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SFO boarding passes go paperless - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
@mchammer you gotta get this kid on dancejam - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (he's @ the apple store, classic..)
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4 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a 50mm Lens » Photography Bay | Digital Camera Reviews, News and Resources - http://www.photographybay.com/2009...
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"When we buy our DSLRs, chances are that we mostly shoot and grow with using just the kit lens provided for us by the manufacturerers. What some of us DSLR users don’t realize until we’ve grown enough is just how wondrous and useful a good 50mm lens with a wide aperture is"
- Mel Buckpitt
from Bookmarklet
Johnny: You make a good point. The main advantages of a 50mm is its almost the FOV as the human eye on a full frame camera. The 35mm FOV is closer to the human eye on a cropped sensor camera.
- Mel Buckpitt
Yep!!!
- Mel Buckpitt
I think so, the 50mm lens tends to suffer less from distortion than the wider angle lenses. They are great fast lenses and also cheap, although the Nikon pictured in the article is not. I use both but keep the 50mm on the camera because I feel comfortable with it. I shoot with a D300
- Mel Buckpitt
The 50mm on a DX is amazing for portraits.
- Johnny Chadda
Johnny, I don't have a full-frame camera and I still adore my 50mm.
- joey
What does the wide aperture part mean again? Educating myself on FF.
- SteVe C
Actually the bigger the number the greater the depth of field, the smaller the number the more light gets in. Also the shorter the lens the greater the depth of field at the same F Stop.
- Jeffrey Stephen
Cecily: I agree but get too close with 35mm and most will distort, particularly faces. Everything is a compromise I guess
- Mel Buckpitt
The only problem with a 50mm lens (a regular one that is) is it really isn't a true 50mm lens on a digital camera. I would go a little bit wider if possible. I did buy a 50mm myself, but would like something closer to human vision, as it were. However, I love the clarity that comes with fewer pieces of glass in the lens, so I still would recommend it. Not to mention, considering how much lenses cost, a 50mm is one of the very cheapest that you can buy, they easily pay for themselves in the end...
- Danielle Closs
4 Steps to Creating a Compost - http://www.drweil.com/drw...
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Praveen Vasudev to Praveen's feed, Creative Design, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, The Goodie Room, Technology at Play
25 Elegant Workstations for Your Inspiration - http://sixrevisions.com/design-...
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Whether you work on a Mac, a PC, or both - the way your workstation is set up reveals a lot about your sense of style and work attitude. Have a comfortable place where you can do your work can lead to increased creativity and productivity.
- Praveen Vasudev
from Bookmarklet
They actually just make me realize what a slob I am, seriously my place is a BARN! & I won't let the cleaning lady in cuz she messes up my system
- The Real sofarsoShawn
LOL :D
- Praveen Vasudev
Post a link or upload a snap of your workstation, if you got one =)
- Praveen Vasudev
Yeahhhhhh fffffing right...lol maybe
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I'll have number 20, please!
- Tim Tyler
Workstation's one thing, but you also need to think about good chairs. Really good chairs.
- Sung W. Lim
Me just got a crappy PC. Got to buy myself Apple products!! Don't know when :D
- Praveen Vasudev
The BEST wedding invitation ever made: http://metalmother.com/index... (congrats, strangers)
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Tip: On Mac OS X you can go to http://127.0.0.1:631 and get a web-based interface to your printers (thx @simonw)
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Wolfram Alpha Screencast. - http://www.wolframalpha.com/screenc...
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My Photography Workflow 2009 - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Thanks for sharing!
- Scott Loftesness
Awesome, thank you Thomas!
- Holger Eilhard
Interesting differences on how I use to do it. I usually copy the photos of the CF card to my desktop, geotag them (either automatically using an Amod GPS logger and GPSPhotoLinker or - just like you - manually with Geotagger - thanks to @craigstanton for that btw) then import them using Lightroom and apply some keywords during that step. From there it's pick, edit, output, upload.
- Holger Eilhard
Nice thank you for sharing, cool read.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about Pro Photo Tools - I'll have to look into it.
- John (bird whisperer)
Holger, I don't geotag first because 85% of my photos or so I never finish or publish. It would be too much unnecessary work to geotag everything for me. I suppose if the entire shoot was at one location this might be preferable, but frequently I'm walking around a lot and don't want to do any more keywording and geotagging than I have to.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, have you ever considered getting a logger that you carry around to ease that process? Or using the - well, pretty expensive - automatic Canon solution in form of that WFT battery grip?
