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About ralph

Just another blog to share some thoughts with the world. Want to comment? If you know how to contact me, I can manually set up a commenting account for you. Sorry, commenting is not open to the general public at this time.

Damn, you Ice Cream truck!

Posted on Monday, 2009-Sep-7th by ralph

It seems lately that that my neighborhood has been bombarded by Ice Cream trucks. You really can’t miss them – at least by sound. That silly musical bonging playing the same thing over and over and over. The thing of … Continue reading →

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Canon T1i review

Posted on Sunday, 2009-Sep-6th by ralph

I bought the Canon Digital Rebel T1i, the 10-22mm Canon lens and the 70-200 F4 L lens + 1.4 extender, along with the kit lens, 18-55mm. Having previously owed the original digital Canon Rebel, I found my T1i to be … Continue reading →

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Meta Phography Equipment Review – Canon focus

Posted on Tuesday, 2009-Jul-14th by ralph

def: meta Something of a higher or second-order kind – AskOxford.com Or, this is a review about review sites. Specifically, photography equipment review sites.

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Flower of the Day out of Nowwhere

Posted on Tuesday, 2009-Apr-21st by ralph

Little story behind this picture. I’ve had this mystery plant popping up a few leaves in my rock garden for about 5 years now – I think it showed up as a hanger on with one of my purchased plants. … Continue reading →

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Wacom Tabet saving my wrist so far this spring

Posted on Tuesday, 2009-Apr-14th by ralph

I got a Wacom tablet this spring to help stave off carpel tunnel on my mousing wrist. I was expecting to use it only for drawing site maps, where the continual mousing all day drawing was becoming a strain. I … Continue reading →

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1TB External eSATA/USB unit @ $150

Posted on Thursday, 2009-Mar-26th by ralph

‘Ya know, having to buy computer stuff for work means you end up buying a lot more stuff for yourself. But based on the previous 2 days happenings, I think I have a pretty good excuse. Besides, $150/TB of external … Continue reading →

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Madly waving the Rubber Chicken to Kill Bad Computer Mojo

Posted on Wednesday, 2009-Mar-25th by ralph

The title sums it up for you non-computer types. For the rest of you, long, nerdy, techy rant follows.

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If I was King of the World

Posted on Saturday, 2009-Mar-7th by ralph

So let’s pretend I was King of the World. One day, the people’s representative comes to me with a problem

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Random tomfoolery

Posted on Monday, 2009-Feb-23rd by ralph

Farewell emails in this recession era are one of those things where people have gotten bitten by technology they don’t fully understand. First of all, why, oh why do companies give there employees the ability to send globally in the … Continue reading →

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Really Good Tiki Bar TV interview with the Doctor

Posted on Wednesday, 2009-Jan-14th by ralph

Check out this interview with Jeff Macpherson, creator and the Doctor in Tiki Bar TV. Lots of interesting stuff I didn’t know about the show. Nice to see one of my favorite podcasts starting to figure out how to make … Continue reading →

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