Fever Dream
“Fever Dream” by Iron and Wine, go look it up right now. It might make you cry.
My girlfriend is sick, stomach is hurting her. 
South Sun Beads is about to start making profit (http://www.southsunbeads.com), if the company can get the logistics straight and ship everything on time and keep products in stock.
New site is about to start converting more photography leads at a higher price.
Grooveshark, though questionable in its ethical nature, is playing some really good songs this morning.
I wonder when I’ll be able to start investing in my musical abilities again.
March 15th, 2010
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Used Canon 28mm f2.8 for Sale - $150
THIS LENS HAS BEEN SOLD!
I’m selling my Canon 28mm f2.8 for $150. It goes for about $270 new so this is a bargain on an already low-priced lens.
Some of the killer features of this lens are that it is very lightweight, inexpensive, and sharper than the kit lenses that come with most camera bodies. The color and saturation of this lens are also very good, and it has no noticeable distortion. See the bottom of this post for links to some reviews of this lens.
Here are some pictures I (or my girlfriend) shot with this lens:
March 7th, 2010
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Used Tamron 28-75 f2.8 $250 (for Canon)
THIS LENS HAS BEEN SOLD!
Have a Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 lens for sale. This is a great all-purpose lens with emphasis on taking pictures of people.
Has great DOF at 75mm and also a short minimum focus distance so you can get close to things and get a nice DOF that way.
I shot most of my first few weddings with this lens and am very satisfied with the images, but am giving it up now that I’m able to replace it with higher end Canon Lenses.
Here are some photos I’ve taken with this lens:
February 28th, 2010
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San Diego Zip Codes
Okay I just spent a couple hours compiling this comprehensive list of all San Diego zip codes (every zip code in San Diego) after not finding one online. Some of these were borrowed from a pretty good list I found online (view here), but it still took me a lot of work to fill in the blanks.
All I’m asking is that you leave a comment or something if this list of San Diego zip codes comes in useful to you.
You’ll probably notice that there are some zip codes you didn’t even know existed, that’s because the zip codes were provided by a list of 30,000 addresses of real San Diegans, meaning its not likely that I missed a single zip code, but if you find one I’m missing, please leave a comment.
Thanks, here’s the list:
91901 - Alpine
91902 - Bonita
91903 - Alpine
91905 - Boulevard
91906 - Campo
91909 - Chula Vista
91910 - Chula Vista
91911 - Chula Vista
91913 - Chula Vista
91914 - Chula Vista
91915 - Chula Vista
91916 - Descanso
91917 - Dulzura
91921 - Chula Vista
91932 - Imperial Beach
91933 - Imperial Beach
91934 - Jacumba
91935 - Jamul
91941 - La Mesa
91942 - La Mesa
91944 - La Mesa
91945 - Lemon Grove
91946 - Lemon Grove
91950 - National City
91951 - National City
91962 - Pine Valley
91963 - Potrero
91976 - Spring Valley
91977 - Spring Valley
91978 - Spring Valley
91979 - Spring Valley
91980 - Tecate
91990 - Potrero
92003 - Bonsall
92004 - Borrego Springs
92007 - Cardiff by the Sea
92008 - Carlsbad
92009 - Carlsbad
92010 - Carlsbad
92011 - Carlsbad
92013 - Carlsbad
92014 - Del Mar
92018 - Carlsbad
92019 - El Cajon
92020 - El Cajon
92021 - El Cajon
92022 - El Cajon
92023 - Encinitas
92024 - Encinitas
92025 - Escondido
92026 - Escondido
92027 - Escondido
92028 - Fallbrook
92029 - Escondido
92030 - Escondido
92033 - Escondido
92036 - Julian
92037 - La Jolla
92039 - La Jolla
92040 - Lakeside
92046 - Escondido
92049 - Oceanside
92051 - Oceanside
92052 - Oceanside
92054 - Oceanside
92055 - Camp Pendleton
92056 - Oceanside
92057 - Oceanside
92058 - Oceanside
92059 - Pala
92060 - Palomar Mountain
92061 - Pauma Valley
92064 - Poway
92065 - Ramona
92066 - Ranchita
92067 - Rancho Santa Fe
92069 - San Marcos
92070 - Santa Ysabel
92071 - Santee
92072 - Santee
92075 - Solana Beach
92078 - San Marcos
92079 - San Marcon
92081 - Vista
92082 - Valley Center
92083 - Vista
92084 - Vista
92085 - Vista
92086 - Warner Springs
92088 - Fallbrook
92090 - El Cajon
92091 - Rancho Santa Fe
92092 - La Jolla
92093 - La Jolla
92096 - San Marcos
92101 - San Diego
92102 - San Diego
92103 - San Diego
92104 - San Diego
92105 - San Diego
92106 - San Diego
92107 - San Diego
92108 - San Diego
92109 - San Diego
92110 - San Diego
92111 - San Diego
92113 - San Diego
92114 - San Diego
92115 - San Diego
92116 - San Diego
92117 - San Diego
92118 - Coronado
92119 - San Diego
92120 - San Diego
92121 - San Diego
92122 - San Diego
92123 - San Diego
92124 - San Diego
92126 - San Diego
92127 - San Diego
92128 - San Diego
92129 - San Diego
92130 - San Diego
92131 - San Diego
92132 - San Diego
92134 - San Diego
92136 - San Diego
92139 - San Diego
92140 - San Diego
92142 - San Diego
92143 - San Diego
92145 - San Diego
92147 - San Diego
92149 - San Diego
92150 - San Diego
92152 - San Diego
92154 - San Diego
92155 - San Diego
92158 - San Diego
92173 - San Ysidro
92178 - Coronado
92179 - San Diego
92182 - San Diego
92184 - San Diego
92186 - San Diego
92187 - San Diego
92190 - San Diego
92197 - San Diego
92199 - San Diego
January 14th, 2010
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Idea: Wooden Finger Ring Percussion Things
Maybe this already exists, but I just imagined hollow, elliptical spheres which fit on the inside of your finger like a ring, held by an elastic band like a ring. The band would fit snugly in the groove of your finger, just above the knuckle. The wooden spheres on the insides of the fingers produce sound when struck by each other or mallets.
