Jeremey's Weblog

New Shoot

I did a photo shoot with a local friend and model-hopeful (Rebecca) and I really like the images. These are totally unaltered, they're exactly what came out of the camera, which is pretty cool. It's the first time I've really gotten complex lighting just how I wanted it in camera. I'll have links to more or to a gallery or something soon... this one is housed on Flickr.

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Whirl

Whirl
Originally uploaded by jeremey.

Spider webs are just made for radial blur. Best viewed large on Flickr.

E70

An E70 showed up today... it's basically the same software as the E61 but with the flip-out keyboard, and it has a 2MP camera... I'm jazzed to have a decent camera on board. Cool stuff... more to come once I try out VoIP and WiFi and so on.

iPhone Humor

In the process of generating a lot of buzz, the iPhone and Jobs' keynote announcement have comedians coming out of the woodwork. This excerpt from SNL and this one from The Late Late Show are two of my favorites.

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Online Gambling

Techdirt has a blurb about the amusing online gambling law and its interesting exceptions. My favorite explanation comes from Jon Stewart at the end of his segment on Ted Stevens' Internet tubes.

iPhone... WOW

Well I didn't see this one coming. Some kind of phone, maybe, a widescreen iPod, maybe... but not both, not both in one, not on an OSX mobile, and really those aren't the big story... to me the big story is the UI and the input device: you. If the iPhone is as good as it looks it will change the mobile phone and mobile device industries irrevocably.

Most exciting, long term, is that this isn't just a gadget, this is a direction for Apple. Apple has entered the mobile device market with the best device on the market by far, and that's the beginning.

The mobile phone makers (I work for one) have been developing crap software for years with very little attempt to fix the problems (the list of which is very long indeed). Problems get fixed at a snail's pace and features slowly leak (or get crammed) in, but very little really fundamentally changes. Carriers are slow to innovate, after all, why bother? People buy phones either way. The iPhone is a wakeup call... Apple has produced technology and software so compelling that it makes the current stuff from other vendors look pathetic (mine included).

iPhone is a game-changing device, and it's about time. Thank you, Apple!

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Happy Keynote Day!

'Twas the night before Stevenote... oh nevermind. Everyone else has already. But... Steve Jobs will deliver the Macworld keynote in three hours... cue frenzy!

(err... cue even more frenzy than there already has been...)

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Now That's a Knife!

My new toy... 10" Shun classic chef's knife. I have their 7" santoku already, but this is the big daddy of them all. Shun knives are crazy sharp, far sharper than my very nice German knives (due to the alloy used, etc.). Plus they're purty.

I recently discovered that Alton Brown is a big fan of Shuns too... he even has a self-made "commercial" for them, Good Eats style. See the video on altonbrown.com. And here's the link to his Shun knife page.

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