Carl Hutzler’s Blog

Order the T4 Torx screwdriver, remove the screws and photograph it. :-)
Enjoy some tech part art.

I posted a 26MB quicktime movie (near the bottom of the page) that highlights my photography from last year. Overall it was a great year for my business. I had a number of new clients and expanded the awareness of my work as well as the the quality. I think I will look back at 2006 as the year I got familiar with creative lighting techniques and started to get a solid understanding of some of the more creative aspects of portraiture.

Let me know if you like what you see.

I have a 6GB iPod mini and it has served me well for many years. And it continues to do the job. I have two accessories that I use all the time - a Belkin cig lighter for the car and an Airclick RF remote which allows me to hide the iPod in my wayyy insecure jeep wrangler. I just put the remote in a kinda out of sight but easy to operate location and no one realizes that there may be something worth steeling inside (well until I just posted this on my blog I guess ;-)

I also use the RF remote to control the ipod on long runs. iPod in camelbak and remote in pocket. Works well to skip over those boring tunes on a long run.

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The other day my wife, Rylan, made a fairly simple request. Could we buy a dual tuner Tivo and replace the old ReplayTV unit we are currently using? She had heard the new ones had two tuners inside and could record two shows at once and she had a handful of shows that were on at the same time. Seeing as how these machines were also being given away “free” around Christmas time (according to the ad she heard) she figured it was a reasonable request. Little did I know that it would turn into a 2 week experimentation effort! Read below (after the fold) to learn from my experiments and save yourself some time.
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