I saw some bikes here, so as a new member I thought to post info about my bike and something about myself.
Specialized P.2 2004 alu, a 16 kg (30 lbs) dirt jumper with 100mm fork and 1x8 gears (38T in front, Shimano MTB cogset 11-32). Mechanical brakes. Truvativ Hussefelt cranks, Truvativ Boxguide. Low budget in everything.

I've had it for 2,5 years. I like the straight lines and somewhat DH look (it may not be, but let's pretend), and I've never seen another one in Finland. Only in a few videos. Awesome physical excercises in the forests! It's my first real bike after standard city bikes. I'm now 38 and just some years ago didn't know how much fun it is to be able to ride nearly anywhere. So I just picked one of the cheapest second-hand hardtails I found to see how it goes for me. This one fits - yet I don't know of anything better, and don't need to ;)

I'm not a pro in any way. I have jumped some 10 feet distance at the max, cannot manual, wheelies are random/flimsy and endos are short. I'm not a true freerider. But I have learned a lot from riding forest trails, I like to go to places where most will not - it's not the speed or time, just the fun - and I'm now in the best shape ever, getting better all the time. Only one major crash breaking a ligament from AC joint, which caused collarbone dislocation. Cosmetic.

Waiting for the 3 feet deep layer of snow melt away, the roads are boring.

There are more photos in my album, nothing special but Specialized ;)
https://plus.google.com/photos/109679300965339509567/albums/5534626501969119921

#thunder      #lightning   #finland   #mikkeli  
I took some photos of the thunder last night. It came really slowly, so there was a lot of rain-free time. The activity ceased when it finally reached us. We got some 7 mm of rainfall, while places just 15 km south got 30 mm.

There is some reflection in the lower left corner. It's because I photographed through window.

Snow work!

Created with Lapse it pro. My first test with it. No post processing.
3 sec interval, 15fps.

This one is especially for +12 Minute Athlete +Trudy Conway +David Renaud +Brett Lipton +Antti Luoma +Alexander S. Kunz
#finland #winter #snow #timelapse

#summer #finland #mikkeli
Green attack!

#comets   #cometpanstarrs   #auroraborealis   #northernlights  
I wanted to take a funny photo: "a comet seen through window". But there was more!

Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) with dim streaks of northern lights, which a moment later exploded into the best show I've seen since the beginning of the 90's. Canon EOS D60, Canon EF-S (modified EF) 18-55mm IS. Cropped.

#photography #sports #mobilephoto
Artificial landscape: trees projected on the soccer field dome. Some patches of snow look like clouds.

Some light, snow and trees do mix!

#thunder #anvil #mammatus #finland #spring #clouds
The first thunder shower just passed, this is what it looked like afterwards. A decent cloud for the opener of the storm season 2012!

#northernlights #auroraborealis #revontulet
Northern lights at midnight between 22. and 23. March 2012, in Mikkeli, Finland.

Canon EOS D60, ISO800, 30s
Canon EF-S 18-55 IS, 18mm, f/3.5
(Contrast added, a lot).

#caturday #pets #cats
When I wanted to get up from the floor, he didn't want to move. I guess it was my thick shirt...

#stunts   #basejumping   #motorcycles  
This stunt... just watch! 120 ft motorcycle base jump from a ramp to a river?! From Finland. I didn't know about these guys - sorry, SFT!
"It wasn't that high"

#storms   #hails   #hailstorm   #finland
Jokioinen, Finland June 4th 2013.

I'm a 38 years old newbie from Finland and I am proud of my Taiwanese 2004 Specialized P.2 (alu). 16 kg of... obviously not steel, but a mixture of different alloys. This is my first "real" or "serious" bike. I got it less than three years ago. Since then my physical fitness has gone up all the time.

It had 2.3" tyres but for now I'm trying cheaper 2.1".

