1. Prius Oil Change

    October 28, 2007 by jim

    Trying to time the last oil change before winter so I can get to spring. In a little over four months we put 3,808 miles on the Prius since the last oil change on June 16th. We're at 4,760 miles on the car at this oil change.

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  2. More great help from Time Warner

    by jim

    We upgraded our TV recently from a 26" tube to a 32" LCD. We had to swap out our regular Time Warner DVR to a HDDVR. It turns out the Scientific Atlantic 8300HDC box has software that is quite buggy. I had read this online as I struggled to set up the DVR with the TV and soon found found this out first hand. Several times the DVR has crashed.

    Today the DVR crashed again and we had to reboot it because it was not sending a good signal. After the first reboot we were greeted with this message:

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    Note the phone number. Now I know it's very easy to erase that last digit in Photoshop but I assure you it was not there. For the record the last number is a 3.

    One more reboot of the DVR fixed the problem.

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  3. Ann, Flat Stanley with Amy Sedaris

    October 24, 2007 by jim

    Amy Sedaris was in Akron to promote her new book I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. She spoke at the library and signed books afterward. The free lecture was packed, with several hundred turned away.

    My wife and I were among the last people to get in. About 50 of us were allowed to sit on the stage.

    We brought along Flat Stanley as a favor to a friend who is a schoolteacher in Tennessee. One of her students didn't know anyone outside their county so we agreed to adopt Stanley for him.

    The rest is best told by the image below.

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  4. More Digital Holgas

    October 22, 2007 by jim

    A few more from the Vivitar Mini Digital

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  5. Digital Holga? The $10 Vivitar Mini Digital

    October 20, 2007 by jim

    I've been thinking again about destructionist photography and the randomness of the Holga. I'm always amazed by Michal Daniels' work, made with the camera mounted on a Palm Pilot organizer. His site, 640×480.net, is like a raw nerve.

    There is something about those images that are so less than technically perfect, but done so with a purpose. Even camera phones are now turning out amazing quality images.

    I found this $10 camera at Walgreens. It shoots 20 images at 352×288 at 72 pixels per inch. The camera has no LCD and will take 20 images. There is a pop-up glass window that gives a vague idea of what will be recorded. The only way to download the photos is on the PC. The Mac won't recognize the camera. There is about a second delay when taking a photo. It eats the single "AAA" battery that powers it, so only load the battery when shooting.

    There's a place somewhere for this camera. Sample images from my first shoot below from a half-hour spin around my neighborhood:

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  6. The Black Keys

    October 4, 2007 by jim

    The making of the "Just Got To Be" video, 2007

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    Shot with the trusty, little $200 Sanyo C40.

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