Owen Shows Me How To Eat Popcorn

Ames’ Window

Macro Shot with LX3

Laura bought a couple of Dahlias from the market today, and I took a couple of shots with the LX3.
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Nice for hand-held, natural light, full program.

Floored Me

Just set into process: getting the floors refinished at the house. It desperately needs to be done, and this is definitely one job I want to turn over to a professional.

Vying For My Affection

Mint tea for coffee, brown rice/whole fruits & vegetables for everything else I used to enjoy eating. Water for beer/wine/booze. Air for Spirit yellows.

Today is day two. Not much fun so far. Except the air part is nice.

Nextel BlackBerry 8350i and OS X

My job requires that I carry a Nextel.  The BlackBerry Curve 8350i was released a few months ago, and I have been using one regularly having received my phone a few days after its official release. This is the first BlackBerry with which I have significant experience, more than doing some troubleshooting on a 7100 and playing with a TMo-Pearl for 20 minutes, so please forgive any “gee-whiz” gushing by me that is actually old hat to seasoned BB users. On the other hand, I have spent a lot of time playing with friends’ iPhones and own a Touch. I suppose I have as much of a case of iPhone envy as any other non-iPhone owning Mac user. It will rear its ugly head tomorrow when the 3.0 software update is released but it won’t be as bad as in times past. To save you time the time of reading everything else, the short story is that if you have to carry a Nextel and happen to use OS X, I highly recommend this phone.

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Christmas In March

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Finally got around to editing our pictures from the holidays.

Taja And Owen

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Buddies on a motorcycle.

Gigapixel Imagery

It is an old link, but an amazing high-res 360 degree panorama of Piaristenkirche Maria Treu. And others.

Only The Name Has Been Changed

I’ve owned the domain name mcmm.net for a bit over nine years and have been blogging on it for most of that time. I have always liked that it was a short name, but it’s time to retire it in favor of michaelchan.org, which is easier to give out over the phone (people can’t tell if you are saying “m” or “n”), and which actually means..umm.. well, something I suppose. Moving the email will take a bit longer, but I sure won’t miss nine years of spam harvesting.