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Continue reading →: March 2007 COBA Information
The March meeting for the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, March 14, 2007, in Cordura Hall 100 at Stanford University from 7:30-10:00 pm. PMA Roundup Chris Pedersen will be returning from PMA with a roundup of the latest announcements and products.…
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Continue reading →: More Chargers Post-Marty Firing Thoughts
Here’s food for thought. Suppose we won this year’s Super Bowl. It’s entirely likely that the same coordinators would have left for the exact same jobs. Phillips to Dallas. Cameron to Miami. Chudzinski to Cleveland. Manusky to San Francisco. The success of the Super Bowl would have given coordinators plenty…
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Continue reading →: Marty Fired!
WTF? According to new reports, Dean Spanos has fired Chargers head-coach Marty Schottenheimer on Monday evening, despite leading San Diego to a 14-2 regular-season record. “Today I made an extremely difficult decision: Marty Schottenheimer is no longer the head coach of the San Diego Chargers. “This decision was so hard…
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Continue reading →: Einstein and Relativity: The Transition (Part 2)
Sir Izaac has posted the second part of Paul Guyot’s Einstein presentation from the 2006 WorldWide Newton Conference.
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Continue reading →: In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon
The same day that we’re having our first COBA meeting of 2007, Stanford will be hosting the conclusion of the 20th Anniversary Tour of Richard Avedon’s In the American West. The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University will be holding the exhibition from February 14-May 6, 2007. From the website…
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Continue reading →: Switching to BlackBerry (sorta)
The Sony Ericsson t68i phone that I had dropped over a month ago had recently started some dropping on its own. Plagued by dropped calls, I decided to do something about it. I had these used AT&T BlackBerry and Nokia phones at the house that I wanted to use as…
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Continue reading →: Canon Virtual Lens Plant and 50/1.4 Saga
Several years ago, my Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens stopped focusing properly. I threw it into the depths of one of my camera bags, always intending to get it fixed one day. I could have sent it in for service, but I never got around to it. Shortly before the…
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Continue reading →: Edwardian Ball 2007
The Seventh Annual Edwardian Ball was held last weekend at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Rae and I went to the show two years ago — which was held at the Cat Club — and have returned after a year’s absence. Once again, we celebrated Petrice’s birthday…
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Continue reading →: SNUG 13th Anniversary Meeting
Yesterday was the 13th Anniversary Stanford Newton User Group meeting. We’ve been holding it at the Printer’s Inc. Cafe ever since the beginning in 1994. During that time, many stores have come and gone on South California Avenue in Palo Alto. Last night, time ran out for Nora’s Cafe, located…






