The Jazzscript bio sounds pretty exciting -- "Best Small Group" in the 2001 British Jazz Awards, so I'm looking forward to spinning up the finished product. The sale was a bit of surprise because he offered to pay me. I'm used the monthly, "can I use your photo for free" permission request on Flickr for some e-zine or Web site, and if it's not my cycling photography I generally say yes. In this case I also said yes, at which point he told me that I should charge him. That borders on saintly.
Another surprise for me is that the photo in question was taken with my old S400 ELPH, a compact 4MP point-and-shoot camera that was my very first digital camera. Since then I've bought a new ELPH, a Digital Rebel, and Canon 30D, and several thousand dollars worth of SLR lenses and accessories. With this sale, the S400 becomes my only piece of camera equipment that has come anywhere close to paying for itself. I've always claimed that it's better to have a point-and-shoot instead of an SLR if you only get one camera, but I never expected this to be the proof. I even later repeated the same beach+overexposure experiment with my SLR equipment.
This completes a media cover hat trick for me: magazine cover, CD cover, and book cover, though the book was a freebie. I enjoy the experience because I lose artistic control. With all the hours I log processing my photos, I get to see how someone else interprets and uses them instead. And adds music.
How well does your name Google? Who are you up against? (Celebrities, etc.)
Submitted by Matt Blank.
The #1 is still occupied by a controversial cop case, which is fine by me because I hear there are "Free Kenneth Conley" stickers in Boston (I'm waiting for my copy)
For awhile I actively worked to demote my own site for my name search. I've reversed course now that I've started getting into more professional photography. I could do more to raise my search result, but I already have most of the top search results.
When was the last time you interacted with any sort of wildlife?
Submitted by warpedreality.
When you go out to eat, how do you pick where to go?
Submitted by Kristine.
'tis been awhile since I've answered one of these, so here goes.
I'm a meatatarian and don't eat fish; d only eats organic meat. If we're in a large enough group, we'll often try to go some place where we can dine family style and she can gets some fish dishes and I can eat meat -- its pretty hard to find an organic meat restaurant. If its a smaller group and its still family style then it probably means we have to go somewhere where there are decent. If its just me and d we have to choose a place that meets both of our requirements and compromise. For example, Chipotle's burritos aren't nearly as good as our local joints, but they serve organic meat; Maruichi has non-pork Japanese noodle dishes whereas Ryowa doesn't (until very recently); sushi restaurants are okay as long as they have items other than chicken teriyaki on the menu.
This is why we usually cook at home :)
Toys R' Us is now selling their Wii bundles online:
The action bundle is the only one of the two that has the games I want, but $600 is a bit too rich for my tastes right now as I am still finishing up some PS2 games.
I'll be in lovely West Virginia Saturday (nephew) and return to NoVA sometime Sunday. I should be available to hang out both pre- and post- Thanksgiving.
Members of the Vox nation, I will be in DC from Nov 17-25. I hope that there will be beer, with you, in a pub, somewhere during that time.
How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something?
Submitted by LeendaDLL.
My mom picked it.
How many computers do you have in your house?
Submitted by Foomper.
About 5
Working:
- Windows desktop (runs kwc.org, does all my photo editing). This is the computer that I first built in college, though it no longer has any original parts
- HP 'Livestrong' laptop. Won this in a Trek Tour de France contest in July. This is now my principle laptop.
Retired:
- Dell laptop. I didn't really buy this as a laptop; I bought it for it's
large widescreen display (1900x1200) to watch movies. I was choosing
between an iMac-ish computer and this. Dell had a 50% deal and a better
screen, so I went with the Dell. Now that I have the HP, this rarely gets turned.
- Windows desktop. Leftover parts and previous case from my current desktop. With about $100 of parts, it could be running again, but I don't need the additional headache.
Not mine:
- My desktop frequently scoffs at the G4 PowerBook sitting next to it. One of these days there may be a MacBook Pro to teach it some respect.
At work:
- Dual Xeon workstation. My next home machine will probably be dual processor after playing with this beast.
- Dell X300. Sweet <3lb laptop that is starting to show its age and damage from mishandling.
Do you listen to podcasts? Are there any you'd recommend?
Inspired by Alex.
The podcast I listen to most regularly is JapanesePod101. The 10-15-minute Japanese language lessons are ideal for my commute and interests. I have been to Japan since starting the lessons and there was a dramatic improvement in my speaking and comprehension.
I occassionally listen to the Onion podcast, which is basically a 30-second Onion story.
Less frequently I'll listen to NPR's The Sunday Puzzle, Discovery Channel News (science headlines). I may pick up This American Life now that it has been de-Audibleized.
In vodcast land, I occassionally watch Rocketboom (b/c it's on TiVo), Zefrank's The Show, and Nova (very high quality, but they don't put out episodes very often).
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