Archive for Date : 2011 February

Book Review: The History of Murder (1990)

Categories: Book Reviews
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Published on: February 28, 2011

Title: The History of Murder Author: Colin Wilson Subject: the development of murderers in human history Genre: Crime / History Publisher: Castle Books (Originally published in 1990, “The History of Murder” edition I read had been updated in 2004 to include a few new serial killers and mass murderers.) First of all, I realize that[...]

Greatest Fears & Mundane Worries

Categories: Notes on Fatherhood
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Published on: February 26, 2011

Here in the U.S., living a middle class neighborhood in a brand new house, with a decent income, good health insurance, and some money saved in the bank, I don’t have the same fears for my child that other fathers have had throughout history, or in less fortunate areas of the world. For example, I[...]

Understanding the Millimeters

Categories: Photography
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Published on: February 23, 2011

New photographers are often lambasted with technical information that’s difficult to understand. There are dozens of numbers that apply to each camera and lens. Several of those numbers have “mm” after them. Hopefully, I can sort this out a little for you. If you’ve been to school, you know that “mm” is the abbreviation for[...]

Review: LumoPro LP160 manual flash

Categories: Photography, TechReview
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Published on: February 19, 2011

(All images in this blog entry are the intellectual property of Wil C. Fry and are Copyright © by Wil C. Fry, 2011.) I was excited to receive my shipment of the LumoPro LP160 a few days ago. Not only is it my first fully manual flash, but the first one that I bought specifically[...]

Review: Sigma 28mm f/1.8 EX DG Macro

Categories: Photography, TechReview
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Published on: February 18, 2011

Recently I filled the gaping hole in my lens lineup by purchasing the Sigma 28mm f/1.8 EX DG Macro lens. For a couple of years, I’ve been wanting a wide-angle prime lens, and this is the one I chose. (Copyright © 2011 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.) Like most Sigma lenses, this one[...]

Reasons for Crying

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Published on: February 16, 2011

One of the things I already knew before becoming a father is that there’s a short list of reasons that babies cry. Unlike adults, who cry mostly for emotional reasons or not at all, babies cry for mostly physical reasons. So I’m often surprised at the number of parents on forums who ask “Why is[...]

I Did Already Know

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Published on: February 10, 2011

When I was single and childless, I was often the recipient of comments such as, “You just won’t understand until you’re a parent.” Usually delivered in a haughty, condescending tone, this statement was phrased a dozen ways, but unfailingly using words like “understand”, “know”, “know what it feels like”, and so on. At the time,[...]

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