Month: June 2011

June 26th, 2011 - Coleus

I bought a new grill today, a Weber Spirit E210. The previous grill, a Weber Baby-Q, has been with us for a few years. I think we bought it in 2002. It served us well despite its small size. We did not and do not need anything larger. It’s just the four of us and my wife is a vegetarian. So I really just wanted something basic that I could use to make burgers and hot dogs and the occasional rib-eye steak.

This morning, I took this photo of the leaves of one of my coleus plants. I imported the photo into Adobe Lightroom 3 and pushed the clarity, sharpening and noise reduction settings to their greatest values. Why? Because I could. What do you think of the result?

Gizmodo's Mat Honan defends social media

If you are like me, most of your daily interactions with other people take place electronically. You probably interact with a greater number of distinct individuals via emails, tweets, Facebook updates, chats, and text message than you do verbally or in person. Unless you have a job that requires a great deal of public interaction like, say, a sales clerk at a busy department store.

Again, you need to be able to process those relationships quickly and efficiently. It's a basic tool for modern life. Yet that does not mean that your interactions in those mediums are any less genuine, or less soulful, even if they take place more rapidly.