I am link blogging again over at kungfumaster.ninja

You’ll likely find more posts from me over there than on this site.

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Trying to not overreact to this. Not sure this is worth $60/year to me. Going to look into alternatives.

Origami, Gonzalo Garcia Calvo

This towering ginkgo tree is located within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple in the Zhongnan Mountains in China. Every autumn the green leaves on the 1,400-year-old tree turn bright yellow and fall into a golden heap on the temple grounds drawing tourists from the surrounding area.

Source: Colossal

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I couldn’t agree more with 8 Things I Learned After a Month with the Apple Watch. If I were writing a similar article, I think I would have written about the same 8 items.  I need to get up and move around more.

Alien Baby, a photo by bump on Flickr.

Took the kids to the Georgia Aquarium this morning. Took this shot of Reed in the tunnel, which is full of blue tinted light.

This was followed by an atomic meltdown by his three year old brother in the "exit through the gift shop" gauntlet.

Set Your Desktop the OS X Mavericks Wallpaper and Other Giant Waves.

Tim Cook, a photo by bump on Flickr.

Had a good seat, and brought a good camera. Really enjoyed being there. Excited about iOS7.

I flipped the switch early, but I have been working on moving this site so I can use it properly again for a while. Lots of broken links and unfinished business, but it’s better than the site that hadn’t been updated in two years. Bear with me, I will get there a little at a time.

Hanging Out With Dad 40/365
Originally uploaded by bump

I'm really enjoying being a Dad.

 

I’ve been working on a new “of the week” project since the beginning of the year.  At the end of last year, I was tired of taking a picture every day, as much as I enjoyed the 365 Project.  I didn’t want to commit to the same daily level of things this year, partially because of the impending birth of the baby (codenamed Smallz) and partially because I was just tired of being a servant to the project.

At first, I was thinking that I would try and do a single picture each week, but really work on the technique and quality of each picture.  Then I was thinking that I would do that and start a 365 for the first year of Smallz' life.  (I still plan on doing that.)  When our January issue of Bon Appetit arrived, it had a recipe for a Bahn Mi sandwich that I really was interested in making.  I ended up making it, and taking pictures while doing it.  Making these sandwiches gave me the idea to make something new each week, and learn how to cook and take pictures of food better while doing it.  Here’s a collection of the recipes I have made so far.

In the first nine weeks, I have learned that it’s not always easy to find something I want to make.  I have also learned that I know far less about cooking than I realized.  A lot of my inspiration so far has come from Serious Eats and Tasty Kitchen.  Both are awesome resources for the home cook.

This is more than a test post. Well, actually, it’s a test post because I haven’t been able to update this site due to some server problems. I am working on changing hosting companies. I need to do this for two reasons, first I am paying way too much for what I am getting with the current hosting company. Second, I have been updating this site using Blogger since 2001, and Blogger are phasing out support for ftp updating. So if you aren’t hosted on their infrastructure, you really can’t use their tools. This is lame for all manner of reasons, but I think it’s the kick in the ass I needed to get this site going again in some meaningful manner. Current working theory is moving this site and all the other domains associated with it over to Media Temple. This is time consuming, not because of the moving of files, but because of the moving of all the domains. It means a lot of phone calls, and I want to make sure that I don’t lose them. So just a test for the moment.