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Did some nighttime shots this evening as I am finally somewhere without massive amounts of light pollution.

More Unitedental Bullshit. Started taxiing for takeoff when we stopped and returned to the gate because the flight attendant had to get off and go home to deal with issues at home. Now we are waiting for a replacement and even with all this extra time and they still never got around to doing upgrades so half of first class is empty and all the people on the upgrade list sit here in Coach. A whole airline based on extreme incompetence.

Amazon also had some great deals on L Glass that B&H is matching now if you are looking for the 16-35, 24-70, 35 f1.4.

Couldn't pass up that deal. I really needed another point and shoot.

It was a $1200 D700. It had all the pictures and everything but I guess it must have been some kind of scam.

Killer deal for the Nikon shooters. http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/pho/2759800841.html

A couple glasses of this. I like it.

A couple more low light samples from the S100 Freedom Tower lit up for Christmas Colin lit up by 4 Pinkaritas in a very low light restaurant. 1/8 f2.0 ISO 1600

Colin has graduated to pink mixed drinks.

I don't have anywhere near that many photos but both Aperture and Lightroom have no issues dealing with my very large file size pictures. I typically have 20-30 gb per import and neither has issues. I never really liked iPhoto that much but have no complaints about Aperture/Lightroom.

I guess I am being too tough on them, but I just lose faith when a technology designer states the acoustics of the dock will help with speakerphone quality and the sound typically comes out of the microphone port. It looks like it could be a decent product, I would certainly like a case agnostic dock, but I don't know that I would jump in to fund a guy's business based upon that pitch.

There is no engineering in a chunk of aluminum. My main concern is the guy cannot spell or refer properly to the basic parts of the phone he is making this for so I have major doubts he can do anything to make this a worthwhile product.

I am not sure I could buy something from a company with so many factual and spelling errors in their marketing materials. I still haven't figured out how to get sound out of my microphone jack.

Too bad I couldn't break the 100 point threshold during the regular season.

I didn't realize this was your area. I saw a nice vineyard on Kanen, looks like it was perched on the top of a mountain.

That is actually Los Virgenes or something like that (Malibu Canyon). I just drove down Kanen though coming back from the beach.

Some from the Getty Villa and Malibu Canyon.

Some Malibu sunset shots for all the people in the frozen area I left this morning.

Boarded my plane to LA. Cheap ass Unitedental switched from one of the new 757s with the pod first class seats to this old beater that appears dirty enough that I will need shots when I get to LA. It has freakin ceiling mounted TVs!! I might as well be taking Greyhound. I am done with Unitedental.

So I could either buy my next door neighbors condo or buy the Stax Corp. for the same cost?

1.5 Million seems really low, assuming they are not swimming in debt.

Took a walk during lunch. Started at the place that will instantly become the coolest place in the neighborhood at 10 AM tomorrow morning. The new Super Apple Store. Then I walked over to the Library at Bryant Park to see the wild life.

Dinny, we should do lunch next week and we can mess around with your S95. The camera should be perfectly capable of taking usable pictures, in all types of light.

In my five years of playing FF this is the first time I have not made the playoffs. I went back to look at my drafted teams in the two leagues and I basically lost 40% of the people in the top half of my draft to season ending injury. Then if you add in the people I picked up that immediately blew out their knees, it becomes obvious that playing for me in the HC league is a really bad omen for NFL players.

Just a few more.