Author: doug

I just took delivery of 52 beers, plus a box of white wine for cooking and a 1.75L of rye whiskey. Thank you Gordon’s! That should hold me for a while. It will sit in quarantine for 24 hours, like everything that’s coming into the house these days.

I used every trick I know to get more reach for this shot — 300mm lens, 1.4 *and* 1.7x teleconverters, on a crop-sensor camera, plus a moderate crop.

We ordered too many green beans. Fortunately, Joy of Cooking’s “how to run a home” section — suddenly relevant again — has times & advice for blanching and freezing all manner of vegetables.

In the physical distancing era

Seen in our walk around the neighborhood today

Our cherry tree is biding its time for some actual warm weather this year.

Sunday, the first robin. Today, the first chicken(*)

(*) spit roasted

I want to be able to read my house’s gas meter and import the reading into home automation so I can track usage more finely. I ran across a project to use standard computer vision algorithms to do just this sort of thing. Today I did some proof-of-concept experiments, and here’s as far as I got: finding the outlines of the dials. I think this may just work.