181: handwriting

Yup, that's a kill count for Programmer's Kitty.

180: in my bag

I have been traveling a bit light, so no sense in taking a photo of an empty messenger bag. I couldn't take a picture of +PJ Vera 's new backpack because it had to be mine, and Programmer's Kitty refused to get inside of a shopping bag for artistic purposes.

So here's a zip lock with my stash of pistachios (don't be fooled by the suggested serving size: half a cup of pistachios will keep you busy for a good 10 minutes). Funny things that you figure out while trying to take macro shots: the white dots are salt deposits on the inside of the bag, the straight lines are scratches on the bag.

179: Red

178: into the sun

177: Empty

176: Sharp

This is a paring knife @150x, Celestron USB microscope.

175: Negative space

174: Last ...

tenth of a mile and I am done.

173: Enjoying life...

172: Lunchtime

171: Cute

170: currently reading

I wish we would only have this topic once a year or so, I got tired of taking pics of my Kindle.

These are the only two paper books I have left in the house, we made our switch to e-books many years ago and slowly go rid of pretty much everything but +PJ Vera 's books. As far as I can tell, Ivette has maybe two or three of her own and that's about it. I also had "Mockingbird" by Walter S. Tevis and "The Omen" by David Seltzer, both paperbacks, but I already mailed them to a friend so he can read them and keep them circulating elsewhere. The only reason I have these two books is that they are gifts, and I only bought the two paperbacks because there is simply no way to find them as e-books. 

How to tell that you have spent too long reading e-books: whenever you start tapping the pages of your paperback and expect them to turn to the next one automatically. How do I know this? It happened to me while reading Mockingbird.

169: Street

168: Centered

The dip somewhere in the middle of my desk, the desk is metal frame, the surface is a recycled composite that is very strong and easy to clean, but it warps over time. Notice I had to use cardboard to prop up the phone so the spirit level app would be centered. There's a meta element too: the Sony NEX-7 has a built-in electronic level that shows the front/back and left/right alignment of the image plane, a great feature for those with crooked horizon OCD syndrome cough +Paul Williams cough.

167: Family

The Vera family wasn't feeling very photogenic today, so here's a blast from the past (August 2010): I am slightly lighter, and +PJ Vera is over a foot shorter than in the present. +Ivette Vera is at register 13.

166: from above

Same subject as #138

165: Texture

164: Kitchen

163: 11 o'clock

162: Something funny...

In case of doubt, see what the cats are up to. Never fails.

161: Me!

The patch is the old shoulder patch insignia to my last Army unit, US Army Space Command.

160: From down low

159: an Animal

158: Bright

157: Transport

A mundane ANSI/TIA-1096-A modular plug, also known as an 8P8C (8 position, 8 contact), at the end of an Ethernet Cat 6 cable. This cheap piece of clear plastic (less than 10 cents in bulk) and tiny metal strips is reponsible for the majority of wired Internet connectivity for the whole world.

156: Environment

155: After Dark

I shot this after 9:00 PM, according to Sony the mode is "handheld twilight" but is basically a glorified auto-bracketed shot. The funny thing about it is that as dark as it was, the sensor picked up a lot of reds that aren't there: these trees are very green. I don't know if this is due to light reflected from the street lights, or a weird effect combining those lights with the double-paned (and filtered) windows.

154: On my table

I use a banket table as my desk, and this is what most of it looks like even if I clean it 1-2 times a day.

153: A moment ...

Of force. Sorry, geek flareup here. Whenever I hear "moment" I first think of "torque" instead of a moment in time.

June topics list

Courtesy of Fat Mum Slim

152: B is for ...

Boo!