Clapboard

this is the Firefly base of the site – back when WordPress was just another minor player in the CMS space rather than the only one.

And welcome to the new Clapboard.org!

There are so many new things to explore and test, but at the moment, all I care about is that the posts are back, legible and that I can start putting new posts up ASAP. Later, I’ll worry about what “Formats” are (an Aside? A “Quote” format? – really?) and such.

HTTPS is now enabled by default, too, thanks to Dreamhost and their partnership with LetsEncrypt. I’m sure there will be a page or two with issues, but I’m working on finding and fixing all the issues as quickly as I can. I’m happy to report that I’ve been using rel-links since almost the beginning of the site, so there are way fewer problems than there might have been otherwise, even with the very old content.

Anyway, lots of things are a little wonky, and I know older images don’t always work (some of them never will – a handful have been lost in translation over the years), but mostly, I’m happy with how we came over from Joomla (and how Joomla came from Firefly, and how Firefly came from my hand-coded wwweboard script and how THAT came from an all hand-done HTML site). The Web Board and all its amazing posts is gone (i’m especially sad because I’ll miss having Scott’s brilliant requiem for the house at Browns Terrace. I’m sure it’s in a SQL dump somewhere – maybe I can dredge that up and make it into its own post.

As always, let me know if there’s anything that’s not working and I’ll do my best to fix it. We’ll be doing some more social media sharing and cross posts, but generally, I expect more of the same drivel over the years.

March 24, 2015

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I have 500px now

Pictures

In a continuing effort to push myself to be creative in interesting ways, I created a 500px account. I’m putting a bunch of sets on there, but right now there’s not much. I realized that I don’t think of shooting in sets, but that I should, so I’m going to try to push myself in that direction by putting things out there that are set-based. I’m not sure how it’ll work, but that’s okay.

Right now, you can see my 500px profile right here. There aren’t any nudes on there now, but there will be soon enough, so this is your warning that it won’t always be SFW content.

I don’t even have a header file yet! I’ll get there… Enjoy!
PS – I added the link to the OTHER PLACES TO FIND ME footer element, too. You know, because I can.

February 20, 2015

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Jess walks old-timey

Pictures

Jess from MissMooreStyle was modeling some new finds for me the other day, and I shot a series of stills that, as I edited them, I thought might make a cute old-timey-lookin’ video. Let me know whether I was right.

Video moved to after the fold for organization’s sake. It’s still plenty cool enough to click through for.

January 28, 2015

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Running with the Bulls video

Per usual, I’ve moved the video after the break – click through to see it!

January 28, 2015

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Driving to Portland

Portland may not have been all I was dreaming of and more, but we take the good with the bad and just fucking own it, right? I did manage to do a decent shoot up that way and see Scott and Sharon, so there were some good parts of the weekend, too.

One of the best of the bad things was the fog on the drive up. It was super stressful for ~300 miles, with dense fog, then a patch of clear, then another long run of zero-vis. I”m glad I was doing a Time Lapse! Anyway, below the fold is the video if you”re interested, complete with a mashup by Loo & Placido. (…because what else?)

One thing to note is that I had to turn around about 10 minutes into the drive, adding 40 minutes to the overall trip, but it syncs up really nicely with the intro to the song, so it”s 100% okay now in a way that it definitely was not before. Anyway, enjoy.

January 23, 2015

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lies i tell myself

Musings

It’s funny, as the new year dawned, I wasn’t thinking a lot about resolutions or what I might want to do differently, but now, a month in, I am. Aside from knocking bicyclists from their seats if they ride on the sidewalk, most of my thoughts have been about myself, if they haven’t been entirely motivated by my own actions. The long drive back from Portland this week gave me plenty of time to think about personal responsibility, and I’ve been musing on it ever since.

In this case, I’m thinking about responsibility as it relates to creativity. I can’t be creative by hiding from my responsibility to just DO it, you know? That doesn’t work any more than hiding from our responsibilities makes us happy for more than just a minute. You can ask any of us.

So I’m attempting to work through the “writer’s block” which is actually just me being lazy and avoiding my responsibilities. Ask me Monday how it’s working out.

