fliptophead?com http://www.fliptophead.com fliptophead?com Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:34:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 What happened to fliptophead.com ??? http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2010/06/hello-world.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2010/06/hello-world.html#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:41:17 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=1 Continue reading →]]> Hey everyone,

I’ve recently moved to a new server and have decided not to again install Movable Type, the blog software that ran fliptophead?com for so many years.  MT was super frustrating to use (especially when upgrading to the newest version/s) and WordPress is waaaay better anyway (and waaay easy to install and forget about).  Plus, I haven’t really written anything on FTH in months so I haven’t been in a huge rush to do anything at all.

I’ve put the older posts back up but haven’t fixed my image problems with it yet.  Hopefully I’ll make that happen and this line will be deleted from this post.

If you’re looking for my latest work please check out www.jiifii.com.  It’s my daily photoblog where I choose one photo that I take each day to share with the world.  I hope you like it.

Thanks!

Jim

]]> http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2010/06/hello-world.html/feed 0 I love my friends! http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2010/01/i-love-my-friends.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2010/01/i-love-my-friends.html#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:14:12 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=629
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I love my friends! It’s great that so many of us so regularly get together.

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]]> http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2010/01/jiifii-com.html/feed 0 Thanksgiving Dinner http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/thanksgiving-dinner.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/thanksgiving-dinner.html#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:59:38 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=627 I just had Thanksgiving dinner with 30 people three days early. I love my home!

]]> http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/thanksgiving-dinner.html/feed 0 Mexican Flu http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/mexican-flu.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/mexican-flu.html#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:05:16 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=626 Continue reading →]]>
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I saw this today on some random European website and “wow! how racist! But then I searched for “Mexican Flu” and found that it had been somehow “renamed” by a radical group wanting to “save California” from the infected Mexicans. Appropriately, their website is called “SaveCalifornia.com“.
SaveCalifornia.com redirects immediately to SaveAmerica.com, where the claim to be “your pro-family organization dedicated to defending and representing the values of parents, grandparents, and concerned citizens who believe in family, faith, and freedom.”
This is the kind of sentiment that a lot of countries make fun of the USA for, and with good reason. They somehow see some politicians, etc, supposedly standing up for ideas like this along with the agendas of big corporations and those with high-powered special interests at the same time when a significant number of American people often miss it or don’t hear about it because of the agendas of the big corporations and those with high-powered special interests behind the news agencies that don’t tell them about it.
Right or wrong is definitely not my point. I just think it’s interesting that the non-American term for H1N1 flu is sometimes Mexican Flu. I wonder what other special interest groups were making that change happen?

]]> http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/mexican-flu.html/feed 0 boo http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/boo.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/boo.html#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:54:00 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=625 Continue reading →]]> And the bad timing award goes to…. me!
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Last week I thought that I was too broke to afford a plane ticket back to see family in Texas. This week I thought “eh, who cares” and decided to spend too much money on it anyway. But since then the ticket price has almost doubled. Boo.
I’ve already bought an incredibly expensive ticket to spend Christmas in Alaska with my girlfriend (who seems significantly less enthusiastic about me deciding to go than I was planned on) so it makes it especially hard to justify spending more than $1,000 that I don’t really have on plane tickets in less than 30 days and I’m still pretty bummed about it.
Being poor sucks.

]]> http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/11/boo.html/feed 1 Panama http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/08/panama.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/08/panama.html#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:38:47 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=623 In case you aren’t following my Flickr photostream, here are my latest pics from Panama. Click on them to see them in a larger format. Enjoy!

]]> http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/08/panama.html/feed 0 Monkeys! http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/07/monkeys.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/07/monkeys.html#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:26:30 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=622 Continue reading →]]> These howler monkeys are in our backyard every day. They swing from tree to tree in search of food (they apparently eat leaves as seen in these pics) and, as I hear, travel through precisely the same route each time (which is how I knew where to get pics of them jumping). Enjoy!

howler monkeys in our backyard

]]> http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/07/monkeys.html/feed 1 Which do you like better? http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/07/which-do-you-like-better.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/07/which-do-you-like-better.html#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:14:38 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=621 Continue reading →]]> There are two sets below: the building and palm tree. They are each processed in a different way. Do you like 1 or 2 better? A or B better?
(Clicking on them will bring out a bigger pop-up image)
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1 el gaucho 2 - sm.jpg
2

samara beach palm 1 - sm.jpg
A samara beach palm 2 - sm.jpg
B

]]> http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/07/which-do-you-like-better.html/feed 2 My most recent pictures of Costa Rica http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/07/my-most-recent-pictures-of-costa-rica.html http://www.fliptophead.com/archives/2009/07/my-most-recent-pictures-of-costa-rica.html#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:27:26 +0000 Jim http://www.fliptophead.com/?p=620 Continue reading →]]> I’ve recently learned how to both photograph and process something called High dynamic range (or HDR) images and am LOVING it! It’s so much fun to turn what would normally be a pretty cool photo into something truly fantastic. I am really amazed at how much of a difference exists between my Nikon D50 DSLR and the Canon point n’ shoots that I’ve been lugging around all these years. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to shoot in anything other than RAW again :)
Below are the ones that I’ve processed through PhotoMatix already. It’s incredibly fun to do this so I’m sure more are coming soon. For now, I hope you enjoy the shots below.

Costa Rica HDRs

More coming soon, I promise. This is so much fun!!
Greets from Costa Rica!

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