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Sometimes I spend time drawing with my kids. Recently I drew “squishy face” for my three year old.

I fixed my little baby digital camera. It took a while, but the operation was a success, and it’s all better now. Now I will have a digital camera with me at all times again. Phew!

I found a replacement LCD on eBay for my pocket digital camera. Soon I’ll be taking pictures again. In the meantime, I’ve been uploading old photos to Flickr. I’m uploading all my digital photos, which (with the current upload limit of 2 Gigabytes per month) will take about three years… assuming I stop taking photos […]

Browsing through photos of bugs on Flickr, I found a reference to whatsthatbug.com. Thanks to that site, I saw a photo (taken near where I live) of a Jerusalem Cricket. I’ve never seen such a critter, but it’s a great looking bug! I used Google Images to find a relatively high resolution picture of a […]

Whoa. Was that December? Is it 2006? A few days ago I stepped on my pocket digital camera (a Sony Cybershot DSC-T1) and broke the LCD. I am very sad about that. It wasn’t my high-end camera, but it was very respectable (5 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom, and excellent macro capabilities — most photos I’ve […]

I work near power lines. They’re above the parking lot. When I walk through the parking lot, I hear them buzz and crackle. Why do they crackle and buzz? What’s really happening up there? Specifically, what causes the crackling sound? I suggested to a co-worker that it might be arcing, but he was skeptical, since […]

A few days ago I took this photo on a walk near work. I really like the stripey pattern on this bug… and the subtle colors on the wings.

For everyone wondering what what you get when you ask my parents to do the American Gothic pose, this is it.