January 17, 2015

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Ikea

Rants

it’s a good thing I like to put together furniture from Ikea, because I just put three drawers together inside out. Complete with those nylon push-in “screws”. Now I get to take them apart and try not to break anything. I think I’ll take a breather first…

Edit: this is much funnier given the rest of the weeknd.

October 28, 2014

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2 or 3 NFL things

Eagles Football

Okay, first of all, at least the goddamn Cowboys lost yesterday.

Second, why isn’t there more consternation about the NFL’s changes to their TV contracts? Maybe everyone lives in their home markets or else subscribes to the Total Access package? I miss being able to flip between games I liked in the morning at home. Now there’s only ever one game on at a time. Dumb. Also, give up on the NFL network exclusivity for Thursday Night Football. Fucking retarded. It’s like holding games for ransom, and how do you think fans like their games being ransomed off? Treating fans worse isn’t a way to keep them – just ask the RIAA.

Third, can we just agree, collectively, to never use the “official” name of the team from DC anymore? I don’t care if we agree on an alternate name (that might be best), but just never using the name on TV or in print anymore would end up being the same thing as having that asshat Snyder just agree to change the name, only it would be a “fuck you” to the dude as well because no one cares what he wants. This isn’t an issue I care particularly about, but since it’s easy to do the right thing, why not just make the switch? And since he won’t, we can make a painless change to the way we refer to the team and, boom, problem solved.

Fourth, goddamnit, Eagles! The Cardinals? The fucking Cardinals? Then again, we’ve never been a strong team this year, so maybe we’ll pay more attention to shoring up our weaknesses now that we have another mark in the L column and get better. What happened out there? We looked slow and confused all night, and I’m talking about before the snap. Where was our pacing? Our tempo?

October 1, 2014

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London with Laura

I went to London with Laura in September, and am just now getting around to posting some pictures.

There are like 150 in all, which reflects about 20% of the overall shots I took in the 4 days we had. I wish I didn’t hate photo editing so much.

All the pics after the break!

June 26, 2014

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headin’ to Philly

media_crew Now that I’m not traveling for a living anymore (what AM I doing for a living anymore?), I have to make an actual effort to see people I love. I’m doing it, even if it’s not THAT often, and this weekend is Philly. I’m actually psyched – it’s a long weekend and I can promise we won’t get up to much, but that’s okay because I’m lazy.

I’ll definitely snap a couple photos, though.

May 20, 2014

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Happy Birthday, Alina!

Extra! Extra!

It’s not a holiday yet, but someday, no doubt, we’ll look back and know when it all began. It’s an incredibly exciting time to be me.

April 8, 2014

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Caloric debt or, why am I so fat?

Fitness

In order to lose weight (and I certainly have belly fat to be losing), you have to operate at a caloric debt. there’s a lot of science going on that I don’t understand, and a lot of pseudoscience that I’m not qualified to debunk, but at the root, the rule is Lose Weight: Caloric Debt. Build Strength: Exercise. You can basically never exercise away eating too much, so I’ve just got to stop eating too much. Especially since I don’t exercise much. I haven’t changed my 12,000 step “goal” on Fitbit, but I also almost never get anywhere close to it (last Monday-Friday: M:4647, T:6107, W:1504, T:13780 F:18.518). Keep in mind on Thursday I played 3 hours of volleyball and on Friday I hiked and was generally active with a couple friends, hiking, hill climbing and wandering around much of the day. Today I’ve done just north of 3100 steps and it’s not looking like I’ll do many more. I’m the laziest, is the moral of the story.

April 2, 2014

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Bad Fat Trend

Fitness

March 26, 2014

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I’m not breaking up with Clapboard

I didn’t even realize I’d been thinking about it, but I guess I was, over these last, umm… months since my last update. Well, I’ve decided. Clapboard lives. It gets updates again because despite the splintering of my attention into a million pieces, despite the lack of easy options for posting photos and such that benefit Twitter, Facebook and so many others, despite the fact that it just isn’t cool, Clapboard is mine, and that’s good enough for now.

