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Entries from February 2003

Official Show Times!

February 27th, 2003 · No Comments

It’s official, I’m in the show and it starts next Thursday. Here’s the details:
“Another Restart event will be held next Thursday, March 7th and Friday, March 8th. We have tons of artists confirmed and ready to go….approximately 50 of the finest painters, photographers, sculptors, and many other surprises.”
When: Thursday, March 7th, 7:00 to 10:00 pm
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Printing on the Epson 2200

February 26th, 2003 · No Comments

Last night I started printing my final images for the upcoming Restart show at Northwest Worklofts and tried to do some experiments using the Epson 2200 ICM profiles. Specifically I set the source space to be my document’s Nikon sRGB space(LS-4000 scanner) and the print space to the Epson 2200 Semigloss_PK profile using both Relative [...]

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I Need a Mac

February 25th, 2003 · No Comments

I inherited an old G3 Apple iMac at work a few weeks back and I’m in love. Though slow and not having much RAM it was still able to handle OS X 10.2 in stride and browses the web faster than my monster XP machine thanks to the new Safari browser. In fact, I dig [...]

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My First Photography Showing

February 19th, 2003 · No Comments

Yesterday I found out that my Blurry Nights photo series was chosen to be part of an upcoming First Thursday gallery showing at Northwest Worklofts in Seattle. The show is comprised of 17 or so artists, all young/up and coming who want to show off some new work. Because the show is so large I’ll [...]

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Call The President, Call Your Senators

February 14th, 2003 · No Comments

The President has supposedly said that he wants to know what the American people think about a war with Iraq. The White House opinion line telephone number is (202) 456-1111 and you can call between 9-5PM EST Monday through Friday. HOWEVER, this telephone line is simply a White House Comment line and there is no [...]

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Burn Hallmark Burn Baby Burn!

February 14th, 2003 · No Comments

I hate corporate sponsored holidays that are intended to guilt or shame us into buying presents for people like my girlfriend who I already love, adore and heap loads of abuse upon every single day in a spasmatic way of showing my unending affection.
So have a Happy Valentine’s Day and tell Hallmark to Kiss Your [...]

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New Pics : Blurry Nights

February 14th, 2003 · No Comments

I’ve finally gotten around to putting up my Fuzz/Blurry Night series of pictures. Check them out, I hope you enjoy.
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I’m HP-UX?

February 9th, 2003 · No Comments

So does that mean HP-UX is a Scorpio as well?.

Which OS are You?
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Moveable Type

February 8th, 2003 · No Comments

I figured if I’m going to get into blogging then I’d better setup my OWN blogging application on my web server. One tool I’d always heard about was Moveabletype.org so I decided to give it a try. I have to admit it’s VERY cool and was pretty easy to setup if you know how to [...]

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First Rant

February 8th, 2003 · No Comments

After downloading and subsequently buying some awesome tunes by For Against from their label’s site, Words-On-Music, I got to thinking about the future of music distribution. By now everyone is familiar with the RIAA, Napster and the general mess that the music industry has created by not being proactive and addressing on-line music distribution. The [...]

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