Riley Trout Fishing, originally uploaded by seanb724. This trout pond is right near the bottom of the road up the mountain
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Riley Trout Fishing, originally uploaded by seanb724.Riley Trout Fishing, originally uploaded by seanb724.The Moon Has No Light of Its Own
I saw this in a “worldview” magazine and liked it:
Those who reject special revelation are like the Irishman who preferred the moon to the sun, because the sun shines in the day-time when there is no need of it, while the moon shines in the night time; so these moralists, shining by the by the borrowed, reflected light of Christianity, think the have no need of the sun, from whose radiance they get their pale moonlight.
The Moment it Clicks. Joe McNally.
I got this book for Kelly, but when I started flipping through it, looking at the pictures, and reading about them, I couldn’t put it down! Now, I certainly admit that I don’t know much about lighting, but I would have to say that McNally is a genius at it (and most of you know I don’t use that term often!). Of course, being married to a photographer, I know how they see things differently, and look for and notice things that I never do. But here light was presented to me in a whole new way.
Here is a quote from McNally on light, which is strikingly similar to a quote here about words I posted a few days ago…
I have always thought of light as language. I ascribe to light the same qualities and characteristics one could generally apply to the spoken or written word. Light has color and tone, range, emotion, inflection, and timbre. It can sharpen or soften a picture. It can change the meaning of a photo, or what that photo will mean to someone. Like language, when used effectively, it has the power to move people, viscerally and emotionally, and inform them…
It is not a technical manual on lighting by any means, but instead written in a way non-photographers and photographers alike can both understand and appreciate what he has done on some of these photos.
Definitely worth even if you are not a photographer but ever take pictures!
First Post Here (maybe)
I just posted this on my old 2sparrows server:
Last Post Here (maybe?)
March 20th, 2008For those of you that subscribe to this feed (all 4 or 5 of you!
), this will be the last post here. I am in the process of migrating many things off my server, as it is getting old, the colo price will be going up, I have not been that good about backing it up, etc. So far, I have migrated mail off for several domains, though not all, and now I am ready to migrate this blog off.
The new address is blog.2sparrows.org (which is a CNAME to 2sparrows.wordpress.com) and it is already up and running for the most part. WordPress.com makes it fairly easy to migrate from a personal wordpress installation — just export it in one place, and import it on another. It does not import any images, which is a bummer. But they are still hotlinked to the old server and will show up on wordpress.com. I will try to migrate them all over at some point, so that if/when my server fully goes away, they will still be visible.
(I say “maybe” in the subject as I have not fully tested wordpress.com… It seems so good in my preliminary testing so I don’t think I’ll need to change, but you never know.)
So, this is my 1st post on wordpress.com…. We’ll see how it goes.
Remember the Milk.
I’ve been using this “to-do” list for a few weeks now, and am really happy with it. The main thing that makes it great is that it is pretty easy to integrate into Google Calendar, which I constantly use. Now I can see my to-do’s for any given day right on my Google Calendar. You can add, edit, and mark completed all from Google. Beyond that, it has nice features like iTouch application, different categories and priorities, etc.
Upgraded Apple TV to 250GB
I was tired of trying to squeeze exactly what I wanted onto my original 40 GB Apple TV. While the streaming worked ok, it was not perfect. I really wanted my entire library on the apple TV in the living room. I had been eyeing an upgrade, but held off until Apple TV take 2 came out. Once that was out, I gave it a couple of weeks, but finally gave in, picked up a 2.5″ EIDE drive for about $115 from OWC, and started the process.
I started followed the steps as outlined at this old engadget post, though this does not seem to work fully anymore, and I had to modify the steps near the end to get it to work.
http://img.engadget.com/2007/03/23/how-to-upgrade-the-drive-in-your-apple-tv/
The hardest part may have been the 1st step of peeling off the rubber bottom. I probably was not patient enough, and should have started with a putty knife. I ended up with a few small tears, but nothing disasterous. Since my unit is in a cabinet anyway, it doesn’t really matter… In fact, if the bottom does tear, putting on a four rubber feet may give it better airflow/cooling anyway. For now, I just put the sleeve back on with the tears.
I then had issues with my USB <-> IDE adapter… The power connection I have it is only for 3.5″ drives, and I couldn’t get enough juice with just the USB. My neighbor had a macally phr-250cc usb/firewire 2.5″ drive encolusre that he let me borrow, and that did the trick. Plenty of power on firewire. (I have since picked up a couple of the phr-250cc’s as they are pretty nice…)
Once that worked I made an image of the original Apple TV drive… From the terminal use diskutil list to find out which disk to use, and then the following command to make an image:
dd if=/dev/disk2 of=/Users/Sean/AppleTV.img bs=1024k (mine was disk3, and I actually did this on a different volume)
There is no progress indicator, but you can go in to the finder and do a get info on it, or use another terminal window and issue a killall -INFO <pid> and that will show you how many bytes have copied.
