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I am going to DCD SF and I think I am going to bring my Canon 6D and take lots of pictures.
The 6D is a lot of fun and amazing what it can do.
Here is a picture of my daughter in the dark with ISO 12800. Yes 12,800. f/4 the lens is wide open to get as much light as it can. Shutter speed is 1/8 of a second.
Same picture crank exposure to +1.34 and look what the camera captures.
My son, roughly same conditions.
Bump exposure +1.33
Last week at GigaOm Structure and this week is a family vacation.
Kids are in ski camp.
We are at Mt Hood one of the few places you can ski year round.
I have my bloody mary. Reading and not writing so much. But still have some e-mails need to get out.
7a getting the kids on the mountain, then hanging in the lodge.
Love my Canon 6D. All these shots are without flash.
I've been traveling a lot and about to start another burst.
The nice thing come home is the view. Here is one of a double rainbow.
One interesting fact of a double rainbow is the color are inverted.
While a primary rainbow is visible when light is reflected once off the back of a raindrop, a secondary and usually dimmer rainbow is spotted when light is reflected twice in a more complicated pattern.
The colors of the second rainbow are inverted, with blue on the outside and red moved to the inside. The second bow appears dimmer or cloudier because much more light is released from two reflections, and both bows cover a larger portion of the sky.
Zooming into the above picture you can see the colors are inverted.
We're all used to getting a data center tour. When someone is trying to sell you space or IT Services, they will bring you through the server space. Here is an example of a Softlayer tour.
Local media was let into parts of Google's Douglas Data Center and this below video is posted. Most of you haven't seen this as there a whopping 18 views. :-)
One of the rules Joe Kava explains is only those who must go into server room have access, and many who work in the data center aren't allowed in the server room.
At least the folks at WPXI11News have better color matching then the Sentinel folks. Joe Kava looks much better in the video than the sentinel camera shot.
I think what the folks at the sentinel did is they needed to adjust the exposure/contrast and that really messed up the color. Besides the color in Joe's face look at the difference in the color of his shirt.
Cooking is my Zen moments for the day. Be focused, breath, relax, concentrate. Be in the moment.
Today's meal is Roasted King Salmon. One piece is just salt and pepper for the kids. The other has a salmon rub I got from the last 7x24 Exchange conference. Salmon Rub from a data center conference? The Phoenix conference has a great reception and part of their food areas was a spice display where you can have spice mixes made - chicken, beef, or fish.
I use Lodge cast iron the most to cook.
Three minutes on one side, then about 10 minutes on the other in the oven.
Also tried to to Roast Artichokes. Cut in half, olive oil, salt, garlic clove and lemon. Put in the oven for 45 minutes.
Here are some of the zen concepts for cooking.
TRANSFORMATION
Cooking, like life, is about transformation. When we cook, we work directly with the elemental forces of fire and heat, water, metal, and clay. We put the lid on the pot and wait for the fire to transform the rice, or we mix the bread with yeast and put it in the oven to bake. There is something hidden, almost magical about it.
This kind of transformation involves a certain amount of faith. We work hard to prepare the food. We wash the rice, knead the bread, and break the eggs. We measure the ingredients carefully. We mix, stir, blend. But then we have to wait. We have to let fire and water transform the food we’ve prepared.
But we also have to keep an eye on things. We have to be aware of what is going on. For the Zen cook the old adage, “A watched pot never boils,” is only half-true. We leave the lid on the pot most of the time. But we also lift the lid every once in a while to taste the food.
The Zen cook follows the middle way. We have faith that the soup is coming along—but we still check now and then.
The accomplished Zen cook is something of an alchemist. He or she can transform poisons into virtues.
The Zen cook doesn’t do this by adding a secret ingredient, but by leaving something out. The Zen cook leaves out attachment to the self.
For example, anger is considered a poison when it’s self-motivated and self-centered. But take that attachment to the self out of anger and the same emotion becomes the fierce energy of determination, which is a very positive force. Take the self-centered aspect out of greed and it becomes the desire to help. Drop the self-orientation from ignorance, and it becomes a state of unknowing that allows new things to rise.
