If you see my flickr stream you will find a lot of flower photos. In some ways there are not too many things you can do to change up the standard shot. In lieu of having a macro lens, I have an approach for these extreme closeups– for me, I find this move in very […]
I have an attraction for taking photos of old objects that have a lot of wear and tear, like this wooden level that belonged to my Dad. Wood has this sense of absorbing some energy from the person that holds it (or it makes a nice story to tell), where is modern tools of plastic, […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Travis Estell UPDATE (Sep 21, 2013): If you are new to setting this up, see the new instructions. Poor Dean Shareski, he cannot send tweets out from his Keynote presentations a la the methods previously written up here. @cogdog I think this means keynote […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Probably my most rewarding activity since returning to my home in Arizona late last year has been tending to my landscape. Just for the record, while I live in Arizona, my house is on the edge of the Colorado Plateau, and I am […]
When Google announced their stupid lame country marrying your cousin backward decision to axe Google Reader there was a mad frenzy to find the next replacement– Pulse! Old Reader! Feedly! NewsBlur! AOL (???WTF) FlipBoard! I made a clear decision. Do nothing. It was March, there was a ton of time to wait for the dust […]
The latest MOOCs announced not doing it for you? Well, you can shake and stir up a new one at http://mooc.cogdogblog.com. It all started with a tweet question by Audrey Watters https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/349623689488240640 Seriously, if The Rash of Khan is doing it, this is the enlightened way. For was we all accredibly know, he is “The […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Last week I did a favor for a friend and took a load of trash and broken furniture to the dump. Maybe it’s me, but I find it fascinating to see where our trash ends up. I may be wildly projecting, but I […]
The title is almost Kafka-esque, maybe? No? Well, I actually send a tea bag by old snail mail to someone I do not know, in Russia. This all started with a photo I posted to flickr, showing one of the last plain black tea bags I must have bought for my Mom’s visit in maybe […]
Via Jill Walker aka jill/txt perhaps one of the first blogs I started reading in 2000, the PRISM flavored perspective of a once cute cartoon If course,, since 2003, everyone knows I am a dog on the internet. Not much spying needed to figure that out. So projecting forward, what can possibly be the next […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine You don’t plan for these things. If you did, there would be no challenge to overcome. I would not call myself super mechanically adept, but today was a bit of reinforcement of what I can do when I need to. But the platitudes […]