Setup:
1x8: 38T / 11-32T
Shimano Deore (Alivio rear derailer), Shimano cassette, FSA chainwheel.
Truvativ Boxguide.
Truvativ Hussefelt cranks.
Truvativ head stuff.
HT angle 69.5
Marzocchi Exr Comp 100 mm (left: coil/elastomer, preload adj., right: open bath oil/ssv/air valve, ext. rebound adjustment)
Hayes mechanical brakes
A ringer, detachable lamp and red reflective tape for some street legality.
A ton of fun ;)

#androidography #sunset #landscape #SkySunday

Sunset was a reason to climb onto our rooftop.
Mikkeli, Finland.
Today.

Ei välttämättä nolaa talouseliittiä (ja ovatko talouden professorit eliittiä?), mutta hienoa työtä. Heräsi kysymys: kuka voi tarkistaa tutkimusten tuloksia jos tarkistaminen on noin työlästä eikä työtä edes kunnioiteta?

#imadethis #winter #snow #tools
I made this!
A snow dropper. For dropping snow off the steep roof safely. From scrap wood, three nails and heat conductor plate. Leftovers from the house project. Note: the invention is not mine, but this application is.

#christmas #food
Done!
7 kg of ham. Should be enough for two adults and two kids.

#moon #mobilephotography
My first test with my small telescope and Samsung Galaxy S2.

#astrophotography   #canonusers   #canon  
Just NOW, on our backyard. Camera is taking photos and Canon Remote Shooter downloads them to this netbook, which luckily has the WLAN connection from the other end of our house.

This is what the raw sky looks like here now... eh, you don't see that many stars with naked eye, but.. astronomers will understand :) It will look better after stacking and adjusting. I just don't know if I'll do it for this view.

50mm f/4 ISO400 3 minutes, single exposure, tiny crop. Slightly sharpened. Raw Therapee 3. I just can't get a sharp image... It's the focusing. I spent over half an hour focusing. I realised there is a good indicator of focus quality, but I'll save that for later.
Canon EOS D60 + EF 50mm 1.8 II

I came to the shore of a small lake, and it was really beautiful here! The post sunset colours on the sky, a few clouds, mist and it is calm... Well, see the photo. I wish I had a camera with me. One of the few occasions lately, as I generally don't take photos anymore, like a photographer would take.

Valamo monastery, The Main Church.
Heinävesi, Finland.

#auroraborealis
Aurora borealis alert!
The best I've seen since... don't know when. Of course I didn't have the camera at the clear sky + max activity, but there could be more to come.
Mikkeli, Finland. Now.

#videography   #accessories   #stabilizer   #diy  
I just had to like this! It's not just showing the basic rig construction, he also builds one on the video. And then shows improvements and then possibilities for accessory mount ports :)  Finally, example shots. Great video!

#amusementpark #tampere #finland #särkänniemi #koiramäki
We're here!

#summer #finland #mikkeli
An example of early summer in Finland at lake Saimaa.

#weather
The biggest thunder day of the year according to forecasts. And the photo of a day ;) The humidity can bee seen very well.

#venustransit   #transitofvenus     #astrophotography   #astronomy  
I have never before done digiscoping with DSLR and such tiny telescope as mine. I was surprised of the results! I expected to see a blurry circle in the middle, but instead most of the Sun was visible at once. And the Venus. And some dust and sunspots :)  The DSLR was unsupported!
A side note: some others took much cleaner photos with full view of the  Solar disc on mobile phones, from the same telescope. Explanation: the optical fitting is better with smaller lens cameras, as they are more comparable to human eye, for which the oculars are made.

60mm / 415mm refractor, 20mm eyepiece, 2x Barlow. Baader AstroSolar filter box. Photo: Canon EOS D60, 18-55 IS  @ 55mm, f/5.6

Congratulations, sister! The strongest woman in Finland!

Fake profiles? How often a person who circles you is fake? How do you find out it's fake? I don't know how often this happens, but let me present you one, and tell how I know it's fake:
1) she
2) is beautiful and
3) has circled me

(and the short url being the only info, linking to some business site)

https://plus.google.com/112595687938127445105/posts

HNY - Happy New Year to you all!

2,5 hours to the end of this year here at GMT+2.

Photo and artwork by me.

