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On Lomography

I’ve known Sarah Zucker for some time through her photography online. her essay, On Lomography echoes many of the sentiments regarding “Lomography” that I’ve been feeling. Other “Lomographers” inspired me to begin capturing intimate and mundane moments in my life on film. I shared my photos on lomo.org and lomo.us, two online bulletin boards, and […]

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It’s Not The Photographer, It’s The Camera!

I enjoy reading the high end DSLR discussion boards on the internet. Those gearheads go ape over minute differences in “chromatic aberration” and “barrel distortion”. They peep at pixels in Photoshop to see if their lens is able to give them a sharp image blown up to the size of the side of a barn. […]

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Cheap Coffee of the Week – DUNKIN DONUTS ORIGINAL BLEND

When it comes to cheap coffee, Dunkin Donuts is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room. They’re making a play for America’s coffee pot and want to be a competitor to Starbucks in made-to-go coffee. At $6.00 for a 12 oz bag at my local Target store, however, DD enters the cheap coffee realm. While […]

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Cheap Coffee of the Week — CHASE AND SANBORN SPECIAL ROAST

  This was another can’t-pass-it-up deal – $2.99 for 10.5 ounces at Walgreens. It’s a decent, medium-bold blend. I find myself making an afternoon cup on weekends. Normally, I never drink coffee on weekends after my morning cuppa.

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Cheap Coffee of the Week — FOLGERS CLASSIC ROAST

Folgers was on sale for $4.99/10.5 ounce can at Safeway. It’s nowhere near as smooth as Yuban Original, but rich with nuances of formica counters, leatherette and chrome stools, heavy diner mugs, pies in refrigerated cases and waitresses named Vera. The can went surprisingly fast. I’d buy another can, but I’m playing the coffee field […]

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Lomography is…

Lomography is… from Sofya Suhova on Vimeo.

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Cheap Coffee of the Week — ARCHER FARMS ITALIAN ROAST

Decent coffee? AT TARGET? Cheap. $6.79/12 oz bag. Ground or whole bean. Italian, French, Columbian and Guatemalan blends. Surprisingly smooth, not the freshest beans in the bag, but buzzworthy. Worth a look. Target sometimes has small bags of coffee for $1 and online $1 off coupons. Doesn’t get much cheaper than FREE.

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All possible netmasks expanded

Sick of memorizing netmasks? So am I! Netmask 255.255.255.0 /24 (11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000) 1 subnet LOW IP HI IP x.x.x.0 x.x.x.255 Netmask 255.255.255.128 /25 (11111111.11111111.11111111.10000000) 2 subnets LOW IP HI IP x.x.x.0 x.x.x.127 x.x.x.128 x.x.x.255

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Slow Photography in an instantaneous age

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/ essay-slow-photography-in-an-instantaneous-age/ Fast is fine, but slow can be much better. Digital photography and the ascent of the Web have quickened our jobs. Instead of one deadline a day, we now have continual deadlines, bringing exponentially increasing speed to what we do at The Times. One advantage of using larger formats is that the process […]

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Telecommunications Terms – a glossary

A  key system has multi-line phones with keys that you  press to get dial tone on a specific line from the phone company’s Central Office  (CO), or to answer a call. In smaller key systems, incoming calls  usually ring at several — or all — phones. In bigger key systems, calls  usually go to the […]

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