Profound Randomness

David is an American expat living in Japan. He is a teacher, a computer scientist, a photographer, and a coffee drinker.

David is most active at his Japan photography blog, JapanDave.com, where he posts a new photo every single day licensed under the creative commons (i.e., free for cool people like you). Usually HDR, but sometimes not. Then there is Japan iPhoneography, which is just for iPhone shots. Finally, we have Down the Memory Hole which is David’s meta-blog, where he sends links and photos he likes, sometimes with comments and sometimes not. And, Let’s not forget Twitter and Flickr.

When the stars are aligned and all the RSS redirects are working, everything gets republished here along with random things that don’t fit in any of the above. But you are encouraged to visit everything anyways. Y’know, just in case.

Got all that?

To Summarize

• JapanDave.com — An HDR (usually) photo every day
• Japan iPhoneography — iPhone photos
• Down the Memory Hole — Links and pics, with or without my comment.
• Profound Randomness — EVERYTHING from the above, along with occasional extras, like tumblr reblogs. (hint: you are reading this one now)

Gear (For Those Geeky Enough to Care)

I have a 3 yr. old iMac, an 8-yr old Powerbook G4, & an iPhone 4.

The powerbook still works like a champ and, in many ways, I prefer it. But it does lack power and so isn’t good for much more than typing on. But it rocks at that.

I do my writing in Textmate, WriteRoom, or Ommwriter, depending on my mood¹, writing everything in markdown: more specifically, multimarkdown.

I keep all my photos in Aperture 3, stored as dng, and often edit in there as well. To convert multiple exposures to HDR, I usually use Photomatix. And of course Photoshop is always in the background in case I need that power. iPhone photos are almost always edited on the photo, using one of the too damn many photo editing apps I own.

I’m not much of a gamer², but I do spend an unhealthy amount of time reading pointless trivia³ on Wikipedia and browsing Rat Pack videos on YouTube⁴.

Anything else?