As you may have heard, the Steelers won the Superbowl. After the game, Pittsburgh went kinda nuts. Oakland, the nearby college neighborhood got a little too crazy- there was some vandalism and people burning furniture in the streets. Shadyside, on the other hand, was mostly good natured drunks blocking traffic. Southside was a little wild, but not ( Read more... )

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I can't put this up on Flickr, because it's too large, and when Flickr compresses it, too much of the nuance is lost. I hate saying that, because I've always felt that you shouldn't rely on details like that, but this one just came out that way.

Like everything else, this is a

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I finally decided to pony up for a prosumer camera, in part because Amazon had a good deal on a Nikon DX40 with two lenses (18mm-55mm and a 18mm-200mm). The lenses aren't great lenses, but they're good "beginner" lenses. That is to say, they're cheap and good for most common shooting situations. I just need lots of light to shoot well ( Read more... )