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Archive for July, 2006

But even if it isn’t, it’s funny as hell. Gene, a long-time and loyal poweredbycoffee.net reader sent me an e-mail this morning that alleges to have a transcript of an interview with Ted Nugent.
Ted Nugent was being interviewed by a French journalist. The journalist asked, “What do you think the last thought is […]

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Printed

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

I printed this one, and this one, and this one on 8×10 at the photo lab to the rave reviews of the (admittedly all-female) photo lab attendants who were “Awwww’ing” the photos. Especially the chipmunk. (They weren’t being nosey. I announced when I arrived that I had awesome zoo shots and they […]

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Wow

Friday, July 14th, 2006

They really freshened up the look of Yahoo Weather.

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180+ Pictures Later, In 37C Humidex…

Friday, July 14th, 2006

It was a fantastic day at the third largest zoo in the world, despite the heat and humidity.
Processing that many pictures is a huge job. I’ve already triaged the “crap” out and whittled it down to 120. As I write this I am in the process of exporting those 120 edited photos out […]

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A Photographic Expedition

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Tomorrow - Friday - I am loading my Sony DSC-H1 and a whack of memory sticks and batteries into a bag and going to the world famous Metro Toronto Zoo for the day solely for the purpose of nature photography.
If anyone has any photo requests from their list of residents, I will attempt to fill […]

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It Makes Me Sick

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Hugh Laurie is now making Three Hundred THOUSAND Dollars per episode of House.

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Cars Can Be So Funny

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

My old Topaz has intermittent wipers. By intermittent I don’t mean “interval”, I mean they occasionally don’t work at all. So I went to work this morning, in some of the worst rain we’ve seen in a while. The wipers worked on the way there, but when I got in the car […]

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