we're about to get back to the warm part of ...
- 2/20, 4pm
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duncan
@rts Fractal compression stuff works nicely. But there's nothing that's going to make this blurry face off a surveillance camera clear. sigh
- 2/19, 4pm
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duncan
@macartisan Ugh. Hearing about Three Mile Island after seeing China Syndrome must've been so not cool. Like airplane crashes while flying.
- 2/13, 9pm
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duncan
@Croisan Indeed. SFO isn't a bad place to lay over, especially now with the new food court being done. I prefer it to IAD or ORD for sure.
- 2/12, 10pm
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duncan
@michaelbshane We'll be announcing the "motion blur" contest winner soon. Stay tuned to @tacksharp
- 2/10, 12pm
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duncan
@cMadman We should talk about backup / archiving sometime on TackSharp. I need to check in with @danbenjamin now that TED is done.
- 2/7, 7pm
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duncan
As always, I'm amused by the fact that staff credentials always are last moment and ad-hoc for the photog.
- 2/2, 3pm
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duncan
Having a perfect superbowl lunch of TriTipBBQ without a tv in sight.
- 2/1, 4pm
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duncan
@newstwitt you can ping me at duncan (at) duncandavidson.com
- 1/30, 3pm
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duncan
@samerfarha Q&A after the fact is a great idea.
- 1/28, 11am
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duncan
Hrm. One thing I didn't realize: There's no num-lock/alternate number pad on the new unibody MBP keyboards. I won't miss it.
- 1/28, 10am
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duncan
I have hi res photos that are clearer. They backed off, anchor in water now. Tug caught up. Hope they didn't breech the hull. Getting dark.
- 1/27, 5pm
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duncan
Pulled my dad's Nikon FE out of the closet, complete with it's old school fully-manual everything nifty 50/1.8. Purty.
- 1/18, 8pm
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duncan
@pinarozger Nah. Filemaker Pro probably isn't necessary.
- 1/18, 12am
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duncan
@Derrick_Story You are required by photography law to keep ahold of it. It is non-returnable and non-refundable. :)
- 1/15, 5pm
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duncan
@lyzadanger Apparently, it's the first official portrait to be taken digitally even. Pretty cool.
- 1/14, 12pm
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duncan
@BWJones It does feel deliberate at this point. The issue has been known and discussed for years now. YEARS I tell ya.
- 1/14, 12pm
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duncan
@netik Wow. Just ran a bunch of SSH transfers here (easy to time, even with crypto overhead) and am seeing ~9.1MByte/sec. ~= 72Mbit.
- 1/10, 6pm
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duncan
@samerfarha Hrmph. That kinda blows. I've done most of my mpixing via Zen. I should do some more direct orders soon and play again.
- 1/10, 4pm
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duncan
@chuq Well, it wouldn't be TOO rash. Just about an hour's worth of work to re-cable _everything_. It could use it, but maybe not tonight?
- 1/5, 9pm
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duncan
Mine ass has been kicked today. Had the best session yet which means, of course, I'll be all the more sore tomorrow. :)
- 1/5, 6pm
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duncan
@chuq Good decision to go self hosted on feeds I think. I miss some of the stats reporting, but, really, I prefer sending out my own feed.
- 1/5, 11am
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duncan
It's all slushy slush out there. Just as thinking I should go to the grocery store.
- 1/4, 5pm
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duncan
Ilford gets a boo for both putting their paper profiles behind a password and for complicated readme for using said profiles.
- 1/4, 1am
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duncan
Hating setting up TeX on a new Mac installation. Something always changes between versions.
- 1/2, 8pm
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duncan
PT has the right idea: [ http]
- 12/31, 5pm
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duncan
@chockenberry I'll wave for you too the next time I roll through. If I can see across the valley in the morning, I'll try then. :)
- 12/29, 11pm
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duncan
@lsefton Yah. It was the fog/temp on the summit that was the tipping point. But, getting close for a good start tomorrow is nice.
- 12/29, 9pm
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duncan
Made a charitable donation and just found out that they totally mishandled my credit card data, including CVV. Complaints filed.
- 12/25, 3pm
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duncan
Running last minute errands on Christmas Eve always affects the whole "goodwill toward man" thing. Sometimes in a good way. Other times...
- 12/24, 3pm
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duncan
On board UA 1209 DEN-SFO
- 12/23, 1pm
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duncan
Merb/Rails merger++. Nice Christmas news on the tech front.
- 12/23, 1pm
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duncan
I didn't do much today, but it was a very long day. I'm drained.
- 12/20, 10pm
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duncan
Very very freakish haps on Bart tonight.
- 12/18, 9pm
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duncan
@iacas Same reason as @twleung said, PW's are great, but sync only. I'd love to have option of FP-sync and independent group power.
- 12/18, 2pm
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duncan
@ogalthorpe it's just kicking in now. Looks to snow all day.
- 12/17, 10am
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duncan
@rlepage I'm sorry, but these aren't the driods^H^H^H^H^Hprinters you are looking for
- 12/16, 9pm
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duncan
@rlepage Weather sites are second only to domain registrars for overclutter. I think.
- 12/16, 8pm
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duncan
@heathr For Tack Sharp, right now, we're using custom fields in MT to carry that metadata through to added tags in the RSS.
- 12/15, 3pm
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duncan
@wbruce The Pearl District is great. I absolutely love it here. I always miss it when I'm away.