- Holger Eilhard
Holger, I have thought about that and will probably end up doing that in the end. I'm not crazy about having to use the battery grip with my 5D M2, which is already very heavy and bulky and I'm also not crazy about having to synch up software and my images later with an external unit. Most likely though I'd expect to begin using the Canon solution (probably within the next year) on walks where I'm moving around alot and not using it for single location shoots which are easier to mass geotag.
- Thomas Hawk
I know there are GPS units for Nikons that sit on the flash shoe and are pretty low profile. That might work better than a battery grip. Excellent post, by the way.
- Ken Davidson
I hope Canon will release a cheaper solution to solve that problem. Getting an 700 Euro BG + 100 Euro GPS receiver isn't really the way I like... The Nikon thing is just ~200 Euro and gets the job done.
- Holger Eilhard
Ken, for Canon there's only the battery grip (wireless file transmitter, not the regular BG) which allows you to plug in a GPS receiver...
- Holger Eilhard
Thanks for sharing this. Was wondering why you don't keyword before you export the .jpgs. Also, since you don't mention DNG, I'm assuming you don't use it. Was wondering what your thoughts were on DNG.
- Andy Roth
Andy, I suppose I could keyword before I export. I'm not sure what I really gain from that though. I suppose I like keywording later because I can get my developing done faster on individual images and export them out --that way I can begin seeing processed photos on my screensaver faster. This way if there blemishes I can still fix them.
- Thomas Hawk
The advantage is, if you keyword before you export, both the RAW files and the .jpgs will contain the keywords.
- Andy Roth
As far as DNG, I've never felt like I get much from that over RAW. As the photos are already RAW it seems unnecessary to do an additional conversion to DNG when I don't really understand the value of that format other than it is a more open format than Canon's proprietary RAW format. Personally I think that I'll always have a way to access those Canon files or at least have access to a...
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- Thomas Hawk
In terms of keywording RAW files, I guess I haven't really seen the value there when the exact same image is keyworded in JPG. It's pretty simple for me to search for a JPG file either on my hard drive or on Flickr/Zooomr and simply refer to the date in the metadata if I need to find the original RAW file, but I suppose whether you keyword before export or after export really is simply a matter of personal preference.
- Thomas Hawk
Interesting that you use the Canon Camera Window for downloading. You may be the first pro I've run into who depends on it, but it makes sense.
- Nick Savides
Nick, it's just super easy and reliable and gets the job done. There may in fact be better ways of doing it but it's probably one of those things that because it's not broke, why fix it. If I saw tangible evidence towards a better way to offload photos I'd certainly consider it. For a while I was annoyed that Camera Window would auto start Canon's processing software after it finished transferring the files, but then I just deleted that software and it stopped autoloading.
- Thomas Hawk
the other thing about Camera Window is that it's lighter than Lightroom and takes less memory/resources. So if I'm out on a shoot and take a coffee break for a few minutes to offload files I don't need to boot up Lightroom necessarily. Normally under that scenario I just want to get the images off my card as quick and fast as possible. It does mean that later I need to synch the folders with Lightroom but that's not really a big deal for me.
- Thomas Hawk
I liked your thoughts on using A and B folders to order your uploads. I've been doing that for a while, but in general I got tired of the manual upload process. I figured time could be saved by automating this, so I wrote a script that runs each day and chooses random A and B pictures to upload via the Flickr API. Once they're up. they are removed from the A and B folders. I never miss a day uploading, and it keeps me motivated to replenish those upload queues.
- Tom Harrison
Great TH! More stuff for me to change. In the process I realized how out of date my workflow posts are. Time to update them methinks! http://www.phillprice.com/index...
- Phill Price
Tom that sounds like an excellent way to automate thing and establishes your geek cred at a much higher level than mine. ;) I'd have no idea how to do a script for that. I actually like the manual process though as I can determine the exact order that they are to be uploaded in while looking at them.
- Thomas Hawk
Haha, yeah Computer Science nerd here. I might publish the script at some point.
- Tom Harrison
10 TB of photos is a _LOT_. I hope to one day get there but I my D40 doesn't make big enough RAW files. :) How do you search across all those images? Is there software reliable and powerful enough to not choke on that much data? I wish I could buy some sort of white label Flickr for this purpose.
