Brian Hampson - Life and Other Things

If you’re a digital photographer, and work with anyone else in the workflow, then this document is a very good read:

Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines

and more at:

The Tools page.

The event that had two sprinters from San Jose State University banned from the Olympics in 1968 and resulted in death threats against them has also resulted in a statue in their honour.

Tommie Smth and John Carlos, on the podium (1968), and frozen in time in their statue(2005).

Rosa Parks died today.  She was 92.

What have you done to help stem racism of ALL kinds?

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

Rosa spoke out!  You need to speak, and act as well!

There appears to be a variety of cameras (about 58 now) which have flaws in their CCD’s.  The camera manufacturers have stood behind their products though, and are willing to fix the problems for free. 

For an extended list of failing cameras see this Imaging Resource article.

Ha!

It looks like if he wants to proceed, it’ll have to be up here, and we don’t give out judgements in the multi-millioon dollar range.  You can’t pick your location for your lawsuit just because it’ll get you more money.

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a water drop? Cool QTVR  from the INSIDE of a water bottle. (QT required)

Interesting photography.

Pink salmon fry with sea lice attached.  This fish will die.

Did you see Boston Legal on October 11th?  They raised the issue of Pink salmon being killed by sea lice from Atlantic Salmon farms!  This is great..  American exposure to the problems caused by fish farms.  Lot’s of buzz in the Pacific fishing world about this episode.  Even some East Coast blogs are talking about  it!

Lots of information about the sea lice issue can be found.  The fish farms are fighting back, and things are heating up.  There’s no such thing as bad PR?  For the sake of the fish I hope this is NOT the case for the farms.

Even though the Boston Legal episode was a bit light hearted, it is a VERY serious issue, and one that Britain and Norway faced a long time ago, almost destroying their sea-run trout populations where fish farms existed.  This has GOT TO stop, or it’ll be Tofu with salmon flavoring in our future

On Saturday morning, we left the scout hall at 0900, and headed out to Chilliwack in two vehicles.  Once on the highway, we realized that everyone seemed to be heading east for Thanksgiving, so traffic was a bit heavy.  It took us almost 2 hours to get to the hatchery.  Once at the hatchery, we were greeted by Lorraine, a fish culturist who works at the hatchery.  She had tonnes of great info for the cubs, and she was very patient with all our questions.  The cubs had a chance to feed the fish, and we got a tour of the incubation rooms where we saw millions of eggs from Chinook, Coho, and Pink salmon developing.  Cool!  It was fun to watch the adult fish in the raceway, as they continued to try to follow their very strong “head up river” instinct.

After the hatchery tour, we headed up the valley a bit more, until we found a quiet place where we had a fire, and roasted hotdogs, drank hot chocolate, and went for a hike.  The forest was beautiful, and the weather held up mostly, except for a few small drizzles. 

With a warm lunch in our stomachs, we headed back to Vancouver.  Traffic was much light this way, and the return trip took about 1 hour.  Once back at the hall, we played “the beanbag game”, dodgeball, and learned about the cub program, while refreshing our promise and law.  It was quite tiring to play 90 minutes of games!  After the games, and learning came dinner - PIZZA!  I don’t think there’s a cub on this planet who doesn’t like pizza, and these guys were no exception.  Poof!  Gone!  Dessert required some effort…  A hike to McDonalds for sundaes.   Then back to the hall to prepare for the evening movies.

That evening, we watched The Jungle Book 2, and Robots.  I hadn’t seen Robots - it was really quite funny.  The movies lasted until about 2300, at which point it was lights out, and time to sleep.  We all slept well that night, since the outdoor activities had given us quite a work out.  0730 came quickly.  We woke to the smell of sausages and pancakes cooking down in the kitchen.  Yum!  We seem to have hit on a favourite again, as the cubs devoured all the food we  had to offer.

At 0900 we sent them off home, so that we could finish cleaning up, and then go home and crash. 

What a fun weekend!

Pictures are here

Some guy named “Marc” has figured out how to get a deal on flying later in life.  The good thing:  He plans on getting 1,000,000 Aeroplan miles, which will give him MANY free flights later in life.  The bad thing:  He has to fly almost constantly for 2 months, all around North America.

Also discussed on Metafilter

Follow his blog to see how it goes.

Good Luck Marc!  Here’s hoping Air Canada doesn’t go bankrupt after you complete this.

Roger and Matt both agree with me:  Cutting and pasting someone else’s blog entry, and adding NOTHING is a waste of electrons.  Blogs are about opinions, feelings, and the guy on the street view of things. Not simply parroting some other blog