My new Sony digital camera arrived last Thursday, and thanks to it and Flickr, I’ve been crazy-obsessed with it. One of the groups on Flickr–Squared Circle–is devoted to taking pictures of circular objects or phenomenon and then cropping them to a square frame; because Flickr automatically resizes the thumbnails, whatever the original resolution, to a […]
While the rest of the DC area was enjoying the gorgeous warm weather, driving out to the mountains to see the peak autumn foliage, attending Halloween parties, or taking part in the Marine Corps Marathon this past weekend, Jeff and I were busy moving the final remaining items from his old apartment (while we’d been […]
A couple of weeks ago, Jeff posted about our optometrist appointments and his settling on a pair of geekcool Gucci frames. I left that evening without having chosen new frames, and feeling really frustrated from the overall lack of personalized attention and the insistence from the clerk–despite my having told her that I specifically was […]
Friday morning dawned (ok, we didn’t actually see the dawn) clear and almost unseasonably warm. After breakfast, Jeff took a phone call, leaving me alone to be grilled by be interviewed by chat with his parents. Mostly, they wanted to hear about my life on the East Coast, my work, my education, and my family, […]
On Monday, I ordered a new Sony digital camera (Cyber-Shot DSC-W1) and a 1Gb Memory Stick Pro to go with it. The company ended up shipping the two items separately (from warehouses in different parts of the country), and the memory arrived today. When I picked it up from the front desk at my condo, […]
We’re back from our short whirlwind trip to the Bay Area for Jeff’s college reunion. As Jeff notes, we hoped to post while there, but that was prevented by a flaky Internet dial-up connection at his parents’ house, which finally cleared up just hours before we were scheduled to leave. At the Stanford bookstore on […]
Jeff has mentioned (here and here)that he’s been moving his photos online to Flickr, and I’ve done the same, springing for a pro account a couple of weeks ago. Ever since Photodex–where I had the bulk of my photos and screencaps stored online–starting requiring accounts for viewers, so that you had to set up an […]
Friday after work Jeff and I drove down to the Hampton Roads area to visit my dear friend Sheldon and his rocket scientist POSSLQ, Gretchyn, who hosted us in her/their enormous, gorgeous home. Appropriately, given that this weekend was the 30th anniversary of D&D, Sheldon and I had first met in 1990 at a gaming […]
The morning after seeing Varekai, I woke up with a mild sore throat. I assumed at first that it was the result of screaming and cheering throughout the performance, but as the weekend wore on the pain intensified pretty dramatically, eventually spreading to my jaw and tongue and into my left ear canal, with concomitant […]
Jeff already has written about our recent outing to see Cirque du Soleil’s Varekai, so I don’t need to add much except to rave about our front row seats that had us close enough for the cast members to stare at, talk to and otherwise interact with us (I was featherdusted by one of the […]