The galaxy of Andromeda, revisited (processed). The differences here are: there are now two exposures of one minute combined by median method. Also, twenty dark frames and a dozen of offset frames have come to help to reduce the camera noise. Then, I've adjusted the colour channels to have fully overlapping peaks in the histogram. This practically means grey output. To make sure it is grey, I lowered the saturation. This makes the image less noisy (at least it does not look so noisy). After that I adjusted the mid and high levels as much as possible. In short.

#mtb #finland #trail
Here's one small hill down. Going to try today among other places.

#fiinnish   #taivaanvahti    #thunder   #thunderstorm   #story  
Havaintokertomukseni ukkosista 18.5.2013 on valmis:
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/14802

#thunder #lightning #finland #weather
There is some thunder in the south west region in Finland. I took this short clip from our rooftop 23:08 local time.

#winter #finland
Never seen a tyre like this. I'm out of clever tags.

#comets #cometpanstarrs
Näin komeetan ensimmäistä kertaa:
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/11478

#wikipedia   #keepitfree  
I just donated for the first time. Don't we all need Wikipedia? So many of us do.

Removing snow from the rooftop. In costly manner. This has been going on for days.

#meteor   #russia  
A supersonic boom caused by a meteor breaks windows on Russian video!

Fix for duplicate media items:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2-t/561085-music-shows-duplicate-songs-but-physically-there-no-duplicates.html

In short: clear the Media Storage data and reboot (media will be scanned only after reboot). Warning: clearing the data will also lose your playlists. I haven't tried backup apps or other tricks to preserve the playlists.

Settings -> Applications -> All -> Media store -> Clear data 
Sorry if the texts are a bit off, my S2 is in Finnish :)

#winter #finland
It's 2 pm here, and the Sun is already going down. Actually, we didn't see it at noon either.

Magic carpet machine. The carpet has been in place for 50 years. This is located in Mikkelin yhteiskoulu, Otto Mannisenkatu 8, Mikkeli.

#halos   #artificiallight  
Artificial light pillars in Mikkeli, Finland 2012-12-05. The best I've seen so far. The photos are orange, but that just happens to be the ambient tint from the street lights. The adaptation of the human eye is really difficult to copy, that's why I often try to keep the colours original, what ever that may mean.

#photography   #album   #finland   #autumn
On one nice day there was so much to photograph. The Brighter Side of the Finnish Autumn!

This is my entry to an autumn photography contest held a while ago by Finnish magazine Apu  www.apu.fi


#autumn   #frost   #icecrystals  
The morning got even better when the Sun began to rise. For example the rocks here. They had awesome ice crystals growing on them, especially on the tiny patches of moss.

#autumn   #frost   #lake   #rowingboat  
It was very beautiful morning in eastern Finland. At this moment it was -10C.

#imadethis   #headphones   #beyerdynamic  
I made this!

RCA connectors for Beyerdynamic DT 990. No more uncomfortable service operations requiring opening the 100+ EUR (each) elements. Just replace the cord. I will post more photos later.

#kierrätys   #jätteet   #lajittelu  
Roskat jäivät taskuun: miten tämä ohje oikein tulkitaan? Tämä yhdyskuntajäte on tarkoitettu energiahyötykäyttöön, mutta sinne ei saa laittaa energiajätettä. Mitä on energiajäte? Jokin hyötyjätteen (?) jae, ilmeisesti. Minä yritän kierrättää oikein, mutta vaikeaa tuntuu olevan!

Welcome to my coffee house! Which colour do you prefer?

#venustransit   #transitofvenus   #finland   #nature   #birds   #swans  
(NOT BY ME) This is the best photo I've seen for a good while. As someone suggested, this could be a photo of the year in nature category! It's not just a sunset, the Venus is also there, when you open the photo on the page (click it). Wow. Photos by Eetu Saarti

http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/5282

#cats #pets
Le kitteh Topelius!

He looks young from this perspective, but he's over 9 years old.

