The Best Deal in Photography

Daring Fireball has recently been on a tear singing (and linking to) the praises of the Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens, and I couldn’t agree more. For about $80 (“the best deal in photography“) you get a great lens — though with less-than-great construction — that is a lot of fun to use and a great …

Apology Ecard for Yankee Fans

If you’re a jerk, here’s an ecard you can send to your Yankee fan friends: (Hopefully this same ecard won’t be needed for Sox fans…)

Meat Helmets?

“In the spring we’d make meat helmets.” — Dr. Evil

Stuff

Paul Graham has a good article about owning too much stuff. It’s good for me to read something like this every so often to inspire me to clean out a lot of things I really don’t need.

Wacky Photos

While digging around old files for this site, I came across two somewhat creepy photos of me. First is one I created years ago for reasons that escape me now, and it sorta looks like Jeremy: The second was a creation that Jeff did, combining me and Jakob Nielsen: (If you know me and know …

Vacation Photos

Not to bore anybody with all 80+ photos from our vacation in the Bahamas (out of the 240+ I actually took), I put a few select shots on Flickr.

Father’s Day Gift

Jill got me a very cool gift for Father’s Day: some Star Wars artwork done by our friend (and amazing comic book artist) Craig Rousseau. (You can see a larger version of it on his site here.)