Personal Finance

For the last several years, well since starting college, I have kept track of my expenses using an excel spreadsheet.
It started out being several columns for the date, the place and the amount put onto my credit card. I felt I should keep track of what I used my credit card on in case a [...]

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University Bookstore

The University of Washington bookstore has a sweet program, I don’t know if it is unique but even if it is not it is nonetheless pretty nice. 10% of all purchases made at the bookstore are refunded to you at the end of the year. Even if you did not make the purchase, as long [...]

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Red Flower

Just a nice red flower.

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Flickr Uploads

Over the last year I have had a mixed relationship with Flickr. At first I thought it was really neat and I joined these groups to post my photos and it had this whole community thing. Then half a year later I started to feel that I could use a Pro account considered to pros [...]

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Traffic Spike

I have mentioned before that I am a sucker for statistics. Give me a good graph any day of the week. WordPress provides a statistics section on the admin page that I cannot help but check once or twice a day.
Something I have noticed is that there is occasionally a large spike in traffic followed [...]

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Imagelab FS5C05

I received an Imagelab FS5C05 slide scanner in the mail earlier this week. Finally a chance to scan some of my family slides but first I should test it out before getting excited.
I opened it up carefully, plugged it in and got out one of the slide trays. Easy enough. I put a slide (that [...]

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A Bit Fuzzy

Received a 35mm slide scanner today, the results are more then poor (more on it tomorrow). Suffice to say a basic lens with a +3 macro lens filter on it did a much better job. In fact the same combo as the photo above except it involved a tripod and a larger aperture.

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Back from Seattle

Oddly my trip to Seattle had relatively little internet connectivity. I was staying at a house with no wifi and no gracious neighbor with an open connection. My internet was limited to an hour or less a day at a Starbucks and someone else’s iPhone. It was odd to have my laptop the whole time [...]

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Keeping Time

Cell phones run off a network time.
My computer runs off a network time.
High precision watches and clocks are constantly corrected by radio (I think NIST does this).
And yet I want a pocket sun dial.
I just wish I could combine a compass and a sundial. Get a foldable light fin to put on top of the [...]

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Bad Person

For this trip up to Seattle (which I am currently in the middle of but scheduled these posts) I feel like a bad person. I usually only fly with carry-on, I make a strong point to do so. For this flight with my Mom we are checking the maximum allowed by both of us.
I am [...]

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