New at the Aquarium

A new screech owl. Isn’t he cute?

The new touch tank up on the second floor, built to replace the old one which was removed to make way for the penguin exhibit (coming in March or April 2009)

10 years of UserFriendly

Yay, my 10th anniversary mega uber UserFriendly collection has arrived!
UF Collection
The t-shirt is pretty slick too. And the book is even autographed.
UF Book and t-shirt
I’m going to enjoy reading this.

Meaty goodness at Amazon Grill

Today’s meetup at Amazon Grill was nice with 9 people showing up and a few new faces, which is always nice.

Amazon Grill meetupers

Bacon wrapped chicken for Heather

Bacon wrapped chicken

For the record, @mydwynter wants a karaoke meetup one of these days. I’m pretty sure it could be arranged. There’s been talk about a potluck meetup on the twittertubes. Karaoke would probably make a fine addition to that meetup.

Laser fun

Taking advantage of a foggy night to have some fun with my green laser pointer
8s exposure of the laser being waved around randomly
Laser 8s
1s exposure of the laser being swept across the camera’s field of view. Slightly enhanced with Gimp to make the beam more visible.
Laser sweep
Slow sync flash and 1s exposure
Light saber

A Blessing of the VInes

Saturday was a pretty awesome afternoon with the Charleston Linux User Group and the 21st Century Photography (Digital & Film) Meetup Group both having meetings at Irvin House Vineyards’ Blessing of the Vine.

Sparse turnout from the LUG with 4 members showing up. Steve had his new Acer Aspire One netbook and showed it off to an interested passerby. It’s a pretty neat piece of hardware.

Had about 16 people with the photo group come out and everybody had a good time taking pictures.