Here are a few of my personal favorites from the shoot. (click on the photos to see a larger image)

to view the rest of the photos from this shoot, check out the Koom the Ripper set on Flickr

Now, I have to find out which plugins I need/don’t need anymore and replace any plugins I think are a necessity. One plugin that I heavily relied on (Crossroads flickr plugin) is completely incompatible with my new theme because it uses prototype and my theme relies on mootools. If you didn’t already know, they don’t get along very well. Since I can’t use the plugin anymore, I have to go back through all of the posts and pages that I have photos in and recode them. Not to mention the fact that I have to transfer all of the photos that I am using from flickr to my blog. I also have to create thumbnails of each photo.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the new theme and I also love the old plugin I was using…I just thought I would have more time before I had to start migrating the old posts to use the new plugins. I also don’t really mind having to go through all of my blog posts since it gives me a chance to review old posts and clean up tags and categories.

On the bright side, once that’s all done, I won’t be embarrassed to show anyone my blog anymore.

Slant rocks the house as usual but this time playing songs off their new album with some nice additions to their set. If you want to get the full scoop on how the show went and a review on the new Slant album, check out Keldine Hull’s article in Skope Magazine.

Here are a few of the photos from the show that night:

You can view the whole set of photos from this show.

Or check out photos from past Slant shows.

The specs of my previous super…computer may help put everything into perspective.

Skip straight to the photos of my rig

As for my latest custom built workstation, here are the details:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad E6600 2.4ghz (1066mhz FSB)
• Memory: OCZ 4gb 1066mhz RAM (4 x 1gb PC2-8500)
• Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS (PCI-E x16)
• Hard Drives:
  • RAID0: 2 x 250gb SATAII
  • RAID5: 4 x 250gb SATAII
• Motherboard: Abit IN9 32X MAX WIFI
  • 6 x SATA2 Internal
  • 2 x SATA2 External
  • 1 x IDE port
  • 3xPCI-E(x16)/2xPCI-E(x1)/2xPCI
  • Dual Gigabit LAN connectivity
  • 7.1 HD Audio
  • FireWire/USB 2.0
• CD/DVD Burner: (CD-RW, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW)
• Power Supply: Enermax 720watt
• Case: Antec P182SE
• Keyboard: Logitech G15
• Monitors: 2 x 19-inch LCD Screens

What would you title these photographs? If you have any suggestions, leave a comment. If I think it’s good, I will re-title the photo and include a link back to your blog. Don’t forget to mention which photograph you are referring to when leaving your suggestions.

Another photo from the middle lanes of the freeway. There are more light trails from the cars in this photo than the one in my moonlit freeway. The reason why I didn’t like this shot was because you can’t read the “Jamboree Rd. Next Exit” sign as well and the moon is blocked by the chain link fence.

I didn’t use Photoshop this time because i don’t like the way it strips all of the important EXIF data.

• The sun (behind me) was starting to get too bright which made it harder to get the light trails from the cars and caused me to stop down to f22 making the fence a little too detailed.
• I couldn’t stay in a single spot for too long; otherwise, the moon would end up being blocked out by the chain link fence.
• Every time I moved, I had to adjust the tripod to get the freeway sign to line up correctly.

moonlit freeway, originally uploaded by Jason Stone.

If anyone has any ideas on what I could have done differently to make this photo better, you are more than welcome to leave constructive criticism in the comments. Thanks!

Foothill ranch neighborhood threatened by Orange County fire, originally uploaded by computer-Eyes.

Orange County fire beginning to pose threat to the residents of Foothill Ranch neighborhood.

This was taken in October, a couple days after the Santiago Canyon (Orange County) fire was started.