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Archive for September 21st, 2006

building things

Jess helped me work out a plan for syncing all 5 portable flashes in the "Myschievia Portrait Studio":http://revjim.net/2006/09/15/myschievia-portrait-studio/. All of the cabling will use household extension cords and electrical outlet splitters, an idea I stole from "Strobist":http://strobist.com/ ("Part 1″:http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/04/lighting-101-build-pro-synch-cord-pt-1.html, "Part 2″:http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/04/lighting-101-build-pro-pc-cord-pt-2.html, and "Splitters":http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/05/adding-and-synching-second-strobe.html). This really cuts down on costs and makes it dead simple to [...]

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the long way

Yesterday, I fully intended to work from home. Unfortunately, my intentions do not always line up with reality.
I got up just after 5:00am, jumped in the shower, made some coffee and was "at work" by 5:45. I only had one meeting — a conference call — scheduled for the day. I can do conference calls [...]

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