- EricaJoy
(I just use pixelpipe to upload from LR or if a delayed post I send a delayed email (through pixelpipe) - it posts to phillprice.com automatically (through my own WP plugin) when there's a new photos with the same title in all four places (smugmug, ipernity, zooomr, flickr) then th fave and comment grabbing comes in too; bliss!
- Phill Price
Nice write up TH and well explained. Your process is almost identical to my current process except for a few minor things such as your geo tagging processes.
- Justin Korn
Thomas - thanks for sharing; both your workflow and your photos. We mere photographic mortals can only aspire to your throughput, but sharing elements of the workflow lets us feel just a bit closer to the bar you're setting.
- Rob Kramer
As a side note - fiddling w/ LR means it now rather handily imports photos off the memory card, and drops into folders organised and named by date, which works great for organising. Also, Jeffrey Friedl's got a great series of plugins that export to Flickr (and Facebook, among others) with the bonus that a metadata field for 'uploaded to' either service is marked yes or no - another option for keeping track of what's been published.
- Rob Kramer
Yes thanks for sharing. This technical stuff is always very intriguing. Here's an interesting question - how much awareness do you have of what's in your photo library and where it is? I'm thinking about my own library of about 13,000 images of which 4,300 have been processed and I can still usually see a photo and know when and where it was taken. I'm wondering at what point that starts to become more difficult. Or does one never lose track much?
- Tom Harrison
I don't know how he did it, but it's amazing
- Ikaro
...great share @THawk!
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You shoot so many photos I'm surprised you're manually geo-tagging photos the way you are. I would recommend a more automated method. I run a little app on my iPhone 3G called Trails which records my movements as I do a photowalk. It records a number of way points along the way and in the end you end up with a GPX file. Jeff Friedl has a cool little plugin for Lightroom...
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- Kenny Louie
Simple, yet effective. Inspiring for me to get up to speed
- Bruno Raymond
Thanks for doing this Thomas. Always useful to share and understand workflows regardless of the topic.
- Mark Krynsky
Thank you for sharing. How do you carry your stuff all day? Backpack? Bags? I know that having the camera with you full time it's the rule no. 1 but I believe it must be really tiring. When I go shooting I always try to limit as much as possible the extra lenses I take with me, just to be more free and comfortable.
- ialla
Interesting article about your workflow. About DNG there is one huge advantage in my opinion. You keep all your metadata in one single file and get rid of the sidecars. The main disadvantage is the time it takes to convert the RAW-files to DNG. Otherwise I work very much like you except that I use Lightroom for import and HoudahGeo for geotagging.
- Håkan Dahlström
Thanks for sharing this Thomas, I am actually thinking of implementing part of your workflow in mine. I think I have really come to a point now wehere I have to start thinking about my own personal workflow very seriously. One question: Do you delete all unflagged photos afetr your LR Session?
- Alexander Kesselaar
thawk, great post. and some great comments. 1) you should consider releasing your lightroom development presets (like Matt does http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/archive... ) 2) in order to get the flickr pics onto my blog (using BlogEngine.net), i wrote a little extension that grabs the latest, formats them in a "lightbox". AutoFlickr. that saves me lots of copy&pasting. http://autoflickr.codeplex.com/ demo--> http://webguide.hopto.org/autofli...
- big luzer
ialia, I use a Lowepro camera backpack (the CompuDayPak) that goes with me everywhere every day. Erica, I often will use Flickr or Zooomr to search for photos by tags and then look at the date of the image and go to that folder when need be. Sometimes I'll use desktop search if I can't find an image, but it seems to be slower.
- Thomas Hawk
As for geotagging: Wouldn't it be nice if I could correlate my 'date + time taken' data in my picture with my iPhone GPS information? How close would you have to synchronize the clocks to get a reasonably accurate stamp...?
- Charlie Owen
Crap. Kenny Louie said above you can already do this. Amazing.
- Charlie Owen
Thomas, great, same backpack as I have. Still weighs I lot though...
- ialla
And behind the scenes...All this takes a very very long time so it is peppered with brief gasps for air, hugs & kisses for his wife whenever he comes w/in 3 ft, playing hoops with the 2 boys, reading to all 4 children, providing guidance on homework & conflict resolution, pouring his wife a glass of wine nightly followed by a foot rub & netflix to coax her to sleep so he can continue...
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- Mrsth
@Mrsth: I can totally imagine that whole scene in my head. Incredible. :)
- Bryan Villarin
Thomas, I would love to know your secrets on time management...I honestly don't see how you can do it all and still have a full time job to boot! Whew! @Mrsth I am impressed!
