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If these people
Tell this story
To their children
As they sleep,

Maybe some day
They'll see a hero
Is just a man...
Who knows he's free.

Good film.

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Earlier in the week, I used a recipe I found from Joyent to make some nachos. They were quite delicious, and I would recommend that you try it. The idea is that you make your chips from actual tortillas; it works quite well. Hot tip: use pickled jalapenos like they say. Don’t use fresh ones unless you have a thing for pain.

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Tim made a comment in the last post about how I need to start posting to Flickr. I meant to respond to him and tell him the reasons I wasn’t going to post to Flickr, and please did he have any other suggestions for web photo-sharing software. I was leaning heavily towards a host-it-yourself photo solution; that’s always how I’ve done it. However, F-spot has totally spoiled me with tags, and I couldn’t find any of those types that handled tagging.

So I gave the Flickr export a try, and I must say I’m impressed. It was about three clicks to set it up in the first place thanks to its integration with the browser. It already knew that I had a Flickr account, and I was already logged in. After that it’s about two clicks to send any of your photos to Flickr, tagged and everything. Flickr’s 20 MB per month limit is really not a big deal if you resize everything to 400 before you upload.

Anyhow, now I’m going to start the long upload process. Take a look.

Update: This post has been deemed to technical. (Not as in, “too l33t for j00.” It’s more of a “why would you care” issue.) A revised version follows.

Hey guys. I got on Flickr yesterday. It’s pretty rad. Also, I took pictures of Lem at Mongolian BBQ. Awesome.

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We just got a new camera yesterday. It’s a Kodak P850. I haven’t had time to really play with it much, but the thing that really stands out at first is the 12x optical zoom. I took this picture while sitting at my desk:

That is a cupon attached to our fridge. If you’ve been to our place, you know about how far away that is from my desk. My eyes aren’t great, but I can barely tell there’s writing on the cupon from here. (The photo would probably be clearer if I took the time to figure out the image stabilizer.)

Hopefully this will be good incentive to take more quality photos. (Thanks to Lem for tips on choosing a camera.)

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