The Nysaverse

Goodbye cruel blogosphere!

Michael — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:16:00 +0000

I’ve made the decision to move the blog. It’s languished quite a bit over here in the nethers of the internet. I’ve ignored it, largely because I’ve focused more on the Photoblog, and hence my mwyman.com domain gets all the attention.

So I’m moving the blog to http://blog.mwyman.com. I know, I know — stunning, unexpected, completely original address for it! Congratulate me later.

I’m hoping to keep the new blog more focused on things relating to the photography posted on the photoblog, or more closely related to life going on related to the photos.

Happenings

Michael — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:08:37 +0000

Wedding. Honeymoon. Life.

Somehow these things all take precedence over posting on a silly blog nobody reads.

Go figure.

Somehow offended the biking gods…

Michael — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:36:14 +0000

So I’m trying to bike to work more… Hopefully much much more…

So yesterday I’m all dressed for riding, got my clothes packed, laptop arranged… Grab my bike - flat tire!

Only one spare tube, so I skip riding and stop on my way home for more tubes. I go to fix the flat and discover my tire treads have a hole right through them (rock, or something stuck in it). That’s fine, they’re old (original on the bike) so its probably time for new tires anyways.

So this morning I have new tires and new tubes. I’m all set and ready to bike to work! Nothing seems wrong - I hopped on and got pedaling…

Four miles in, I notice a regular scraping sound. Look down and my tire is bumping against the brake pad. I gently stop and get off the bike… The tire had gotten loose from the rim! Great - I need to deflate the tube and reset the tire…

Barely touch the tire to take a look and - HISSSSSSSSS… now the tire is seated just fine, but the tube is empty (and punctured!)…

Luckily I had a spare, but my little pump is pretty worthless (as I discovered!). Had to walk over a half mile (in bike cleats!) back to The Depot, which thankfully is bike-friendly and has several tire pumps on hand…

Did I not notice myself cutting off a bicyclist, that my bike karma is that bad?!

I suck at updates…

Michael — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:05:50 +0000

Title kinds says it all…

iPhone Wordpress says it’s been 16 posts since last May 1… I’m REALLY boring!

It’s that day…

Michael — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:27:08 +0000

… when everyone reminds you that another year has gone by…

Progression of Excitement

Michael — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:13:08 +0000

Year 12: “Cool! My birthday falls on a weekend! No school on my birthday!”

Year 16: “This is awesome - I can drive! Let’s cruise the town until curfew!”

Year 18: “Sweet - Adulthood! Voting! No more curfew! I can stay out all night and do whatever I want! … Oh, except…”

Year 21: “Party on! Now we can drink! Let’s party all night!”

Year 25: “Hey, did my auto insurance premium just go down?”

Year 28: “Sweet - my birthday falls on a weekend. I don’t have to work on my birthday!”

April Showers

Michael — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:16:49 +0000

You’d think I could figure outmore to do here… Long webpage I’ve had, and I never visit anymore…

Perhaps I should require myself to write a blog post for each photo I post at my photo site… Maybe that will convince me to write more here - or to move this blog to the other domain altogether.

Deep Thought

Michael — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:16:26 +0000

A nifty iPhone app for WordPress, and I still suck at updates…

Babies, babies, everywhere!

Michael — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:21:15 +0000

There’ve been two babies born into Jenny’s friends’ families recently, including the first baby boy of the group! Finally, us men aren’t going to be stuck around an enormous group of just girls when there are get-togethers anymore! Yay!

On a side note, I really must remember to bring my camera and macro lens to future baby-related events. I’m watching everybody else take photos of the little one, but from the usual snapshot angles. I learned from taking pictures of my cousin Andrew that the best photos are often about as close as you can get without waking the baby up with a cold lens to the face! :-)

Wedding Website!

Michael — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:17:48 +0000

Jenny and I are working on “Save the Date” magnets. We’ve decided to use Adobe InDesign to create our own after not finding templates we liked and could customize enough. We did notice that most of the templates include a website. While we didn’t feel a strong need to get one, being the geek I am I decided to check for available domains.

Most of the domains they show on the templates (to me, at least) sound absurdly sappy or wedding-esque. If I’m going to grab a website, I’d like it to have some possibility for post-wedding use…

Of course, most good .com domains are already taken… So we’ve grabbed a .info domain! Welcome www.MichaelAndJenny.info! The site will be under construction for a while, as we decide exactly what to put up. But hopefully before long…

The problem is, there’s so much wedding-related work to be done, the website may take a while.