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Comment on Don’t Clean Eyes With Soap by Gessel

Gessel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:34:37 +0000

this nice photograph was taken with a ring light… more precisely a ring of LEDs. I got the idea from this article http://hackaday.com/2009/11/16/led-ring-light/ then tracked down one of these http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.26001~r.85832721 and it works quite well even without a diffuser. It is a little blue biased with my camera, but the illumination is nice and even and super macro focused far more easily than usual.

Comment on Mercedes E350 Hertz Rental by Rental Lincoln Navigator | Gessel On...

Rental Lincoln Navigator | Gessel On... — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:31:27 +0000

[...] is “can you get it working between LAX and Santa Monica without reading the manual.” Mercedes, yes. Lincoln [...]

Comment on A Week of SUV Rentals by Rental Lincoln Navigator | Gessel On...

Rental Lincoln Navigator | Gessel On... — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:25:47 +0000

[...] gave me ANOTHER black Lincoln Navigator (this is different than last week’s) to try to drive through LA’s traumatic rainstorms in (thunder! OMG!). Nothing like the [...]

Comment on La Petrognola Chestnut Beer by Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:29:03 +0000

Actually, this is what Self Service used to carry:

http://www.pievedicerreto.org/blog/archives/93

http://www.beerpal.com/Beltaine-Cervogia-Birra-alle-Castagne-Beer/22630/

Comment on Toyota Matrix by Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:40:23 +0000

I never understood the purpose of the Toyota Matrix — a car that looks like a Prius… but isn’t?

I’d requested the Corolla-type for you, plus you’re supposed to get the guaranteed one-class upgrade!

Comment on Chris in the mall in Guelph by Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:25:47 +0000

Is Chris growing a mustache?

Comment on Retarding Progress. Again. by Carolyn

Carolyn — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:11:09 +0000

Is this only applicable to US companies? Something like http://www.last.fm (based in the UK) wouldn’t be subject to this… or how would they enforce it? The US is getting a censored internet these days… no scrabulous, no pandora… gotta get european IP addresses!

Comment on Fixing ImageMagick resize in Postie by Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:14:21 +0000

Good find! Do we need to edit the DBs for each blog to get this change?

Comment on Rental Canadian Grand Am by Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:57:53 +0000

same flight attendant, same TSA guy, same customs agent… why not same car? you should carve your initials in the toilet and see if you get the same planes too!

Comment on Air Canada by Carolyn

Carolyn — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:35:13 +0000

That should make a middle back seat almost bearable! Now if only they could figure out how to get their engines to work…