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Photos: A Tribute to the Last Shuttle Mission

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:49:00 -0500

On a whim today I picked up Gavin’s LEGO space shuttle and headed outside to take some photos. I got a little carried away and had a ton of fun posing the shuttle against a blue sky background. If you’re interested you can check out the entire set here.

Photos: Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:54:00 -0500

For those interested in watches I just published a set of photos on Flickr of my Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean. There’s a lot of amazing tech that goes into an Omega dive watch and the Planet Ocean is no exception. It features a decompression system that allows the watch casing to off-gas helium after the watch has been in a pressure chamber for a long time. Also on board are Omega’s own self-winding Caliber 2500 automatic movement (or the Caliber 9300 if you have the new 2011 edition) with a 48 hour power reserve, an anti-reflective, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, and a self-locking screw-in crown. All of this in a watch that can go as deep as 600 meters (2,000 feet). You can view the photos here.

Photos from the Nashville LEGO Competition

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:00:00 -0500

My son has taken a strong interest in LEGO since Christmas. A few weeks ago the Nashville Public Library sponsored a LEGO building competition grouping entries by age. At the close of the competition the entries were put on display at the downtown library. We took Gavin to see all the creations and I took photos of a bunch of them using my DROID X. The photos aren’t great quality, but you can see them all in a Flickr gallery here.