Sonics last nite. The Seattle Times: Sports: Notebook: After speaking up, Lewis gets touches he desires

How do you describe the most ferocious dunk since Vince Carter was a rookie? Since words won’t do any of forward Rashard Lewis’ jams justice, let’s just say he brought the house down when he palmed a Brent Barry missed three-pointer and stuffed the ball through the hoop with the velocity of a Mike Tyson punch.

Top Selling Digital Cameras. Interesting to look at this – at Amazon.com, clearly weighted towards the $150-300 price range. 6 Canon, 5 Sony, 4 Olympus, 3 Kodak, 3 Fujifilm, 2 Minolta, 1 Nikon, 1 Sipix in the top 25. The Walmart top seller list is a little different – 4 Canon, 3 each of Kodak, Olympus, HP, 2 each of Nikon, Vivitar, Fujifilm, and Sony, and then 1 each fo Toshiba, Meade, Concord, Minolta. I need to check some retail locations too to see what is selling.

Epson 2200. Both Bush and paul maritz are very happy with the Epson 2200 for photo printing. Paul showed me some big prints and they looked great.

Activewords. An interesting idea, I could use system-wide macros – ActiveWords Home Page. But I had to uninstall, it seemed a little too aggressive at capturing keystrokes, there were times when i couldn’t seem to type anything into any program, Activewords was eating everything. Too bad.

Whirlyball. One of the school classes is headed here tomorrow – WhirlyBall Edmonds/Seattle - home – looks like a total blast.

Modelling and Simulation Software. Need to dig into this later – may have some software useful for my pneumatic circuit models – Links to Modelling and Simulation Software

Image Selection Tool. Gleaned from Clay Shirky’s newsletter, Image Selection Tool has some really interesting ideas (tho the worst name imaginable?). The idea of melding storylines and storytelling with pictures is very interesting.

Diversi-Tune. Wow is there a lot of karaoke software on the web. Astounding, clearly a huge interest area that I am not totally in tune with. We are trying out Diversi-Tune – we are putting some of our own words to a couple standards for some school follies. Bill at divtune has been super helpful too, sending me the info on how to edit the word files, the bouncing ball, etc.

Amor Ministries. Allie we are very proud of you – this looks like a great effort – Welcome to AMOR MINISTRIES! Feel free to look around and ask questions!

America to European Comparison. Fascinating read Rich found – Tong Family Blog: America to European Comparison

A New Kind of Science. I’m 200 pages in or so and I have to agree with this reviewer’s views – Amazon.com: Books: A New Kind of Science

His writing is hugely, vastly self-important as well as highly affected. (He claims that’s necessary for clarity! A joke, presumably.)

As a wise friend once observed to me, “most nonfiction books should really be pamphlets”, and that seems to be the case here in spades. The first 200 pages have about 5 interesting points – a powerpoint slide or two would have sufficed.

My Picture Hardware. Someone reading my blog recently asked me what kind of photo hardware I use.

i am not a photo enthusiast. i am just a dad who wants a modest number of pictures. i don’t want to learn about f-stops, shutter speeds, exposures, etc. my ideal camera has one button. so given that…

i currently use 3 cameras – 2 still, 1 video. (i don’t count the panasonic gd87 phone as one of these). For everyday stills, I use the casio exilim – 2megapixel. very small, long long battery life. i use it alot because it is easy to slip in a pocket. it has crappy optics, digital zoom – a real photo geek would sneer at it. but it is useful. I also have a kodak dx4900. better optics than the casio, 4 megapixel, really easy download to pc, and easy to recharge. battery life kind of sucky tho. and too big to carry around all the time. But C likes the pictures better.

for printing drafts, i use an hp color laserjet. for final prints i use shutterfly. i tried all kinds of printers, and a) C was never happy with the prints, b) the printers were very finicky and slow, and c) the consumables were so expensive. once i moved to a service, C was happy, and it was less hassle for me.

For video i use a canon gl1. kind of expensive but takes great movies and corrects for a lot of my flaws. I don’t understand what even 10% of the buttons on this camera do.

Copying documents from home to work. I copied all my photos from home to work today. Both PCs are always on, on broadband connections. Creating a connection between them tho is so hard, regular humans could never do this. I ended up using the remote terminal goo in Windows XP but what a mindblower this is. Opening up a window on the remote pc, seeing your local drives mapped in crazy new places within this window with funny names – i can’t imagine explaining this to a regular human being. It seems like such an easy task – copying files from home to work. Why is it so hard?

Digitial Image Recovery. This looks like a vital tool – Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery – if you haven’t corrupted a memory card yet, well, you will.

The Tyranny of Email. Good read here – Critical Section - The Tyranny of Email. Another good reason to turn off the blackberry on weekends, and maybe during the week sometime too. The blackberry makes the tyranny pervasive, and that is not a good thing.