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Photo 298: Sick humor

My first thought was “yeah, these two were nailed because mannequins can’t move out of the way of a moving vehicle.”

Photo 290: Happy Pumpkins

I was playing with the iPhone 4S in dark conditions. This shot came out pretty damn well.

Photo 289: Game day

After working from 12:30am to 4:30am Sunday morning, then sleeping for 4.5 hours, I was too tired to do anything except play board games with the kids. (Also, Trouble is a terrible game because of the requirement of rolling a 6.)

Photo 287: iPhone fun

Didn’t really take anything yesterday except some test shots with the iPhone. I like Sarah peering over Evan in this shot.

Thanks, Steve

Steve Jobs passed away today at age 56 after a battle with cancer.  Here’s a few random thoughts…

On this day, I own a buttload of Apple gear: iPhone, iPod, iPad, MacBook Pro, Apple TV, Apple TV 2, Time Capsule, Mac Mini… I’m planning on getting an iPhone 4S as soon as possible.

I was (and am) a big open source dork at heart, but Apple’s simplicity and ease of use, especially the past 7 years really spoke to the pragmatic side of me.  It turned me into a fan boy, I guess.  It didn’t hurt that OS X is NeXTStep is UNIX… I touch OS X and Linux every day.

One of Dinah’s first words was iPod which she taught herself so she could ask me to turn on music for her.

In college, I loved using the NeXT computers we had. My first class in college used scheme on the NeXT’s. The NeXT is one of the first places I played Doom.  I took calculus using Mathematica on the Mac in college.

Steve also touched my kids’ lives via Pixar. (Okay, my life too, I saw Toy Story in the theater first run, long before I had kids.) Also through their first computer, a Mac Mini.

There were too other public figures who’s lives and deaths touched me the way Steve’s passing is touching me today: Jim Henson and Fred Rodgers.

Photo 266: Blackhawks pre-season game

The Blackhawks beat the Capitals 3 to 2

Photo 245: Breakfast: it’s what’s for dinner

Photo 242: Alien landscape

Photo 235: Someone left their ball out in the pouring rain

Photo 229: Woodman’s run

mmmm… New Glarus and Oskar Blues run