Best or Cheapest I just made an investment in a USA made quality product. It is a Dazor (brand) task lighting fixture which is a heavy base desktop fluorescent lamp swing arm type. I am not writing about the desk light per say, but a reflection on why I made this purchase. My cost for this fixture is a little over $250.00. At first I thought, “Wow! That’s a lot of money. That’s not cheap”…...
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The Art of Photography
I enjoy photography immensely. Somehow my passion rubbed off on my daughter who made it her profession about 16-17 years ago. I am not a pro like her but I know how to hold my own in creating good photographs. For example, I created all the photos that are shown in the header of Ramblin’ Dan. There are some basic things the camera tool must provide repeatedly and predictably, and that is to cleanly manage...
Continue reading...My Sony NEX-5 Camera
The 2 year report: I purchased the Sony NEX-5 camera slightly over two years ago. I liked the design as it was very similar to the Sony camera I bought about 11 years ago when I went to Alaska on a work assignment. More history HERE. <Link> I liked the feel of the NEX camera body and lens very much when I first received the camera, it was like an old friend. But I became...
Continue reading...OS Speed Lesson Learned
I have been a bit frustrated on the performance of my super bad, 64 bit quad processor, 3.2 GHz, 8 GIG RAM, and 4 Terabytes of Storage, WIN 7 Ultimate. Pretty hot hardware specs and better than almost everything else made today. Re-built about 3 or 4 years ago after a lighting strike, I can’t make her any better today except add more processor cores and maybe a bit faster GPU video card. But almost...
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