• Paintball

    Kids loved it and I’m getting over being hit in the throat from point blank (the 14 year old who did it still lives 🙂 Anyway, turns out quite a few “places”:http://seattle.wikia.com/wiki/Paintball and there is even a review site at http://www.pbreview.com/fields/49/ Eastside Paintball in Duvallwhich is probably the closest ForestFire…

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  • Realtek Reverb

    I don’t know how my Dad’s computer got this, but its an old PC with a 2003 (!!!) Realtek driver and a terrible reverb/echo. google:”Realtek reverb” revealed a very smart person “saying”:http://www.elitehackers.info/forums/archive/index.php/t-3012.html to look in the Control Panel for the Realtek audio control and change “environment” to none. It was…

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  • Like the “Canon i9900”:https://richtong.net/2006/06/canon-i9900-from-canon-digital-rebel-xt-printing-with-photo-paper-pro-adobe-photoshop-cs-or-cs-2-and-red-river-68-lb-glossy/#more-2629, the MX700, although much lower quality, does allow color matching and so forth. You just have to be able to decode the very cryptic Paper profiles that Canon uses for its paper. They are as follows, where Paper Pro is their best and Paper Plus is…

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  • Red Cliff (c. 赤鼻; py. Chi4bi4) is a new film by “John Woo”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woo (c. 吴宇森 py. WÅ­ YÅ­sÄ“n) who did Mission Impossible 2 to name a one sounds awesome. It is based on historical events during a really tumultous time in Chinese history, the “Three Kingdoms period”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms (c. 三国 py.…

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  • Slideshows on the Mac are confusing because iPhoto, iDVD and iMovie can all make them, so what should use when. Here’s a guide: h3. iPhoto ’08 for quick and dirty on the screen slideshows First this is confusingly actually iPhoto ’08 , version 7.0 (why couldn’t they just bump the…

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  • I’m actually kind of amazed there are so few “books”:http://books.google.com/books?id=la-rJ7UWYhQC&dq=mac+os+x+for+windows+users&pg=PP1&ots=WzFrczmJam&sig=R3H_Uop0QuAfSd4dVNWPMA7g_Wg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result and other resources that help a Windows user navigate the Mac. In the dawn of time, I worked on a project that made Excel understandable to Lotus 1-2-3 users, but given there are just a few small things, I sometimes…

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  • “Apple”:http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/availability.html has a tool showing what is available where. The stores open at 8AM. Amazing the demang. All models except the Black 16GB in Alderwood Mall are available at all four Seattle area stores in Bellevue, Lynnwood, Seattle and Tukwila. 16GB Black not surprisingly is the most popular model. And…

    Continue reading →: Cool Tool, iphone availability and early reviews
  • I’ve loved DxO for a while because it handles distortion correctly. Sadly the move to “5.0”:http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=26493 has gone poorly with lots of crashes and even with 5.2, people are still complaining about poor conversion and so forth. It’s not the only example of software taking giant steps backwards. Kind of…

    Continue reading →: DxO v5 sadness and alternatives
  • Obesity

    From a Credit Suisse investment report The U.S. is usually considered the consumer capital of the world and consumption of food is no exception as the world-leading obesity levels suggest. Using data from Center for Disease Control and the Forum for Health Economics and Policy, we estimate that 54% of…

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  • Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About Turnout appears to be heaviest at Apple’s retail locations, however many AT&T locations still be managing to sell out in under an hour. At stores where stock has run out AT&T is accepting orders that will arrive within the next…

    Continue reading →: Best way to get an iPhone 3G is to order from an AT&T Store

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