I live in a country, ostensibly run by adults, where a major political party can't decide whether it's Mickey Mouse or Barbie that poses the greater threat.
Matt Blaze
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Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. https://twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at https://www.mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.
Underbelly of the Manhattan Bridge, 2023.
A dozen pixels for every story in the naked city at 
Note: Not a 16:9 horizontal image, so you may need to click the preview to see the whole thing.
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Manhattan Bridge
23 April 2023 Manhattan Bridge, looking south toward Brooklyn. Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 50mm/4.0 lens (@ f5.0). Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50). ...
Annual reminder: Mass emailing professors with an unsolicited copy of your CV, transcript, etc is not an effective (or polite) way to apply to graduate school. There's an application process for a reason, and you need to follow it to be considered.
If you have specific questions for a specific professor, by all means contact them, but the mass email we all get (peaking this time of year), mostly from abroad just wastes everyone's time and risks giving you a bad reputation.
Doing a bit of video editing (not normally my thing), and needed to look up how to do a thing. Then I discovered that the manual for DaVinci Resolve is over 4000 pages. At least there's a manual (it's actually really good).
Midtown, 2022
All the pixels at 
Note: Vertical image, so you may need to click on the preview to see the whole thing.
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Midtown
20 February 2022 New York City Rodenstock HR Digaron-W 50mm/4.0 (@ f/7.1) lens. Phase One IQ4 150 Achromatic Back (@ ISO 200). Phase One XT camera...
Amused and irritated that the pro video and audio production worlds both standardized on non-proprietary, interchangeable battery mounts and connectors for their gear. Except they're different standards.
It's like the audio people were worried that the video people would steal their batteries if they used the same kinds.
I use Flickr as my main online photo sharing service. It's not perfect and there are things I'd like to see improved, but it's been refreshingly stable over the last decade and a half despite several changing hands several times, sometimes to indifferent owners. It's fairly priced, allows reasonably large (200MB) images, supports downloads at different resolutions without degrading quality too much, and somehow keeps comment spam under control.
59th Street Bridge, NYC, 2019
Enough pixels to feel groovy about at 
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59th Street Bridge
28 July 2019. From 58th Street and Sutton Place Park, Manhattan. Officially the "Queensborough Bridge" and, more recently, the "Ed Koch Queensboro...