Monthly Archives: May 2007

wonders of customer service

It really should be a fundamental business principle, but it’s amazing how little attention it really gets.  Occasionally we here about abysmal service (AOL, any outsourced phone support, etc), but rarely does good customer service get great exposure.
More often than not I’ll bring lunch from home, but when I don’t, my lunch stop of choice […]

HDR Photography

All I can say is… Wow!

There are only a handful of instances where I think the “HDR” effect looks good, but this is definitely one of them.  I’ve only tried to bracket shots a few times, but I haven’t been able to get good looking photos out of it.  Photomatrix is the predominant software (reasonably […]

a tale of two sequels

Ignore all the critics who opine about a lack luster Pirates 3. Go see it. It is a great summer popcorn movie. Obviously over the top, cgi driven, but clever and fun. Anyone who gave this movie a bad review was expecting way to much — or thought that because the […]

Spider Man 3 - curse of the too

The pun here is definitely multi-layered.  This movie suffered from many, many things.  Too much action, not enough plot/story/characters.  Too over the top.  Too much cheese.  Too simplistic.  Too many villians.  Too fast.  Too much quick-editing (which is quickly becoming a personal peeve of mine).
Even at its core, it was following Spider-Man 2, in my […]

ultimate wiffle ball

This is some serious stuff! It always hurt my arm to throw a wiffle ball (or even a tennis ball) that hard, but the action and movment is incredible!

Given the size of their bats, I’m surprised they hit any of those pitches. I’m still not totally clear on the rules (how does base […]

Mayan Riveria (part 2)

Let me clarify a few things first — Mexico has species of speed bumps. In addition the domestic species we have in the US, one large long bump with varing degrees of altitude, Mexico has the dastardly two-rows-of-7in-metal-half-spheres. Additionally, monster traditional ones much taller than our domestic breeds. The catch is that […]

knee-jerk reactions always encroach on free speech

This post was originally going to be in reference to this revelation that a student had been kicked out of school for creating a Counter Strike map closely resembling his school.  This was all in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, when self-possessed individuals were trying to (yet again) blame video games.  Thankfully […]