#auroraborealis #northernlights
Northern lights tonight at 20:30 UT in Mikkeli, Finland. A slightly processed version: added contrast - and noise :P

Btw: which is more common or better attention riser: "aurora borealis" or "northern lights"? I find the first far more easy to type, and it's scientifically exact. But otherwise, which one is best for you?

#winter #forest #forests #snow
Winter forest. Could not come up with more original title! Anyway, this is how it looked a while ago over here.

#weather #winter #cellphonephotography #frost
My shadow on the ground is around 10 meters (30 ft) long, and it's midday. It's -20C (-4F) and it's not calm. This is normal. Welcome to the southern border of the entrance to the North!

#acta #avaaz
1.3 million have signed the Avaaz.org petition. Will you?

The fun of throwing sand into the freshly exposed water!

From 2007, Canon PowerShot A700. Sorry for the exposure, and the framing, but it was a difficult light for the camera, and this was the best of the series :) Some luminosity level and saturation adjustments / GIMP.

Ubuntu Studio 10.04 installed! How it went, why this old version and other things will be discussed about after I've got some actual first hand information. But the first impression is something like when opening a present, it's Christmas!

Great video, good trail, beautiful!

New version of Stellarium released 2011-11-04!

What can I say... Awesome!

#topfield #tf5100 #service
Just checking the power supply lines of our Topfield TF5100.

#typos  
I just don't know if I should post this in English or Finnish. It is from a Finnish website, to be accurate, this URL:
http://www.serena.fi/waterpark/hyva-tietaa/forecan-saa/
At first the weather forecast caught my attention. There shouldn't be thunder today! Then I noticed there are two different words for thunder, but the same icon in both cases. The other case has capital "U", the other doesn't. Later on, the English and Finnish words are mixed, and the Finnish words are bad translations.

Then there is the menu at the lower left area. Or is that a menu? Can't be... hey, I got to see what's behind "Thanks you"! LOL. It opens a page that says  "Thanks you - You have just confirmed your subscription..."

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I just don't see how this all can be pulled off these days.

#finnish #astronomy #events
Mikkelin Ursa ry viettää 90-vuotisjuhlapäivää tänään Mikkelin pääkirjastolla klo 10 - 14. Esillä on laitteistoa, historiaa, meteoritutkimusta, valokuvia, planetaario...
Vapaa pääsy, tervetuloa!

#levymessut #mikkeli #finland
A view of the event and one example of the merchandise. Old vinyls and CDs, regular and collector items.

#photography #service #diy #canon #lenses
EF 50 mm 1.8 II modification for better collimation (lens alignment). In short: I added three felt pads inside the focusing ring. Their pressure against the optical assembly tube can be adjusted with three screws.

Remarks referring to my previous post: I now found out that the front lens doesn't move itself. The whole optical assembly is monolithic and moves as a whole, there are no individual lenses or groups that move.

The rear lens can be removed for cleaning, when the circuit board is exposed. The lens has has twist lock. It may have a drop of glue, so some force may be necessary on the first time. To open: turn counter-clockwise.

There is a gap between the front and rear elements. Maybe for allowing condensation to dry out. However, dust particles enter from the opening as well. It was nice to see it's not impossible or dangerous to get in between the lenses.

#astrophotography   #cometpanstarrs   #andromedagalaxy   #andromeda   #astronomy   #finland   #finnishphotography
Really awesome long exposure (40 x 60 seconds) of comet PanSTARRS and the great galaxy of Andromeda by Erkki Rauhala!
http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/13066

#astrophotography   #stars   #longexposure  
Long exposure test for my EQ1 mount. No guiding. Canon EOS D60 (3000x2000 pix), 55mm f/5.6, ISO100. 30 minutes! Single photo in JPG, only blue channel used to get rid of the orange street light pollution. On the right edge you can see round formations, probably caused by hotter areas on the sensor or then flaws caused in the manufacturing process or soldering. Could be power supply points. They are always there, and they will vanish with dark frame exposure. But for this shot I don't have a dark frame. They're generally not used in JPG anyway.

