Canadia Blog

A mostly eaten vegan pizza

So I’ve been home for Christmas the last couple weeks, but the most urgent news, methinks, is the pizza my girlfriend and I just devoured.  I’ve been vegan about a month and a half now, and cheese pizza remains pretty much the only thing I’ve missed.  So, of course, I’ve been anxious to get going on a pizza since my block of vegan Mozzarella from Follow Your Heart arrived.  Today we tossed some ingredients in a bread maker, kneaded them up into dough, and made a pizza. (more…)

The circus and an inflatable slide over rows of corn at the Pumpkin Festival

So I went with my girlfriend to Hunsader Farms’ Pumpkin Festival over a month ago, and I just now got around to sortingout the photographs, so figured I’d make a blog post about it now.  Not too much to it, I suppose.  Went to the Pumpkin Festival, walked around, looked at crafts and such, had a great time.  Of particular interest was a massive pneumatic pumpkin cannon, which hurled pumpkins a thousand-some feet off into the forest (I can only hope no unfortunate persons or woodland creatures became its target).

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The Pier in St. Petersburg

Long time no post.  I went and got myself sort of caught up going to college.  I’ve been moved in for a couple of weeks now, and everything’s going pretty well, getting used to classes and whatnot.  Not much time to write out a big proper blag post just now, but I’ll jot down some stuff, and hopefully start posting regularly again later.

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A shot in front of the pond. Lit by an SB-25 in a shoot-through umbrella to camera left, and a bare gelled SB-26 to camera right, for hairlight

Got a light meter recently, and I must say, incident metering is absolutely, immensely awesome.  I can now just stick the meter right up in someone’s face and get a perfect exposure straight-off: no chimping or guessing.  And as an added bonus, it even tells you how much of the exposure is made up by flash and ambient.  So, new meter in hand, I took a trip out to the recently opened Robinson Preserve, to give it a little test run, and have fun in the park, of course.

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Openmoko's Neo Freerunner

On July 4, 2008, Openmoko released the Neo Freerunner, their second generation free/open-source cell phone.  On July 5, I ordered one.  In the two weeks between placing the order and getting the phone, I went looking for reviews, and much to my surprise, couldn’t find any.  Even Gizmodo and the like, as of this writing, seem to lack an actual review of the phone itself: all I see is software reviews, apparently based on development snapshots, rather than the software stack that actually ships with the phone.  For lack of any reviews on the regular sites, I’ve decided to go ahead and write my own.

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A lake near the entrance to Robinson Preserve

They opened a new nature preserve in Bradenton today, so I got myself up out of bed nice and early (and by early, I mean 8:00 AM.  This is Summer time, folks) and made my way over to the grand opening, and met up with a friend, Farrah.  It was quite the speech-giving occasion, with all the county commissioners there to give their own special insights about the preserve, which is pretty big and mightily awesome, but probably not worth quite as much lip-service as they gave it.

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