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This is my 4th encounter of the 100 strangers project. I spotted Rebecca in front of the library, sitting in the sun and reading a book. She waited for the opening times. I introduced myself, told her about the project and after a short time for consideration, she agreed to be photographed. I don't think she felt really comfortable in front of the camera. She seemed to be more shy than extrovert. I tried to smalltalk a bit about what I saw on my way to the library. It didn't really help and I only had the 35mm lens with me. Maybe that's a problem, too, because I have to stand quite close to the model. I'm not happy with her expression but I hope sepia suites it quite well. I thanked her, wished her a nice, sunny day and she was much more laid-back after the shooting. I still have a lot to learn.
Smalltalk. Der ehemalige Landtagsabgeordnete Heinz Jansen im Gespräch mit dem niedersächsischen Justizminister Bernd Busemann.
Smalltalk
08.05.19 / AXA-Arena, Winterthur
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"Mein inneres Gärtnern war herrlich diesen Winter. Das plötzlich wieder heile Bewußtsein meiner tief bestellten Erde ergab mir eine große Jahreszeit des Geistes und eine lange nicht mehr gekannte Stärke des Herzstrahles. Die mir über alles lieben (1912 in großer Einsamkeit begonnen und seit 1914 fast ganz unterbrochenen) Arbeiten konnten wieder aufgenommen -, konnten, unter unendlicher Fähigkeit, zu Ende gebracht werden.-..."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Rot der Rosen (EinJahreszeitenbuch)
Today I show my favorite of the Hellweg-Set. It shows ewers on the cemetary in Erwitte. This really depicts how life goes on, even after great mourning. A cemetary is often a meeting place for the bereaved to have smalltalk while maintaining the graves of the loved ones over years. I hope you like this picture, too...
Giesskannen
Mein Lieblingsbild der Hellweg-Tour zeige ich Euch heute, Giesskannen auf dem Friedhof in Erwitte...es zeigt, dass das Leben auch nach schwerer Trauer weitergeht, häufig ist der Friedhof ein Treffpunkt für kleine Schnacks der Hinterbliebenen, die
sich hier über Jahre bei der Grabpflege treffen. Ich hoffe, es gefällt Euch auch...
for http://dailyshoot.com/assignments/117
"Electronic gadgets pervade our world. You've probably got several. Make a photo of your favorite gadget today."
OK, bit of a stretch to call it my "favorite gadget", but I definitely had fun with this thing back in the late 90's. It's the first embedded "eval board" I used, and had Smalltalk and QNX running on it. This particular board came from a contact in RTP, and has a PowerPC 403 GCX chip on it. Originally, it had a 403 GA chip on it, which was a slower CPU, and also didn't support virtual memory. The attachment on the left was for a board of segment LEDs that the same engineer who gave me the board rigged up. At one point I had live scrolling stock prices going on it.
Lots of fun. And some pain too.
You may notice a PowerPC 403 GA chip in old Tivo boxes. I wonder if they're still using them. I understood immediately why Tivo was so slow when I realized that kind of CPU they were using, after opening a dead Tivo to retrieve the hard drivey innards.
This is me, comatose on the couch. Perhaps I'm coding in my sleep? Who knows? I don't remember.
Anyway, for much of the time when I'm awake, I work on the web. For me, programming started way back in 1980. When I was a lad at high school, there weren't any cheap computers. So my first opportunity came at University. I well remember being transfixed by Professor Jan Hext in my first Computer Science lecture at Sydney University. It was a simple program that he taught us; one that produced Fibonacci numbers in Pascal. Nevertheless, to me it was magical.
Years passed, I graduated, spent more than a decade programming on IBM mainframes and learnt all sorts of computer-related stuff. Then in the early nineties I bought a 2400 baud modem to explore Pegasus Networks. I well remember downloading Mosaic with Lynx. From about 1996 onwards I tinkered with HTML and dabbled with Perl scripts. Having explored OO programming in Smalltalk, in 1997 I started learning Java.
Since 2000 I have been earning a living by developing web applications with what Sun Microsystems now calls Java EE. I still don't mind Java but sometimes I think it's the wrong tool for the job.
I'm passionate about Ruby on Rails and have been involved in the Sydney Rails community since late 2006. My strengths are more on the back end of web applications but I'm striving to hone my CSS skills and to put what artistic skills I have towards improving the appearance of the sites I develop.
So there you have it. When I'm awake, I work on the web.
Small Talk
Register in person at the library. www.plano.gov/Departments/Libraries/Pages/SmallTalk.aspx
Smalltalk at Kampeloekken harbour, Bornholm, Denmark.
They are sitting on a harbour bench
Talking about yesterday.
Talking about the time which flies away
They're living in a long past time.
(Freely translated fra a danish song: "Havnebænken" / "The Harbour Bench")
De sidder på havnebænken,
og taler om gamle dage.
De taler om tiden, som flyver afsted.
De lever i tiden tilbage.
(Fra sangen "Havnebænken" sunget af gruppen Tørfisk"
Foto fra Kampeløkken ved Allinge-Sandvig på Bornholm.
Game Design Class Project, programmed in Squeak. (See CC license details on my profile page: www.flickr.com/people/pxfx/)
Smalltalk
08.05.19 / AXA-Arena, Winterthur
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Bild: Sportfotografie Markus Aeschimann | www.markus-aeschimann.ch