Sunday February 05, 2006

clear winter day

I took a look around this afternoon when the rest of the world was glued to the superbowl. Unlike yesterday the day was beautiful from first light. I played poker most of Saturday afternoon and evening into Sunday morning. I had played a little on Friday and started to suspect that 3 of the people I was playing with might know a friend from the Bay Area poker scene. As it turns out they suspected the same thing. Sometime Saturday I finally asked to amused nods. I guess its not so surprising that the intersection of the silly valley playground world and the poker world really isn't that large. Analytical types, even if they lack experience, are not the best opponents but it did make for some good conversation :)

The mountains in this picture look other worldly. My wife has been complaining that I keep showing her pictures that she would like to use but we don't get most of them in hard copy. We do have a nice general purpose printer but its a pain to change paper, etc. for a picture. So we ended up with a HP Photosmart 385. While it can be used via a host PC it has a nice collection of media slots and front panel controls. Its been really useful to be able to just slip in a SD card and print off a picture without getting the PC going and changing the paper in the printer. Today I printed off this picture but used some cheaper porous stock. It turned out kinda cool with a real somewhat weathered and blurred look. The layout of the light spots on the card were almost in the right spots to make a nice postcard out of. I wonder what specifications need to be met to send something through the USPS as a post card? A quick look turned up this unofficial but fairly reasonable looking description. Looks like I'll have to do a little more processing to be able to turn a picture into a postcard. The picture also looks very nice on glossy stock. ( Feb 05 2006, 06:47:24 PM PST ) Permalink