I’m off to look into ways to post things. Maybe it’s even the right answer to change the underlying software (gasp?!). Whatever it is, it’ll get some attention from me while I’m doing normal updates again. My computer works (although I did just realize I lost a few folders of pictures – nothing heartbreaking, but I’m still rattled all the same), my phone works, my camera works… I can update. And I shall.

So hi.

February 19, 2014

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Cool XKCD gif

I know this is like trying to draw attention to a rock concert by sitting in the stands and whistling, but I really dig Randall’s work on XKCD from Monday:

http://xkcd.com/1331/

That is all.

February 11, 2014

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How do people have so many opinions that come in lists?

I’m noticing more and more that people certainly have a lot of opinions that they like to list in, well, lists. I often want to refute or ask questions or just generally comment on these lists, be they standard “top ten” lists or bullet-style lists. I mean, how does one rank things like “Hairstyles I’ve seen on Vegas trannies”? How does one know where to stop when compiling a “list of ways to make flying better”? Like, “no sweatpants” makes it on, but “the evening before your flight, eat a familiar meal without too much spice” didn’t? I don’t know.

I’ve never been very good at/interested in ranking things, feeling that it puts too must trust in subjunctive things and momentary emotion rather than in quantifiable fact. Some things you can put numbers to, of course (I weigh 190.7 right now), but others you can’t (today isn’t in the top ten most slovenly-feeling days I’ve ever had), and that’s fine, right? So why rank the latter group?

I love chocolate cake. Love it. You probably already know this. I couldn’t tell you what I consider to be the “best” chocolate cake on the planet, and I don’t care what the editor of Gourmet magazine thinks on the subject (although I’d probably try them all even if it was a list of the worst chocolate cakes on the planet…), no offense to the editor of that stalwart, maybe-real publication. I’m probably going to go get chocolate cake this evening now, actually, now that you mention it. Chocolate cake and earthy Carneros pinot noir might just go together amazingly.

I’m not offended by lists, just baffled. Probably about the same feeling you have as you finish this absurd screed. Sorry about that.

February 7, 2014

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Lord Kelvin weighed himself, too

“If you can not measure it, you cannot improve it.”

– Lord Kelvin

February 7, 2014

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My favorite toast

January 14, 2014

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Wrangler Forum Introduction

Okay, where to start?

First of all, some caveats. This is long. It’s boring. It’s probably profane. I should be embarrassed by much of it. But it all happened, and maybe writing it down will help me remember it. And it feels right to start 2014 with a “State of the Wrangler” manifesto, so here goes. You probably shouldn’t read this.

January 13, 2014

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servers, maintenance and unsprung weight

My poor Sebring needs like $1400 worth of maintenance again. Last time I had it in for maintenance was during last tour and it cost me like $2k, so I guess this is a step in the right direction? I don’t know that I should even be putting that kind of money into my car, considering that it’s 10 years old, but given that I’m looking at a year of limited income (to say the least), I’m definitely not in the market for a new car. Besides, I like my car.

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January 9, 2014

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Hosting Details

Over the years, I’ve accumulated a lot of hosted domains on my VPS, and this is the morning where I finally cull the herd and drop the dozens of addresses no longer using my services, no longer paying JVS, or just that have dropped off the face of the earth. It’s taking a surprisingly long time. It’s also bringing up a raft of memories and ghosts of dead projects that’s making me a little sad, even though they weren’t generally my projects in the first place. Then again, maybe it’s a tribute to the endless creativity of my friends and the people I know that they’re always coming up with new things.

Either way, this has been on my “When I get Home…” list for a long time. Then back to cataloging wine even though I don’t want to.

January 8, 2014

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Data Entry

Food & Wine

It’s 36 bottles. I brought them home on the airplane, so I checked 4 items (3 cases and my backpack), the third and fourth of which cost $175 each to Quantas. Dayum, says I. Then again, WineFlite wanted $585 for 30 bottles, I think, and who knows how that would have gone.

Now it’s on to finishing the data entry so I can get through some of the other projects that I’ve got on my plate. Whee!

December 31, 2013

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New Year, New Time Lapse