My best shot after not really trying all that hard. I didn’t feel like dragging out the tripod, so this is hand held (braced against the house), 1/5 sec, f/5.0, ISO 2000.

I’ve had this set for a while. Finally sitting down to build it. Will build and report.

This is the beginning of the battle scene from the opera Silent Night by American composer Kevin Puts. It’s based on the film Joyeux Noël which tells the story of Allied and German soldiers calling their own truce on Christmas Eve night in WWI and celebrating together before going back to killing each other. Puts won…

Three of the phones I had before I got an iPhone. There’s another super brick phone that I no longer have, or at least can’t find. That Ericsson on the left was a fantastic phone. Great sound, super loud ringer. The Nokia in the middle was okay, but that Pantech flip phone was an absolute piece of crap.

Late night Legos. This was my Christmas present this year. I think it has more stickers than sets with four times as many pieces.

What’ll ya have? Sorry, can’t give you any of the hard stuff.

Fueling up an Eastern Airlines DC-3 at National Airport in Washington, DC in 1941.

Chris Hansen arrested for writing rubber checks worth $13,000.

It’s a Final Notice.

With the arrival of full-frame mirrorless cameras, is this the first, or even final, nail in the coffin for the mirror?

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.

Meal-In-One Soup or, as I like to call it, Dad’s Soup of Awesomeness™.

Central Texas generally doesn’t do into snow.

I’ve heard some good things about it from a couple of friends who use it, and I’m thinking of bailing on Dish after 15 years. YTTV would be about a third of what I pay for Dish, and it would have the majority of the live sports that I like to watch. We already have Netflix and Amazon.