My personal blog

This little blog is just a place for me to say whats on my mind, since there usually isn't a lot on my mind, there won't be a lot of posts ;)
Jan 30
2010

Vacation Day 7-8

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Tagged in: weather , video , photography

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We got a few inches of snow on Thursday and Kristi came up with a great idea of doing a time lapse of us cleaning the snow off of the driveway and patio. We did most of the time lapse on Friday and finished it up today, here is the result.

Jan 26
2010

Vacation Day 4

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Tagged in: photography

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Today the weather was much better so we went the to the Hutch Zoo and back to Dillon Nature Center.  I was hoping to be able to get some good pictures of geese taking off and landing, as it turned out I only got a few good shots of them taking off.  Here are few of the pictures from day 4 of our vacation.

Jan 25
2010

Vacation Day 3

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Tagged in: photography

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Today was the day we went to Dillon Nature Center, and if it hadn't been blowing a 100 miles an hour it would have been very nice!  The forecast for tomorrow has much lighter winds so we may go again and be able to take a little more time, without freezing our knickers off!  Here are some of the shots from today's adventure.

Jan 23
2010

Vacation Day 1

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Tagged in: R/C , photography

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Today was the first day of our vacation, and since it was a beautiful 56 degrees outside we decided to play with our R/C toys and our Canon T1i. We drove my Tamiya 1/10th scale Ford F-150 and flew my E-Flite Blade MSR.

Jan 18
2010

New Lens

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Tagged in: photography

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I got my new lens last week and the weather was finally nice enough on the weekend to get out and take some test shots with it.  My new lens is the Canon EF 70-300 IS USM I am using this lens on my Canon T1i so my actually focal length is 112mm - 480mm (1.6 Magnification).  Here are a few of the resulting shots.

Jan 10
2010

Snow Time Lapse?

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Tagged in: weather , video , photography

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Well, we were supposed to get snow the other day, so I thought what a perfect time to test out my new Canon T1i doing time lapses.

I charged the battery on my T1i and on my EeePC all the way in preparation for 4 hours of snow fall.

I set the T1i in full auto thinking that would work nicely for any changes in lighting, and setup the EOS utility on my EeePC to capture 720 pictures at 20 second intervals.
Well the snow didn't come, and I forgot about the flash in full auto, so this turned out to be a very boring 30 second video with about 10 seconds of reflected curtains, because of the flash! Oh well it was a good learning experience and I found out that I should be able to shoot for about 8 hrs using my EeePC as a intervalometer.

Aug 04
2009

Asus EeePC 1000HE

Posted by: ltkermit

Tagged in: software , hardware , computers

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Well I finally got an EeePC, after leaving my old job (hooray!) I no longer had a laptop to use on the road, except for our old HP that we lovingly named "Fatty". Since I am doing computer service work for people, having a laptop with me is a huge time saver and convenience. I didn't want to spend more money on a laptop than I would be able to quickly recover so I thought an EeePC would be perfect. I spent lots of time on my favorite online store (it might be newegg...) looking at all of the netbooks and user reviews and decided on the EeePC 1000HE.

I picked the 1000HE over the others because of four five main features:

  1. Windows XP (I plan to dual boot with Ubuntu but wanted a XP license too)
  2. Bluetooth
  3. Multi-touch, touch pad
  4. Extremely high battery life
  5. Oh and Price ;-)

Here are the main specs of the 1000HE

Jul 03
2007

Bogus E-Card email

Posted by: ltkermit

Tagged in: software , computers

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Hey I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about bogus e-card emails. I have been receiving emails lately that say "You've received a greeting postcard from a school-mate!" or "You've received a greeting postcard from a friend!" in the subject line. Do not click on the link in these emails! I know some of them say Hallmark.Com, but if you look at the link it will have an IP address like this one http://222.119.120.109/ or similar number. These are bogus and should just be deleted from your email! If you get a real e-card it will say who it came from and most likely be from Yahooo or similar company.

Here is a screenshot of the bogus email (notice how Thunderbird said it might be a scam)