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Did a tour of Queen Elizabeth Park today to check it out and to try out the new extension tubes for some macro shots

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/8000
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: April.20.2006

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/100
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: April.20.2006

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/800
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 250
Date Taken: April.20.2006

More from the archives of the institute. Canada Day 2005.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 4.6
Shutter: 1/40
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 35mm
ISO: 320
Date Taken: July.01.2005

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/80
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm
ISO: 320
Date Taken: July.01.2005

Full! Well the photo itself doesn’t encapsulate ‘full’ but it comes from my very full hard drives. I was cleaning and doing photos that were from a while back & I came up with this.

This is from the skate park in Sherwood Park AB that Rob & I went to way back in march 2005

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/250
Lens: Sigma 15mm Fish Eye
ISO: 800
Date Taken: March.10.2005

D, M, & I went to Victoria this weekend and had a good visit with Mike & Julie (who had just moved) as well as toured around Victoria for a while. Saw Matt & Joy as well at an Easter brunch at their place. All & all good times but I must run, so that is all you get!

So I have 5 200 gig hard drives stuffed into the little box that is my computer, that’s basically a terabyte of total hard drive space *if you ignore the 1024 bit nonsense and the fact that hard drive comes in a little less then they are sold as. Yesterday I went to plunk the days photos from one of the new 6 gig micro drive (it with its three other identical bothers are newly part of our photographic arsenal) only to discover that I was out of space on my ‘Raw 01’ photo drive. No worries I have more then one of them (hence the 01 part of Raw 01) I should have no problem sticking half of this card on another drive till I get some sorting done. Mmmmm…. It says that I have 898 mb free on the Raw 02 Drive! Well there has to be some room on this other drive……. Mmmm… it would seem that there is in fact less room on that one….. All said and told I had a grand total of 6 gig free on spread across all my 5 drives! Mmmm… it would seem that I wasn’t so diligent in my back up and burning as I should have been. So today I started backing up a terabyte 4.3 gig at a time by taking a clean fresh DVD off the spindle, stickling it in the burner for 8 to 10 minutes, pulling it out, sullying the surface with one of the many colored sharpies in my deplorable penmanship, tossing it in the appropriate pile, and repeating the sequence. (For those that don’t know 1 TB = 1000 Gb roughly *see above) Everything else I did today was done in 8 min increments. Even this blog entry was written in chunks with dvd switching in between. I did the rough math and at 8 min a DVD it would be somewhere around 26 hours straight to back up all the data here.
Tomorrow I am adding another 300gig drive and a hot swappable drive bay to the mess that is my computer. I am thinking I am going to retire the DVD system altogether and simply fill hard drives to capacity, remove, label, and then add a new one. When exactly did DVD’s get to be the size of cd’s four years ago? I would really love to take that media tax that they stuck on all writeable media, braid it into a proverbial piano wire and garrote the bastard that thought it up.

Today I decided to walk about in the Rain a bit. Which as it turns out was time that would have been better spent in the afternoon or the evening for what looked like a long haul of rain was cleared up and sunny later but a wander in the rain was entertaining none the less.

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/400
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 500
Date Taken: April.10.2006

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/400
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 500
Date Taken: April.10.2006

Just got back from watching V is for Vendetta at the Paramount with D. Good movie, however, a little bit hokey in the whole super hero/DC comics vain. All in all it was a great commentary on the current social climate. It sorta gave us an idea where the unchecked & systematic deterioration of civil liberties by certain right wing and religious leaders so we can feel more secure while they go of and fight their holy wars may lead us. I mean Jello Biafra (Who is coming to town I hear) has been blithering about this sort of thing since Regan was in power, but I always thought he was kinda over reacting a little, read a little to much into Orwell that sorta thing. It is interesting to take the past words of people like Jello, & Rollins, and I hate to say it, Chomsky, (I sorta have this thing against Chomsky, I agree with almost everything that he says and I think it is great that he is doing the research and following the world with the way that he has. What I hate is that he is the only person that ever gets quoted for anything that has any thing to do with dissent. I find that most people are like me and they don’t wanna think for themselves they wanna be spoon fed something that will allow then to feel like they are doing something and I kinda feel that Noam is the guy that everyone looks to for the airplane full of pabulum. I think it is great that the ideas get out into the hands of peoples I just wish other great thinkers of our time would be quoted like Chomsky does. If you place all your philosophy on the foundation of one man you become easily dismissible. That and he uses 40 words to say 4) and look to what they said was happening and see now how it actually did. Great thoughts from the punk rock world! But what do I know I am as ignorant of the world around me as the next person. I am not even sure who the Secretary of Defense is in the USA nor do I actually know what Dick’s title is (Maybe he is the Secretary of Defense?) or what he does when he isn’t shooting people I mean quail.
All said it was a good movie!

Today Miranda went to the Dentist! While she was at the Dentist I killed some time in Stanley park.

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 5
Shutter: 1/640
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 16mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: April.04.2006

Here is another shot from my adventures at Iona Park. The jetty looks to be a popular place for joggers and such.

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter: 1/400
Lens: EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 200mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: March.30.2006

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 4.5
Shutter: 1/80
Lens: Canon EF MP-E 65mm Macro
ISO: 400
Date Taken: March.30.2006