Micks Distractions

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I’ve been suf­fer­ing dizzy attacks for the last ten years. I decided to do some­thing about it when I suf­fered some pretty bad ones just recently. I was ordered to have a full head CT scan by my Doc. Of course I had to ask for the images on CD.
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I have a lot of hard­ware run­ning 24x7 — PCs, routers, switches, fire­walls, SAN, and it’s all con­tained within a cup­board where I stick it all. It’s pretty cool, in that it’s a dust free envi­ron­ment, and keeps the noise at bay, which is my intent. It’s basi­cally a small con­tained com­puter room. What’s not cool about it, is that it isn’t.
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Another 360 pano of the old house at the pool area. Pretty bor­ing, but this was taken with the DSC-F828. No pano head was used, so par­al­lax error is par­tic­u­larly notice­able. Look straight down and you’ll really see the errors.

Need to build a pano head now.
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One of the things I enjoy see­ing is big engi­neer­ing. That is: Engi­neer­ing on a big scale. I had the good for­tune to be offered a guided tour of a cable lay­ing ship. Which is a ship that lays cables, (fun­nily enough).

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A more recent pano of our house taken with a rented Sony DSC-F828. I also pro­duced a full 360 pano with it. See below.
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