365 Discoveries

I did a little self-indulgent searching recently using Google Blogsearch and came across a handful of blogs that have used the photos I share on Flickr. Of course, I would only be able to find the photos that were properly credited, but… meh. I’m not making any money off any of it anyway. (but, that doesn’t mean using my photos without credit is cool!) Anywho, click past the break if you wanna massage my ego. (I update this post as I find more uses)

This photo of an animated LED-powered open sign was taken using my old cell phone’s camera. Honestly, the effect acheived here is caused by the phone being overwhelmed by the sheer brightness of the sign and has nothing to do with any carefully chosen aperature, f-stop,  focal, or ISO settings. No post-editing either. Pretty cool, huh?

• On Storage: Why Open Storage
• TinEye now in open beta
• Digital Sextant “used [the image] on a class website about Open Source.” (no link provided)
• Ars Technica: UK government eyes open source for flexibility, cost savings
• 5 Reasons I Don’t Shop at Your Store
• L’ouverture est un cache-misère
• Ars Technica: Academic source code dust-up symptom of CS education ills
• On Openness…
• Book Review: The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
• Social Media – Strategic Information Sharing
• Open data or bust: the road to the digital public square
• 10 Ways to Promote Your Home Studio
• Yelp’s New Restaurant Round-up! (Sept 15)

I came across this quote at some point and I thought it’d be fun to awkwardly juxtpostion the quote next to my best friends.

• Facebook is the weapon when friends fall out

I screencapped this photo in the heat of battle. It was the first in-game ad I saw in BF2142. I didn’t figure it’d become the standard photo for articles discussing in-game advertising.

• Wii rock band
• Google Testing “Adsense for Games” (+2 similar photos)
• Play Time: In-Game Ad Spending To Top $1 Billion By 2014
• Wired.com: Why In-Game Ads Just Won’t Work
• הפרסום במשחקי מחשב צובר תאוצה
• Plus many more articles on advertising in games. I’ll round them up one of these days…

My friend Mark received an acceptance letter to a particular program he applied to three years prior. Sure, it was neat getting accepted, but it wasn’t neat being 2.5 years too late.

• The Demise of Yield
• A Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Your (Actually) Free Credit Report without Accidentally Signing Up For Extras: Part Three Equifax

Before I travelled to Europe, I was told to “behave [myself] around all the good looking French ladies.” I took this photo to prove that the only good looking French woman I saw was ON AN ADVERTISEMENT. Granted, I was only there for two days, and more interested in the sights than the women, but maybe I’m too spoiled by the California girls.

• Paris: Chauvinism Is a French Word, Right?
• 7 Subway Ads You Don’t Normally See
• June is skin cancer awareness month … what are you doing to reduce your chances?

While trying to remedy the situation clearly stated in the error message, I thought I’d snap a picture just in case that was the last time I’d see that hard drive boot up.

• EVSC: Grades? We don’t need no stinking grades!
• Avoid Failure by Capturing Your Audiences Attention
• Defrag a Single File or Set of Files in Windows
• Things to Do While Waiting for Your Really Slow Computer to Load – AGAIN!

I think I snapped this photo after wrestling with this computer for some time. Taking a picture was a way to take my mind off the idea that I wanted to take a baseball bat to the computer. I adjusted some coloring and added the blur effect in post.

• The real 2011 list
• Back Up Your Files Regularly
• Japanese Offer Quick Fix for Computer Problems – Pray
• 5 Conversational and Relational Tips for Winning Your IT Director’s Heart
• 12.1.08 Featured blogs of the day
• Things we learned while running a small beta
• China Blocks YouTube throughout Country
• Refresh automatique ? Mauvaise idée ! (Meaning: Automatic Refresh? Bad idea!)
• Botnet blue-screens 100,000 PCs
• Handling Errors
• Come sbloccare un computer bloccato
• Is This Rogue Installer Running A Scam On Comcast Customers?
• 5 Simple Ways to Speed Up Your Computer
• It’s not a bug, it’s a user [Tranalation] <– This one is pretty funny!
• Microsoft despedirá 5000 empleados. ¡1400 se van hoy!
• 30 Ways to Improve Vista
• How to Fix Your Relatives’ Terrible Computer (Lifehacker)
• Most Popular How-To Features of 2009 (Lifehacker)

Lackluster followup to the smash hit BSOD 0×07B. I couldn’t match the colors and the intensity of that “pit in your stomach” feel of the original.

• How To Fix Computer Errors
• New Mexico Independent: N.M. Secretary of State investigating employee after Web security test
• Te quedás sin postre

Another angle on the lackluster followup to the smash hit BSOD 0×07B. I couldn’t match the colors and the intensity of that “pit in your stomach” feel of the original.

• Forget my hard drive, I’m moving to the cloud
• 4 Steps for a Comprehensive Backup Solution

Oh, this? Just a cat, trying to peek into a garbage can. The only reason its here is because someone saw fit to turn it into a lolcat smash-up.

• PLS 2 B FSHZ

I found myself distraced and awed by the size of this American flag located in a memorial park in Merced, CA on my way to class each week. Eventually, I stopped by on a lunch break and snapped some photos.

• All-American numbers: The business of Independence Day
• Freedom in Free Union
• Election ‘08: 10 Ideas to Get Kids Involved

I found myself distraced and awed by the size of this American flag located in a memorial park in Merced, CA on my way to class each week. Eventually, I stopped by on a lunch break and snapped some photos.

• Bucks for Babies

Nothing special about this one. I’m surprised it’s being used, really. Just a guy… standing near a patio heater… eating a burger. Yup.

• Turning Up The Heat
• What Are The Various Types of Propane Patio Heaters Today?

