Macro Slink

The final 15 minutes of work are the worst, at least when I’m not actively working on a problem or project. The slinky makes its second appearance, with my kooky, color changing USB card reader visible in the background.

Blue Plastic Shell

A retired faculty member brought back a borrowed iMac. I didn’t even know he had it, since he borrowed it well before I came to work here.

My friend Chris stopped by to show me his new Nikon D300 SLR. Very very nice! This picture was taken on it.

Slinkyboard

Holy crap, I’m bored at work. It’s not that I’m not busy: I’m reading Apple’s documentation for OS X 10.5 Server, installing 10.5 client on 2 machines, and testing 10.5 with our IU Kerberos realm and my Open Directory server. There just isn’t a lot that interests me about this right now, plus I’m tired from the weekend. So here’s a picture of my keyboard as seen through a slinky. Awesome, I know.

Can you spot the difference?

This is the same picture, spanning both of my screens. The screen on the left is a white Macbook, the screen on the right is a 20″ Apple Cinema Display. I spent about an hour yesterday trying to calibrate the Macbook’s screen to be as vivid as the Cinema Display. What you see here is actually an improvement over what I started with. It seems to affect yellow especially, but all the other colors I’ve tested still look muted on the Macbook.

I think I’m going to get a Pantone huey and see if that helps correct this problem. More later.

Ginko on campus

This is one of the big ginko trees on campus at IU. It drops fruit that smells like rotten feet in the spring, and leaves that are like cardboard in the fall, but it is an awesome tree.