http://www.mustbeart.com/wp If there's no other explanation, it must be art. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:27:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that the living room is back in shape, the old dictionary stand was looking pretty ratty, with its peeling contact paper. I decided to strip it down and repaint it to match the column. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2008/08/04/refinishing-dictionary-stand/ Back in late 2006 I wrote the following as a letter to the editor of Motorcycle Consumer News. They printed it, and stopped using TinyURLs! One small lurch forward. To: editor@mcnews.com I wish you wouldn't use tinyurl.com in the magazine, for a number of reasons. First, any error in a tinyurl code makes ... http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2008/06/26/tinyurl-considered-harmful/ I am debugging again. Why can't things just work? http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2008/05/27/114/ After this blog got hacked, I took it "off the air". Now I think I've successfully purged it and upgraded the software, so it's back! http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2008/04/27/wordpress-blog-is-back/ A few new photos from a brief session (with the wrong equipment) photographing wild-ish berries along the edges of State Park Road on Palomar Mountain. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2007/08/31/berries/ Splashblog is going off the air, so I've moved all the old cameraphone postings to a new site. Use the "Cameraphone Edition" link at the upper right. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2007/08/12/cameraphone-blog-moved/ Photos from my trip to Arkansas and Mississippi have been posted for a little while now: Allsopp Park Red Waddler Hog Farm Little Rock Riverfront And a set of art photos has just been added: Greasescapes Also don't forget to check (or subscribe to) my Flickr photos. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2007/06/27/new-photos-posted/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The old family photos we scanned at Christmas time are now posted on my Flickr page. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2007/04/22/scanned-family-photos/ After a flurry of post-processing activity, I have a few months worth of photographs now posted: Pismo Beach, October 2006 Mother Goose Parade, November 2006 First Night Austin, December 2006 Tri-Triptych Assignment, February 2007 Walk: Marian R. Bear Memorial Park, February 2007 Fridgecopia, February 2007 And a new entry in the snapshot section, too: At First Night ... http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2007/03/25/catching-up-on-photo-posting/ Same thing, this time from the Powerbook. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2007/01/28/testing-again/ Here I am fiddling with another way to post to the blog. This time, it's a Dashboard widget. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2007/01/28/test-posting/ I now have a weather station installed on Palomar Mountain, so you no longer need to squint at the fuzzy dial thermometer on the webcam image. The webcam reports to Weather Underground as a personal weather station, and they keep track of history and provide graphs. They also provide the ... http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2006/12/16/weather-station-on-palomar/ Or you'll find out why it's called Firewire. That's the chip inside a former Firewire hub. That's a closeup of the destroyed pin. These images were taken with the QX5 toy microscope. You're lucky the web doesn't have smell-o-vision yet. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2006/11/19/firewire-dont-plug-it-in-backwards/ [This was drafted for the Palomar Amateur Radio Club newsletter, the Scope.] Here are a few interesting tidbits from the AMSAT Space Symposium held near San Franciso in October. The big news seems to be that "software-defined transponders" (SDX) are coming soon. A traditional satellite transponder connects the analog IF output ... http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2006/10/29/amsat-space-symposium/ Fall Colors in San Diego captured on a walk around the neighborhood this afternoon. http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2006/10/20/fall-colors-in-san-diego/