Not really making any progress on writing anything new, but I did manage to convert the second movement of The Desert to use the GPO sampler:
The Jazzscript bio sounds pretty exciting -- "Best Small Group" in the 2001 British Jazz Awards, so I'm looking forward to spinning up the finished product. The sale was a bit of surprise because he offered to pay me. I'm used the monthly, "can I use your photo for free" permission request on Flickr for some e-zine or Web site, and if it's not my cycling photography I generally say yes. In this case I also said yes, at which point he told me that I should charge him. That borders on saintly.
Another surprise for me is that the photo in question was taken with my old S400 ELPH, a compact 4MP point-and-shoot camera that was my very first digital camera. Since then I've bought a new ELPH, a Digital Rebel, and Canon 30D, and several thousand dollars worth of SLR lenses and accessories. With this sale, the S400 becomes my only piece of camera equipment that has come anywhere close to paying for itself. I've always claimed that it's better to have a point-and-shoot instead of an SLR if you only get one camera, but I never expected this to be the proof. I even later repeated the same beach+overexposure experiment with my SLR equipment.
This completes a media cover hat trick for me: magazine cover, CD cover, and book cover, though the book was a freebie. I enjoy the experience because I lose artistic control. With all the hours I log processing my photos, I get to see how someone else interprets and uses them instead. And adds music.
worked a bit on the quartet for the first time since last fall... hopefully i'll be able to finish it eventually... anyway, the current draft of the finale is here (i have a bit of web hosting space now, so i'll be updating that, instead of the mp3s posted on vox).
How well does your name Google? Who are you up against? (Celebrities, etc.)
Submitted by Matt Blank.
The #1 is still occupied by a controversial cop case, which is fine by me because I hear there are "Free Kenneth Conley" stickers in Boston (I'm waiting for my copy)
For awhile I actively worked to demote my own site for my name search. I've reversed course now that I've started getting into more professional photography. I could do more to raise my search result, but I already have most of the top search results.
When was the last time you interacted with any sort of wildlife?
Submitted by warpedreality.
My real blog is at http://psolberg.blogspot.com
This is here so that Rich can link to me on his blog, and I can comment on his.
When you go out to eat, how do you pick where to go?
Submitted by Kristine.
'tis been awhile since I've answered one of these, so here goes.
I'm a meatatarian and don't eat fish; d only eats organic meat. If we're in a large enough group, we'll often try to go some place where we can dine family style and she can gets some fish dishes and I can eat meat -- its pretty hard to find an organic meat restaurant. If its a smaller group and its still family style then it probably means we have to go somewhere where there are decent. If its just me and d we have to choose a place that meets both of our requirements and compromise. For example, Chipotle's burritos aren't nearly as good as our local joints, but they serve organic meat; Maruichi has non-pork Japanese noodle dishes whereas Ryowa doesn't (until very recently); sushi restaurants are okay as long as they have items other than chicken teriyaki on the menu.
This is why we usually cook at home :)
Toys R' Us is now selling their Wii bundles online:
The action bundle is the only one of the two that has the games I want, but $600 is a bit too rich for my tastes right now as I am still finishing up some PS2 games.
I'll be in lovely West Virginia Saturday (nephew) and return to NoVA sometime Sunday. I should be available to hang out both pre- and post- Thanksgiving.
Members of the Vox nation, I will be in DC from Nov 17-25. I hope that there will be beer, with you, in a pub, somewhere during that time.