This is my longest exposure so far. I wanted to see some periodic error. Failed in that respect. Tracking is really good for less than $200 USD equipment (after careful speed calibration and DIY counter-weight to match the camera setup), but there seems to be some "snapping". However, this was just one exposure. I have had much worse exposures even in just 2 minutes, so maybe I was just lucky? I want repeatibility, and that's what the cheap mount may not be able to give.

Finding the sources of errors take a lot of time, and it's possible I never find all of them, yet be able to fix them without better gear.

#caturday
Mr. Topelius.

#cometpanstarrs #astronomy #comets
The comet chase failed today because of a few clouds. Mikkeli, Finland

#bicycles #diy #service #mtb
Here it goes. I will replace the chainwheel and cassette. There also seems to be some more to do, like cleaning and greasing (like bearing, chain tensioner). I even found hair! Dog hair, presumably, from the woods. We don't have a dog.

Differences of Jelly Bean compared to ICS?

So far I've found:
- status page is different, shows more content of email for example, access to system settings, more of those big on/off switches at the top, does not vibrate when turning the sound back on ;)  but still you cannot rotate it alone, nor scroll long texts horizontally
- all apps icons I had arranged are gone from the home screens (well, it's a new home screen...)
- some changes in the home screen manipulation, folders look better now (showing a few icons overlapped instead of folder icon with four miniature icons)
- haven't found Google Earth yet, I had it installed before... I wonder if some apps are lost (don't know yet)
- better voice recognition, in mixed language also (Finnish and English tested)
- much better text helper (prediction/dictionary), in ICS I found it useless so I turned it off, but now it was on by default and I like it!
- searching files from the phone seems more difficult now
- calendar has changed a lot, need some time to learn reading it
- calendar has weeknumbers disabled by default, but that is just a setting so you get them back
- consumes more RAM - before the update the RAM usage was around 600 MB, now it's over 700 MB, and there is not much left
- by pressing home button, more apps become inactive (I'm not sure if that is due to app updates or system)
- gallery is different, the seamless photo tiles don't waste space when browsing, and there are a number of other changes I don't possibly know all of them
- camera menus were reset, but I think there are no visible changes to the  camera app (sometimes very bad at focusing, just as before) but the focus indicator sound is more elegant now
- facelock screen has opening animation before the camera image is showing, and there is a bigger X-button, in the upper right corner, to skip the facelock

Some of the things I've seen myself. All the apps I've tried, free and purchased seem to work ok. No serious testing, no technical info, just the things you see by using.

Oh, battery usage? Normally I've had the same battery life as before, 16 hours with minimal usage, but one day I had better, don't know why :) I'm using Google Latitude with Backitude, no instant upload. As someone said, the media scanning consumes a lot of battery! My computer's USB socket couldn't give enough power to keep the battery level from dropping while scanning. I have to see if that is done everytime I boot the phone...

#samsunggalaxy   #galaxys2   #samsung   #update   #finland  
Downloading an update to Samsung Galaxy S2. Jelly Bean, presumably. 3 minutes to go...

Salamasuojaus - onko kellään?

Sähköala-lehti 11/2012 sanoo, että rakennuksen suunnitteluvaiheessa tiedostettu tarve ei aiheuta juurikaan lisäkustannuksia. Kukaan ei ole meille puhunut tiilikattoisen omakotitalon suojauksesta. Myrskybongarillakaan asia ei nouse aktiivisesti mieleen. Puurakenteinen pienelementtitalo johtaa huonosti sähköä. Voisi olettaa, että salama hakeutuu kaikkiin mahdollisiin johtimiin talon sisällä. Antennia ei sentään ole katolla, eikä edes huippuimuria.

Tikkaat on katolle, ja katolla kulkusilta. Tikkaat ovat kiinni sillassa. Tuntuisi siltä, että tikkaiden maadottaminen olisi asiallista. Nehän päättyvät reilun metrin korkeudelle maasta. Pitäisikö ne kytkeä vieressä olevaan pyykkitelineeseen? Telineen neljä putkijalkaa tarjoavat jonkin verran maakosketusta. Toisaalta, pyykkitelineelle saattaa joskus tulla kiire ukkosen noustessa, joten ehkä ei kannata ajatella virran johtamista siihen.

