A New Chapter Begins – AtlasOmega
26 Jan 2011 6:16pm GMT “Woah!” you say, an actual blog entry from Calvin here? Yes, egads, it has been a long time. I have been a very busy bee, and here are the highlights: I left Newsvine/MSNBC at the end of June 2010 to follow my dreams of diving around the world and shooting underwater photography along the way. [...]
3DHD TV – Coming to a Living Room Near You
8 Jan 2010 6:26pm GMT CES – LAS VEGAS via NBCU Blogger Lounge – I was the last to get a projection TV, then I held out for as long as I could to get an HD plasma TV. I like being a late adopter, not just because I’m frugal, but also because I figure that most first generation products have some kinks to work out and stand the best chance for improvement in the few years following their release. I also don’t like experiencing things that then make all other things seem outdated.
Alki Junkyard – Critters and Bottles
19 Sep 2009 4:34am GMT The Alki Junkyard is a lesser known dive site, just around the corner from several very popular Seacrest dive sites, that offers some hidden jewels in the rough. From "Shaggy Mouse" Nudibranchs and Giant Sea Spiders to Juvenile Wolf Eels - it's a great spot to shoot photos and to enjoy making a dive plan for a moderately current intensive dive site (read: OW classes aren't held here). The eel grass looks like wheat, blowing in the wind - to be enjoyed during your safety stop, and there's the...
Beneath Emerald Waters
28 Aug 2009 9:58pm GMT A new map has been published, detailing a number of great dive sites in Puget Sound. The online PDF version can be found here, or you can pick up a hardcopy in any number of dive shops around the Pacific Northwest. (Via Janna Nichols)
Review: Amazon Kindle 2
26 Feb 2009 7:13pm GMT I just got my Kindle 2 last night and here are my first impressions. Downloads are extremely fast. I bought a Malcolm Gladwell book, Outliers, from the Amazon web site. Within about a minute I looked down and my Kindle was telling me it was downloaded and ready to read. I also subscribed to a few magazine free trials, like Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Motley Fool, Asimov's Science Fiction, and US News & World Report. All of them updated really quickly.