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Peter Csanadi
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Apr 26 2013
Old Flickr Record Completely Blown Away
While out gallivanting on another one of my San Diego Zoo and Balboa Park adventures yesterday I completely missed that I had by far my highest single day viewing ever on Flickr with 56,186. At first I thought the stats had gone horribly wrong and that there was a bug in the system, a fly …
Apr 25 2013
Microbes In My Navel
This evening I attended another terrific lecture at the San Diego Natural History Museum. This one was titled “The Wild Life of Our Bodies” and was presented by Rob Dunn, a Ph.D. biologist from North Carolina State University. His lecture basically went over talking points from his book by the same name. When I arrived …
Apr 24 2013
Workspace Glimpse
Here’s a quick glance at what my desktop looks like whenever I work on a set of photos in Photoshop. This is a bit more extreme than normal, but it is also not a rare occurrence. Often I have to split a job up into smaller groups because there just are too many images to …
Apr 06 2013
ISS For 20 Seconds
Thanks to my friend Rodrigo letting me know about tonight’s fly-over by the International Space Station, I took out my trusty old Bogen tripod and was able to capture two 20-second images of the ISS passing overhead. This is the slightly better of the two. I adjusted the contrast a bit to remove some of …
Mar 26 2013
My iPhone Wait Is Finally Almost Over
Today T-Mobile finally and officially announced that they will begin selling the iPhone 5 in April. After all these years of being a loyal T-Mobile customer and bating my time for them to at last join the other major carriers, my wish will finally be coming true. As much coverage as the larger carriers? No, …
Mar 18 2013
Major Pinterest Update
Logged into Pinterest this morning only to find that they had implemented some major changes to the user interface. Usually I don’t mind updates to apps, even web apps, and this didn’t change that. While I really like the larger, borderless thumbnails, and the much larger images you get when you click on a thumbnail …
Mar 11 2013
Monthly Quake
In what seems to have become a now monthly occurrence we had another bit of earthly rockin’ and rollin’ this morning. This time it was a magnitude 4.7 and centered about 60 miles northeast from us, just outside the city of Anza. It’s as if Mother Earth has become hormonal.
Feb 22 2013
All Shook Up
Had ourselves a good old-fashioned earth shaker this evening. Went straight to the US Geological Survey website to find out that it was a 4.3 magnitude quake centered about 50 miles southwest from my house. Not a bad one, but definitely noticeable. UPDATE: As is usually the case it was later downgraded to a 4.0.
Feb 18 2013
Voting The Disney Way
Spent a little time online proxy voting my six Disney shares for the Board of Directors (of which I voted for all ten members), two company-introduced proposals, against two two shareholder proposals and one ratification for the company’s accounting firm. Would be nice if they gave me an annual pass discount for re-electing them back …
Feb 08 2013
Missed My Flickr Best
Trying to regularly keep up with all the different online services I belong to or moderate is pretty much impossible. And that means that each one of them is guaranteed to suffer from my lack of involvement on a rotating basis. No pinning to my boards for a couple of days, or no posting updates, …
Feb 06 2013
News Flashdance
My sister, Beata, and her husband, Bill, were on local San Diego TV this morning promoting the upcoming International Dance Festival happening this coming Sunday in Balboa Park. Besides promoting the festival, they were asked to demonstrate some dancing live on set and they obliged with a couple of waltz-based performances. My mom waved at …
Feb 04 2013
Out To Pasture
After a quarter of a century of exceptionally reliable service to our family, I helped my mom finally retire her old 1988 Honda Accord. And by retire I don’t mean taking it out back behind the woodshed and putting it out of its misery Old Yeller-style. Nor do I mean sending it off with a …
Feb 02 2013
Haircut And A Shave, Two Bits
My talented, good friend, Sylvia, gave me another one of her patented great haircuts today in preparation for my sweaty kitchen duties at tonight’s Viennese Nights: A Grand Ball (separate blog post to follow). As proof of her snipping talents, here are the before and after images:
Jan 30 2013
Thrift Treasures
A friend of mine, who for the sake of this post I will call “Sylvia”, took me to a thrift store in the city in which she lives, which I shall refer to as “Pretty View”. Knowing that I collect calendars of certain specific kinds she located one for me which, unbeknownst to her, I …
Jan 27 2013
Birthday Dinner With Comic Fest Friends
A group of us Comic Fest committee members along with spouses/significant others met for a birthday dinner for Fest organizer and Comic-Con co-founder, Mike Towry and his son, Ryan, at Filippi’s Pizza Grotto in the Little Italy neighborhood of San Diego. After more than a dozen of us (which eventually grew to nineteen) nudged our …
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