Tekninen tila / varastorakennus. Siellä on maadoituskaapeli. Se päättyy kaukolämpöputkien viereen pihan sisään. En tiedä onko sitä kiinnitetty kaukolämpöputkeen. Mutta sieltä pitäisi ehkä lähteä liikkeelle.

Pikakolumni: "Omalta kohdaltani"

Ilmastonmuutoskeskustelussa mättää erityisesti se, että asiat ovat liian vaikeita. Jos ei ymmärrä insinööri, niin miten kansa? Kuka edustaa miljoonakansoja Euroopassa, miljardeja maailmalla? Muutosten mekanismeihin perehtyneitä puolueettomia tutkijoita varmasti on, mutta painaako heidän sanansa tarpeeksi? Miten yleensä voidaan tehdä suuria päätöksiä ennusteiden perusteella? Emme me vielä mitään tiedä. Näin ainakin itse uskon. Siksi en halua ottaa kantaa oletettuihin syy-seuraus-suhteisiin, enkä etenkään ennusteisiin.

Palataan vielä mainitsemaani kansaan. Teollisuus on se "olio", jolle ilmastonmuutoksen hillitsemiseen tähtääviä parametreja voi syöttää, mutta jossain kansan ja teollisuuden välissä kytee politikoinnin kipinä. Silläkin uhalla, että näyttäisin viimeisen päälle skeptikolta, kysyn: mistä voimme olla varmoja, millä perusteilla päätöksiä tehdään? Mitkä ovat ne lopulliset intressit? Intressejä kyllä on, senhän näkee siitäkin, että kaikki eivät osallistu. Joutuvatko osallistujat tekemään suuriakin kompromisseja saadakseen kaikki mukaan? Jos päädytään kompromisseihin, vesittyykö kokonaisuus?

Näihin kysymyksiin, näihin tunnelmiin...

#finnish   #googlemaps   #satelliteimagery  
Google on vihdoin saanut tuoreempaa satelliittikuvaa Mikkelistä! 
Vielä kun saisivat viime vuosina tehdyt uudet kadutkin kartalle... Nyt on siis satelliittikuva tuoreempaa kuin kartat!

#finnish   #ilmakuvaus
Tämä on hieno juttu!
http://www.krede.fi

#deutschewelle   #euromaxx   #bicycling   #stunts
I just saw this on TV channel Deutche Welle, and as it only has 161 views and 6 likes, I better share it :)

#googleplus   #googleplusbug  
I spotted inconsistency between notifications in G+ and G+ email notifications: in the G+, you got "Mute post" option, but in the email you have "Mute <person-who-posted>"! You migh accidentally mute a person, but not the post for further notifications.

Another, connected issue: the email notification says <x> shared a post with me. "No", I thought. It took a while to see what it is, because <x> really was not the person, who shared the post in the first place. <x> only made a comment after my comment, which is why I got the email notification. This works correctly, it's just the system doesn't have a perfect description text for the message sent to me.

So, the email notification decription goes like this: <x> shared this post with you when it should say <x> commented a post you had commented. A minor discomfort, but connected to the mute function, it may lead to mistakes and grey hair.

Let's share some colours!

I once made a tower of big Lego bricks, some three years ago. It reached the ceiling. And just now I realised how colourful it was!

Canon PowerShot A700

#photography   #colours  

#finnish   #sähly
Suojalasit sisäpeleihin! Tänään tuli ensimmäistä kertaa eteen vaatimus, että junioreilla pitää olla suojalasit sählyharjoituksissa. En ole lajia harrastanut, joten omakohtaista käsitystä asiasta ei ole ollut. Hakiessani tietoa suojalaseista löysin aikuisten oikean jutun lasien puolesta. Silmävammoja sattuu joka päivä!

#blog   #photography   #diy   #lenses  
Finally! A new blog post!

Back then when I didn't have my dirt jumper...

This is very cool! Very skillful act.

