How do you know that your wife loves you on a Sunday morning when it’s snowing outside?
Bacon and scrambled eggs.
Mostly bacon.
Tag: iphoneography
Patches Loves Bruins Hockey
You all think I’m kidding, but Patches really does love watching Boston Bruins hockey.
Lizardfish
In November of 2011 I tried to start a band. I asked Mike the bass player, who has been one of my best friends since 4th grade, and he was interested. My beautiful wife Jennifer, who I love with all my heart, suggested her friend Kevin the Drummer and he was interested too. Steve the other guitarist from my last band joined up, as did Dave the singer. By February I was out. Eventually everyone but Mike and Kevin was out. They hired a new guitarist and a new singer and last night was their first gig.
They sounded great!
I planned to stay for about an hour or so. Catch a set, say hello, congratulate them, you know… Be a fan! During the first set, however, I got called away. It seems my step son heard noises outside of his window and got majorly freaked out. His attitude was contagious, and soon everyone was freaked out.
Super Step Dad to the rescue!
I got home, explained that I often hear noises outside the back windows on weekends and that they were usually the result of a neighbor having a social gathering. I offered to grab a flashlight and go check out the back yard, but was told that was unnecessary. Just having the old dude around was security enough.
I felt like the freakin’ king. Granted, there are issues there at need to be addressed or else step dad is never going to be able to go out at night without being called back by a scared kid, but we will address that in the future.
For now, congratulations to Mike and Kevin and the rest of Lizardfish on their first gig. You guys sounded seriously tight. I’m looking forward to gig #2!
Kitty Selfie
Patches is pleased to see former Lowell Lock Monster, Keith “midget” Aucoin pot a goal for the Islanders. However, she was cheesed off that he scored it off the Bruins
Three Les Pauls
There was a run on this picture on Flickr today, for some reason. This will probably go down in history as my last gig. It was Break Even’s reunion, put on by Steve the guitar player. Tim the guitar player, who Steve and I replaced, came back for the fun. All three of us played Les Pauls. Mine is the custom with the black pick guard on the left. Tim’s is the Black one leaning on the amp. Steve’s is the standard with the white pick guard and the awesome trapezoid inlays on the right.
Even More BRRRR!
Please forgive me for essentially making the same post twice, but before leaving to take the kids to school today I checked the weather channel app on my phone. It said this:
Twenty minutes later I was dropping the kids off at their dad’s and my car said this:
You suck, Mother Nature. S. U. C. K. Suck.
BRRRR!
One Left
There was one Naan left and I got it! Take that, everyone else in the Merrimack valley!
Kitty Selfie
Patches is completely engrossed in the Bruins and is terrified by the Rangers having a 5 on 3 power play.
Photojojo Wide Angle and Fisheye Lens
I spent the last 15 minutes or so messing with the last two photojojo lenses. The wide angle and the fisheye. I am not happy with either. I think it’s my fault though. I am guessing that the metal ring that I glued onto my iPhone was placed ever so slightly wrong, and the result is the two wide lenses are screwed up. Still, I don’t have the intestinal fortitude to pry the ring off and place a new one on right now, so you all are going to have to live with this for now.
I thought it would be fun to do this test in the back yard. Unfortunately the sun is so bright and the reflection off the snow is so intense that I couldn’t see squat on the camera app screen. You know, you take what you can get. I supplemented the stupidity with more pictures of a coke bottle. The cat is sleeping on the couch, so I won’t be adding more of her just now.
Our first shot is just the camera app.
Now we have the wide angle. Note the horrible distortion on the right of the image, because I sure as hell did. Wait a second… I had this oriented wrong. ARGH!!!
Finally we have the fisheye. Not so much distorted as just having the effect off center.
The first test had the camera in portrait orientation. Now let’s try the same deal in landscape. First, no external lens.
Now the wide angle. Note the distortion on the right and the upper left. Yeah!
Finally, the grotesquely off center fisheye, although the sun peeking in on the upper right is kinda cool.
Test #3 has us back inside with the obligatory coke bottle. No lens here.
The wide angle is still distorted as hell, but you can still see that the field of view is wider. It’s not a total loss, right? Right?
Again, the off center fisheye.
One more time, in landscape.
With the wide angle.
And with the fisheye. For some reason I want to throw a capital F onto fisheye every single time I type it. Why is that? Note that the effect is really good. You can see Jen on the right side of the picture. She was in the next room, exactly 90 degrees to my right. It works, I just have it positioned wrong.
I tried shifting the two lenses around on the metal right to try and fix the errors, but nothing I did helped at all. I think the problem is the ring the lens connects to, not the lenses themselves. Any thoughts, or do I just suck?
The zoom is the lens I really wanted. The macro was the happy bonus. I would expect that there will never come a time that I will want to use a fisheye lens, other than just goofing around, so that one is just sort of there. The idea of the wide angle is nice, but I think I would be less apt to use that than either the zoom or the macro. As it stands, the two that I am disappointed with are the ones I’d probably go to the least. I’m still disappointed though. I’ll try fixing the ring and then try testing again. Like I said, I can milk 100 posts out of these silly things.
Inside the Red Head's Head 