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Heh, one of my photos ended up on a county website, does that count? ;)

http://www.co.otter-tail.mn.us/pics/eastleaflake20 03.php
http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/2003/Memor ial%20Day%20Weekend/dcp_2353.jpg

[of course, my mother in law sent it in without crediting me, and I simply don't want to figure out how to convince them to credit it properly...]

I started out with 35mm and went to some serious week long classes up at Michigan Tech University as a kid to learn how to take reasonable photos and develop B&W film. The photo above was taken on a fairly lame Kodak DC280 -- a point and shoot 2.1MP.

Most of these:
http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/Featured/

(except for the person with the cat) were taken with the same camera. I really need to update that section with some of my newer photos, but still, the person behind the camera defines the work. The tools help, but I feel you are pretty much right that they can't fix the photos by saying "don't use 35mm" or "digital is better".

I've got a Nikon Coolpix 5700 now and plan on a DSLR sometime in the future (2007? 2008?) but the challenge is really taking great photos with the tools available, not getting the coolest tool (like some people I know with D70's) and then barely knowing how to use it! I don't even try to consider myself semi-pro or anything like some people. I just want great photos, and from time to time they turn out to be really damn amazing.

Also, best time I had last year taking photos:

http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/2005/china /

Heh, one of my photos ended up on a county website, does that count? ;)

http://www.co.otter-tail.mn.us/pics/eastleaflake20 03.php
http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/2003/Memor ial%20Day%20Weekend/dcp_2353.jpg

[of course, my mother in law sent it in without crediting me, and I simply don't want to figure out how to convince them to credit it properly...]

I started out with 35mm and went to some serious week long classes up at Michigan Tech University as a kid to learn how to take reasonable photos and develop B&W film. The photo above was taken on a fairly lame Kodak DC280 -- a point and shoot 2.1MP.

Most of these:
http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/Featured/

(except for the person with the cat) were taken with the same camera. I really need to update that section with some of my newer photos, but still, the person behind the camera defines the work. The tools help, but I feel you are pretty much right that they can't fix the photos by saying "don't use 35mm" or "digital is better".

I've got a Nikon Coolpix 5700 now and plan on a DSLR sometime in the future (2007? 2008?) but the challenge is really taking great photos with the tools available, not getting the coolest tool (like some people I know with D70's) and then barely knowing how to use it! I don't even try to consider myself semi-pro or anything like some people. I just want great photos, and from time to time they turn out to be really damn amazing.

Also, best time I had last year taking photos:

http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/2005/china /

Heh, one of my photos ended up on a county website, does that count? ;)

http://www.co.otter-tail.mn.us/pics/eastleaflake20 03.php
http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/2003/Memor ial%20Day%20Weekend/dcp_2353.jpg

[of course, my mother in law sent it in without crediting me, and I simply don't want to figure out how to convince them to credit it properly...]

I started out with 35mm and went to some serious week long classes up at Michigan Tech University as a kid to learn how to take reasonable photos and develop B&W film. The photo above was taken on a fairly lame Kodak DC280 -- a point and shoot 2.1MP.

Most of these:
http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/Featured/

(except for the person with the cat) were taken with the same camera. I really need to update that section with some of my newer photos, but still, the person behind the camera defines the work. The tools help, but I feel you are pretty much right that they can't fix the photos by saying "don't use 35mm" or "digital is better".

I've got a Nikon Coolpix 5700 now and plan on a DSLR sometime in the future (2007? 2008?) but the challenge is really taking great photos with the tools available, not getting the coolest tool (like some people I know with D70's) and then barely knowing how to use it! I don't even try to consider myself semi-pro or anything like some people. I just want great photos, and from time to time they turn out to be really damn amazing.

Also, best time I had last year taking photos:

http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/photos/2005/china /

I'm sorry I've still not put all of the extra stuff (configs) online, but this is how I do it:

Read my paper from the Asia Debian Mini-Conf 2005, Mass Debian Desktop Administration.

And no, the bus system is not much the same.

Many routes are *very* efficient. The 850 route, the bus I take every day, from Foley Park and Ride is a 23 minute service door-to-door from over 15 miles from downtown Minneapolis. It operates 23 inbound, 24 outbound daily. Many of these trips are over half full.

Foley Park and Ride has 1,250 parking spots. The lower deck nearly fills daily and the upper deck is about a quarter to half full. The lower deck is larger than the upper deck since there are surrounding parking areas not covered by the upper deck.
http://www.sbsarchitects.com/foley.htm

Example of upper deck here

Additional service by the 827 adds 15 trips inbound and 14 trips outbound for midday and evening service when the 850 isn't running. It just isn't nearly as fast as the 850 -- it takes about 40 minutes -- but it services another park and ride at Northtown Mall.

We also got our first light rail line in Minnesota, the Hiawatha Line. Also driven with Bombardier trains of an original design.

I took some pictures of the opening here.

96,000 people tried out the line last weekend during its debut!

I took a old college paper that I wrote and plugged it into the program and got 100% on everything except for creativity (99.973). Considering that I don't think I got a 'perfect' score on this paper, I'm really surprised by the scores. :)

How great though, throwing a paper about the fear of technology through something many people (rightfully) fear. :)

haha.. I made a couple hundred of them on a zebra label printer.. here's a shot of one on Malda himself
Thanks Rob for being such a good sport, even if I couln't afford a real run of color lables :)

...we'll tether 5 worlds togther and ride them to escape the Core Explosion...

No no no, you teather your worlds together and make the rest of known space think you're fleeing the core explosion, and after everyone else flees the radiation, you turn around and go back through it to a deserted galaxy. After all, if you're moving five planets at near lightspeed, you've obviously dealt with the radiation issues. Puppeteers don't go to war, they just meddle with your species until you aren't a threat to them.

R I N G W O R L D . O R G

Nah, I love the .org. Great TLD for anti-spam e-mail addrsses, just add a y.

First domain we registered was ringworld.org, somewhere along the way ringworld.net opend up, then came g33ks.net, and lastly itouthouse.com. But in the end, there's nothing quite like posting to a newsgroup as zibby@ringworld.orgy.

emmett is gonna be accompanying.

Just what we need. A techno version of Lawrence Welk.

Can someone tell me what the heck this is? It looks like an Apple rice cooker!

October GNOME hasn't got KDE quite beat yet. With KDE's panel you can easily chinge the hieght and such. With the current stable, you're pretty much stuck.

With Helix Gnome (and CVS Gnome) you get a little more control of panel sizes and placement. I just finished compiling Helix Gnome yesterday, and I'm pleased. I like the small panels (24 pixel height) so much better that being stuck at 48 pixel panels.

The next stable release will probally have KDE2 beat (my opinion, never was a KDE fan) The KDE browser might be the only good reason to add some KDE suppot packages. =)

For interested Potato users, I threw up the Helix Gnome packages I compiled under potato here:

ringworld.org
ringworld.net
g33ks.net

Its a Disney logo in disguise! check here AHHHHH!