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Quacko and the Elps, or Happy Hour at Tugboat Brewing

This place was so good that I had a beer, walked back to the hotel to collect Kate, and came straight back for another beer. Much better than some of those ‘We brew 24 different kinds of over hopped beers!’ resto-breweries. This place only had a couple of their own beers on tap, but all [...]

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Some Notes on Currently Available Digital Cameras

Really, these are for my own benefit, so don’t take them too seriously. The nearest sizable camera store is 2.5 hours away in Chicago, so while we were in Portland, I stopped at a couple of camera stores just to check out what some of the newer digital cameras are like. My last digital camera [...]

Silk Shirt: Neopan 400, D76 and Fortuitous Mistakes

These, and the photos in the preceding post, are from a couple of rolls of Neopan 400 developed in D76 1:1 for 6.75 minutes at 72F, which is a minute and 45 seconds less than the Fuji data sheet recommends. This wasn’t intentional. I misread the time/temp conversion chart. I seem to be doing this [...]

Notes From Portland

Southwest Southwest is still the only American carrier that doesn’t suck. Sure, you don’t get a meal, but airplane food is junk anyway. The unassigned seating does add a bit of excitement; will you get stuck between the fatman and the basketball player; you will if you are C 37. But the staff clearly don’t [...]