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Life Not Linear
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Jul 09Shari
kendi
a little peak into my session with kendi. just under two weeks old and already moving around quite a bit. totally in love with this one! look at those lips! if she takes after her dad, i’m sure she is contemplating the next greatest logo design! thank you sarah for letting me use your gorgeous girl for some photos! happy independence day. best to all!
sean’s musings
03
Jul 09sean
Over the Pacific
I love travelling. If I could have my way, I think I’d be a professional travel writer. Of course, this assumes I could actually write in a decent manner Our current trip is taking me and Amanda to Tokyo, Japan (if you haven’t heard by now). I am going to spend 2 weeks working with our Japanese counterparts, which should be a great experience. At first I was going to travel by myself, since Amanda is working extended school year. The more I thought about it, though, the less I wanted to go without my travel buddy. While the primary reason for the trip is work, I’ll have a couple weekends to explore, and who better to do it with I plan on taking a lot of pictures, and hopefully will post a few along the way while we’re gone. So if you’re curious how we’re doing, bookmark or subscribe to my blog for updates.
I love the anticipation of what you will see while you’re visiting areas you’ve never been before. Experiencing new cultures, new lands, is something that I’ve really grown to love. I find that its easy to get a bit myopic in our lives and get so focused on the square miles that surround our houses, our jobs, etc. I’m filled with wonder and amazement though when I have the opportunity to set out to another land. I know that we aren’t nearly as travelled as some people, but at the age of 28 Amanda and I have been blessed to go to some pretty cool places in the world. Moscow, Russia twice, England, Germany, France, Switzerland. Next year it’ll be Italy and Greece, with a possible trip to Kenya the following year. I just feel so fortunate and blessed to be able to do something that brings us such enjoyment. Currently we are somewhere along the Aluetian islands hovering 30,000 feet in the air. Now man is not made to be stuck upright for 10 1/2 hours in a row, but if you’re fortunate enough to be near a window, you can see some pretty amazing things. The snow-covered islands below are incredible. At one point there looked to be a lake similar to crater lake, surrounded by high cliffs. Alaska has always been one of those places I’d like to visit, but it’s definitely on the list now. I figured this isn’t a place that was necessarily tops on the list of places we wanted to visit, but with a good chunk of the expenses taken care of, we figured why not? I’ll be there for 15 days, and Amanda 10.
Random Musings of a Beautiful Letdown
03
Jul 09Amanda
A Toilet by Any Other Name…
So, we arrived safely in Japan last night after a 10 and 1/2 hour flight. We’d been up for almost 24 hours at that point, so we were both really tired, but we still had a 90 minute limousine bus ride (basically a smaller version of our Greyhound) to the hotel. So we hopped on and headed into Tokyo. The scenery was GORGEOUS! It’s so lush and green here! Then, when we came into the city…it’s unbelievably beautiful. The skyscrapers put our little town of Portland to shame. It’s funny because Tokyo is the biggest metropolitan area in the world, yet it is so clean and quiet! You wouldn’t even know there were millions of people surrounding you except for the hustle and bustle of people walking in the streets. We’ll see if it’s different in the daylight today. We got to our hotel, which is beautiful as well. It’s on the 32nd floor of the Shiodome building, which overlooks the city and the Tokyo Tower (Tokyo’s version of the Eiffel Tower). There’s a 10 story atrium right in the middle, so when you walk out of your hotel room it’s like looking down the Empire State Building (okay…that’s an exaggeration, but…). But the thing that really got me is the “toilets.” They had them in the airport, too. They have this entire panel attached to them of options. You can have your seat heated to JUST the right temperature. You can choose to have sounds play when the toilet flushes and even adjust the volume. You even have a little button you can push (well, actually two. One for boys and one for girls) when you are done that sprays perfectly warm water on your…well, you get the point. What is that! You can even adjust how hard it sprays! Crazy! I was worried about the toilets they said Japan had that were just glorified holes in the ground that you squatted over. But at least I know I can go back to the hotel and relieve myself in luxury Well, we’ve got some sightseeing to do today, so I’ll blog again soon. Hope everyone’s well!
mumblings of a humble servant
27
Jun 09admin
Ebby!
