Our Korean foreign exchange student and a friend made California rolls for a party they are going to later. Taco meat adds a unique touch.
From Korea. Available at your local Asian grocery. Kinda like cream-sicles with some awesome flavors. Having a Korean living in your house is sure a tasty education!
Continuing with today's miscellany theme...
So the Residence Inn in Ft. Wayne was full that week and I had to stop somewhere else at the last minute. This is the town where the sign on their number one municipal building says (I kid you not) "City of Gas City City Hall."
Do I need to mention that this is Indiana.
Can your phone camera do this?
Hmm, I thought not.
BTW, I stopped by the AT&T store today for a legitimate purpose and just off-hand asked them about their stock of the new Blackberry that is being advertised all over the place right now. They said they had plenty of them--maybe about 15 of them on the shelf in the back. Then, like the jerk fanboi that I am I asked them how many iPhones they had.
They said they were all out of them.
This is why you grow tomatoes and basil in your backyard. I think the next thing I put in will be a rice wine vinegar distillery, or an olive press.
You will never know how good this was.
And I think there's a kind of profound sadness inextricably tied to that fact.
Moments ago, FileMaker released new apps for accessing FileMaker files for the iPhone and iPad. This shot shows the same FileMaker solution accessed by a computer, an iPhone and an iPad. Obviously, there are some serious UI issues to deal with, but we now have the tools for some great solutions to problems you never thought you'd see solved.
All over this here U.S. of A. brand new iPhone 4 owners, eager to explore the boundaries of the incredible camera in their new toy, pointed them skyward to capture the quintessential American celebration.
And were disappointed.
Being a fireworks shooter since way back in the film days (remember film?) I know how to use the settings to record some of those incredible patterns of long color streaks that we all know and love.
Just not on the iPhone. Without shutter speed and aperture controls fireworks appear as white blobs. All my attempts at shooting stills of the occasion were so disappointing as to force me to discard them immediately.
I did, however, find that the iPhone does video a little better. You still get short streaks and washed out color, but with the dimension of time, there is a least something to see.
Here is something I found attempting to brighten its little corner of a parking lot. The iPhone 4 does a great job of capturing its valiant effort.
I posted about Plastic Bullet a few weeks ago. It's an iPhone app that makes photos on your iPhone look like they were shot with a cheap plastic film camera. Here's a mini gallery of what I've come up with playing with it since then:
