by David | Aug 19, 2014 | photo, travel
From the back catalog, the Ferris wheel at Nice in the Côte d’Azur in 2007. Does it count as cross-processing if you use a color instagram filter on a scan from a Tri-X negative? Note the not so super moon at 3:30 or so.
by David | Mar 3, 2014 | science!, travel
I thought I knew a thing or two about peanut butter, but today I learned two new things: Peanut Butter in a jar is a liquid Peanut Butter sandwiched between crackers is not a liquid How can this be, you ask? Three letters: TSA, that’s how. On the tragicomic...
by David | Jan 9, 2014 | photo, travel
Lake Ontario Hiver froid au Canada Always bilingual
by David | Sep 16, 2013 | science!, travel
We all know that parallel lines never meet, and it’s convenient to think of the lines of longitude and timezones as parallel, but they really aren’t. The former because they’re inscribed on the (more or less) spherical Earth, and the latter because...
by David | Jan 22, 2013 | design, technology, travel
en MacBook cover, that is. Last month, I treated myself and my new MacBook to a spiffy cedar plank of a cover from Karvt. This month, I did some flying, and that included everybody’s favorite drill, take out your computer and put it in a bin all by itself. I...
by David | Jan 10, 2013 | economics, travel
With the winter holidays ahead, I decided to replace my dangerously dull moustache scissors with a fancy new pair. Stainless steel, comfort grip, finely serrated blades. My upper lip blinked and squinted in the sunlight. I recall once watching a grown man at a TSA...