Life and Times

I’m Engaged.

jmac — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:10:11 +0000

Marcia + Me

Laptop Exists

jmac — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:07:09 +0000

I now have a laptop again. 15″ Macbook Pro. Nice matte aluminum look with a trackpad that makes my iPhone look small.

Color IQ

jmac — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:55:38 +0000

Came across this on a blog dealing with photography. I’m fairly good at colors (even at 1am!) but it was challenging anyway.

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

So… site overhaul… I really should

jmac — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:32:58 +0000

I think that almost every day. I never get around to it.

Biggest Print Yet

jmac — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:51:38 +0000

Random bit to start off with, apparently none of my posts from Long Beach got posted… um… I feel bad about that, I’ve looked in drafts but not found them there.

Anyway, I’ve been for some time now trying to figure out what my first print on the 17″x40′ roll of Ilford Gallerie Gold Fibre Silk. Couple of options presented themselves, a standard 16×20 or a panoramic 16×36. In the end I decided to run off my most popular print “Man in Car” at 16×20. The image quality is absolutely incredible. Unfortunately I somehow managed to get it both crooked on the paper and not 16×20. But… first try.

Hi, I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC.

jmac — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:10:22 +0000

So, I’ll admit, I was somewhat looking forward to Microsoft’s $300 million ad campaign with Gates and Seinfeld. Not really because I expected to be hugely swayed by the arguments but because I thought the goal was direct competition with Apple’s Mac v. PC ads… which are funny.

Well, first one last week:

It was 3x as long as the Mac v. PC ads and didn’t actually have any sort of competition… but, I came very close to laughing at a couple of points. I didn’t laugh, but I came very close.

This week:

9x longer than the Mac v. PC ads. I intellectually thought of laughing at a couple of what I was able to realize were jokes… they just weren’t funny.

Now, I’m not going to weigh in on if this ad is effective at whatever Microsoft’s goal is. But… I was hoping with Seinfeld and Gates it would be funny. I was disappointed.

SPR site

jmac — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:13:02 +0000

Since I’ve just finished up working today I figured I’d post about it. Lately I’ve been putting time into a website for a real estate company. I’ve learned to dislike MLS companies. Anyway this is also an excuse to figure out how to post links from the iPhone.
The test server is (link removed) (forgot that there is no user bits yet, and would rather people not overly mutilate the database)

Insomnia and What to Do

jmac — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:50:04 +0000

Insomnia is slightly different with an iPhone. Normally there’s are just a few levels with limited options. Now there’s one more.
If one is fairly awake work is a decent option (I’m a freelancer) and I can go sit at the desk and do a bit of coding. More tired, but still fairly awake is the late night tv/movies/games. Then the laptop in bed reading something mindless and stupid (icanhazsleep?).
The new option goes here: poke at the phone. There are whole new levels of sleepy sleep-resistant boredom. I’ve got facebook, photo galleries, audiobooks, ebooks (even War and Peace), and, of course the rather nice worspress app to entertain my handful of remaining readers (Hi 4!!).
So, at amy rate, I’m too tired to even roll over but can’t sleep and am now out of entertainment ideas.

iPhone Arrives

jmac — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:24:42 +0000

I write for you today this entry on the iPhone.

Wordpress has a decent (and free) app for blogging.

iPhone 3G

jmac — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:05:41 +0000

I was sick Friday when they were released. My awesome Dad went and stood in line for one. They were out, so he ordered one, supposed to come in in a week or so.

Order status Results
Freight In Progress Backordered
PHONE In Progress

Does anyone else see the issues here?