Shawn's Blog

Remember - you don't necessarily have to *be* in a particular place at a particular time - all you have to do is have your camera with you at that time. If you happen to be at your office, click away. At home? Take shots of your kids. On the bus? Take pics of the city streets.

Click here to read more "Monthly TimeShoot - May 9th @ 12pm ET!"

We went skiing again this past weekend - first to Butternut in CT then up to Mt Snow in VT. Lesa is getting better and better. She even tackled a "Black Diamond" run for the very first time!

For the record, we used the Olympus 790SW to shoot the movies and then edited them in iMovie HD.

Click the pic to watch the video.

I've been involved in the Macintosh Community for 13+ years and I have *never* seen anything as blatantly stupid and sleazy as the stunt Sam Downie pulled off this past week.

Who would have thought that a small town girl from Texas would turn into a shredding little Ski Bunny!? But that's exactly what Lesa has done. She's taken to skiing like a duck to water and, after only a few trips down the mountain, is actually pretty damn good! Click the image below to watch the video:

Thanks to the Suffolk County Long Island Photographers Meetup Group, Lesa and I went out to the Fire Island Lighthouse on Long Island for a photoshoot on Saturday and I brought the D300 I had on loan from Nikon!

Click here to read more "Fire Island Lighthouse and the Nikon D300"

I don't know who sent it but thank you!

Tis the season and once again, the Your Mac Life crew has been "elf'ed". Click on the graphic to see us shake our bells off!

Click here to read more "Got Elf?"

Thanks to Jo Ann in KC, Lesa and Shawn have been Elfed!

Click here to read more "Go Elf Yourself!"

It's December and that means it's time for the Holiday Season - or, more accurately, *shopping* for the Holiday Season.

In the Sprit of Christmas (or Capitalism), we want to know about your Holidays - did (or do) you have any particular Holiday Traditions? A certain kind of food you ate or eat? How about Your Christmas Tree - when did you put it up/take it down? Lights? Wreaths?

What was the best/worse present you ever got/gave? What do you most love/hate about the Holidays? What do you plan on giving this year to that Special Someone? What would you most like to receive?

All this month, we'll be taking your thoughts on the Holidays. Send us email to onair at yourmaclifeshow.com with "Christmas" as the Subject Line and we'll read your emails on the air each Wednesday evening.

Happy Holidays!

Momma Snider is in town for Thanksgiving so we got her playing the Wii (Lesa even made her her own "Mii"). After kicking our butts in bowling, Momma took up Table Tennis!

But stay out of Lesa's way - she'll smack you on her backhand!

Click here to read more "We got a Wii!"

"One of my most revealing interviews yet."

(Shawn's Comment: I’ve interviewed Scott several times and all I try to do is not ask the same questions everyone else has asked. )

Click here to read more "The 7-point-system on “Your Mac Life"

Once this was posted, they cut their own throat. :)

New bikes require a "break in" period. And what better way than to ride around New York State and New England, finding twisty roads and taking pictures?

Click here to see more "Sunday Ride on the New Bike" pics

It's always one big adventure around Lesa and Saturday was no exception. She took possession of her "dream bike" - a brand new BMW F800ST:

To say she was happy doesn't begin to describe it!

Let's go riding!

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Shawn was bored yesterday so he followed Lesa to the Hair Salon...

It was an enlightening experience, to say the least. Wil has a beautiful location...

And Lesa worked right through the entire process!

Click here to read more "Lesa gets her hair done!"

She bought a motocycle over the phone....did she go to KC to buy a new car!!??

I went down to the Javitts Center in NYC to check out the Digital Life Expo. Unless you're a teenaged gamer, I wouldn't advise making the trip yourself. :)
Click here to see more "Digital Life Expo" Pics

You would not believe how easy it was to create the above video! Thanks to Dave Cross for the heads up about Animoto!

I wish I could say I bought it for her but Lesa went ahead and got herself a birthday present today:

She's 29...again... :)

send her Birthday Greetings at lesa at graphicreporter.com

Am I wrong in calling for the death of the guy who coded this ad?

Go to this web page to see the effect yourself.

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(Shawn's Comment: Lesa and I just got ours. Same thing - the box is unnecessarily huge)

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iPhone could Use more Features, Lower Prices

(Shawn's Comment: Wow! What brilliant, insightful commentary! One of the things this reporter thinks the iPhone needs? Force feedback....WTF!?)