Dore and I had quite a weekend! On Saturday, we took a walk to the mission this weekend. It was really nice, but I didn’t expect it to be quite as rigorous as it was. I took my camera along with us, and managed to snap a couple of shots, but for the most part didn’t shoot too much. The lighting was pretty lame — it was the middle of the day — but despite that I managed to find a couple of shots that worked pretty well.
Santa Barbara Mission
View Down the Hill from Rocky Nook Park
On Sunday we went out for a bike ride. We finally got Dore’s bike all put together and tuned up, so we rode all around downtown Santa Barbara. We rode down to the beach and saw the weekly art fair, then we went out to Dargains for lunch. It was delicious. Afterwards we went back home and got cleaned up, then went over to Maria’s house for a scotch tasting. I only took one single picture the whole day, but it actually came out very nicely.
Mmm... Scotch
This one works quite well as a black and white as well.
So I’m starting off the new year with a new commitment to starting and maintaining a web log. The goal is two-fold:
- To build and maintain an actual web presense (I’m lame like that)
- To force myself to keep up with taking photos every day (whether or not they are good) and rigorously self-critiquing my work
So here goes nothing!
Interestingly enough, I just realized tonight that I haven’t heard anything about either HD-DVD or Blu Ray in the last couple of months. I remember hearing so much about both technologies before they were released, yet now… nothing.
Even more than declarations that either is dead, this to me is the death toll for both technologies. It seems that in the tech world, even bad news is good news.
I suggest that all documents, websites, etc. should be required to footnote the removed text of any ellipses dots. It just seems to me that too many times we see a quote taken totally out of context that has the familliar … in it. What was deleted? Why didn’t you think that it was valid to your argument? I’d like to be able to do inlined fact checking on such quotes. With the rigorous citing styles that we hold so dear, why aren’t such quotes held in equal regard? Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. Note where they quote “‘it would be almost impossible to make a political decision in the Justice Department. … If that happened we would read about it in the paper.'” Now, I’m no knight of the right, but I’d like to know what they cut out. Inquisitive minds want to know, and such.
Anyway, that’s my rant for tonight. Talk to your congress person and such.
Catch y’all later.
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