Once that is done, you disconnect the original Apple TV drive and connect your new drive. The engadget article says you can just do the following, which is copying the 1st part of the drive rather than the whole drive, to save time, but I tried this several times and had issues further in the process…
dd if=/Users/Sean/AppleTV.img count=1335 of=/dev/disk2 bs=1024k
So I finally gave up with that and found a comment later in the thread that just copied the whole drive as follows:
dd if=/Users/Sean/AppleTV.img of=/dev/disk3 bs=1024k
When that is complete, issue this:
diskutil list
diskutil eject disk3
And then:
gpt recover disk3
diskutil eject disk3
Then remove the old Media Partition based on what you see in diskutil list:
gpt remove -i 4 disk3
diskutil eject disk3
Then find the new start:
gpt show disk3
diskutil eject disk3
Then create the new partition, using the info from the last step.
gpt add -b 2732072 -i 4 -t hfs /dev/disk3 <== this number will vray based on your drive size
diskutil eject disk3
Engadget then has your format the partiion, but that did not work for me. Either the format would fail, or if it did work, the following steps would fail — either booting the Apple TV or trying to do a restore on it.
Instead, disconnect the HD, install it in the Apple TV, and power it up. When it has booted,do a Reset Settins and then Factory Restore. It will fill the media partition from the original size to all the space that is left on its own. One interesting thing is that it comes back on s/w version 1, but it upgrades to 2 with no problem.
I then configured iTunes to sync all 110 GB of my content, which took many hours.. I run mrtg on my base station, so you can se here I got around 25 Mbps via wireless to sync. I had a misconfig in which only 5 of my movies synced the 1st time, so that is what that second spike is…
It has been running fine and it is nice having everything there all the time, with another 120GB or so free to grow into. 🙂
Teddy Roosevelt quote
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
The Law for the Wolves. Rudyard Kipling.
Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky,
And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back;
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
Wash daily from nose tip to tail tip; drink deeply, but never too deep;
And remember the night is for hunting and forget not the day is for sleep.
The jackal may follow the tiger, but, cub, when thy whiskers are grown,
Remember the wolf is a hunter—go forth and get food of thy own.
Keep peace with the lords of the jungle, the tiger, the panther, the bear;
And trouble not Hathi the Silent, and mock not the boar in his lair.
When pack meets with pack in the jungle, and neither will go from the trail,
Lie down till the leaders have spoken; it may be fair words shall prevail.
When ye fight with a wolf of the pack ye must fight him alone and afar,
Lest others take part in the quarrel and the pack is diminished by war.
The lair of the wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him his home,
Not even the head wolf may enter, not even the council may come.
The lair of the wolf is his refuge, but where he has digged it too plain,
The council shall send him a message, and so he shall change it again.
If ye kill before midnight be silent and wake not the woods with your bay,
Lest ye frighten the deer from the crop and thy brothers go empty away.
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need and ye can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill man.
If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride,
Pack-right is the right of the meanest; so leave him the head and the hide.
The kill of the pack is the meat of the pack. Ye must eat where it lies;
And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies.
The kill of the wolf is the meat of the wolf. He may do what he will,
But, till he is given permission, the pack may not eat of that kill.
Lair right is the right of the mother. From all of her years she may claim
One haunch of each kill for her litter, and none may deny her the same.
Cub right is the right of the yearling. From all of his pack he may claim
Full gorge when the killer has eaten; and none may refuse him the same.
Cave right is the right of the father, to hunt by himself for his own;
He is freed from all calls to the pack. He is judged by the council alone.
Because of his age and his cunning, because of his gripe and his paw,
In all that the law leaveth open the word of the head wolf is law.
Now these are the laws of the jungle, and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!
Sentimental, Hearbroken Rednecks. Stories from the South.
by Greg Bottoms.
I happened to see this when Kelly and I were at the Fearrington on a “Winter Getaway” as we browsed McInthosh’s book store. When I opened the book, the title “LSD in Raleigh” caught my eye, and as I started reading I saw the event occurred at the same Lalapalooza concert I was at. (No LSD for me!) After reading a little of the story, I thought I’d get the book. I am a short story fan, but it seems like this genre is out of favor these days. Or at least I don’t see it very often.
The first few stores are much less dark than the latter stories, but they are all good reads. Almost all of them have a writer as the main character.
Only a couple quotes:
- I understand that the better one gets at writing, the more one can do with language, form it and reform it like so much clay, pack it with density or strip it down, the harder writing gets……
- All writers, at least all the ones I know, regardless of background, gender, ethnicity, tend to be outsiders to some degree, socially guarded, a little scorched on the inside, entraced by the world yet not quite trusting it completely…
One other note… One of the stories makes me want to read The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake so I’ve added that to my amazon wish-list.
got faith?
I’ve seen this on a few billboards now…
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