As you may recall, I have been tasked with showing around a two-dimensional guest from Kansas. Unfortunately, it turns out that taking photos of interesting scenes with a paper girl in the foreground is quite difficult, especially considering the extremely windy and rainy weather we’ve been having lately. So I’ve decided that it [...]

A couple years ago, a friend and I, while staying at a beachside condo, were standing on the balcony staring at the flat, distant horizon, and we got to wondering, “I wonder how far we can see right now?” and “I wonder how much further we can see up here on the 9th floor than [...]

Have you ever noticed how, every time there is some sort of terrorist attack, the very first thing that all the politicians do is say, “I condemn this attack.” And the second thing they say is that the attack was an act of cowardice and that the attackers are cowards. This confuses the [...]

Just a little more wacky weather whinging. All last night there was hail pelting our windows, and today I see that we’ve got several more days of downpours in the future. It plainly does not mainly rain in the plains in Spain…how inane.

These are two photos I took last night and tonight. The weather for the Easter holiday has been downright repugnant. The sky in the first picture was as clear as it’s been, and clouded over shortly after.

Eleena, the woman who runs the Voices en Español blog, a podcast-based blog oriented towards English speakers learning Spanish, found my blog a few months ago, and has since become a regular visitor and commenter. I’ve also been following her work on Voices en Español. As a fellow American living in Spain, she’s [...]

This happens time and time again.
Back in 1995, when I got in trouble for connecting my computer to the computer of my hallmate with an arcnet cable because we were “breaking curfew” at the boarding school, we thought, “What we really need is a radio transmitter and receiver to connect our network cards to. [...]

I’m not sure how I found it, but I was recently fascinated by this article about using an LED flashlight as a light source for still life photography. I was especially excited because I had only recently acquired, for the first time ever, a camera that could take long (multi-second) exposures and an LED [...]

Today’s post is another edition of “Erik can’t think of what to blog about so he’s photographing items on his desk, many of which he’s not sure how they got there, but they sort of ‘belong’ now”. I think this might be my favorite of the objects that stare at me all day. [...]

Arms tired of throwing that ball? Yet Fido demands that you continue to play Fetch with him? Boy, have we got the solution for you! It’s a robot that will play Fetch with your dog until he wears his little feet out. The video you’re about to see is the perfect [...]