infrequently updated… like my mind
From the category archives:
As of today, my age no longer begins with a “3″. So how am I, a now 40 year old geek, doing at the usual activities for a man my age? Well, I’ve shaved my head and taken up guitar. However, I have not yet obtained the usual fast car nor the obligatory 18 year [...]
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Recently, as I have been reorienting my life following the death of my father, I have been slowly trying to learn to play the guitar. This isn’t coming completely out of left field, actually, as when I was a kid I played trumpet and trombone at school and a keyboard at home. I was starting [...]
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On my way home from the hamfest yesterday, I stopped at the Harmony Park Safari, a cageless animal preserve near Huntsville. It isn’t a zoo in the conventional sense, but more of a big natural enclosure with a gravel path for your car. They don’t have the same variety of animals as a typical zoo, [...]
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I went to the Birmingham Zoo again today, and it seems my photography skills are improving because I actually got ten images I was happy with out of around a hundred exposures. Of course, I’m also using different equipment now — today’s trip was mainly an excuse to use my DSLR and the Sigma 18-200 [...]
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