• Friends,  Photography

    More Photos

    I went to the A-Sides show last night, and afterwards went out to my favorite skyline place, at Freedom Parkway and 75 at 3:00 in the morning for the optimal mix of ambiance and safety…

    Ghost Adam

    Atlanta at Night

  • Cycling

    Feeling the Burn

    Today Mark, Emily and I rode at little over 30 miles in the 90 plus heat. While it was a good and needed ride it was very taxing on the system and produced a very dramatic sunburn (happily only on my arms).

    The Wrist

    The Elbow

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  • Photography

    First Photos

    The new digicam is quite something I do have to say. Something complicated anyway. Here are the first decent photos I’ve taken with it.

    and here is the second

    Happily Olympus has some free online lessons. I’m going taking some cityscape shot tomorrow, we’ll see how that goes.

  • GPS,  Military,  Tech

    Flagrant gadgetry

    • Navicore Personal GPS – it wirelessly turns your bluetooth phone in to a GPS device. Very cool, but it seems to only be available in Europe, though I imagine that will change soon. HT: Gizmodo.
    • 10 Million Candlepower flashlight – with built in recharging! And only $49 bucks too. There’s a 15 million candlepower for sale too.
    • The Pain Ray – Not really a gadget, but cool in a creepy way. It uses microwaves to heat nerve endings. Supposedly for security and crowd control.
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  • Drug War,  Links

    Random thoughts

    • A pretty significant alliance between the US and India. You would think that this would be much bigger news, especially given the rivalry between India and Pakistan and India and China.
    • Convictions in the East St Louis voter fraud trial – no surprise there really (it was all on tape). That also should have been much bigger news.
    • In South Korea (the most web connected country in the world), a woman doesn’t clean up after her dog and achieves blog infamy within one day. Start the link chain here.
    • The Rhode Island Legislature has voted to legalize medical marijuana, without even the pressure of a voter initiative. One wonder when principal-agent theory becomes something the media talks about.
    • Free Individualist Stickers – I’m pleasantly surprised by the move to brevity in bumper stickers as seen in the gold and blue “=” stickers one can see on cars in my neighborhood. The guy linked is giving out free “i” stickers (for individualism). Judging from his blog he’s a Randian of some sort and a fellow IHS seminar attendee.
    • Exposure Manager (run by a Winds of Change blogger apparently) is offering a deal to Instapundit readers.
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  • Photography

    More sights on the ride

    I rode by the place I talked about in this post, and found that the wheelchair had been moved and that the Terminator 2 object in the back wasn’t a poster at all, but one of several abandoned video game machines. Pictures below.

    And I’m going to experiment with allowing anonymous commenting. Is anyone actually reading this?