I set my alarm for 1145pm so I could wake up for iPhone pre-orders, but by the time I made it out of bed and realized why I had set my alarm, the 128GB black iPhone 6 Plus were gone. I could still pre-order, but then I’d get it shipped to me in several weeks – Unacceptable! The regular iPhone 6 were available so I…
September 12, 2014Yesterday was the annual Apple phone event and it did not disappoint. I miss the old 2008 days when we didn’t really know what was coming ahead of time. I’m in my upgrade year for my phone and with my camera showing increasing pixel issues (and my point and shoot completely dead), I was excited about what might be coming from Cupertino. I refuse to…
September 10, 2014The National Weather Service in San Diego put out a great map about Tropical Cyclones (or as we call them, Hurricanes) that have made it to San Diego and Southern California. Interesting to note there hasn’t been one since the late 1990s (Hurricane Nora in 1997) before I moved back to LA from Northern California. Hopefully this Hurricane will finally get rid of the massive…
September 8, 2014Some serious Volcanic goodness has been happening lately – from Bardarbunga in Iceland to Mt. Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea, there has been some great footage out there on the interwebs. Shockwave from Mt. Tavurvur Great photo of Mt. Tavurvur Circumnavigating sailboat + shipwreck photographer + stratovolcano = … http://t.co/AaBevELUMD @dotearth #rabaul pic.twitter.com/uoWT1z9oXb — Andrew Revkin (@Revkin) September 4, 2014 Great view of the Aurora…
September 5, 2014Great video of California – The Golden State by Hal Bergman. Huell Howser would be proud, and I can only hope that one day I’ll make a time lapse video that good..
September 4, 2014Sunday I posted a quick Instagram video of my first attempt at a long Hyperlapse video. I spent a few minutes in iMovie and created a YouTube video with music from the entire minute long Hyperlapse. Pretty neat app from the Instagram folks and hope that they continue to make improvements like the ability to add sound to it.
September 3, 2014