Tag: 2112

Widget Hope

The United States is literally crumbling around us. Americans are being murdered in the streets by law enforcement officials who have sworn to protect them, and the so called president is pledging to sic the military on those who speak out against it.

And yet there are glimpses of hope buried in the chaos. Americans have flown into space on American vehicles for the first time in a decade.

And earlier today the WordPress widget on my iPhone did this:

Attention all planets of the solar federation…

We have assumed control…

We have assumed control…

We have assumed control.

Check Out What was Delivered Today

Rush, 2112 in 5.1 surround sound on blu ray.

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We now have 5.1 mixes of five albums. I hope Clockwork Angels comes out next.

Now if my beloved, beautiful bride could just stop feeling sick, we could go back to enjoying cool stuff instead of feeling crappy all the time.

I Am Such a Nerd

I’m such a nerd.  Like there was any doubt that a guy who blogs like 3-5 times a day would be anything other than an uber nerd.

A couple of months ago I turned to Twitter with a question.  I always turn to Twitter with nerd questions, and I never get any answers or advice or anything outside of occasionally being followed by spam porn accounts, but I digress.

I asked Twitter if anyone had any experience with using external camera lenses with their phones, specifically their iPhones.  I was curious about The Photojojo Phone Lens Series, and the Olloclip iPhone camera lens.  I was leaning toward Photojojo because it includes a zoom lens, where Olloclip does not.

As mentioned, the Twitterverse was totally silent in response to my questions so I had to decide for myself.

I just ordered the Photojojo set.

I told you I was an uber nerd!

 

 

Oh yeah, I also ordered the super deluxe blu-ray version of 2112.

I told you I was an uber nerd!

Backing Up Flickr

I have tried a couple of different publicly available (free) programs to back up my Flickr account.  There are over 25,000 pictures on the account so backing up is kind of a huge undertaking.

The last time I did this it was on a windows machine.  The program I used worked well, but not perfectly.  It failed when there were multiple files in a set that had the same file name.  Why it did not use Flickr’s ID and guarantee uniqueness, I will never know, but the result was my iPhone sets were missing just about everything.  The upload app I normally use sticks the name “photo” on everything that isn’t specifically given a name.  Therefore the back up program just kept overwriting everything.

last night I ran a really slick python script i found.  It ran from the terminal on my Mac and it backed up everything perfectly.  I was really pleased.  I checked the folder created to hold my iPhone 4 set and everything was there.

How many photos were in the folder?

2,112.

Thats right, Rush fans… 2112.

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