📷 March Photo Challenge #27. Support. Tonight was Norah’s Senior Night. Lots of people have supported her during her lacrosse career, especially during this season which ended early with an ACL tear. Chapin, SC.
Quick Thoughts
Shorter than a blog post.
Watching Louisville/Iowa women’s basketball game and both these teams can score. Fun to watch.
📷 March Photo Challenge #26. Instrument. My wife’s ukulele. Columbia, SC.
I wrote up my quick first thoughts about Adobe Firefly, but my 11-year old has also started playing with it. Here’s his bronze steam-powered robot walking in a cityscape.
📷 March Photo Challenge #25. Spice. Random assortment of seasonings. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #24. Court. Basketball practice facility at the University of South Carolina. Go Gamecocks. Columbia, SC.
I just got access to Firefly, Adobe’s new generative AI beta service. It’s supposedly trained on images that they have the rights to scan. Right now, it’s limited, but I’m intrigued. I’ll write a longer post with examples later after I’ve had a chance to experiment.
📷 March Photo Challenge #23. Chance. Flipped a coin. Heads. Columbia, SC.
I came up with my silly U2 “The Fly” insect photo post for today, thinking that I wouldn’t have time to track down insect shots today because I was with a video crew on campus all day.
Our first stop, though, was a public health lab studying ticks, mosquitos and parasites.
📷 March Photo Challenge #22. Insect. Listening to U2’s new version of The Fly. Columbia, SC.
Amazon is shutting down camera review website DP Review. I always thought it was weird that they were owned by Amazon, and I guess that eventually, the cost to run the site was more than DP Review generated in sales.
📷 March Photo Challenge #21. Tiny. 1950s Hit subminiature camera. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #20. Houseplant. Up close and personal with the plant in our office. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #19. Analog. Weber Kettle thermometer. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #18. Portico. Not a grand entrance, but it’s home. Columbia, SC.
Just watched A Sort of Homecoming, the Disney+ U2 documentary/concert video with David Letterman. It’s fun and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
📷 March Photo Challenge #17. Early. Meeting a friend this morning at Curiousity Coffee. I’m early. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #16. Road. Crossing a street by campus. Columbia, SC.
As someone who once drove a VW Rabbit, I have to say that I’m interested in the VW ID.2all concept. I want a small electric car, and this would be perfect. Sadly, I doubt it will ever make it to the United States.
This laser printer “review” from Nilay Patel at The Verge made me laugh. I wanted to buy one of these during the early days of the pandemic, but they were sold out. After years of flaky inkjets, I eventually bought a Canon Laserjet M15w and love having a black-and-white laser printer at home.
📷 March Photo Challenge #15. Patience. Waiting for my food at a busy restaurant. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #14. Horizon. View from my office on the 7th floor, overcast. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #13. Connection. Monitor Cables. Columbia, SC.
My iPhone case is starting to fall apart, so I’m going to go case-less for a little while and see if I can get used to it. (Or more precisely, see if I can get over the feeling that I’m going to shatter the glass.)
One nice side effect of the Micro.Blog March Photoblogging Challenge… I’m taking more pictures… not just for the challenge. I’d gotten out of the rhythm of shooting for fun and posting a photo every day has sparked that habit again.
📷 March Photo Challenge #12. Shiny. “Holographic” fish stickers from Sticker Mule. Columbia, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #11. Gimcrack. My home office knick knack shelf needs dusting. (I had to look up “Gimcrack,” so hopefully I got it right.) Columbia, SC.
Adventures in algorithms: My daughter shared a link to a prom dress she liked. I clicked on it. Now, Instagram is serving me prom dress content.
📷 March Photo Challenge #10. Ritual. I love that my favorite local coffee shop gives me a teapot and mug when I order hot tea. Gets me in the right frame of mind for writing. Loveland Coffee. Irmo, SC.
📷 March Photo Challenge #9: Together. Our son’s lacrosse practice means we get to walk together. Crooked Creek Park. Chapin, SC.
