Mathers' Blog

I don’t always read about cows named Yvonne who camoflauge themselves amongst deer for 10 months, causing traffic accidents and avoiding capture, but when I do, I imagine they look like this.

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Look at that roof. It's not natural.

I have photo evidence that Richard Branson has captured and detained the alien from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s first episode “Encounter at Farpoint“.

The highlight of the first three seasons, Farpoint told the story of a planetary space station trying to gain the approval for trade with the Federation. Picard and his crew, initially amazed at how quickly the station had been built soon discovered that the humanoids had captured an alien floaty thing that could transform itself into space stations. Q was also involved so it was a pretty kickass start to a kickass series.

Richard Branson has announced his plans for space flight including a very familiar looking spaceport! You have to admit: it looks suspiciously like a giant floating alien life form. If earth is soon orbited by a suspicious alien ship we know who to blame.

You be the judge. Did he capture the same alien life form or am I just totally right?

Bonus Material!
Slippery Steve and I discuss the balls it takes to use the word Galactic in your company’s name.

cool guy: nice
rocker: what are we talking about here
cool guy: spaceships
rocker: Then this conversation has just been promoted to awesomness
cool guy: lol
cool guy: apparently $200,000 is all you need to buy a ticket for 5 min of space time
rocker: really?
cool guyl: I think branson was promoting a plane that would fly into space for 5 min
rocker: You think we could ask work for a grant?
cool guy: a 6 year salary advance
cool guy: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/07/earlyshow/main20077517.shtml
rocker: yeah that’s pretty awesome
cool guy: http://www.virgingalactic.com/
cool guy: VIRGINGALACTIC
rocker: There’s even a spaceport!
cool guy: this is out of hand
rocker: I giggled a bit when I saw the spaceport
cool guy: it looks like that giant flying thing from the first stng
rocker: I think branson just has too much money
cool guy: he’s got too much BALLS
rocker: Ah ha ha ha.. I think you’re right
cool guy: he woke up one morning and said “fuck this I’m building a spaceport!”
rocker: ah ha ha ha… I bet that’s true.

I like this video of a good song: “Estate Sale Sign” from the Mountain Goats.

Edit* This is good song, but the best part is his aspiration on ‘when’. you gotta imagine him blowing out a candle each time he says it.

From Pitchfork

Nikon’s RAW photo format is NEF. I switched my D40 to save in raw today rather than jpg. The photo size went from about 2 to 5MB. Not a big deal. Totally not a big deal if your memory card is big enough.

Here is a quick example of what I was able to do with an image in NEF.

The first pic is the original. That’s how it looked on the camera.

The second is after making a few adjustments in a program like photivo or photoshop’s camera raw.

I had no idea. Sold.