Closet Exhibitionist

...it's not really an exodus...

Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:55:31 GMT

But I've started moving my blogging over to http://adam.haberlach.org

Thanks to shacker I finally got around to setting up a syndicated version of my site linked to a username. You may want to subscribe to haberlach2 if you want updates as I work my 'blog.

The move...

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 18:30:53 GMT

So, I'm working on moving things over to MoveableType, at adam.haberlach.org. It just feels right.

I'm going to work out something for getting my posts to bounce over to livejournal, however. The community aspects are just too hard to give up.

Sat, 07 Feb 2004 03:21:26 GMT

Caution: Steve Balmer likes to play his iPod pretty loud.

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:14:36 GMT

It's the Fantasy Marching Band League!

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 06:50:50 GMT

Well, I got my pictures up. Looks like I've got 6 that I liked enough to post, since I'm still not one for snapshots. I like them, though.

http://gallery.mediariffic.com/santabarbara

(My own little ego reminds me to tell you that if you want a copy of the images, please ask, and if you plan on printing them, ask for a full-resolution version)

Also, any suggestions, tips, or comments are appreciated, either directly in the gallery, or here.

Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:16:10 GMT

Whew. I've been back at work for 2 hours and I've already spoken to 5 customers. Busy day.

Had a good weekend in Santa Barbara visiting Linda's aunt. Good weather. Good pictures (up later). The weather around here, however, sucks today.

Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:10:18 GMT

I feel even less safe about electronic voting, now that someone has actually taken a serious look at the systems.

"Your Accu-Vote isn't very Accu."

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:24:41 GMT

My total car-bound commute time is 2 minutes, 45 seconds, each way.

You are connected to 9031 people through 15 friends.

Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:19:36 GMT

Ok, yeah, so I'm an Orkut whore.

Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:50:56 GMT

Final moments of the Columbia

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:54:34 GMT

Good reading. There are some good points about the methodologies used for testing Burningman's compliance with leave no trace, and some damning pictures of people who may be in violation. I still think that burningman does a good job of doing what they do without being overly destructive.

Netflix strikes again.

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:41:16 GMT

This time I watched the 1998 movie remake of Michal Crichton's _Sphere_, which was a decent, if hard-to-wrap-head around book. The movie just doesn't make sense for the first half, and then becomes transparent enough to be boring.

Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:53:34 GMT

Sometimes Dilbert is so on-target that it hurts.

Mission Accomplished

Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:55:54 GMT

The Motorcycle has been rescued from Fremont and moved to Hayward. It was pretty uneventful, really. We just plugged 'er into a big battery, spun the starter until it caught, and then princeofwands rode it home.

One less item of mine scattered about the bay area to worry about.

...and so it begins...

Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:00:01 GMT

I've just been accepted to Golden Gate University School of Law.

Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:49:52 GMT

I spent the weekend in Yosemite. So did my camera.

Wed, 21 Jan 2004 02:03:41 GMT

I just want to say how incredibly nice it is to have a one-song commute.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:15:36 GMT

Oh, and one other neat trick with Adobe Photoshop Gallery: it doesn't understand multiple displays.

If I drag it from my 1024x768 laptop display over to my 1280x1024 monitor, it refuses to grow larger then it would be on the 1024, either by dragging the corner or maximizing.

Lame.

Damnit, what does Adobe have against raw-format workflow?

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:09:17 GMT

I have Photoshop CS and Photoshop Album.

Photoshop CS has a decent thumbnail browser that lets me view the thumbnails, rotate them (it notes that it is merely rotating the thumbnail and will actually rotate when I open the image), and open the file into their raw converter plug-in. It will not, however, let me categorize files other then "flag yes/no" and it will not let me move a selection of files into another directory so I can create my own categorization system.

Photoshop Album has a nice thumbnail browser that lets me view the thumbnails. If I want to rotate them, however, I have to let it create a copy of the file in either .jpg, .tif, or .psd format. This either cancels my reason for using raw, bloats my files, or REALLY bloats my files. If I choose not to let it rotate them, and deal with the crick in my neck, I cannot directly invoke Photoshop on the files -- it appears to be trying to handle them itself before it hands it off, so it then claims that Photoshop cannot handle that filetype -- which it CAN, damnit.

Currently, I'm using Album to sort my files, "exporting" a selection to another directory, and then editing and converting in photoshop.

Ugh -- anyone have any suggestions?

Got my first letter back.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:32:36 GMT

University of California, Hastings seems to have taken a quick look at my application, cashed my check, and decided that I don't make the cut.

Got my first letter back.

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:31:57 GMT

University of California, Hastings seems to have taken a quick look at my application, cashed my check, and decided that I don't make the cut.

Thu, 15 Jan 2004 06:44:42 GMT

Recently, National Geographic ran their first story shot entirely in digital.

Here's the behind-the-scenes.

Awesome reading.

Want to take pictures of Venus?

Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:28:39 GMT

Cool page on russian space-camera technology

Alias

Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:23:35 GMT

So, Linda has gotten me hooked on the TV series Alias, where hooked == "compulsively working my way through seasons 1 and 2 on DVD".

I may, in return, have to introduce Linda to the TV series Nikita, which is pretty much the same thing, although a little darker and harder.

Tue, 06 Jan 2004 05:00:57 GMT

Bush in 30 seconds has released the finalists in their ad competition -- some very good work.