I just went and took an “official” typing test with a staffing agency. They gave me a fancy certificate to show off and everything! Anyway, despite the too-low and not adjustable chair, the cramped keyboard, and a flickering monitor I still managed a personal record.

98 gross words per minute (WPM)
95% accuracy
83 net words per minute [...]

Today I decided to experiment with digital pinhole photography. I won’t explain much about it — mostly because there isn’t much to explain, but if you Google “pinhole photography,” you can learn just about everything you ever needed to know. Suffice it to say that pinhole photography has several distinct properties:

It’s cheap. This is pretty [...]

The following are the preliminary six photographs for the office supply series. The presentation will likely be all six photgraphs arranged in a 2×3 grid on 11×14 paper printed with equal gaps between them. They will be matted with windows cut for each photo then framed in my usual 16×20 graphite-color metal frame.
I say “preliminary” [...]

In my frustration at not having decent off-camera flash capabilities after inadvertently destroying my Vivitar 285HV a few months ago, I turned my attention to the only other flash I had lying around. A Vivitar god-knows-what-it’s-really-old-and-rather-crappy. I think it’s a 2800 or something. It’s supposed to be a dedicated flash for the Olympus OM series, [...]