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Political Polarization and Growing Ideological Consistency

What’s driving this? There are probably many things, but some of this divide is created by reactionaries – people who can’t deal with the rapid rate of accelerating change in the modern world. They exist in both parties, but the … Continue reading

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The Internet: for More Than Cats

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We’ve had a day and a half of pretty steady rain so I thought I would go down to the creek crossing and take some of those “water rushing by” photos like the one below. Unfortunately Kasey tangled her leash … Continue reading

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First Peony

I used my new macro lens extender, the  Canon 70-300mm lens, a tripod, and DSLR Controller from Chainfire*, and post processing in Lightroom 5 to create this photo. [amazon-product]B0007Y794O[/amazon-product][amazon-product]B00820A86Q[/amazon-product][amazon-product]B00CH6ATMO[/amazon-product][amazon-product]B00GM0OZ4O[/amazon-product] note DSLR Controller requires a USB “on the go” cable adapter to … Continue reading

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Test of an Animated GIF

I made an animated .gif in Photoshop just so I could say I did… The motion you see is me moving the focusing cross in the camera about to gain the right focus. I never got there, the edge reticules … Continue reading

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Intensity of Tropical Cyclones Shifting Poleward: New Study in Nature

Tropical expansion, most likely due to anthropogenic global warming, is causing hurricanes and cyclones to stray further from the equator in both hemispheres. The consequences of the Northward drift in the Americas and Asia could be huge as hurricanes and … Continue reading

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Securing That Internet of Things While Keeping it Useful

The other day I sat in on the The Cisco Security Grand Challenge webinar for the Internet of Things. I listened not because I am joining the very worth while challenge, but because I wanted to make sure I am in … Continue reading

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Yesterday’s Photos

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Here’s a gallery of the best photos from yesterday’s walk in no particular order. It’s really a mixed bag, I was shooting through a long telephoto with high aperture numbers, which means long shutter times for hand held telephoto shots. … Continue reading

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Redbud Time

It’s Spring, so it’s time for the annual red-bud picture.

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Test upload II

Here’s a picture of the strand at the end of Port Miami, I’ve applied some noise and lost some contrast to make the photo look like an old post card painting. These are three gulls hard-core spare changing me near … Continue reading

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Test upload

  Also while I am thinking about it – for anyone who has to deal with large output from Nessus scans (Compliance, penetration testers, admins, etc.) here’s a link to a great post and Utility for managing those massive data … Continue reading

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