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Now in it’s eighth year, the Eightfivethree Classic is open for signup. 2010 Eightfivethree Classic Anyone is welcome to signup, but act fast cause the tournament starts soon. [ READ MORE ]
…another “blog”! I have blogs on twitter, tumblr, wordpress and probably a few other places I have forgotten about, so what’s one more? I took a couple hours today to play around with a few projects I have been watching and wanting to try out. The new blog is hosted on github at http://travisj.github.com. Github is [ READ MORE ]
I recently wrote about my troubles trying to buy a new camera lens on eBay and I wanted to tell about the great job ebay’s customer service did handling my problems. I wrote the “seller” – which was really just the production developer testing account – on a Saturday and told them about my mistake in [ READ MORE ]
My new lens arrived last night, but I haven’t had much time to try it out. The picture above was one of the first with my new toy and captures Crusher somewhere he probably shouldn’t be. I have lots to learn with the new lens. The shot is focused more on his body than [ READ MORE ]
I have been using Vim for a few months now and have found a few plugins that I can’t live without. NERD tree makes it super-simple to browse and open files from your filesystem. I’ve mapped the nerd tree toggle command to control-c and then use “j”, “k” and “enter” to find and open the [ READ MORE ]
A few weeks ago I decided to buy a new lens for my camera. I wanted a lens with a larger aperture so I could take pictures with a shorter depth of field. I did my research and settled on the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. It has gotten good reviews around the web, is [ READ MORE ]
I got quite a few great gifts for Christmas this year and it caught me really off guard. I couldn’t think of anything that I wanted so it surprised me so much that my family was able to find perfect gifts. I received many non tech related gifts, but tonight I wanted to write about two [ READ MORE ]
The picture above was taken shortly after midnight from the roof of our apartment. We were up watching the ball drop in Times Square and heard fireworks from the park. We rushed up to the roof to catch a few minutes of the show. I am looking forward to 2010. Rachel and I had an eventful [ READ MORE ]
A couple months ago Rachel and I went to the Brooklyn Flea under the Brooklyn Bridge and while I was getting some food, Rachel wandered off and sampled some peanuts from a local vendor. A reporter was there doing a story on the nuts and asked Rachel her opinion and as part of his story [ READ MORE ]
I have wanted a DSLR camera for a few years and today I finally got one. After lots of research and careful deliberation, I chose the Canon Rebel T1i. I will now be able to take way too many photos in way too high of resolution like the one above of Crusher. Below is my [ READ MORE ]