Eye-Fi

Just received my 1st Eye-Fi card. This SD card not only stores 8GB of photos but it simultaneously transmits the photos to my wireless network. While this is a great concept, I’m finding that it takes quite a while to upload a 12MP RAW file. I can also upload to Facebook. This would be much better than the horrible cell phone photos that are so prolific on FB. I would have to shoot a smaller jpg file though.

Catalogs

I believe in being a consumer, after all its what keeps this economy rolling. As such that means I get my share of catalogs. This is especially true during the holiday season. While watching the news tonight there was a PSA for catalogchoice.org, which is a opt-out catalog service. I quickly ran upstairs and gathered all my catalogs and entered them individually into the database. I soon hope there will be more trees. But that means more squirrels! I can’t win.

Mac & Cheese

In preparation for the upcoming holiday visitors. We needed to get some menu items in order. So tonight I tried a Langostino Mac & Cheese dish.

It was suppose to be Lobster M&C but that’s too good for our guests. I wonder if I can get artificial lobster meat? Probably next to the cheese whiz, aisle 7.

LED Lights

I have 31 landscape lights in the backyard and while they are 12VDC they still consume some power. In an effort to use less power I tried 10watt bulbs, but they didn’t seem to last very long. I also tried 5 watt CFL bulbs but quality control was spotty (some bright some very dim). I tried multiple LED bulbs but they were not bright enough. I even tried high priced 5 watt LED bulb but they cast a blue color. Now after many attempts I found a 60 SMD LED bulb that cast a warm light and consumes only 4 watts rather than the 20 watt incandescent ones. Pretty geeky eh? But going from a total of 620 watts to 124 watts is pretty ding dang cool.