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Watching the Forbidden Kingdom reminds me of all the Chinese i haven’t learned yet 🙂 Sun wu Kong is the Monkey King ??; Yù Huáng or the Jade Emperor

Things that Dad wants for Christmas (next year!): Armada JJ’s. Although Mark says the Rossignol S7 are great too as does Skiing Magazine. Rockered and reverse cambered. Work on hard pack and the deep powder Bibs. Socks. Seems stupid until you spend 8 hours a day for a week and…

I keep losing how to install this for the custom paper I have from Red River, here’s how but when I do all this the photo comes out very red when I use it with PhotoPro RGB color space (a 16-bit space) but still looks over red even with Adobe…

They don’t ship it with 8×10 borderless printing, so the workaround is to fool it by telling Photoshop you have 8.5 x 11 borderless and then printing as if it was 8×10…   Have you tried this: 1) Creat a 13×19 white (or transparent) document of appropriate color depth and…

If you want… Free science fiction audio books, at Librivox.org Latest free audiobooks from Librivox.org by clicking itpc://librivox.org/podcast.xml Nonstick skillets for omelets. I’ve used All Clad for years. Very expensive at $87 a throw and only lasts a few years. Cook’s Illustrated (subscription required) found T-Fal Professional Total Nonstick Fry…

I’m not quite sure why I bought a dedicated Blu Ray player since the PS3 seems pretty much good enough, but since I have one, I get to live with glacial startup times and then it rejects disks all the time because of firmware issues. Anyway, the answer is an…

Well I still have that huge box of 35mm photos that are negatives, slides and prints that have been sitting for five years waiting for me. Finally getting back to it mainly because of this book project. Amazingly the old Minolta 5400 Dimage Elite still works and connects to the…

Some of the coolest gifts are personal. So looking for good Photobooks and there are billion providers it seems. A quick google found a great review and for quality (and price) they like adoramapix.com. I love Adorama as a general photo site and mpix.com is the other site I’ve meaning…

Here are the tricks as I had a major outage… 1. Reboot the router and cable modem and if you have an Apple router, use the Airport Utility to see if it is up and what it is complaining about. If the internet is down, it will complain or say…

Turns out that modern TVs have the equivalent of lag because they are processing the image. I’ve never noticed but Calvin did. If you dig through the guts of the Samsung TV menu, there is a mode called Game Mode which disables a bunch of the processing. You lose a…