On Sunday evening I decided to have a cup of Maxwell House “Cinnamon Royale” instant coffee for a treat. This was probably my second or third cup made using this tin. Anyways I took out a clean insulated mug and checked it as always because our dishwasher leaves crud in them sometimes. It was clean. ...

Came across the the Universal Light Code. It’s basically a nifty system of mapping common lighting situations to a letter code. (ie. Full sunlight = B, City skyline after sunset = G, ….) Then there is series of tables that can associate the letter code with various aperture / SS combinations. It’s kind of a ...

On Friday night Anji and I went to her company Christmas party which was quite enjoyable. The food was very tasty. Saturday morning Dad came over and we started work building our deck. Naturally a couple hours into the job it started snowing pretty hard and it was really cold. But we persevered and essentially ...

Was looking Rick Olsen’s site which has some neat tech tips for old cameras including repair info and how they work. If you are curious how the shutter timing works for purely mechanical cameras this site has the goods. Here is a nifty tip for improving flash shots. It’s basically using a white card mounted ...

Anji and I are wanting to build a deck and get after it here. Originally this seemed pretty simple. We essentially want two separate 13×12 decks where one is 8″ down from our kitchen door and the other is 8″ down from that. We already have the concrete footings poured and rough plans drawn up. ...