Woodpress

I recently took a picture of one of my mother’s cats. Last night I spent a few hours experimenting and touching it up, and came up with a version that I really like. Detail: Today I got an 8×10 print from Costco, and I think it turned out really nice.

In You can’t verb Live Search I criticized the name “Live Search”. Microsoft has announced its new search portal… or “Decision Engine”, Bing. Yeah, you can verb Bing. Kind of. People can say “bing it!” instead of “google it!” (and it only sounds SLIGHTLY profane)… but what’s the past tense of bing? Binged? That might […]

A few days ago my oldest daughter noticed a tiny grasshopper (about half a centimeter long, at most) crawling on a window inside our house. She thought I might like to take a picture of it, so she came and told me about it. Here’s the best of my attempts:

This is what I saw when I walked out the front door this morning:

After years of online activity, I have a reasonable sample of data that says I go quiet every winter (from about December to February). Fortunately, the sun is coming back, and I am feeling increasingly communicative. I recently stumbled across a program called MyPaint for my Nokia Internet Tablet (a handheld device similar to a […]

We had a tree removed yesterday, by the skilled and and friendly Dave “E” Tree. Here’s a long-exposure picture of my kids climbing on the wood. (We’re keeping the wood–my wife wants a fire pit where the tree used to be.) We had the stump removed today. Unfortunately, during stump removal the Utopia fiber line […]

Today on the way to work, we stopped at the fedex office so Shaun (my ride) could drop off a package. While he went in and took care of that, I got out of the car and took some pictures of Timpanogos (including this one). I went back to the car, and while I was […]

My youngest child just turned 6. She had a Princess-themed birthday party. I took this picture just before the party: