brainwagon

Well, last year I recorded a simple quicktme of the fireworks using my little Nikon 4500 from Jack London Square. This year, I decided to take out my new JVC MiniDV camcorder, and trundled it down to Pinole to try the same. I brought a tripod, set it up in manual mode with a best […]

Check out this movie of the impactor as viewed from the flyby spacecraft. Cool.

Right next to Pixar is a little outfit called Fantasy Junction that deals in customized and rare automobiles. Occasionally there are trucks parked outside delivering odd automobiles. When I rounded the corner this morning, these guys were pushing this little racer out around back, and I snapped a quick picture from my cameraphone.

Where your host tries to shake off his morning jolt with some gadget news and a brief bit about some weekend fireworks in space. Links from the show: Opera for Windows Smartphones has been released. I have a Motorola MPX220, so I downloaded it and gave it a shot. Pretty neat, check it out. Orb […]

Giants looked ugly, with five errors. Nice catch by Byrnes, who also had a bad running mistake on a Giants error.

Second inning. Addendum: Wow, how crappy is the zoom feature on my camera phone? Rhetorical question. Serious answer: really crappy.

I’ve tweaked my flickr upload template a bit to be a bit more WordPerfect friendly, and to use my existing style sheet instead of interjecting its own CSS in every post. This photo was one I did with my Nikon 4500 using an infrared filter. I kind of liked it.

Just testing some magic from A List Apart for doing CSS drop shadows. This requires all sorts of skullduggery with negative margins and the like to pull off, but doesn’t pollute the markup too badly.

While scanning for reference photos of brains, I found this baseball card for David Leonard Brain. He played for the Reds, the Giants, the White Sox, the Cardinals and the Boston Beaneaters. 🙂 You can get all his career details from baseball-reference.com, including the fact that he lead the league in 1907 with 10 homers. […]

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Picnic at Clos du Val, originally uploaded by brainwagon. Enjoying a picnic lunch of bread and cheese with Carmen.

On the Napa Wine Train, originally uploaded by brainwagon. Having fun with Carmen

I have a romantic view of baseball, and it is always startling when confronted with the reality that baseball is a business first, and the national pastime second. It is, after all, a game. Games have rules, and rules are to be followed. I’ll boo Sosa because he corked his bat. I’m not fond of […]

Yesterday I did some thinking bout how to prevent more of the spam that floods (or at least leaks into) my sight, and decided to give a whirl to SecureImage, a plugin that implements a CAPCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) . You’ve seen these before: type in the […]

Tom sent me a pointer to Jef Poskanzer’s notes on how he handles a million spam messages every day. No, that’s note an exaggeration, Jef gets hit by a million of them every day. Holy crap. Jef is a the author of the really nice thttpd, which I used to run my website for years […]