Infographics of me vs @tcar, me vs. @beattyj, and me vs @evo_terra. Due to Evo’s popularity and social media presence I thought it would be interesting. In any case, a fun little twitter bug. I like how it knows I like beer. And that it thinks Jason is a rapper. HAHAHA
The infographics after the jump. Continue reading How do I stack up on twitter? Infographic showdown
As followers of my blog know, this year I’ve taken a little bit of a photography kick. This post takes some more photography without being a photo of the day, but also gets some of my geek on. This started as an e-mail exchange, but as I replied I thought it would make a good post.
It started when Rev Tom e-mailed me via flickr with the following:
Your photos have smashingly rich EXIF metadata! And Flickr seems to respect it, too, amazingly. What do you use? I take it you add XMP tags because some of them look remarkably unlike standard EXIF tags. Is that right?
(A good example is the metadata on my recent moon photo as seen on flickr.) Some of the following I’ve shared here before, but it was in the mail to Tom so I’ll reuse it here:
I’m using Aperture on my Mac to handle my photos these days. I have 16,382 photos, so I was out-growing “directories of images,” so I moved to iPhoto, which gave me the added bonus of being able to sync photos to my iOS devices and AppleTV. I then outgrew iPhoto for keeping them straight once I got the Canon T2i and started doing 18 megapixel RAW images, iPhoto was just choking on editing them. (And it looks like I’ve added 3,153 of those since I got the T2i according to a quick search I did.) In either case, I had to move to Aperture or Lightroom, and since there was a direct upgrade path to Aperture from iPhoto, and I’m drinking Cupertino Kool-aid these days, Aperture was an easy choice.
So, the answer on richer metadata is that I’m filling out the IPTC set for my personal information. It looks like some of the standard metadata like caption is also tossed in there. XMP is a super-set of IPTC (due to some collaboration) and looks like that’s how it ends up being shared when I expose it. (Check out this about.com article that quickly overviews EXIF, IPTC, and XMP and its relationships.) Aperture also directly is uploading into flickr for me, so it might be using some other stuff in the flickr API to fill it in.
The following images are screenshots of what Aperture lets me fill in when I select the “IPTC Core” metadata.
The next image shows the large amount of metadata subsets that Aperture will expose to me. Most of those screens have a few pieces of redundant data that can be found on the other, but each tab has a few unique things to fill in.
One of the things you can do on Aperture is have some automatic actions performed at import time. The next image is what I’ve got automatically done when I import photos.
I mostly add the IPTC bits, but I also rename the photos on import to the YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS that I’ve been using since I got a digital camera in ’97. That also becomes the default title, but I generally override that in images I share, or at least I try to.
Once I discovered that some of that stuff was exposed in flickr, I started filling in photos I KNEW I was gonna share with as much data as I’d ever used or added to the flickr experience.
Awesome sushi I had for lunch at TL’s Four Seasons. To quote @grimm26: “enjoy your phallic mound of wasabi”
Dad is great…
Possible the greatest food created by man.
Sarah and I ate lunch at Cooper’s Hawk today, it was yummy. I think the red wine made a better photo than the white wine. At the same time, I like the clarity of the image projected through the white wine. And who doesn’t love an endless field of chocolate-covered strawberries.
This is the my second version of this post. The first one I was using a flickr plugin for wordpress, but that experiment went no where. Anyone have a flickr plugin they like? Bonus points if it integrates with the wordpress featured image functionality.
Get ready, I’m going to start to use flickr a lot more, I just upgraded my flickr account to a pro account. Here’s my first attack against you visually, the photos I took at the “RE Tech Rocks DC” event the other night where non-other than good friend and boss Mark Lesswing performed on his acoustic bass.
(BTW, the above if a flash based slideshow from flickr…sorry iPad users, but I’m experimenting with flickr.)
Ave Caesar!
This is an actual receipt I got. (I just blurred out the identifying items.)
Today I went with some people to The Meddlesome Moth in Dallas.  Its a damn shame I discovered this place on my last night here instead of my first, otherwise I would have just been there every day as much as possible.  The image for today is of the first flight I ordered which was called “Captain Keith.” The flight is named after their Beer Guru Keith Schlabs, but I had to order it for obvious reasons.
As a beer lover, the place is fantastic. Â The beer selection is large with 25 or so on tap and 100 or so for a selection of bottles. (I’m doing those numbers from memory, but if I’m wrong, I’m pretty close.) Â Keith Schlabs came out and talked to us for bit. They have contacts all over the country so they’ve got a lot of the great microbrews from Stone to Dogfish Head to Allagash to everything in between. They also work hard to represent great microbrews made in Texas. In fact, they have a flight of Texas beers which lead us to discover (512)’s Peacan Porter from Austin which tasted great and I consider the beer find of the day.
Keith also shared they’ve been open for about a year and are really serious about exposing people to good beer.  That’s something I can really get behind.  It helps that their wait staff was also extremely knowledgeable about the beer they were serving and could make excellent suggestions. Also, in talking to the staff they were knowledge about about the beer world in general even if they don’t have it on the menu. I love that sign of passion about what they are doing.
They also have an amazing menu which I think would make many foodies join the dance of joy the beer lovers were already doing. Â Since we were just snacking we had two small things: The Hungry Farmer, which was a fantastic cheese and meat plate, and the Sweet Fennel Meatballs, which were out of this world. Â If the rest of their food is even half as good as what we had you can do no wrong.
As I mentioned on Twitter earlier today: If you love beer and you are in Dallas and you do not go to The Meddlesome Moth, I loath you.
Bonus images because, hey, the place was that awesome and worth it.
