Badmotivator
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Sharing via Flickr
Posted on March 16th, 2014 No commentsHere are my photos on Flickr.
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HDR Panoramic photo from the NW Ridge of Broken Top
Posted on September 16th, 2011 No commentsI’ve finally made a (mostly) successful HDR panoramic photo! The raw photos were taken on Wed. Sept. 14 on a climb with Justin Vaccaro. This panoramic was stitched together from 13 HDR photos, which were made from 39 individual shots. I used HDR Darkroom to prepare the HDRs, and PTGui Pro to combine them. Click for the full size.
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Carbonite made my Mac Pro painfully slow
Posted on April 25th, 2011 No commentsAfter ten months or so of dealing with an agonizingly slow and never completed initial backup, overused RAM, CPU and VM, I have had enough of Carbonite. I turned off auto-renew and uninstalled it completely. I guess it’s back to regular offsite backups using cheap 1TB drives.
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Generate Drive-Time Isochronic Polygons on a Map
Posted on December 15th, 2010 No commentsClick the following link. After finding a location and single clicking to mark a focus, and after a short wait, it will display a 1500px X 1000px map with polygons describing all the regions you can drive within 20 minutes. 20minisochronicmap
Original file, edited by me, is here: http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/arcgis/demos/geoprocessor/gp_servicearea.html
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Spencer Butte Trail Panoramic Photo
Posted on September 23rd, 2010 No commentsElliot and I took the camera and tripod up the butte yesterday. We didn’t make it to the top because of time constraints, but I did capture some pictures of the maple trees along the trail and stitched them together into a nice panoramic. It’s 7MB. Click it and zoom in!
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New Blu-ray Drive
Posted on July 30th, 2010 No commentsSkip this post if you don’t care about Mac Pro hardware upgrades.
I just successfully installed a LITE-ON 4x Blu-ray Disc SATA Internal Optical Drive iHOS104, priced $65 on Amazon, and installed it in my early-2008 Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro has connectors for PATA in the optical drive bay. I tried a SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter, and then used the existing connectors in the optical drive bay, but the Mac Pro did not see the drive. Next I tried connecting the drive to a vacant SATA port on the motherboard, which required a significant amount of dis- and re-assembly of the inside of the computer, using the included red SATA cable. A longer, right-angle SATA cable would have facilitated this operation. I used a SATA Power Cable 4-pin Molex to 15-pin SerialATA adapter, price $1.31 plus shipping through Amazon, to power the drive from the existing unused power source in the optical drive bay. This part was easy.
On boot the computer sees the drive and reads the data from the included Blu-ray disc.
I have not yet ripped any movies.
If you are the owner of a 2008 Mac Pro and would like more information about how to do this, email me at ben at this domain.
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We are moving!
Posted on June 16th, 2010 No commentsAs of Saturday, June 19, our address will be 850 W 38th Ave, Eugene, 97405

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Pictures of the House We Are Buying
Posted on May 11th, 2010 No comments
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Rainbow Over 1207 W 5th Ave
Posted on May 11th, 2010 No commentsMake it big and pan around.
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Under Contract To Buy A House
Posted on May 7th, 2010 No commentsCheryl and I have signed the papers, and now expect to close on our new house on June 15. Holy shit.




































































