Archive for the ‘Geek Stuff’ Category

Tilt Shift Miniatures

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

A while back, I stumbled upon a neat Photoshop technique for making normal photos look like miniatures toy sets. The process, called tilt shift, involves blurring part of the image to trick the brain into thinking that the photo has a very small depth of field. And with such a ...

Airshow pics

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

We went to an airshow today. Besides getting sunburned, we all had a great time. We're exhausted. The Thunderbirds performed and put on a great show as usual (except for the occasional crash - in-cockpit view). Abbie screamed her head off after the sneak pass when one of the F-16's sneaks ...

Flight Sim Glory

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

My name is Jared and I'm a flight sim junkie. I've been playing around with flight sims forever - since Microsoft FS 3 was released in 1988. I've done everything from making silly videos and writing stories to writing an operations manual for a very complex 747. It's been a ...