- 12/14, 2pm
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duncan
@BWJones It's a sign of the apocalypse. I "borrowed" a cable that was in use, but I usually have dozens of spares around. *blink*
- 12/13, 7pm
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duncan
Harman gets the official clueless award for shipping profiles for the Mac in .sit format. Puhleaze. (hint, download PC format to get a .zip)
- 12/13, 3pm
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duncan
@wrowe Wow! That's one circuitous route that package took!
- 12/12, 6pm
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duncan
@ctp No kidding. I refuse to ship anything myself via UPS because of those kinds of silly things. TOS this!
- 12/12, 6pm
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duncan
Don’t worry dear Twitter buddies. The list I'm working on is just OmniFocus todos. Nothing more serious (or fun!) than that.
- 12/10, 12pm
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duncan
@gnb @fraserspeirs Yah. People do suck sometimes. /sigh/ At least it's just a thing not flesh. Just expensive to deal with.
- 11/30, 2pm
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duncan
✈ UA 0326 ABQ-DEN • ✈ UA 1531 DEN-LAS • ✈ UA 1685 LAS-SFO • Total trip: 13:12-18:16 • Three hops with 1/2 hr layovers. Joy! :)
- 11/28, 11am
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duncan
Before it's over, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there. And thanks for so many things.
- 11/27, 5pm
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duncan
@BWJones Saw gas today for $1.79/gal in Albuquerque NM. I felt like I was in a time machine.
- 5pm
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duncan
@danbenjamin just unwrapped Tack Sharp, a podcast where we blab about photography. Check it out. [ http]
- yesterday, 1pm
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duncan
My chest is so sore thanks to the work out the other day. Good kind of sore. Better than that coughing soreness i had a week ago. Blecho.
- 11/22, 7pm
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duncan
Streetcar / Tram FTW on a rainy day.
- 11/20, 3pm
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duncan
Looks like the rain found out I came home for a few days and decided to show up too.
- 11/20, 10am
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duncan
Oh, that's too bad. "42net" morphed into "AppleWiFi" at some point. I don't know why, but that's kind of sad.
- 11/14, 11am
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duncan
Finally attending to that most put off of my todo item list: haircut. Jeez.
- 11/1, 12pm
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duncan
@clarkware Put the NSBezierPath down!
- 10/30, 1pm
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duncan
Back to my Mac Screen Sharing FTW. Love having instant access to my desktop from anywhere. Kill Leopard feature for sure.
- 10/28, 9am
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duncan
Hanging out in Denver with the Prag Studio folks. Yay for short plane rides.
- 10/27, 2pm
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duncan
@blueroot Yah. The Internet gives and it taketh. Eventually the picture becomes clearer.
- 10/21, 5pm
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duncan
@chuq More to the point, Lr and Br are now close enough that I can't figure out Adobe's strategy in having them both. Lr UI ++ tho.
- 10/14, 2pm
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duncan
@damon but why??? It looked so good. :) JK. Look forward to seeing what you do with it.
- 10/10, 9pm
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duncan
@chuckdude It's already been a blast playing with the Nikon and comparing. More reports to come for sure.
- 10/8, 6pm
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duncan
Walked all over town today it felt like. And of course, fall is here. Saw lots of photographs I could have made, but didn't.
- 10/5, 8pm
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duncan
@danwood One of the trickiest things I ever did was write unit tests for my unit test framework :)
- 10/2, 6pm
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duncan
Words I keep telling myself: "Innovate through the downturn." ok, hrm. Ooooo. Out the Door is open again. Nic
- 9/30, 7pm
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duncan
@idbjorh Oh, and it's in great condition. Use marks on the hood and that's about it.
- 9/29, 9pm
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duncan
@boc Yah. Looking forward to playing. Gotta get the seed funding first tho :)
- 9/29, 9pm
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duncan
@chuq Yah. All in the name of having a better opinion and knowing which tools are share for which jobs.
- 9/29, 7pm
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duncan
@bringo thanks for the link to [ http]
- 9/29, 12pm
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duncan
@timbray indeed. Lots to talk about wrt to the 5d mk2. Good points about video on your blog today btw.
- 9/27, 9pm
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duncan
@rlepage I am indeed around in the morning. Wanna do coffee?
- 9/25, 10pm
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duncan
@iacas I agree that the placement of the AF points on the 5D is more a problem than the number. Also, they all should be high precision.
- 9/25, 1pm
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duncan
@cshirky Rocked his keynote. As did @timoreilly. Nice nice nice.
- 9/18, 7am
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duncan
Need a hot meal and a bed. At least one of those things I'd happening soon.
- 9/17, 4pm
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duncan
J'arrive JFK. Time to find a chair and a plug for a while.
- 9/11, 4pm
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duncan
✈ UA 0184 PDX-SFO 06:04-07:49 • Flying east blows.
- 9/11, 5am
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duncan
It's less anxiety producing to ponder black holes than the current political cycle. Way less anxiety. We're in bizarro land now.
- 9/10, 9am
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duncan
Genius playlist in iTunes 8 works well. Quite well.
- 9/9, 4pm
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Just signed up for my Dipity account.
Sep 6, 2008 2:17 AM
duncan
Operation Laptop Hard Drive Replacement seems to have gone well. Now just a matter of installing/copying stuff back.
- 8/17, 7pm
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duncan
It's not that being from the burbs was the issue mind you.
- 8/7, 7pm
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duncan
Update on the B9180 problems. Turns out I have a bad NEDD sensor. [ http] (now with more gunky photos!)
- 8/7, 12am
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duncan
@bbum No kidding. At least they engineered a tub underneath the gunkworks. More photos coming soon.
- 8/6, 10pm
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