While getting myself ready for Halloween, I started to reread Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, a story about two young friends and the terrifying adventure they have when a magical carnival comes to town. What keeps me reading is the humanity of the characters and the way Bradbury deals with life, death, youth and old age.
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There’s no excuse for my behavior. I could claim it’s a sickness, but if I don’t admit that I have a problem, I’ll never be able to get better.
If you looked at my LinkedIn profile, you’d see that I am an “Itinerant Pastor” - fancy speak for somebody who preaches without having a church - a fact which might seem strange to the people I work with.
One thing I love about literature is the way words bring out pictures in our mind that our eyes could never see or make sense of. For my birthday, Amy got me a copy of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, a futuristic Canterbury Tales set in a universe so utterly foreign that it took me [...]
This morning, while booting up Firefox, I noticed that PicLens is now Cooliris, Inc. What do you think of the update?
Ever since we decided this week’s Flickr Challenge would be “Getting in Close: Nature,” I was excited. I’m one of those people that just love hazy, out of focus shots of the edge of a rock or a flower or a waterfall… anything that captures my imagination and reminds me of how I experience the [...]
As we finished our weekly editorial meetings last night I knew we were gearing up for a great week. As a very interested but very amateur photographer (the perfect position for an editor who has to read every post before it goes online) I look forward to every tip, trick, hack and insight that sheds a little light on how the pros get their work done…
So I finally got my photos off of the SD card in the Nikon camera and I’ve decided this whole sharing a camera thing just doesn’t work. Then I remember that before the DSLR there was the Canon point-and-shoot that seemed to work so well for years. Why not just use that [...]
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