The musician could produce sound by sliding his hands across each other, making a washboard type sound, or just by clapping. Someone creative could probably figure out several other ways to make sound. I think it’d be exceptionally nice if the hollow spheres were sized differently to produce different pitches. They could potentially have a xylophone-like effect and could be used with mallets this way.
I’m already wishing I had a set of Wooden Finger Ring Percussion Things (I’m working on the name).
December 27th, 2009
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Why Leapfish Will Not Succeed
Leapfish is a recently created alternative search engine designed to take the best of Google, Yahoo, and Bing (live), and combine them into one very simple search engine. The end result is surprisingly convenient and easy to use. Although it does seem like a winner at first glance, here are some reasons why I think the website will fall flat on it’s face.
- Advertising Strategy. To combat Google’s pay-per-click advertising, they have targeted small-mid sized businesses and sold them permanent placement for a high introductory rate plus a 5% annual fee. Because their ad strategy doesn’t weigh in the relevance of the landing page like Google’s does, and anyone can buy a top spot, when searching on leapfish a whole lot of users will find highly irrelevant or outdated websites. This will kill the leapfish user retention rate.
- Copyright Infringement. Their website takes Google, Yahoo, and Bing’s search results and displays them right on the leapfish homepage. Once the other sites catch wind of this I’m sure they will combat their approach with legal action. This is my own logic that has lead me to this assumption- I’m not a legal expert, but it just seems wrong to me that their content is 100% generated by other search engines.
- People like me who retort when struck by poor sales or customer service. Yes I had a bad experience with the salespeople who called me to offer their advertising services. They lead me in with a free link which turned out to be a lie, not a good way to earn my trust. They did a lot of talking about the achievements of their company without addressing my needs as an advertiser, or answering simple questions like, “Can you give me any information on how many searches you have a month for a particular keyword?” Or, “Do you have some kind of trial period to see if I would get any clicks with my ad?”
I think my typing is keeping my girlfriend up right now- she’s tossing and turning and making “I’m annoyed” sighs.
Time to go!
Sorry leapfish.com, maybe you will wow me in the future and I will regret not dropping $5,000 for one of your keywords.
December 26th, 2009
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Idea: Sell T-shirts
A friend and I recently came up with the idea to sell t-shirts based on gags from popular TV shows. This is not an original idea, but after hammering our brains against it for a while, we saw the real value in this project and realized why it is worth doing. Mainly, for the following reasons:
- These shirts would be very easy to market. Our first idea was based on a gag from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. To see how we might sell this shirt, we looked at how many fans of Always Sunny could be found on Facebook, and how many of them were males older than 21 (who we think would buy the shirt). There turned out to be about 300,000 people who matched this description and we could market to them for a meager $.70/click.
- This kind of business can take very little time to manage/operate. The whole operation is based on the fact that we could do the whole thing without ever touching a single shirt. By using other companies who specialize in printing custom shirts, we would eliminate our need to ship, store, or buy anything. Of course this reduces our margin on each shirt, but I’m looking for ways to automatically generate income, not another job.
- The content for new t-shirts is automatically generated by popular shows on television. Apparently, there’s no need to obtain permission for using the content from the TV shows as long as we don’t use any character likenesses, trademarks, or copyrighted material. No one can really sue us for making a T-Shirt with a can of wine on it, they don’t own the idea. This, again, is helpful because there’s not a required hours of slamming our heads against a desk until we come up with a great idea, we only have to watch TV and log particular moments which could be used for shirts, then test them against an internet audience.
- This idea is very testable. The fact that the entire marketing strategy is PPC based, we can repeatedly test a variety of material to see what people like/will buy without having to invest in any shirts beforehand.
- My girlfriend can make the designs in illustrator for me. I’m not an illustrator genius. I can get her help, fortunately. If she decided she wouldn’t want to I’d have to think of some other way to make the designs, or learn myself, a slight setback.
Why am I sharing this idea publicly instead of locking it away in a vault? The answer is because no one reads this blog, because this idea could be copied a thousand times and it could still make me money, and because if I don’t get around to doing this, maybe someone else can benefit from this good idea.
December 26th, 2009
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A Problem With Godaddy Email
I just recently synched my outlook calendar with my GoDaddy webmail- boy what a trouble saver that has turned out to be.
Setting the inconvenience of logging into a webmail server aside, I would like to address the most significant problem with Godaddy’s webmail: when you push the backspace key, the email you are viewing is sent to the trash.
This might not sound like such a significant problem to everyone, but as one who uses the backspace key frequently to back one page in my web browser, I end up losing a lot of emails to the trash folder.
Anyway, that’s the real problem with godaddy’s webmail.
December 12th, 2009
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Cute Bride and Groom
Here is a photo of Dana and Jessie, a great looking couple.
I wouldn’t say there is anything spectacular about the photo itself. It’s just a simple photo of to people happy to be getting married. I think they’ll like it. Make sure you go see the new blog post at The Sprouting Image Blog when it’s ready.
December 7th, 2009
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Wedding Long Exposure
Here’s another photo from Dana’s wedding.
December 6th, 2009
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