My MacBook Air suddenly died after 3 days of inactivity. The reasons was probably an unattended maintenance job that filled up the 80 GB HD. At least the system became unresponsive while transfering some pictures from a camera to a picture harddisk. And after a hard reset, it let not boot me anymore. This is when the nightmare started…

An already ordered 128 GB SSD did not fit the special requirements of the 1st generation MBA (that need an 1.8” ZIF 4 PATA drive with <5mm height). There seems to be only one product on market by Photofast. Unfortunately a 128 GB HD was not available for the next 4 weeks, while the 256 GB comes at an excessive price tag (Show me more…)

Mozart over Beethoven.
Wide over narrow.
Intelligence over beauty.
Grace over judgement.
Rough over smooth.
Night over day.
Water over wine.
Paper over screen.
Pictures over Words.
Heat over cold.
Belief over belief.
Mountains over beach.
Stars over sun.
Jesus over religion.
Silence over noise.
Straight over bow.
Love over everything.

(inspired by Pearl)

I have long been thinking what attracts me so much to make photos (and have only rudimentary thoughts why doing research on lung disease). But finally I found a quote by Cartier-Bresson, the famous French photographer

“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”

Life starts with the first breath you take, and life ends with the last breath (or at least a few minutes after that). So, while this is all lyrics, I always recommend to exhale during shooting pictures as they will be sharper than shooting by holding the breath, yea, yea.

There seems to be more evidence for the fake food hypothesis that I raised here some years ago. It says in brief that our

food recognition process is largely fooled by pre-processed food that contains additives changing appearance, taste and smelling.

while an empirical proof is still missing. But wait there is a new study about functional ankyrin-B mutations(which are believed to be a food sensing molecule although such a link is not so strong. Anykyrin-B made by the ANK2 gene is described by Vann Bennett in Science Signalling 3/113 to be associated with type II diabetes. What’s about obesity?