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My lens baby bought me a lensbaby for my Canon Digital Rebel XT and I finally took it out for a spin. In a nutshell, it’s an analog lens for a digital camera, one that works very manually to focus and has an accordion casing that allows for twisting [...]

No, not Safa’s birthday (yet, thank God). The Vandy men’s basketball team won a thrilling double overtime game against Washington State today to advance to the round of 16 (the “Sweet 16″) next week in the NCAA basketball tourney. I watched a good deal of it on TV and it was very exciting.
Speaking of sports [...]

I saw Letters from Iwo Jima a few weeks ago on the invitation of a colleague and I guess I proved that I’m not a typical American by not overwhlemingly liking it as many others have. It’s a very good film — I especially liked the muted palette — and there was a certain (but [...]