I have coined a new term. What do you call someone in a restaurant who is both drunk and obnoxious? Drunknoxious. You can all start using that word now. You are welcome.

The Flickr backup script I started running last night was still running when I got up, but I checked it before I left the house and it was finished.  I did notice during a couple of spot checks yesterday that it failed to grab the occasional image.  I have to look through the documentation and see if an error report is included.  Probably not. 

I will have to peruse the results after work tonight, and then find a place for the expected gigantic folder full of crappy pics.

As you can see by this photo, I have once again successfully passed the annual test of strength.

My parent’s 999 pound air conditioner has been installed!

My company’s Canton office has a little pond with a mating pair of swans. They don’t always hatch babies. Sometimes they do and the kiddies don’t make it. This year has been successful and as you can see in the pic, the babies aren’t quite babies any more.

I’m always in the market for a good way to back up my exceptionally vast Flickr account. I just started running a python script from the command line on my Mac. It seems good so far. If it works well I’ll link to it and sing it’s praises for all to see and hear.

More to come.

Here’s another view from the Museum of Science. I took this one from the garage.

Here’s a lame point that is even lamer than yesterday’s post about using iPhoto. This picture was taken with the awesome lens my wife bought me for Christmas. The one from yesterday was taken with the lens that came with the camera. Why is that interesting? Because it’s the first time I used both lenses in the same sitting.

I took a couple from outside with the new lens because I love it and it’s better than the kit lens. When I got inside, however, I realized it would be better to have the wider view that the kit lens offers.

Wow, am I a dork, or what?

This just shows me that my next lens will be nice and wide. The new lens is a Nikon 55-200 mm F/4 5.6G ED-IF AF-S DX VR Zoom. The kit lens is a AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED.

Fascinating, eh?

For most of this week I am working in the Canton office instead of the Framingham office.  There is no easy back road route to get to Canton like the is to get to Framingham, so I am all highway this week.

This morning I dropped the kids off at their Dad’s at 7:23.  That meant I had 97 minutes to cross the state line and get to work.  It usually takes about 75-80 minutes to get to Canton.

I got to my desk with only a couple of minutes to spare.

I fear this is going to be a long week.

Modern science has provided society with many a modern miracle. I want to give quick acknowledgment to one of them:

Liquid Plumber.

Thanks for fixing our sink in 0.68 seconds! Now please don’t burn me?

I have been meaning to do this forever, but haven’t gotten around to it.  I have been meaning to start using iPhoto as my photo sorting/editing program of choice.  You see, I have always taken 10 times more pictures than I actually keep.  I shoot multiple copies of everything and then load them all into Picasa and sort out the keepers by exporting them into a separate folder.  Then I upload them to Flickr using the web app.

I want to do it all in iPhoto, but iPhoto makes a copy of each image imported in (at least I think it does… it did in the past, didn’t it?) and I don’t want that.  I want 90% of what I take to get trashed, not copied and stored somewhere else.  So today I used Picasa to sort out the keepers, and then imported the keepers folder into iPhoto, used the “Enhance” function, and then uploaded directly to Flickr without going through the web.  I still had to adjust some of the permissions, and I added tags through Flickr.com, but otherwise everything worked out.

See?