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2012 marks my 12th year working for Praxair since graduating from RIT with a degree in IT. I started working on Praxair’s first e-Commerce systems, and then transitioned to help build Praxair’s first intranet on Lotus Domino, and then was part of the team that rolled out Microsoft SharePoint enterprise wide for document management and…
Sleeping Girls Redux
Back in March 2009, I snapped this photo of Amanda and Ariella sleeping on the couch. I couldn’t help notice the similar pose of Amanda and Cambree. Cambree’s much younger than Ariella was in her pic, but the similarities are certainly there. Although I do like the full color version of this photo as well.
Thousands of words
The Zednik throat slash was a horrible incident, but what a fantastic photograph by Bill Wippert. Not all moments captured are good, and this one so clearly shows the shock and horror of the people sitting near where it happened.
Brandwashing
Do you have strong feelings of loyalty towards certain brands? Generally, I don’t. For many products, I’m happy buying whatever is cheapest at the moment. That often consists of store brands, like Wegmans pasta sauces, or ice cream, or… cat food. We’re 2 for 2 in recall roulette this year. First, there was the peanut…
The Shot
I’ve been watching “The Shot” on VH1, a pretty standard formula reality show about a group of budding photographers. I started watching it thinking it might be interesting since I like photography myself. Unfortunately, I think it suffers from not getting enough into the photography aspect, and focusing too much on the personalities of the…
The Central Terminal buffalo, transplanted
Courtesy of Caffeinated Gonzo, this buffalo, located at the University of Buffalo north campus, is a recast of the plaster-cast bronze painted buffalo that was located at the Central Terminal. When UB was looking to have a statue made for the campus, they did some historical research and found the original molds used to cast…