http://dmgreer.com My Blog Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:21:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I went to get my WRX inspected, but my Check Engine light was on, so Kwik Kar charged me $89 to find out that it was Upstream Oxygen Sensor. They said it would cost $450 to replace, so I bought one online for $150 and replaced it myself. Of course, ... http://dmgreer.com/2009/04/the-moose-02-wrx-gets-a-new-oxygen-sensor/ I made a wiki for legalization at http://legalizationwiki.org. Even though Obama has stated he's not in favor of it, the buzz on legalization has been growing out of control since his election. In March, California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano introduced a bill proposing the legalization of marijuana in his state. Since ... http://dmgreer.com/2009/04/created-a-legalization-wiki-at-httplegalizationwikiorg/ I was arguing with someone about this idea that the World Trade Center towers fell at freefall speed. I pointed out that if you look at this clip of WTC2, it's pretty easy to count the seconds. It begins collapsing around second 10, and you can see the blowback from ... http://dmgreer.com/2009/04/wtc-pancaking-and-conservation-of-momentum-establishing-a-freefall-baseline/ Here's a letter I sent to Obama today. Mr. President: You lost a lot of support today with your offhanded dismissal of the online community which brought you to power. I am one of those, a 52 year old software developer helping my daughter work her way through college. I even made ... http://dmgreer.com/2009/03/open-letter-to-barack-obama-concerning-his-remarks-of-march-25-2009/ I went on a field trip to Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant with my daughter's physics class, and then I went hiking around White Rock Lake in Dallas. It's kind of a pain, because I've uploaded these to Facebook, Flickr, and now here. I like this gallery software the best, it's ... http://dmgreer.com/2009/03/added-a-couple-of-new-photo-galleries/ I added NextGen Photo Gallery. It looks alright, now I need to scan in a bunch of film, as well as start taking more photos with my fz28. http://dmgreer.com/2009/02/added-nextgen-photo-gallery/ I was looking at the last post I did on this subject and thinking "What the heck? Why did I post the inverted images?" But there's a good reason for that, the eye sees slight variations of white a lot more keenly than slight variations of black. Still, I thought ... http://dmgreer.com/2009/01/panasonic-fz28-images-of-noise-part-2/ I got my first digital camera recently, haven't had much time to take photos worth displaying because I've been learning how to use it. I took a photo on the way to pick up my daughter at the airport. I thought it turned out alright, quality-wise, for such low light. It ... http://dmgreer.com/2009/01/panasonic-lumix-fz28-images-of-noise/ It's insane, there was a little 10 second report on the local NBC affiliate here in Dallas about a protest against the bombing in Gaza. At the end of it they showed footage of the one guy who was arrested saying "One man was arrested after repeatedly being told not ... http://dmgreer.com/2008/12/photography-forbidden-in-the-homeland-journalists-dont-care/ When I was little, when there was lightning and thunder my dad told me the old Norse myth that it's all about Odin and Thor and their buddies bowling with huge boulders in the heavens. Now whenever there's lightning and thunder, I can still take myself back to that childhood ... http://dmgreer.com/2008/12/lightning-and-thunder-of-childhood/