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That’s no space station.

Damn, this is awesome. Haven’t explored everything yet, but looks good so far. Anyways, I have posted some more pics of Mikko over at:
www.pbase.com/mcdiarmid/mikko_mcdiarmid

some of you may know that when it comes to photography, i am a bit of stubborn traditionalist (trina will say that i am merely stubborn). i don’t have access to the excellent photosoc facilities at ubc anymore, and there’s nothing like it in worcester, though i did find an incredible space here – a huge old factory taken over by artists, one of whom rents darkroom space for the low low price of $5/hour. the building is amazing and huge, filling a whole square block. in vancouver it would cost about a bazillion dollars. here you can rent out a room for $150/month.

anyhoo, as i was saying, i refuse to go the path of the dark side and replace my slr with a digital camera, but – on the other hand – i’m busy man! printing photos takes forever! and so i sucked it in, whipped out my credit card, and bought this bad boy. it scans film at 5400 dpi; at that resolution, a scan of a 35mm frame gives you a 40 megapixel image, which is more information than is recorded in the film. i like my new scanner. it is badass.

i have a few images up on flickr. i’ve been shooting every weekend, so i’ll be adding more photos every week. share and enjoy. next hit to the bank account: one of these.

speaking of which, vancouver-based flickr is being bought out by yahoo. nice. good to see boys and girls from the home town hit it big.

We’ve made a little change in SlantyNet (again), hopefully enough to bring us into the here and now of the blogosphere… Or the e/n club… Or whatever we are these days.

There’s a bunch of new little features that have been added, including little thumbnails of recent SlantyNet photos on the left (current Bard, Mikko, Mikko and deep fried Mars Bars) and I’ll be at work restoring the rest of the content, just as soon as I remember what it all was.

Site will run a little slower, its doing a lot more lifting, but hopefully some heavy caching will alleviate most of that. Unfortunately, that probably also means no user selectable themes.

13 things that do not make sense.

The 10 most expensive cars of 2005.

Lamborghini comes in at #7. I’ve never even heard of Saleen or Maybach.

The Family Guy to hit Broadway? Weird.