I use ImageMagick to do some simple processing of photos I take on my DSLR. Originally it was shell scripts that use find, xargs (using the parallel option,) and mogrify with an awk script to generate a trival HTML table. I rewrote this in Python using the WARD API library for ImageMagick and decided to … Continue reading Photo processing. →

There's a lot said on this topic, mostly against. However, I find it to be an unfortunately overlooked function that is useful if you have the right use case. Among advantages are that a number of things are thread safe when they are not so for multiprocessing, such as logging. Threading got easier with the … Continue reading Python threads →

$30 of motorcycle gear excess, but it does what it says on the tin. I bought this during a point in my marriage where it was either I spent the money or my wife would; saving it was not an allowed option. It works but not better than far cheaper options. The cord is a … Continue reading Gear: Aerostich Carbon Fiber Sidestand Plate (CFSP) MK II Deluxe →

At a restaurant named Fry's Spring Station.

Added a few states in which I've ridden a motorcycle, particularly Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont. 2,500 miles only as I spent a lot of time visiting friends.

The ZR-7s has hit the point of needing more work than we care to do. The result is that I get the R1100R back and Angela gets a 2005 BMW R1200RT.

Lots of miles and states covered, and many friends seen. I'm looking forward to being back in my own bed tomorrow.

The conference in Minneapolis was fantastic. Travel on Monday and Tuesday was less so; it was cold and even with all of my gear the cold got the better of me. I did get to Milwaukee and...when in Rome... After that it was a slight backtrack to a yarn and fiber shop in Evansville, Wisconsin, … Continue reading Catching up. →

Some of the sights from the city.

My route yesterday took me through a bit of Appalachia and a clearly impoverished part. I saw multiple classic small town main streets where there were few if any stores still in business (it was hard to tell for several.) I passed two stores that had Heilig Meyers signs; a furniture store chain that collapsed … Continue reading Thoughts from the trip so far. →