Cats. Everywhere.

Like this one…

And this one…

Luckily, there are people out there who are tired of seeing so many cats and are getting them spayed/neutered with the help of Feral Cat Coalition (notice the “tipped” ear).

Keep up the good work. There’s too many damn cats in this town. Of course, my dog disagrees… but then, she just likes to eat “processed cat food” (or, Kitty Rocas as they are sometimes called).

Yesterday, September 12th, 2015, was the official opening day of the Tilikum Crossing in Portland, OR. It was also the official opening of the new MAX Orange Line which travels to and from Milwaukie to the south of Portland, and over the new bridge to west side of the river. To celebrate the opening of the new Orange Line and the Tilikum Crossing, all of Tri-Met’s public transportation was free.

In late 2013, I bought a new Canon EOS 6D. I thought full frame is the way to go. And to some degree, still have the same sentiment. If you learned the basics of photography on film camera, a full-frame digital camera is a fairly easy transition. Field of view is the same, metering is about the same and depth of field is predictable. So why is it after a year of use, did I feel the need to dump full-frame image quality for something with 1/2 the sensor size?

I noticed Ghost a while ago and toyed with it a little. Back then I wasn’t as familiar with Node so it quickly made its way into the “Hmm, that was neat” pile. I’ve been working exclusively in Node for the past year or so, so when I thought about starting a blog, I pretty much skipped over the other option completely and jumped in.

My preferred web server is Nginx. It’s light, easy to configure and fast. It’s also good at proxying requests to backend applications like NodeJS or PHP’s built in FastCGI Process Manager. I have lots of experience running the later, but not so much the former. So when I went to setup Ghost to use only SSL requests, I ran into a ’too many redirects’ issue.