- Susan Dennis
RT @mrskutcher 90 people get swine flu & everybody wants 2wear surgical masks. 1 mill people have AIDS & nobody wants 2wear a condom
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She was retweeting http://twitter.com/jordanm...
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
33 million people have AIDS. http://www.avert.org/worldst... with 25 million dead so far. At least.
- Indio Apache
from twhirl
Hit the nail right on the head!!!
- Jose Luis Santos
Are you ready for some totally insane bike tricks set to Band of Horses? My fave is the tree flip! WTF! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Really, it's OK... - http://img253.imageshack.us/img253...
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Gizmodo - Canon EOS Rebel T1i First Hands On: 50D's Sensor, 1080p Vids, $899 (!!) <--- my next camera! woo hooo! - http://i.gizmodo.com/5182772...
Karthick R, JMaultasch, Karthik and 38 other people liked this
This will be my next camera - awesome line up of features - great price point! Woo hoo!
- Susan Beebe
from Bookmarklet
Sweet we have a EOS digital Rebel, but the new ones have that awesome 50D sensor. I can haz one?
- Allen Harkleroad
Exactly - that 50D sensor is hawt! I can't justify $2700 for a 50D (edit: 5D Mk II actually), but I can go for this T1i model @ $899 easily!
- Susan Beebe
If anyone gets a hold of this camera - please post your review HERE ...thanks!
- Susan Beebe
Maybe she's thinking of the 5D Mk II?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'd be interested in FF review as well. I'm not doing so well at saving up for 5D.
- JCunwired
If this had the same sensor as the 5DII I'd be all over it too. =)
- ronin
Alex - yep, I was lusting after the expensive one - 5D Mark II camera
- Susan Beebe
Maybe it's getting time to sell my current Rebel
- Jesse Stay
The T1i looks like a great camera for the price point. Tempted
- Rick Bucich
I'm waiting for the 60D
- Nick Humphries
@jay - this one incorporates HD video and will likely sell for less than MSRP so the differential will probably be more than $200.
- Rick Bucich
Jay - hmmm you do have a good point. Now I gotta go compare them both! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Hmmmmm. Maybe this will encourage Nikon to cut the price of the D90.
- The original Kevin
Looks good.
- Derrick
Advantageous mp3 simplifies Amazon comparison shopping - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
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The genius behind Google’s web browser - FT.com - http://www.ft.com/cms...
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"“Virtual machines are a strange beast,” says Bak. “There’s no perfect solution, instead you optimise for the ‘sweet spot’. There’s a lot of craftsmanship. It’s a long game, you can’t burn out. “There’s a constant workload,” he adds, “so I always stop for dinner. You can have a normal life.” For Bak this means family and privacy. The issue of work/life balance crops up again and again in conversation – and though he’s not anti-American, he clearly prefers the Danish way of life. “In the US, there is an aggressiveness, the extra level of belief in yourself that is needed. The European way is less aggressive. But in the US, you can get promoted and stay in touch with the technical side. In Europe, you turn into a paper manager. It’s hard to get your fingers dirty.” By working in Denmark for Google, Bak was aiming for the best of both worlds."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Funny -- I just met Lars this last Monday.
- Joe Beda
Strange article, but it does paint a very inspiring image of Lars and Kasper working from the farmhouse. Lars is one of the most intimidating guys I've met at Google. It's not that he is unkind or overly forceful; he just knows his stuff to a point where you start to doubt yourself. :-)
- Kelly Norton
It's a loss that he no longer works on HotSpot :) I think the Dalvik team could really use his expertise that he applied on Sun's Project Monty.
- Ray Cromwell
Indeed, Dalvik VM could use his skills.
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
hey how are u where do u work at
- chandler
Is that a Mac he's using?
- Steve Wright
Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA - http://torrentfreak.com/raiohea...
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Love it.
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Who is the kid?
- Brian Sullivan
I think he's the communication director's son. I forget the name..
- The Fat Oracle
Brian -- one lucky little boy who got a fist bump from the President-Elect ;)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
(see: different kinds of politician strategies)
- Erhan Erdoğan
Ozer: +100000000000000000000000
- Erhan Erdoğan
-who is the kid? -love :) fantastic :))
- saditekin
cute little boy and a charismatic president :) loved it...what i liked most about Obama is that he always shows whatever he feels... liked his dancing style too :)
- webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)
"US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama shares a fist bump with Ethan Gibbs, the five year-old son of campaign communication director Robert Gibbs, upon disembarking from his campaign plane at Dulles airport in Chantilly, Virgina" http://www.boston.com/bigpict...
