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A few from the Red Bull Air Races today.

I guess you are too far back from the river Colin but there was a very large firework show that ended about 5 minutes ago and there were probably be another tomorrow and more every weekend for the rest of the Summer.

Its the summer, there are fireworks on the river every weekend.

Saturday only I think.

The more the merrier. Colin and I are getting tickets for General Admission in the south area.

Tickets for this weekend's Red Bull Air Race NYC.

shhh! The Terrorists have the Internets.

Yeah, the first one posted was run through auto presets in both Aperture and Lightroom inadvertently so it got overcooked. I replaced the source image with one that should be better.

A few more

Some from my lunchtime walk today.

I redid them with center focus, focusing on the black die.

So I have been playing around with comparing lenses in somewhat controlled situations to see if I can detect much difference. I need to work up a better testing scenario as I was not smart enough to fix the focus point for all the different lenses so focus and potentially metering could be different. Oh well I will work on it some more when i get bored again I guess. Both images were taken at 30mm, f4, 1/60, 580ex II. Both are L Glass of varying quality. Both are straight out of the camera with only crop and sizing.

I am so going to get a pair of those.

I ordered mine through AT&T as I decided it would be easier to apply the corporate discounts when I set up the account instead of fighting through the add existing account fiasco they do.

The apple store is down for me.

So, is anyone making their pre-orders tomorrow at 9? I haven't decided if I will get one yet but I kind of want to get one at Best Buy to use all my reward points. The problem is they told me 30-50 per store so it might be a pain to get one early and I am not a patient man.

Or B&N books on their apps. I have no issue with the store but the selection is definitely limited.

Nice phone camera pic. Are you going back tomorrow Colin?

The cheapest lens around, the Plastic Fantastic 50mm f1.8 of course.

Went to Lunch at the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party. Excellent way to spend an afternoon, fantastic food, fantastic Texas music and FANTASTIC women everywhere. My kind of lunch. Carolyn Wonderland And of course pictures of some food for Brent.

Not with my crappy little meter. I think I have figured out the issue. The fact that the elevator and hot water system were down when I got home lead me to believe that they shut down to protect against the hi voltage. I am sure at least the elevator will record this voltage issue in the system so I might have that. I have one phase that is working fine in the house while the other is the crazy one so it would have to be at the transformer and effecting everyone but no one else has the fancy monitoring equipment to tell them that things are not right. When I lift this morning no one from the electric company, plumber or elevator contractors had shown up but I assume they will figure this out fairly quickly.

All my outlets are measuring at 138V.

Came home to find the elevators out and after climbing the stairs found the majority of my electronics to be non-functional. The unit in my TV rack is showing Overvoltage and it seems to be dead but I am hoping it died protecting the gear. The big BPT conditioner in my main rack is dead so I am going to have to test each of those pieces to see what survived.

I really liked the season finale and the whole season. I just wish Raylan would get rid of that plastic gun and get a real one.

Evidently with the Perfect Browser you have to switch it from the default fast browse desktop web rending to Safari for iPad desktop web rendring to be able to type a message on here. Seems pretty quick in fast browse and I notice little difference in the other setting.