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Andy Novick

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Author: Andy Novick

  • So Cal – Landscape

    So Cal – Landscape

    Some of the best Southern California landscapes from 2015, including dawn on the San Diego waterfront and several from Joshua Tree National park.

    So Cal - Landscape
    So Cal – Landscape
    15 photos
  • LS Varsity Baseball

    LS Varsity Baseball

    Lincoln-Sudbury High School varsity baseball in the spring of 2015 was incredibly fun to shoot. This was a great season with lots of drama. This was the culmination of the high school career for most of these kids. These are kids that my son, Tom, had been playing with in Little League, travel ball, Babe Ruth, and summer leagues, so I knew them and their parents. I’d coached many of them at the lower levels.

    Most of these pictures were taken with my Sony RX10 II with it’s 24-200 zoom and high speed burst shooting. It’s the bursts that allowed me to include the ball in nearly every picture you see here. For every one you see it was surrounded with eight or more shots that didn’t show the action or the ball. That’s what I bought it for.

    LS Varsity Baseball
    LS Varsity Baseball
    44 photos
  • Northern California

    Northern California

    Autumn light in the woods and hills around Morgan Hill in Northern California, November 2014 on a visit to my brother, Doug.

    Northern Cali
    Northern Cali
    5 photos
  • Germany

    Germany

    Scenes from Germany in October 2014, including a sunset at Schobull on the North Sea coast.

    The Glücksburg Castle (Schloss Glücksburg) is located on the Flensburg Fjord approximately 10 km northeast of Flensburg, just off the Baltic in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It’s a renaissance era water castle built between 1582 and 1587, which served as the ancestral seat of the House of Glücksburg, a royal house that once reign in Denmark, Norway, Greece, and the UK.

    Germany
    Germany
    7 photos
  • New England Landscape

    New England Landscape

    An assortment of landscape photographs from 2014, including the horses on Monument Street in Concord, Massachusetts.

    Landscape
    Landscape
    9 photos
  • Italy

    Italy

    A two-week autumn journey through Italy in October 2013, from the streets and bridges of Rome and Florence to the rolling farmland and hill towns of Tuscany and Umbria.

    This was my first major trip as I began getting back into photography in 2013 after a long absence.

    Italy
    Italy
    22 photos
  • New England Landscape

    New England Landscape

    A collection of New England landscapes, including the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts.

    New England Landscape
    New England Landscape
    16 photos
  • New HP dv9000 laptop

    New HP dv9000 laptop

    This review is from 2007.  The laptop came with Windows Vista and it didn’t go well.  Vista didn’t work well enough to be usable and HP refused to provide a downgrade path to Windows 7, which was very stable.  I had to purchase another laptop to replace this one and stuck with Windows 7 until forced to adopt Windows 10 nearly ten years later.

    Here’s the original review from 2007 …

    I’ve purchased a new HP dv 9000 with Vista. My first impressions are pretty mixed. It’s pretty. Vista is pretty. The off center keyboard is a bit strange and I’m not use to it. The keys ar just not in the right positions.

    Vista is slow. I know there is more security but really. This computer has two processors, 4gb of ram. There’s no excuse. I’m running XP Pro in a VMWare virtual machine and it’s pretty snappy.

    My next gripe is the lack of supporty by VPN vendors for 64 bit Vista. What? This is a year old OS that was available to them starting 3 years ago. Shame on you Sonicwall.

    We’ll have to see if my opinion get’s any happier.

  • God’s Debris

    God’s Debris

    Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has made his book God’s Debris (2001) a free download. The price is right and the book is interesting. He calls it a thought experiment around the questions:

    • What if there was someone who knew everything?
    • What is God?
    • What should I be doing?

    There’s a few choice words about relationships and what each of the genders think about the other.

    The follow on “The Religion War” is still a paper book.

    2026 Update: Scott Adams passed away in January of 2026 at the age of 68.

     

    I think it cost me about $3 to print the PDF and I think it was well worth the money, effort, and the time spent reading it.

  • Fish Story of Plain Dumb Luck

    Fish Story of Plain Dumb Luck

    Six feet of sailfish

    30 minutes out of the dock the first strike came and one of the Scotts got the chance. 30 seconds later I got a chance. There was only one chair so the crew fitted me with a belt to use to anchor the rod as I pulled in this baby. Six feet of sailfish. I was pretty surprised and unprepared so we threw it back into the Caribbean. I’ll just have to go back again.