Maszman Speaks!

In case his DWI judg­ments weren’t per­plex­ing enough, now John Con­nell has recused him­self from a DWI case. This was after he sud­denly with­drew a plea agree­ment, claim­ing the DA had mis­led him. A state supreme court judge is now han­dling the case.

86150001, orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

A while back I men­tioned that I had sent my Speed Graphic’s shut­ter to S. K. Grimes in Woonsocket, RI for repair. Although I posted some pic­tures from the first post-repair roll, I thought I’d post one using Ilford Pan F film. This slow (ISO 50) film had forced me to use slow shut­ter speeds and that’s what showed my shut­ter wasn’t work­ing well.

Out­build­ing at Gonsenhauser’s farm in Rochester, NY, f8 @ 1/10.

Ilford Pan F (ISO 50) 6x7, K1 (Yel­low) fil­ter, 101mm Optar, scanned from the negative.

Palm has released details about its Linux-based “mobile com­pan­ion” called Foleo. But it’s really more of a com­pan­ion for your smart phone than for you and it will cost $499. I’m not buy­ing it (pun intended).

Photo_053007_002, orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

This spi­der is hang­ing out­side my win­dow. I work on the 13^th floor. I seri­ously doubt there are many flies to eat up here.

37 Sig­nals, one of the most influ­en­tial web design firms right now, has cre­ated Why Mac for Com­puter Sci­ence, a video show­ing why Macs are ideal for use in Com­puter Sci­ence cur­ricu­lum. [Embed­ded Quick­time video]

Uni­ver­si­ties respond to decline in com­puter sci­ence stu­dents by teach­ing some­thing else. Yes, I know the arti­cle claims that they’re mak­ing it more appeal­ing, but robot­ics, mul­ti­me­dia and web devel­op­ment are not Com­puter Sci­ence. They are activ­i­ties that involve com­put­ers, but are totally separate.