Jun 30

“L” = Luxury

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Camera
Canon “L” (Luxury?) Lenses are by far the best lenses I have used in my short stint as a amature digital photographer.

The one here on the right is the Canon EF 500mm f/4.0 L IS USM Lens Review.

I ended up buying two “L” lenses so far. They are a bit pricey but they sure do the job nicely. They tend to be heavier than the regular non-L lens you can buy from Canon. I guess that means I’m up to 5 lenses now. Two zoom “L”, two non-L zooms and a macro.

Here is a shot of one of the first good photos I was able to take with my new super-cool Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM Lens. Yeah, I like it a lot.

I’m never going back to non-L lenses again.


Jun 27

Power Issues

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Work
I went over to our little datacenter about 6:30pm Sunday evening to check the A/C unit, whose breaker got kicked again. Arrived to find the generator running, still. Appears the regular utility Power was not feeding our building, and the gauge on the Propane tank read at about 10%. It had been this way since Friday evening. OUCH

So, I got ahold of the national Amerigas folks and they dispatched the guy at $90/hr to fill us up. The guy actually wondered if I wanted to wait until tomorrow morning. Umm..no. He ended up being a customer of ours and said he was able to get on all weekend.. Despite our power being out :)



I also got the Power company on-call guys to come and replace the fuse that got shot on the transformer. Now I know what to look for when the transformer fuse goes out.



So now we’re back up on regular Power and the propane tank is full at 100%. We probably had about 4-5 hours left on the tank.. Maybe more, who knows.



It must have been a site for those on-call guys to see me in my Sunday best, worrying about power/propane.

Jun 17

Craig Conan and Max

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Random

So I’ve been staying up late the last few nights watching the Late Late Show with TV’s Craig Ferguson. Wow, Craig is quite the funny guy. He’s not just one of those Hollywood celebrities, but a comedian for the little guy. It’s a different humor than Jay Leno or Conan.. ahh.. Conan. I remember my days of watching him and the Max Weinberg 7. Max was probably the only reason I watched that show. Max is the drummer on Conan’s show and always wears a three-button suit, all buttoned up. He plays his set with ease and always has this smile on face as he plays. Makes it quite enjoyable to watch.

Anyway, that’s all I got for today. Craig is funny. Conan used to be funny. Max freaking rules playing the set.

Jun 15

Aloha!

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Random

Whether it is greeting or farewell, it matters not. It is either Ofa! Alofa! Aroha! Talofa! or Aloha!

(from a list of different polynesian languages, see below).

al = god in polynesian El = god in Hebrew.
What is it in Arabic – the sons of Ishmeal? ALlah. Ishme-al.

spanish a-DIOS to God. Adeus in portuguese. adieu in french.

Gut-ten, good, = gott = God.

All of these greatings are invocations for god to be with you.

http://www.janesoceania.com/samoa_origin/

http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/shelties/mahalo-aloha.html

Jun 12

I’m back….

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So I’m testing out the DashBlog wiget for Tiger. I tried it out a few weeks past, but it was an old clunky version. This one is actually a little better looking, and hopefully will allow for some more frequent posts.

Yeah, I know I haven’t posted much since last August (Education Week), but, well, now I have a separate blog for my photos and my real ‘blogging’ activities…

Enjoy.