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Local Color

Local Color

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Eating Organic on a Food Stamp Budget

Rebecca Blood is trying to eat cheap and organic for a month. So far, she’s posted about a week and a half worth, and she’s doing far better than we ever do. We’d be happy to hold the food budget to twice what she’s doing. Admittedly, that’s for 4 people, but one of them doesn’t eat much yet.

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Our New Best Friend

This little one found the feeder within a couple hours of it going up. So I annoyed it with the flash for a few minutes.

Our New Best Friend

Our New Best Friend

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Matched Set

Matched Set

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Teenager in Training

Teenager in Training

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Little Guy

Little Guy

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Obsession for Men

Obsession for Men

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Lightroom

I’ve been using Adobe Lightroom since the beta3 time frame, and I’ve got to say that it’s improved the results of my photography. There’s a noticeable quality improvement from the pre-Lightroom times. 1.0 has been solid, if not totally speedy on my Macbook. I have a couple of quibbles though:

  • Sharpening — there’s very little control of sharpening. I’m used to (older) Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask, and the ability to control radius and threshold is quite useful.
  • Noise Reduction — i can barely make out that it’s doing anything. At least it’s split into color and luminance noise sliders, so that the little it’s doing are on appropriate axes.
  • ‘Channel’ Mixing — This is so important that they rounded up twice the usual number of channels. I wish that there was a good way to see the individual channel contribution quickly, like the cmd-123 in photoshop.
  • The Slideshow produces a PDF. Great, but probably relies on some acrobat specific behavior to make a slideshow. This is the most useless of the 5 modes for me right now.
  • Web Galleries are a nice way to dump out the images for a quick gallery. The HTML seems a little limited. I would have liked to see something similar to the flash gallery done in HTML. (Thumbnails across the bottom, in a frame/scrolling div, and the main image on top.
  • Also in the Web Galleries, the flash versions look absolutely horrible if the image isn’t displayed at full size, since they don’t use a good scaling algorithm to adjust the image size. I’d rather that they simply let a smaller image float rather than scale an image with jaggies

All in all, that’s a pretty small list for a 1.0 product.

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Ummm. Yeah, I guess Cat and Plant do sound alike.

So, Boy is mumbling something like “Can you get me water so I can water the plants”. Sounds reasonable, except that it’s 7:30 am, I’m pre-coffee, and he’s in his jammies and welly boots, and he’s got a watering can.

Then I see the cat run across the yard. And think, hmmmm? Did he really say that he wanted to water the cat?

And he’s chasing the cat. With a watering can.

A little later, he’s found the bigger watering can, and the cat is nowhere to be seen.
Jammies. Check. Boots. Check. Watering Can. Check

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