Jack’s Old & Busted Blog

Really cool presentation by the San Francisco Museum of Art. I’m lucky enough to work around actual Adams prints. Walking through the halls at HQ, I never get tired of looking at them.

Sam Adams has always been my airport beer-of-choice. Now I have a reason to buy it every day.

For a couple of months now, we’ve all been facing the unprecedented hops shortage and it’s affected all craft brewers in various ways. The impact is even worse on the small craft brewers–openings delayed, recipes changed, astronomical hops prices being paid and brewers who couldn’t make beer. So we looked at our own hops supplies at Boston Beer and decided we could share some of our hops with other craft brewers who are struggling to get hops this year. We’re offering 20,000 pounds at our cost to brewers who need them.

“This website is about one thing: Learning how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your photos to the next level.”

As a sometimes-food-photographer, I strangely understand this.

Professional photog and gadfly Ken Rockwell makes some valid points about camera resolution. I would also add that the way people view images has changed our expectations. Because people view most images on monitors or teevees, there’s no longer a context of what a good, film-based image is supposed to look like. Kinda like what MP3s have done to audio, digital has done to images. It’s “dumbed us down” in exchange for convenience and portability.

UPDATE: Radisson responds

Well, they offered me two $25 coupons and thanked me for “giving us the opportunity to restore your faith in our
brand,” but I can’t say I’ll ever use them again. If you’re delayed because of weather, a room is on your dime, so I chose Radisson because it had been “OK” the last time I was stuck in Denver and the airline picked up the tab.
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I realize there are bigger problems to solve in the world - hunger, disease, inequality, to name a few. But hey, we all have to deal with what’s in front of us, right? And it was hard to think of anything else last night but the coughing infant and his (her?) family waiting an hour-and-a-half for your (Radisson Denver SE) shuttle in subfreezing temperatures at DIA, or the guy with just a t-shirt and jeans, or the girl crying because she had to put her 90-year-old diabetic grandmother on the plane by herself because of airline screwups. You get the point.

We called your desk several times to inquire about a shuttle. Each time, a polite, but clearly delusional, lady informed us that “we have five shuttles and they run every 15 minutes.” That was funny for a while. It became even funnier when your driver picked up some crew members and then rudely waved off the lady running with the baby, even though the shuttle clearly had room. Your management staff, by the way, seemed unconcerned, although I did notice the next morning they made a big show of making sure all seats were filled, after the crew members were on board, of course.

I would ask for some compensation for my difficulties, but seeing as how I won’t be using your services ever again, it really doesn’t matter. I do feel bad for the baby, though. They seemed too nice to complain.

I’m glad I’m not the only one to wonder how Razorback games at Bud Walton Arena have become so boring. I’m not talking about the players, although one could certainly make that case during the Stan Heath era. What I’m talking about is the atmosphere. I agree with the writer here that the problem is with the athletic administration, which has been too much concerned with marketing and not enough with the fan experience. With all the major changes afoot, maybe we can expect some improvements here, too. Yeah, I remember “Uncle Heavy’s Hog Hat” and Jim Robken, too. The “new” hog hats, like the band, are uninspired.