Chris Gulker: PhotoPhoto channel for Weblog(Untitled)- March 14, 2004 Spring is early, and maybe summer, too, in the Bay Area. It's another 80-degree day, and our Sunday Portola Valley hike revealed a riot of wildflowers blossoming everywhere. Linda's listening to a Giants game on the radio (Cactus League): it feels like a summer day...http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/14.html#a2139 (Untitled)- March 14, 2004 Spring weather: it's in the 70s in Menlo Park again today. Some very nice weather, and tulips were waiting upon my return from New York...http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/13.html#a2138 (Untitled)- March 12, 2004 Toyota robot can play the trumpet with human-like lips. Like Honda's Asimo, it's about 4 feet tall. Toyota hopes to debut a robot band in 2005... Sony's QRIO recently conducted the Tokyo Philharmonic...http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/12.html#a2135 (Untitled)- March 12, 2004 Fast web site: my Comcast subscription gives me a 26MB site on a Comcast server with a lot more bandwidth than gulker.com's 144K XO IDSL link. So I put the 2MB hi-res version of the pic below here. I used the 400 ASA setting on the Leica: you can see lots of noise at 1:1... about what you saw in a TRi-X negative circa 1970 blown up to 16x20...http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/11.html#a2133 (Untitled)- March 11, 2004 Times Square on Tuesday evening. FTP was behaving oddly from the command line of my Windows machine (may have been an issue with the hotel's broadband connection) so I had to wait to come home to post. Picture was taken with my brand new birthday present (thank you, dear!) a Leica Digilux 2, which appears to be an amazing digital camera. The lens, a 7 to 22.5mm f2.0-2.4 Summicron (equivalent to 28-90mm on 35mm gear) is both fast and very sharp. The 5 megapixel (2560 x 1920) images can be...http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/11.html#a2132 (Untitled)- March 7, 2004 Bandwidth tales: gulker.com sits at the end of a telephone line that is just a bit too far for reliable DSL. The history is that we started off in '95 as ISDN customers with GeoNET (thanks, John!), which was sold to Level 3, who dumped ISDN. So we signed up with Concentric as one of their first Menlo Park DSL customers. We're so far from the telco switch that it took a technician most of a long day to get us up, and then on an IDSL connection at a roaring 144K. XO acquired Concentric, but DSL.http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/06.html#a2129 (Untitled)- March 6, 2004 Hubble's latest view shows an expanding halo of dust around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis. NASAESA photo. Gotta say, our robots in space are producing a lot more exciting results than the manned space program...http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/05.html#a2128 (Untitled)- March 6, 2004 Van Gogh's Starry Night has been mentioned by a number of observers after viewing the Hubble image above. That swirl thing... but the palettes are way different...http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/05.html#a2127 (Untitled)- March 3, 2004 Mars fossil Space.com offers, as a sidebar, this Opportunity Rover micrograph. There is clearly a spiral shaped object in one of the crevices of this rock, called McKittrick, which was ground and photographed on Sol 30 (January 25 - today is Sol 38). Scientists announced today that there is strong evidence that this rock and others near Opportunity were once submerged in water. Surprising that there's been so little media attention...http://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/02.html#a2118 (Untitled)- March 2, 2004 I voted... you should, too. Let's keep one Democracy alive in the 21st century, OKhttp://www.gulker.com/categories/photo/2004/03/02.html#a2117 |