Archive for February, 2007Looking at Cute Puppies Hi Puppies! The petting zoo came to Anthony's preschool the other day, with a llama, a pig, a porcupine, goats, hamsters, bunnies, dogs and puppies, some horses, and more. 
View full post » Politicians the world around often put on the most brazen displays of stupidity in what they say, and those in Japan are no exception. Today's Moron Japan's Minister of HealthHakuo Yanagisawa Today's example from Japanese politics, long a juicy source for mind-numbingly stupid political speech, is from a talk given the other day by the Japanese Minister of Health, Hakuo Yanagisawa, about Japan's long-declining birthrate: The number of females aged 15 to 50 is fixed. The number of child-bearing machines, apparatus, is fixed, so... (saying “child-bearing machines” is.... how shall I say.... well, anyway), so in the [...] 
View full post » Hot and Tired Boy with Wild Hair The mommy volleyball club for Anthony's preschool had a fun parent/kid event on Saturday. They rented a gymnasium and played volleyball and let the kids tear around. Anthony certainly took advantage of the situation and tore around pretty much for four hours straight. Undaunted A good part of the time was spent pushing the ball cart around at breakneck speeds Mizuki-chan and Her Mommy Stretching I love Mizuki-chan's pose in the shot above, especially her toes, resting her tummy on a ball and stretching/playing while chatting with her mommy. (You might remember Mizuki-chan as the cat wrangler [...] 
View full post » One down, 76,916 to go.... I've been crushed with work as of late, which is why I haven't been posting much. I've recently started doing some consulting on a high-pressure project, and have continued working with new builds of Adobe Lightroom as it rolls toward its public release in a couple of weeks. Despite being a just 1.x release, it nevertheless offers some interesting ways to customize it, and I've been working on some tools that will help with that, and I want to have them ready for release along with Lightroom. Still, I feel bad not posting something worthwhile, so I went into my archives [...] 
View full post » Yesterday we went to some very old, semi-famous mochi shops in north-west Kyoto, near the Imamiya Shrine. We took the opportunity to walk around the shrine a bit, and in doing so, found a plum (I think) tree just starting to blossom. This was especially surprising because this part of the city is known to be generally colder than the main areas, by a non-trivial amount, so I would have expected it to be later than our area. In any case, my first blossom-related post is quite a bit earlier this year than last year (April 8th) or the year before (April 7th). Buds on a (Plum?) [...] 
View full post » After publishing my writeup on Digital Image Color Spaces four months ago, I got into a discussion on color spaces and photo-hosting sites with one Chris MacAskill on a forum at Digital Photograph Review. I didn't realize it until today, but it turns out that this Chris MacAskill guy is the president of the popular SmugMug photo-hosting site. Fast-forward a few months to earlier this week, and Chris posted his own comments on the Mac/OSX aspects of the issue. In just a few days, his post got over 100 comments, including some from the main players in this arena. I guess that's one benefit of, well, having [...] View full post » Adobe Lightroom 1.0, Develop Module in Action Adobe Lightroom Version 1.0 was made public today, in line with the schedule previously announced. I eagerly downloaded and installed 30-day-free evaluation copies, one for my Mac, and one for my Windows box... (my Linux box is still Lightroom-free, unfortunately). One nice thing about Lightroom is that the licence is for two computers, so you can buy one copy and use on both your Mac laptop and Windows desktop (for example, which is what I'm doing). Over half a million people registered to try the free betas last year, and with the advances between October's “Beta 4.1” and today's [...] 
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Adobe Lightroom's Metadata Viewer Metadata Viewer Closeup As I noted in my previous post, three weeks after having been officially announced, Adobe has released Lightroom Version 1.0 (a free 30-day trial can be downloaded from Adobe's Lightroom page). Especially considering it's only a “Version 1” product, Lightroom offers a lot of things that can be customized. The subject of this post is the list of image metadata shown by the Metadata Panel in Library mode. The metadata panel can show much more for an image than anyone's likely to want to see at one time — [...] 
View full post » (IMAGE: Hang Time) I've been too busy to post lately, working on, among other things, a followup to the Lightroom metadata-viewer preset builder of my last post (the followup being an application tentatively titled “Jeffrey's Lightroom Configuration Manager”). Being busy doesn't attenuate the desire to share, so I'm dipping into my “blog about this someday” shoebox of photos, this time back to last August when we were visiting our (now former) place in California. We'd arrived in the middle of an oppressive heat wave, leading to some great shots of Anthony playing in the sprinklers that I posted at the time. This post's photos are in the [...] 
View full post » A couple of things of late has made me notice just how behind the times Japanese can be. It's not like I didn't already know, but sometimes, even Japan can shock one desensitized to shock. The first event was at a restaurant the other day. Not long after sitting down at the counter, a smartly-dressed 20-something woman came in, sat near me, and (of course, this is Japan) lit up a cigarette. I'm used to inconsiderate smokers in any country, and so it wasn't shocking that she ignored the fact that I was a mere five feet to one side, and a toddler and his dad [...] 
View full post » The preschools in this part of Kyoto had a Momma Volleyball tournament yesterday, and I went along to try my hand at some sports photography. It's really really difficult to photograph volleyball well. I knew it would be difficult, but it turned out to be difficult on so many more levels than I had imagined, and I came away with 6 gigabytes of mostly throwaways. I hope to write about it more in the future, but until I find the time, just a few shots that came out okay. Doshisha Mommies giving Moegi's “A” team some love Moegi's “A” team giving some back I really [...] 
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