Random Ideas

Abusing out-of-focus as an effect on flowers. Hehehe.

Taken with a Nikon D90, 18-200 VR at 34mm, f/4.2, 1/40 sec shutter at ISO 200.

I realised early on it was extremely difficult to get a photo that would give me an accurate idea as to how a Cubesmith tile sticker's texture was like.

And so now I present to you – a crop from a high resolution photo which gives pretty good detail on what the texture is like on the tile. (Hint, look at the red tile.)

Click on the photo and get a much better look.

I know the photo isn't the best, but it's painfully difficult to capture the texture of the smooth tiles since they look a little bit like noise too.

My old cube began to fall apart, so I got a new improved one – the stickers eventually peeled off in less than 2 weeks, so I've replaced them with new Cubesmith tiles!

Cubesmith smooth tiles are awesome. Buy them if you need them.

I'm currently staying at someone else's place at the moment – which should be obvious since the table looks different.

A few weeks ago, I talked about optimizing coin pressure. Then, I didn't have any coins to photograph to illustrate how important it is to choose what coins to carry – now I can (and so here are the illustrations I didn't promise, but delivered anyway):

The optimized stack of coins - 8 coins - $4.95.

And the stack behind it? The remaining 25 coins that won't make my coin pressure any higher. Here's a photo if you feel like counting:

The remaining coins after optimization - preferably kept for feeding into machines.

(If I'm not mistaken, that's about AU$4.40 in change.)

So, optimize your change – your wallet will thank you for it by lasting longer.