Monthly Archives: April 2006

Fun with Fake Tilt Shift Photography

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 27, 2006

Sean pointed out Christopher Phin’s Fake Model Photography tutorial that shows you how to transform a photo into what appears to be a macro shot of a miniature model. Turns out this meme has been out for a while, and there a few collections of the style. Easily distracted today, I looked through the iPhoto [...]

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St. Louis Gateway Arch to replace Monopoly’s Boardwalk?

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 24, 2006

A local forum points out Hasbro’s Monopoly board-game is getting a new Here and Now edition. The gimmick is the addition of cities, national landmarks and attractions, and allowing Internet voting for selection of those icons represented. St. Louis’ candidates are the Gateway Arch (most recognizable), the Delmar Loop (incorrectly represented on Hasbro’s site with [...]

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Busch Stadium Open House

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 9, 2006

Kelly and I joined Sean and Lucy at the new St. Louis Busch Stadium for an open house event yesterday evening. All the public spaces were open, and only a few sections still under construction and the private boxes were off limits. Food and beverage venders were open, so you could even get a taste [...]

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Snipsnap to WordPress Import

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 8, 2006

I’ve just imported the blog content out of the SnipSnap wiki I’ve been running for almost 3 years. It wasn’t the cleanest process, I’ve got some stray links to dead content, but I’m happy enough with the results. If there’s a better way, I wasn’t patient enough to find it. I’ll look through the rest [...]

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Apple Boot Camp for Windows XP and OS X

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 7, 2006

Apple announced a public beta for a new utility called Boot Camp, allowing users of Intel-based macs (iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro) to easily install and run Windows XP. Holy Shit After the contest to hack the EFI of the Intel Macs to run Windows, I didn’t think this was far off, but I certainly [...]

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Textpattern vs. WordPress

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 4, 2006

In this corner… A flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs. Textpattern! And in this corner… A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress! Both are PHP/MySQL apps I have installed on a Windows server running Apache. Configuration was largely straightforward. We’ll [...]

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Diet Dr Pepper Berries & Cream

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 1, 2006

On the way home tonight, I picked up a bottle of Diet Dr Pepper Berries & Cream to see stay awake for a bit longer, and to figure out what it’s supposed to taste like. Kelly says cough syrup. I say it tastes like not sleeping. Curse you caffeine!

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