New Mac was nice, loved it for a month. Then it broke. New hard drive later and life was better for 12 hrs. Now it’s broke again. Monday I will drop it off to be looked at for a full diagnostic and repair. Let’s hope they can fix it, or better yet, give me a new one. I thought Macs were supposed to “just work”. Guess not. Should I move back to a PC, or maybe over to Linux? Who knows…I like the machine.

Hence this has set me back. Hard to get focused when you don’t know which machine your going to be using from day to day. You need to know your machine. You need to have a place to mark the wall, leave a sign that you were there. Without that, it’s hard to work. Rather, it’s hard to communicate. You need a home.

Life is all over, new phone, broken computer, visitors, stuff and travel.

I need stable, if just a for a little bit.

Then again, I do live in Spain.

Fountains in Barcelona from ryan opaz on Vimeo.

Up on Montjuic every night you can enjoy a display of fountains set to music. I saw it for the first time last night, and I have to say it’s amazing!

A visit from relatives was the impetus for our first visit to the famous Montjuic dancing fountains. Glad we did. Set to music these were beyond amazing. Not to mention a nice hypnotic device to let your mind clear and refresh. I changed the music due to bad audio on the video, but you still get the picture. Enjoy.

There’s a tool called Tiltshiftmaker online that let’s you fake Tilt-Shift photography. I would love to play with a real lens sometime but for now I’m happy to have the chance to fake it. I do want to know though the optic science behind why a simple blurring suddenly makes object appear to be toy like. Odd, and yet so magical. Oh and make sure to click on the photo to get the full effect.

La MoDa Mix Tapes.

I’m tired of LastFM, Blip, Pandora, Spotify and all the others…this site does what we used to do back in the day: Mix tapes for friends. The new sites, while fun, just don’t have that authentic mix tape feel with odd combinations being the best part of most! Generally funky, electronic with an eclectic vein that runs from here to there. Most of the mixes are downloadable, and the songs are great. Check it out…