There was an event at Anthony's preschool today, and although I have a bazillion pictures I want to share, I don't have the energy to write a long post tonight. So, instead, I'll put this picture of Monet and her mommy that I took during the event. I think it's really sweet. You can see where Monet gets her photogenicity.

You might remember Monet from the cooking play post from the other day, and from this camera-geeks post from last fall. (Actually she was also on this fall-colors post as well.)

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Wow, despite the 37% plunge seen in Apple's stock so far this month, they're still on the ball in one respect: my MacBook, picked up for repair on Tuesday afternoon, was returned this afternoon, a scant 47 hours later.

Sweet.

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Visiting my photo archives, I came across a bunch of shots from when I last played Ultimate Frisbee with a few friends at Yahoo!, in Sunnyvale California, about a year and a half ago. At the time, I posted a sequence of shots I took of a well-executed goal. Here are a few shots that others took with my camera while I played.

I like the perspective in these first two shots, and the colors; it was late – past 7:30pm – so the sun was just setting.

Ten minutes later it was much darker, but play continued...

Huey made [...]

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Details on the piglet, along with an example of it applying exiftool to each image, is on the Run-Any-Command Piglet's page.

A few warnings about today's plugin updates:

There were a number of behind-the-scenes infrastructure changes in these updates, so there may be some version churn for a few days as any bugs get shaken out. My MacBook died halfway through development of the piglet, so I couldn't run final tests on OSX. It should work, but we'll see. As with any plugin update, be sure to save a copy of any fourth-party piglets (such as Tim Armes' LR/Mogrify [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, my 18-month-old MacBook died yesterday. I think the disk controller went bad, taking out the hard drive as well (the big disk that I'd installed myself early on). Apple's products are wonderful when they work, but their laptops have a history of "longevity issues." I guess that's what happens when you push the envelope as far as they do. I wholeheartedly recommend their laptops, but be sure to build into the cost the extra few hundred dollars for the extended warranty, as I did when I bought mine.

Apple is picking it up tomorrow for repair. [...]

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