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Eye Test
20/20 by cogdogblog posted 23 Dec ’08, 9.07am MST PST on flickr Make your own Custom Eye Chart www.eyechartmaker.com No cheating, cover the left eye and read the smallest line you can see clearly.
20/20 by cogdogblog posted 23 Dec ’08, 9.07am MST PST on flickr Make your own Custom Eye Chart www.eyechartmaker.com No cheating, cover the left eye and read the smallest line you can see clearly.
I will tap into a generational nerve (if you get no response, read someone else’s blog post) with a curiosity as to how, over time, the answer to that sacred answer was changed: Yes, I never liked the Owl’s cheap answer, and always thought the number of licks to get to the center of a […]
Is there anything to be optimistic about regarding the financial bombs? Is everyone expecting the sky to fall? Should I worry about my content hoisted in those once shiny new Web 2.0 sites suddenly evaporating. And damnit, will I be slashing more tools from my 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story? (It might […]
Now That is Technical Detail! by cogdogblog posted 16 Dec ’08, 7.08pm MST PST on flickr There was a slight leak in the computing cloud when I was just checking my email. I figured it would close quickly (and it did), but I was curious at the link provided offering technical details. Ah- that makes […]
I just did something I’ve not done in a while. I finished a novel 😉 Sadly, it was one that was sitting on my shelf a long time, picked up maybe 2 years ago in a local thrift store recommended by Brian when he visited here. I’m not going to launch into some sort of […]
Useful Highway Tweets by cogdogblog posted 14 Dec ’08, 5.53pm MST PST on flickr Thanks to @sorden I know am following ArizonaDOT – Department of Transportation which is now tweeting accidents and highway closures. I am trying getting these tweets via SMS – the message above would have helped a few days ago when I […]
It was by sheer accident a few years ago that I found if I tagged/ captioned my photos of flowers in flickr with “unknown” or “unidentified” that I was indirectly asking for help… and people I did not know would respond. I’ve relayed in presentations quite a few time the improbable but true-I-have-witnesses story of […]
Blue Fire. by tesla1000 posted 16 May ’06, 12.49pm MDT PST on flickr Miles Waldrons T.C. Clintlightning@aol.com Like the web first did about 12 years ago, Twitter seems to have jumped an inflection point from something weird and for geeks only… to something else. Who would of thought? I did not when I first tweeted […]
Lifehacker’s Top 10 DIY Photography Tools is a mine of nifty gems for photographers to up their own photo mojo. Besides what I learned (see below), I am finding myself thinking more about the rise of the DIY (Do It Yourself) culture on the net- there surely is a future blog post relating that to […]
About two weeks ago I got to Skype video chat from Iceland with Brian Crosby’s 6th grade students in Reno; and, as luck had it, I had a visit December 10 with his school district. So I made it in the plans to visit the kids at Agnes Risley Elementary School. Talk about excited motivated […]