I just recently went on a shoot to practice more. What I have realized is i have a LONG way to go BUT i want to get better lol. Ebby is a sweet 18 girl that I work with. She is super fun loving and fun to be around. She was a great willing subject and i look forward to taking her out again. “I’ll do anything you need. I’ll even climb a tree” is a great thing to hear when you take someone out. I hope you enjoy. leave her some love.
peace y’all!
The Brain of Dane
27
Jun 09Dane
Dvorak’s Wonderous Layout
Friend, I come to you today with a proposition. Apparently, there are all sorts of life changing things going on in my life, and I want to share one with you that could change yours. Imagine yourself back in the era of typewriters, where hitting a key actually caused a metal stamp to fly out and hammer a piece of paper. Those were the days in which “backspace” wasn’t even a dream in Bill Gates’ mind. Have we come so far as to forget our origins? I was so young back then, I hardly remember it. However, I remember the smell of the machine. It was metallic and oily. I remember trying to press five keys at a time, and only jamming the machine. Therein lies the problem, and the proposition. When the typewriter was first invented, the arms that held the letter stamps were not spring loaded. The keyed letters would fall back into position using nothing but gravity. That is to say, the mechanism that made the typwriter useful was slow. The original inventor found that when he layed out the keyboard in alphabetical order, he would press certain keys too quickly and end up jamming everything up. In order to fix this problem, he studied how words were formed, and rearranged the keyboard so that there were fewer errors. This was long before anyone knew anything about typing, so he might be called the father of the keyboard. The same QWERTY keyboard we use today is the one he devised so long ago. Soon after pitching his ideas to Remington, the original typewriter was redesigned to have spring-loaded arms. This made the letters snap back into place no longer jamming except when the fastest typists were goin’ to town. Now that the typwriter was more capable, the inventor realized that the keyboard could be redesigned to be more efficient. He attempted to show the people at Remington his new idea, but they turned him down for the fact that everyone was already using the QWERTY keyboard, and they didn’t want to be the ones to bring typists to a screeching halt, let alone change a perfectly good design. At around the same time, another intellectual named Dvorak was designing his own efficient keyboard layout. Dvorak’s design was based on the idea that your fingers should rarely have to leave home row. Therefore, with the Dvorak Simplified Layout you can type more than 3,000 words without ever leaving the comfort of the home row. As a matter of fact, the left side of the home row only contains vowels, while the right side only contains consonants. This forces the typist to alternate hands more times per word, crunching out words at amazing speeds. After perfecting his design he tried it out on some people who had never even touched a typewriter before. These new typist learned the Dvorak Simplified Layout much faster than others learned the QWERTY layout. Also, Dvorak tried his design on some people who were seasoned QWERTY enthusiasts, and after some painful reworking of fingers, they were much faster and more accurate than they were before. Sadly, news never spread of the new Dvorak layout because people simply don’t like change. Just imagine you touch-typists having to completely relearn all that you know about using a keyboard. AHA!!! I challeng you now to rewire your brain. Become a child again, cover your keyboard, and figure out just what this Dvorak thing is all about. That’s exactly what I intend to do. I already have the home row down, and I am about to move beyond it to the more obsecure letters of the alphabet. You don’t have the resources you say? ——–> http://www.dvzine.org/ <——-
Now, go forth and spread the good news. Read the zine, give the zine away, do the tutorials, and become a better typist.REJOICE, FOR I AM THE BEARER OF THE GOOD NEWS! READ THE DVORAK ZINE AND REJOICE!
Mischief Managed
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Jun 09kate
First Time’s a Charm!
So, I’m really not gonna kick this off at a high speed, I just thought I should post something so it’s not as boring to look at. Once I have time to access photos and such, I’ll probably start off with a summary of my trip to California a few weeks ago. Don’t get your hopes up K bye!