Wifi Allergies

 
Last week walking around Nevada City I viewed a sign for an Alphabioticist. My parents asked me if I knew what that was. I thought about it. I quickly concluded based on my education that I knew of no such title or field and that it sounded fabricated. Of course I am willing to admit [...]

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Physics GRE Scores

Last week I finally received in my physics GRE scores. During my practice tests I scored low at first (500ish) and by the last two I scored 680 and 700. I was satisfied with this as a few people said that their scores went up when they actually took the GRE.
Not so for me.
My final [...]

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Nevada City

 
I spent the weekend at my grandmother’s house in Nevada City.
Nevada City is an interested town for me to visit, it sits in the middle of the Gold Country in California Sierra Nevadas (it is not in Nevada) about an hour from Lake Tahoe. It is very much a tourist destination with a very quaint [...]

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Holiday Ingredients

 
I have gathered that there are several main ingredients that make up the holidays: sugar, meat and alcohol. 
Personally I am a big fan of the first and a solid fan of the last. It is a sad day when the Christmas candy and holiday cookies run out. They are such an effective means of dealing [...]

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SB-400 Speedlight

 
For Christmas I received a Nikon SB-400 flash for my camera, which is good because it is what I asked for. I wanted the flash unit because I never use the flash on my camera, I always utilize ambient light. With the seperate flash I will be inclined to actually use it as it will not directly [...]

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Packing Heavy

 
For the first time my immediate family was broken apart for Christmas. It was not from a divorce, rather it was my brother going to Colorado with his girlfriend (her family) for Christmas. What shocked me about this revelation was the packing.
My brother grew up in the same household as I so he knows how [...]

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Merry Christmas

 
I want to with everyone a Merry Christmas.
And I mean that in a completely non-religious way. I take the Christmas approach of the Japanese, all of the decadence and commercialism with none of the religious aspect. I feel that it is a good cultural holiday with good traditions (trees, presents and cookies) and just always happens to [...]

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My First Lensbaby

 
 
A week ago I finally received my belated birthday gift (belated as it was not released yet) a LenBaby Composer. A Lensbaby is a prime camera lens that rotates in a ball socket, instead of having a plane of focus there is a movable spot (sweet spot). Because of the rotating and unusual focus it [...]

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Flickr Pro

 
 
 
Every time I post a photo on this blog I also upload it to Flickr. I suppose I do this to increase the visibility of my photos and sometimes I want to show someone a photo when i am away from my computer. In any case I am approaching the limit of the free Flickr [...]

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Giveaway

 
Yesterday I fell upon a link to a MacHeist software giveaway. And I love free software.
By signing up you get free copies of Synergy and Enigmo 2. Synergy is an iTunes extender program that I did not really care about, Enigmo though is a casual puzzle games and I thought I would try it out.
First [...]

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