August 24th, 2009
So now you’ve seen the video with the hippies and random karate dude playing Stairway.
This is one of those apps that blows your mind on multiple levels.
First, there is the sheer genius of playing your iPhone like a recorder.
Second, there is the sheer genius of scrolling around the globe, listening to random people try to play the iPhone like a recorder.
Third, there is the sheer genius of a social site that enables sharing Ocarina “sheet music.”
That’s a lot of sheer genius. For $0.99.
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July 29th, 2009
BEHOLD THE TERRIFYING POWER OF MY MYSTERIOUS ORB!!!
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August 11th, 2008
Hi everybody! Leah Katherine Thrall was born at 6pm on Tuesday July 29th. She weighed 7lb 10.5oz. We are taking a lot of pics.
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March 11th, 2008
We went to the British Virgin Islands for a week. It was awesome! I’ve uploaded some pics.
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February 26th, 2008
The weather is here
Glad it’s not beautiful
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February 22nd, 2008
Yesterday we left a car at the Coal Creek parking lot off Teton Pass, then drove up and parked at the summit of the pass. We hiked to the summit of Mount Glory, then traversed out past Little Tuckerman’s Ravine and dropped into the Coal Creek drainage. Here’s a sample, I will post more later.
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February 20th, 2008
View from the porch:
Moonlight hike:
Taken around 11pm. Shooting at night is a lot of fun. I borrowed Dan’s portable tripod. There were two problems. Auto focus is hard at night, and manual focus isn’t really a feasible alternative with these cameras, especially lying in the snow in the dark. Also, I need to figure how to set the exposure settings to take a clear picture that is lit without making it look like daylight.
If the camera doesn’t detect enough light to auto focus, it will use the flash to light the scene for focusing purposes. So I was popping the flash, focusing, then closing the flash again. That seemed to work. I took a pic that had potential but put a low f stop on it, so I ended up with an unfocused background.
This is a lot of fun! 
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February 15th, 2008
I recently realized that I would never get around to repairing my old cheap Chinon film SLR and decided to replace it with a Digital Rebel XTI.
I had been wanting a digital SLR for a while. It is really fun to shoot in RAW mode and then tweak the image before converting it to a JPEG.
Pebbles sits still and is very photogenic.
Sammy is not as easy to catch. Her chair is not in a well lit part of the room, and she has almost no contrast compared to Pebbles.
I really wish I had this camera when Sammy was a pup.
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THE POWER OF TACOS COMMANDS YOU!