Monthly Archives: March 2011

by Wombatilim

Hipsta Fedora

How can I go through doors if I don’t have my hat?

Also, in case you were wondering, the data transfers have been mostly successful. I seem to be missing images taken between Wednesday and Friday of last week, but everything else seems to be more or less intact.

by Wombatilim

Cylon?

When I came home to Sacramento last night, I connected Fox’s spare SD card reader to the computer and plugged in the camera card to test it out.

iPhoto launched. Gave me an error.

I’d actually had similar problems with the drive my iPhoto Library is on at some point last week, but restarting the drive fixed it at the time.  Now, it appears it is toast.  For one thing, as soon as I turn it on, the activity light just starts flashing red.  For another, System Profile was showing “unknown device” instead of, say, a hard drive.

So tonight I got a new 2TB drive and an enclosure for it, and have started the process of moving my music and video library over to the new drive, to make room on what used to be the music and video drive for my photos.

Does the new enclosure look like a Cylon, or what?

Also, I think this is a good opportunity to start using Aperture.

by Wombatilim

Gonzo

So after taking about 50 photographs of stuff around Fox’s room this morning, and getting frustrated about not being able to get a good white balance, I realized a large portion of the problem is that the ambient light color in here is actually constantly shifting, due to the way the lights and computer are set up.

Gonzo, however, is standing right in front a closed window shade, and behind the computer (one source of shifting light), so the color balance came out about as close to correct as I was going to find in here, at least in the part of the room that isn’t so dark I need to max out my ISO settings, anyway.

I suppose turning on one of the white lights around the room could have helped, too, but Fox himself is still asleep, and I didn’t want to wake him up.