- The Fat Oracle
Burcu: 3-4 months later, we will see who real Obama is.. I wish he is really peaceful!
- Erhan Erdoğan
@erhan i guess you are talking about his politic views about Turkey :) i know. we are gonna see. But this doesn' t change he really succeed his work. btw: i dont think McCain was different about our country :)
- webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)
Burcu: No I don't care about any country - this is about world and Obama is world's/earth's president.
- Erhan Erdoğan
@genieyclo we are not talking about war. But some of his politics like Armenien genocide can make our sensitive politic view affect.
- webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)
@erhan :)) nothing more to tell you :)
- webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)
...and also I really want to vote for USA elections for this!
- Erhan Erdoğan
+1 Bill
- Roberto Bonini
nice
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Today May be a Historic Moment in U.S History... [PIC] - http://www.patrickmoberg.com/novembe...
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Haha,, That is cool...
- EminiAddict
CNN hologram was nuts: http://digg.com/politic...
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Family Guy Sums Up Iraq War In 30 Seconds - http://www.hulu.com/watch...
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Sounds great but US only :(
- Martin Lee
from Alert Thingy
Announcing Applications on LinkedIn - http://blog.linkedin.com/blog...
Sarah Perez, Mark Stevens, Atul Arora and 5 other people liked this
ugh everyones a platform now, oh well cheers.
- adolfo foronda
I disagree. The "Blog Link" app in LinkedIn automatically shows your latest blog posts from the blogs you add in your profile. It's cool.
- Will Higgins™
The "Blog Link" app is ghetto -- text is all cut off, and about 10 pages of white space following the blog posts ... to be expected from opensocial apps
- CG
Useless
- Nick Humphries
this is a really big change for LinkedIn...wow, very cool release!
- Susan Beebe
GOOD Infographic on the History of the US Economy - http://laughingsquid.com/good-in...
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The iPhone apps every designer needs - http://creativebits.org/toolbox...
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How We Value the Super-Rich - Wall Street vs. Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
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"Americans, as unfolding economic events remind us, are of two minds about other people’s piles of money. We can resent the enormous riches generated on Wall Street. At the same time, we can venerate other kinds of wealth — Silicon Valley’s, for example".
- Nick Mutton
from Bookmarklet
Just a shot in the dark, but it's probably the perception that Silicon Valley does more to benefit the average person than Wall Street does. I know that that's not necessarily true.
- Victor Ganata
Stop daydreaming. If you don't defend with all your being all forms of wealth against the gimees, they will come for you too. I said this before, but frankly Scoble, your credibility ends when you deviate from the libertarian pro-future doctrine. You aren't that big a deal. WIRED keeps the faith. Learn it or else.
- Morgan Warstler
Interesting. I respect the successful but only value smart minds and good hearts. Money has nothing to do with it :)
- Patricia
Maybe the divergence in opinion has something to do with the fact that Silicon Valley didn't just cause a massive economic crisis through greed and excessive risk-taking.
- Alexander Carlill
Maybe the root of this dichotomy is even more basic. In general, society is often threatened by things which it does not understand. I don't see how anyone could argue conclusively that Wall Street rich are any worse (or better) than silicon valley rich... Maybe it's simply the fact that Average Joe can understand (and admire) the relationship between silicon valley innovation and wealth but is clueless about (and threatened by) investment banking i.e. Steve Jobs + iPod = $$$, whereas Tycoon + CFDs = ???.
- Nick Mutton
Sure. I also think the average Joe, given current circumstances, is partly right to feel threatened by investment bankers..
- Alexander Carlill
Re: Silicon Valley causing a massive economic crisis through greed and excessive risk-taking. To be fair, that was the late 1990's/early 2000's. OTOH it couldn't've happened without Wall Street's cooperation.
- Victor Ganata
@techcrunch has released all the videos from TechCrunch in full on bittorrent -- very, very cool. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Will Credit Crunch Hit Silicon Valley? - http://gigaom.com/2008...
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Stanford Engineering Launches Free Computer Science Classes - http://see.stanford.edu/
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Google Groups: CS106A: http://groups.google.com/group..., CS106B: http://groups.google.com/group..., CS107: http://groups.google.com/group....
- JR
Minimalist Fitness II: Yardwork Workouts, Prisoner Workout - http://zenhabits.net/2008...
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