Archive for October 26th, 2009
New Flaming Pumpkins – Gargoyle and Melting Skull
October 26th, 2009 | 
Author: As you know my pumpkin lighting attempts have been scrubbed multiple times over the past few weekends. Wind and rain have been my enemy so no flaming pumpkins for me. But last night, that all changed!
Something was off with my gasoline mixture though. It seems rain got into the works and caused my toilet paper roll to be saturated with water as well as gas. Even though it had the distinct odor of gas, it didn’t have the lightability of such. As a result, nothing happened. No whoosh. No poof. Nothing. Here I was thinking this roll which had been soaking for nearly four days was going to create a mushroom cloud and in the end I got nothing.
When faced with such a dilemma there is really only one thing to do. Yep, add more gas to the mix. I filled the bottom of the pumpkin with gas and proceeded as normal. As you might expect, I got my whoosh!
There are some great photos in this batch. I captured some really impressive fireworks in these shots.
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Lightroom 3 Beta
Just in time for Halloween (well it came out a little while ago) Lightroom 3 Beta is now ready for Download. Lightroom is one of my favorite apps, I love the ease of it. Seems Adobe is wasting no time in prepping up the next version and they want input. Just like the previous version this one is ready for a test drive.
I guess I will have to download it and check it out.
1 Terabyte is now $100
I was just looking back at an some of my old posts from Halloween and found one from 2007 where I bought my two 500GB drives for $99 each; a whole terabyte for $200. 1 Terabyte = $200
Ironically, I just bought a new 1TB drive (I keep needing to expand) which cost me a mere $109. Another Western Digital external drive, but in 1TB capacity this time. Funny, for the same $200 I can now get 2TB of space in a mirror versus just the 1TB I got last time. And of course in another year from now, it’ll be 2TB drives for $109 or less.
Funny how many terabytes of space I have now, and I still feel like I need more.