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My Thai Sunset Photo got Featured!

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Wow! One of my photos I took of a sunset in Koh Lipe, Thailand was surprisingly featured in Stuck on Earth, a iPad photo app made by my photography hero @TreyRatcliff! I was browsing the the featured photos section, and came across a photo where I thought "Wow, I took a shot just like that!", and then my eyes drifted down to the photographers name to elatedly discover that is was me! I'm honored and amazed :)

Exploring the Parisian Catacombs

I was recently asked what my favorite travel story is, and this is it. I didn't take my camera with me as I was told we'd be getting wet, but I wish I did. Oh well. Makes the memories that much more savored. I did just jump around the webernets and have featured several pictures to share what it was like.

Paris ~ Summer 2006

My travel buddy and I were being shown around Paris by a native friend, and after a standard tour of the standard sites, I look over to my friend and ask: "Well, what do YOU do here? I know you don't go to the Eiffel Tour, hang out on the Champs Elysees, and gaze off the Arch di Triumphe in your spare time. What do you do for fun?" He turns to me, and gives me a sly look and says something I'll never forget in a purely Parisian accent: "Well, we go to the catacombs." He goes on to describe the underground network of caverns, tunnels, and caves that lie underneath Paris. How the tourist destination, the official Catacombs is a mere 5-10% of what is down there. How he has a map of what is called the Carrières de Paris or the Quarries of Paris. How he knows of several illegal entrances. And how it is awesome.

He tells us that we'll start at about 11pm and get done around 7am.

Coding a Better Govermnet

What a great talk. Really demonstrates a mindset that is very similar to mine about how technology can really, really help and heal a lot of things. Love her line about the digital generation not being a generation of talkers (because every single one can talk, and be heard), but a generation of doers. We don’t want to take credit for it, we just want it done.

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Setting up arrow keys on your home row

For Mac, I find this to be AWESOME (seriously): Go into System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys, then change Caps Lock to Control, which is helpful because Control is hard to hit, then install KeyRemap4MackBook, then enable the Diamond Cursor, which makes it so:

  • Control+J is your left arrow
  • Control+L is your right arrow
  • Control+I is your up arrow
  • Control+K is your down arrow

Basically, you hold caps lock, and then your right hand's default position on the home row is now sitting on your arrow keys. This way, you can use arrow keys without leaving the home row, which greatly increases speed. I'm now to a point where I cannot use another Mac without this installed.

Environmental Neglect in Thailand

I just watched 2 construction workers take a payload of glass panes from their site up to the edge of the jungle and toss pane after pane into the jungle. It was really sad to watch. No concern given to the beautiful area they live in, Railay Beach in the gorgeous area of Krabi, Thailand. Or maybe no better way to dispose of it and I just don't understand the way things are. However, I simply refuse to believe that it is OK. It was obviously know as wrong at some level to them since right after I walked up drop jawed and started to pull my camera out, they stopped and took a couple steps back. After I walked on I looked back to see them resume their environmental neglect. I came back about 10 minutes later and took some pictures of the glass landing zone and then another shot of them filling up another payload of glass to be thrown into the "pristine" jungle. Boo!

I love technology

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I love technology. Quite possibly the greatest tool humanity's created, it allows me to learn about my environment as I walk through it, creates the situation where work is something I do not someplace I go, allowed me to teach myself a profession I didn't graduate college for, lets me see my mothers face smile a half-world away, helps me not waste a library's worth of paper, and disperses ignorance through collective wisdom. It's all in how you use it. Use it well.