Neeerrrrds!

In case you don't know, LARP = Live Action Role-Playing.

Here's an example:

So wrong

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We like the moooon~~~

I've been wanting to take pictures of the night moon with my new camera ever since I got it. Unfortunately, at first I couldn't get the settings right. Then after the eclipse, it's been nearly a month before it was visible in the night sky long enough for me to photograph it (it had already set by the time I got home from work for the past few weeks).

Well, not tonight. Tonight, I got it. The picture on the left was taken with flash fired, while the one on the right was taken without flash. Of course, flash would not reach something as far away as the moon, but I was hoping it would decrease the exposure time. (The moon is quite bright, so longer exposures with the camera would result in pictures with just light, and no details.) Alas, it did not, but the results are still interesting. As you can see, the moon appears with more of a golden hue when the flash was fired, and is closer to the color we're used to seeing with the naked eye.

Once again, feel free to compare with my previous attempt. It should be noted that in this previous entry, the picture where the moon is smaller... was taken with my 5-megapixel Minolta camera, while the the one where the moon appears to be larger was taken with my 2-megapixel Panasonic (with 12× optical zoom). The 2-megapixel camera's moon looks almost as big as the 7.2- megapixel counterpart! (It is still smaller, but the resultant size might have more to do with the angle of the moon than anything else. It also lacks the detail that can be seen from my new camera.)

Um... What?

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Cell Phone Towers

Sometime last year, I noticed a cell tower very close to where I live as I was driving home--Most of the time I take a different route home, and it's also often dark by the time I get home, so I don't know how long it's been there before I noticed it.

Then, about a month ago, I noticed another one, only about a block away from the first one...
I've circled the cell towers in this satellite map from Google Maps. You can see the long shadows each tower casts...

And for perspective, the same map, without satellite imagery. I've overlaid the same circles to mark the locations of these towers.

For the curious, these cell towers were "disguised" as very tall trees. The one on the left is an AT&T cell tower. I didn't get close enough to the other one to see which wireless carrier it's for, or if it's for multiple carriers.