Good Karma Cafe

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Patrick

I just found out that my favorite cafe, Good Karma Cafe opened another location on the other side of center city.  This location is 3 times as big as the other one.  This is my favorite new office.  Lots of seating, big tables, an outdoor seating area, and good coffee.  I might be coming downtown more often.

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Eye-Fi Card Review

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Patrick

I’ve had a month to play around with the Eye-Fi SD card.  What’s so special about this card?  It allows me to wireless transfer pictures from my camera to my computer without much effort.  You may be asking, is there much effort transferring photos?  It’s gotten much less since I got a computer with a built in SD card reader, but once you get an Eye-Fi card, you can’t go back.  If  you want to know how it works, click here.  I’m not going to get too much into the technical details but give a short account of my experience with the card.

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Simplifying things

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Patrick

Those of you who have your own website know the pains of coming up with a design that you are happy with.  After you coming up with that design you immediately want to change it.  I just wanted to simplify things and not worry about it.  This latest version is more of a change in philosophy.  The reason I say that is the design will change more frequently but the new philosophy I have is keep is simple and play around with the technology that’s already out there.

This latest version of my site is an inspiration from css Zen Garden and About.me.  If you look at the source code, the HTML is very simple but the design is all CSS driven.  The layout is a total rip off of the about.me layouts and idea.  If you don’t have an About.me account, you should totally get one.  It’s a very simple idea but great idea.

Check out my website and tell me what you think.

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iPhone on Verizon

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Patrick

I didn’t get this excited but still awesome.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Verizon iPhone Announcement
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook
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Bon Chon Chicken

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Patrick

Tonight we had the Korean version of buffalo wings…  Bon Chon Chicken.  Not bad.  Thanks Wan.  He got it from Cafe Soho.

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Some HDR processing

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Patrick

Sometimes HDR processing can really enhance a photo. Now that Apple has introduced a HDR feature in their new iOS people are wondering how it’ll improve their photos…

Here’s a photo I took the other day on the UPenn Campus…

With a little post processing using some HDR software, this is what I get…

You’ll notice that the greens come out a lot better.  I admit that I may have overdone it on the tonemapping part, but I can live with it.  There are other things that I could have done to clean up the photo, but I’m content.

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He’s running a treasurer?

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Patrick

Thanks Eman for sharing this with me.

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Pac Man

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Patrick

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Switched to Google Voice

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Patrick

Today, I made it official.  I’m using Google Voice(GV) as my primary phone service.  I had been thinking about this for a while, but the recent addition to Gmail, where you can call and receive phone calls within Gmail, was the tipping point.  There are for sure positives and negatives to this move and there are some things people need to know when using GV.

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Philadelphia Wall Murals (Photofunia revisited)

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Patrick

I realize that there are a lot of wall murals, but this is ridiculous.  Actually, I was just revisiting one of my favorite sites, Photofunia.   Make sure to check it out.  Be prepared to waste some time having some fun.

No joke though, Philadelphia does have a lot of wall murals all around the city.  Maybe that’ll be a future photography project.

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