Bush and Benedict

President Bush met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican yesterday. While Benedict brought up the topic of Iraq, he seemed to be concerned with the place of Christians in Iraq, according to the NY Times report. The topic of ‘unjust war’ apparently did not come up.
Hard to believe men of faith, Christians, would not [...]

An Oxy get-together

Friend, fellow Occidental College Alum Dr. Stuart Rosenberg was kind enough to drive me over to Oakland’s Jack London Square, where we linked up with classmates Jon Merksamer (who lives in Sacramento) and Burt Hubbard (Denver) and had lunch at Scott’s Seafood.We talked for a couple of hours, including a phone call from one JImmy [...]

The weekend wrap

Yesterday, sweet daughter-in-law Julie stoppred on her way home from work and took me on a Trader Joe’s run (TJs being a very favorite store).  Many delicacies came home. Indeed, previously, spouse Linda had brought ingredients for a Friday night dinner (she had a church affair to attend) of sausages and peppers.
It so happens that [...]

A Secret Garden

Cassie and I took a shortcut through Oak Knoll School this AM, after walking Linda to the bridge over San Francisquito Creek. And there we found this garden, tucked between buildings. Flowers, corn, sunflowers and more were tucked into its boxes and beds. A welcome and unexpected surprise…

More flowers

These two roses caught my eye, shining in the morning light, as Cassie and I made our way around the block this morning. I used George Dalke’s Color Bender to process the image - everything from adjusting the levels and color - including using the region controls to adjust the bright flowers - to reducing [...]

Prepping for podcasts

So, we’ve been reading up on how to do successful podcasts, and discovered that good microphones are important. I have a very inexpensive USB mic on my desk, and the Olympus has built-in mics which are said to be OK, but not great.
So I ordered a new stero microphone from Olympus: at $60, it cost [...]

Flowers

These flowers caught my eye the other morning. The overall white theme makes this kind of a tricky picture to process, but Color Bender handled it nicely. I was using the Leica’s automatic mode (aperture priority), and there’s almost no way not to underexpose a picture like this.
I’m not even using the region features in [...]

Baby tomatoes

Baby green tomatoes greeted me in dotcom garden this morning, harbingers of summer tomato salads to come, I hope. We also have a bumber crop of red and green leaf lettuce, and should be eating fresh salads from the garden for the next few weeks, as well.
Chemo restarted last Friday night - the massive one-week-a-month [...]

Bending Color

Last week brought a pleasant inbox surprise: a note from George Dalke, color scientist par excelence and former Apple coleague. George - who has forgotten more about color than mos color experts know - has an app on the market called 4G Color Bender.
I’ve just begun to play with it, but the tutorials it [...]

Production and context

So here’s my desk at gulker.com World HQ. Since we got back from France it has been loaded with production tools - everything from a Moleskine notebook to an Olympus DVR to a couple of cameras, a microphone and headphones. My Mac Mini’s HD has a bunch of new media - photos, WMA sound files, [...]

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