Again, not a special shot. I used to work at this racetrack taking photos for the web site; hundreds of photos better than this one. This was just one snapped from the stands a couple years after my employment. My brother-in-law is sitting in 2nd in the green and yellow Monte Carlo.

• Pema Chodron and Mario Andretti on Control

Serendipitous capture of friends in the back of a limo.

• Here’s to the Night (I think this person just saves photos he/she likes in his/her LiveJournal)

I faintly recall wanting this self-portrait for some post on an old personal blog of mine regarding “over-branded” merchandise.

• 6 Secrets To Get That Cherished Raise

I’m not sure why I brought my camera to the mall, but I had it with me this day, just days before Christmas.

• Survey Finds Holidays Cause Women More Stress Than Men
• daily dos: gobbled up on mun
• Black Friday tips to shop like a pro
• A Cheapskate’s Guide to the Black Friday Sales

Cameraphone snapshot of an insightful moist napkin wrapper found at Hooters, Hollywood.

• Sleeplessness Resource Center

A serendipitious shot of a train station in Paris. I believe it was a disposible camera that caught this scene with the lone traveler on the deck. The sepia-like color of this shot was captured as-is. No post was performed on this photo other than some cropping, I believe. The creation of the poster was done for kicks with some Flickr tool.

• 我們從未是現代的? jamais été moderne?

Cameraphone snapshot of an insightful moist napkin wrapper found at Hooters, Hollywood.

• So I think I’ve made a decision.

Some friends and I travelled to San Francisco to catch Sister Hazel (with Victoria George as an opener) play live at a small(ish) night club, Slim’s. The venue provided an intimate atmosphere and we got a good show as the crowd was allowed to press right up to the stage leaving us only feet from the artists.  Again, the shot isn’t spectacular, but someone saw fit to cut out the band members and throw them up on Wikipedia.

• Wikipedia: Andrew Copeland & Ken Block page

My roommate at I hauled a heavy-duty table into our living room for a time while we repaired various junk computers. The laptop at the bottom right, however, is not junk; it’s my Sony Vaio and I was doing a routine cleaning and swapping the wireless card for a Atheros-based card for wardriving purposes. The lighting provided by the single CFL casts some pretty awesome lines and shadows across the plastic and silicone.

• Hacker havens are ad-hocracies

I figured I had a unique angle on the ballpark when my father took me up to the top level of the parking garage his company was building across the street.

• 9 WAYS TO SAVE MONEY AT A BASEBALL GAME

My fiance, together with her friends,  took part in a carefully planned prank to gently vandalize the vehicles belonging to me and my friends. Chocolate syrup on a car isn’t so bad, unless it’s near freezing outside and the chocolate begins to solidify on the hood.

• In honor of the day

Another shot from inside the Vinatage Faire Mall a few days before Christmas. The zoom on my camera is lacking, but I wanted a photo memory of these festively dressed senior women dancing in the mall.

• Lets See What’s Cooking Inside…

I used to have a thing for cropping myself leaning, sitting, or standing around landmarks. The picture on the right, however, isn’t a crop job, just a carefully placed camera and subject.

• Are You Thinking Big Enough?

Once upon a time, I booted a computer into safe mode. It outputted a bunch of repetitive  lines to the monitor.

• Slow Running Computer
• How to Open Your PC in Safe Mode?

Once upon a time, I booted a computer into safe mode. It outputted a bunch of repetitive  lines to the monitor.

• Wired.com: Computer Makers Aim to Banish Boot-Up Blues

High school photography assignment in the school library. Repetition.

• Spark: Episode 81 – June 10 & 13, 2009

Picture of a CAT5e cable I terminated RJ-45 style. Next.

• Serviço de Internet + Voz + TV em Portugal
• Happy 40th Birthday, Internet!
• Studie: 30 Firmen verursachen ein Drittel des Online-Datenverkehrs (Translation: “Study: 30 Companies Cause One-Third of Online Traffic”)

Poker room located in downtown Merced, CA.

• More About Poker

Taken at the Warfield in San Francisco. Headliners Lifehouse were opened by Matt Nathanson.

• Lifehouse Discography Page

One cool night in January, the 4 ladies seen in the poster above launched an attack on 4 different vehicles sitting in the driveway belonging to four men utterly distracted by gaming and general tomfoolery inside the house. As you can see, their actions will not go unpunished! If you have any information on the aforementioned vixen, contact me immediately.

• Finding New Blood With Your Social Media Presence
  (I can’t decipher exactly why the author chose this photo for his article. My guess is he is demonstrating something a potential employer could find on the Web that would reflect poorly on a potential candidate. Fortunately for the subjects of this photo, the photo is on my Flickr account only, thereby removing association with themselves. Additionally, I don’t list their names in text, protecting them from searches — that is, until facial regonition becomes available on Flickr.)

My friend saw a picture of me and my friends on Catalina island (lower right) and thought it looked like the perfect “fun” photo that would belong on an advertisement for a travel agency. So… he made one. If you look closely, you’ll also see a photo from Starcraft included. The funny part? I’ve seen this “advertisement” come up on top in searches on Google Images and Flickr searches for “travel agency.” Hopefully people don’t believe this thing is a legitimate ad. The author of first blog listed below may have.

• ASTA/NACTA Reports Show Shifting Trends for Travel Agents & Agencies

My first car; totaled. Not my fault, though, it left a dent.

• How to Purchase Car Insurance for Young People

This photo mashup is courtesy of BigHugeLabs (formerly fd’s flickr toys). The billboard mashup tool is here.

• Pitching in an ADD-friendly world. (thumbnail here in case they wise up and remove the photo)