RESHARE:
I had missed this! Not enought visibility for GIMP on my stream. Need to do something, like visit the GIMP website more often :)

Reshared text:
Folks, we've just officially released GIMP 2.8 after 3.5 years of work. It was quite a challenge, and we are very grateful to you for your support and understanding.

The release touches virtually every part of GIMP, from internals to UI, from tools to resources such as brushes. There are also some important API changes for developers.

We expect Windows build to be up really soon, and we hope that Mac builds will follow too.

Have fun with this new version: test it, report bugs, write tutorials or maybe even books, while we are preparing the next great release :)

#music   #deephouse  
Deep house music of today - nice. I should do some more digging of the genre I fell in love between 80's and 90's.

#cats  
I was on the rooftop with my DSLR, when I heard a meow. When coming down the ladder, he was waiting down there, asking me to come down ASAP.

#pollen   #sun   #pollencorona   #corona  
This one's mine from today at 20:30 local time.

#astronomy
Here's one of my first test photos of The Sun with the new solar filter. I used daylight WB, and the photo turned this red. Does the solar filter pass IR? With naked eye (through the same filter, telescope + eyepiece) the Sun looked rather pale (white). ISO 100, 1/160. The telescope is 415mm, roughly f/10. The photo is heavily sharpened as it was a bit out of focus. Gear packed to the car, going to sleep for a few hours now.

#musicalinstruments #instruments #music
I've been looking for unusual or weird instruments after hearing glass harp. This metallic monster is very cool! P.S: Don't just get the idea to give me PVC pipes, I just hate the sound already!

#music #studio #inprogress
The first musical notes captured in my studio-to-be

This is the place where I recorded my latest musical idea. There is stuff all around, because there are no shelves - well, final shelves yet. Piece by piece...

Under the notebook you can see a kitchen sink. It's there, because I found it from the bushes at a forest road! Seriously! People throw away good stuff. It was used, but not bent or even hammered. I got no water nor draining in the storage room, but I thought I definitely will have some use for it.

The room extends behind this view more than twice... I'd better memorize the measures, would be easier to tell the size :) The area is approx. 16 square meters anyway. And the floor is heated, so no jacket required ;)

Now playing: Moby - Bring back my happiness (Josh Wink mix)!

#dynamicrangeday #turnmeup #music #mastering
Dynamic Range Day - March 16th
No More Loudness War!

The presidential election of Finland, 5 minutes ago: I have given my vote.

Nice DIY possibilities these days! I wouldn't try this, as in Finland we don't have this kind of closed captioning. But overlaying graphics and text is another nice possibility. Astronomers could build a time code generator for their video capture. Motion / object detection is also possible.

The first snow on the BMX track, Mikkeli, Finland.
2011-11-22

LWF - LightWritingFriday!

#photography #satellites

ISS transit photographed in Finland on Nov 9 2011! Cool!

#browsers, UI design, rant

Thanks! Thanks!! Thanks!!!

But why to use the Backspace for "Back" in the first place? Why do we need an extension to prevent this?
"Because IE has used the same key" is not an aswer. The feature is stupid because it's asymmetric: what is the corresponding forward key? I would suggest Delete ;) It's stupid also because it's dangerous: I've lost many PDF and HTML forms, including G+ posts I had typed, by pressing Backspace in wrong place! Adobe finetuned the torture even further: PDF form fields behave differently when all the text has been deleted: backspace key presses in an empty field are forwarded to the browser, and you know what happens next, depending on the browser!

I've used Alt + LEFT / RIGHT for history back/forward since 1996. I thought everyone is familiar with this shortcut, but based on the comments I've read, it may not be so. It has proven very problem-free. You don't generally press Alt accidentally, and if you do, you don't press Alt+LEFT for sure. Of course, the shortcuts may be used for changing a track in the player, or adjusting volume, or what ever, but the chances of doing that accidentally when editing an online form is quite low.

Nothing is failsafe, but we should at least try to come up with failsafer solutions.

Some bad astronomy!

Videographing the Moon sliding past the trees, fixed WB, focus and exposure, approx 500mm equivalent zoom...