I don’t think I’ve ever really considered GE a real contender in the camera market… They make cameras? Anyway, the specs on this camera are pretty crazy… 10 Megapixels, HDMI Out and Built in GPS so it will GeoTag your photos… That is pretty cool. I have manually Geotagged most of the pics I have thrown up on on Flickr and it is a bit of a pain…
Oh, and all of those features will set you back 250 one dollar bills. Nice.
GE unveils the geotagging 10 megapixel E1050, eight other new cams – Engadget
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Went up to Stevens Pass this weekend, stayed at Brent’s cabin with Eric, Brent and Scott. We hit The Squirrel Tree for dinner… Yeah, they have a pretty kick ass web site. There were some gentlemen in The Squirrel Tree lounge Friday night who looked like they were out of some weird Great White North version of Deliverance. I don’t think it helped that after Scott asked for 3 different whiskeys they didn’t have, I ordered an O’Douls… Scott, Eric and Brent each ordered a different variation of cow… All in the 16oz range… I worked through O’Douls and some Onion Rings.
After The Squirrel Tree, we headed back to Brent’s cabin and watched the new Kevin Bacon movie, Death Sentence, on DVD. What a hunk. The movie is just awful. Like, it’s weird when movies that bad get made. I wasn’t expecting much, but damn.
Anyway, we made it out alive and hit up Stevens Pass Saturday morning. It snowed most of the day so by the time we left there was probably ~2" of new powder everywhere. We hit up Seventh Heaven a couple of different times, by the last run my 40 year old knees were very sad… We packed up and had a nice 4 hour commute home in near whiteout conditions. Awesome.
The Squirrel Tree.
O’Doul’s, Scotch and Brent.
Eric and Brent, cuddling up on the Double Black Diamond Seventh Heaven Lift… "Falls may result in uncontrollable slides"…
Eric and Brent, ‘Posing’…
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Vickie has been making jewelry for quite a while now, but hasn’t really had anywhere to put the stuff on the old internets… We have looked at Etsy.com for quite a while, mainly shopping, but hadn’t really looked at putting stuff up there. That changed today.
http://www.beachjewels.etsy.com
We made up a little banner (in MS Paint – What a nightmare), and she just posted her first item. Go there. Buy Stuff.
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If you have $1.6 million dollars burning a hole in your pocket this car could be just what you need.
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I saw this on my make feed, which was linked from Etsy, via Boing Boing… Damn. This one is sold out, and it was $59.00… I guess once you get linked from Boing Boing and Make things fly off the shelf… You can get on her reserve list for a custom one.
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Went snowboarding with Jonathan and Les today. We went to Snoqualmie, cuz it’s close. The morning visibility at the top was about 6 inches in front of your face, but it burned off by early afternoon.
Conditions… So So.
Crowds… B A N A N A S.
Fun… Yeah.
Les coming off a little kicker…
Ed coming off the same spot…
Jonathan attempting a jump his 2nd time on a board…
Pretty fun… We found that jump at the end of the day so only were able hit it a couple times. All in All a pretty great day. Next weekend? Crystal?
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I finished up I Am Legend by Richard Matheson a few days ago. This was the 3rd post apocalypse book in a row I read, enough. I am now back on Spook Country By William Gibson.
I Am Legend the book is fairly different from the recent Will Smith movie, enough so that I wouldn’t really say they are the same story. The Matheson book is filled with some straight up garlic hating vampires. They did get that way from a bacteria, but still… Sun Light, Garlic, Mirrors, the whole bit.
Anyway, after The Road and World War Z I am ready for a break. Maybe a little Locative Sci-Fi from Gibson will do the trick.
Book List ‘08
- Half the Blood of Brooklyn By Charlie Huston
- I Am Legend By Richard Matheson
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Finished up Half the Blood of Brooklyn last night, which makes it the first book of 2008. This is Huston’s 3rd book in the Joe Pitt Vampire series. While I liked the book, I think I enjoy his pure Crime Noir stuff a little more. The Caught Stealing series about Hank Thompson is just brutal and awesome. The characters in the Joe Pitt world are little tough to really root for. The basic premise is that New York is full of different vampire clans that are all fighting to survive. The problem is basically that even in a city as big as New York you can’t have a few hundred dead people showing up with all their blood drained every night. That would cause some concern from the uninfected in the city. One clan I did find myself kinda digging was the old school Jewish clan, fedoras, ringlets in their hair and fangs. I haven’t read enough Vampire fiction to know if this a particularly new idea or not, but if your into Noir or Vampires or Noir Vampires this book is pretty great. Read. Read.
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This pic ("Nano-Explosions") is from an electron microscope of an overloaded CoFeB magnetic array (whatever that means)… I just love these tiny microscopic mushroom clouds, you can almost see all the little electrons hitting their bomb shelters.
Apparently lots of other people like the pic too, as it won first prize in a "Science as Art" competition. I found the post at http://io9.com a science / science fiction site. Dig It.
(Image: Fanny Beron, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)
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