Robot Exclusion Protocol (Ftrain.com)
Posted by Andy Affleck in Books and Writing on March 4, 2010
I read this wonderful short story (very short) by Paul Ford today (found via this post on BoingBoing.net and loved it. Enjoy!
Photo of the Day: Ave Louis Pasteur
Posted by Andy Affleck in Photography on February 17, 2010
Caught on my walk to work today.
Photo of the Day: Mastery Martial Arts
Posted by Andy Affleck in Photography on February 16, 2010
A panorama of tonight’s karate class.
Photo of the Day
Posted by Andy Affleck in Photography on February 15, 2010
Caught! Don’t mess with his Webkinz.
Why I Get Annoyed at NBC’s Olympics Coverage
Posted by Andy Affleck in Art & Entertainment, Current Events on February 13, 2010
Ok, so a friend of mine is pinging me on Facebook for my disparaging comments on Bob Costas and wonders why I am so down on him. So, this is my attempt to explain my feelings on this vital-to-our-lives matter. First, let me preface this by saying that I am not a sports guy. I’m a big Red Sox fan and I love watching the Olympics. But I do not live and breathe baseball or Olympics statistics. I cannot name any athletes competing aside from those few famous names that everyone knows. I know a lot about the Red Sox but any dyed-in-the-wool fan can stat circles around me. I just enjoy what I enjoy and don’t really care to delve much deeper than that. I am not that guy in the bar who will go on for 45 minutes about some arcane subject while your eyes glaze over. Well, at least not about sports at any rate. So, that’s me. Casual fan. Read the rest of this entry »
I haven’t been to a White Castle since high school.
Posted by Andy Affleck in Grab Bag on January 19, 2010
Come to think of it… I am not sure I’ve ever been to one… I remember there being one near high school and we always talked about it. But I don’t think I ever went.
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Playing “Small World”
Posted by Andy Affleck in Home & Family, Photography on January 17, 2010
Project 365
Posted by Andy Affleck in Photography on December 20, 2009
Thanks to the free iPhone App Photo 365, I have embarked on a fun project to take at least one photo every day. I decided to keep this 100% iPhone relying only on the iPhone 3GS camera and a handful of processing apps including Best Camera, Photoshop, TiltShiftGen, and ColorMill. The app supports uploading to a specific album in Facebook, which if I understand Facebook’s privacy settings, is world-viewable, and I am also trying to get these up into a Flickr set as well but not daily as I don’t scrape the pictures off my phone into iPhoto that often. I’m learning a lot as I go through the process. For example, I am not trying to take pictures of beautiful things but rather am discovering how the mundane can be made interesting through composition and/or creative filtering. I’m 19 days in so I have a long way to go. It will be interesting to see how my eye changes as the year progresses.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Posted by Andy Affleck in Photography on December 2, 2009
2009 NaNoWriMo
