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Penguin Orgy – The Best Coffee Cup Ever

Not sure what to say other than I think I win for the best coffee cup ever.

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2006 Tinto Pesqueria Tempranillo

Had the pleasure of indulging in this Spanish beauty last night. Go find a bottle or two and sit on one of them for a few years. I pinged Gary Vaynerchuck at winelibrary.tv and his recommendation was decant it for about 4 hrs. It’s a touch young but even if you drink it now you [...]

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Trey Ratcliff Teaches HDR Photography

FYI: On May 8, 2011 Trey is doing his HRD Webinar, give it a look if you’re interested in getting into HDR. Trey Ratcliff just released is HDR training DVD’s and I will definitely be ordering! If you aren’t familiar with Trey’s work he’s probably the most prominent HDR (High Dynamic Range) photographer out there [...]

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Trey Ratcliff’s Beautiful iPad Wallpapers

FYI: On May 8, 2011 Trey is doing his HRD Webinar, give it a look if you’re interested in getting into HDR. One of the things I’m loving most about the iPad is the beautiful screen. It would be a shame to decorate it with anything other than truly beautiful wallpaper. I’ve gotten to know Trey’s [...]

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Evolution Of The Hard Disk Drive

It’s hard to imagine how far we’ve come until you see pictures like this of the first disk drive to store more than 1GB (right). The IBM 3380 which stored 2.52GB and cost between $81,000 and $142,000, not to mention the size! The image on the left is a 250MB drive from 1979. By way [...]

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Will Earth Get Hit By An Asteroid Soon?

I’m a big geek about a lot of things but astronomy has always been close to the top of the list. So while looking for an excuse to break out the telescope and see something new I decided to look up the Near Earth Object Program and see if there were any known objects that [...]

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6 Things You Should Do While In Indianapolis Race Weekend (or anytime)

I don’t live in Indy anymore but I did grow up there, and since it will always be “home” I usually get a little nostalgic this time of year when the city is gearing up for the Race. May is arguably one of the best months of the year in Indy, the weather is typically [...]

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The Houston Rodeo – Psychotic Cowboys

I went to the Houston Rodeo this weekend. If you know me you probably wonder WTF I was doing there since I’m only slightly more “country” than Donald Trump. Well, the answer is I was invited by some very nice people who treated us to a first class experience. I won’t tell you who they [...]