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Still Much to Do, but Making the Time

By now, you’ve probably lost interest in hearing about Patos, so I’ll keep it brief. Patos is a city in the interior of Paraiba. It is the third largest city in the state of Pariaba, coming in at a...

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First Home Improvement Project Completed…

And its something everyone can do, even those that are just renting. You folks in the dormitories may not be able to do it completely, but you can do a little. What is this I am speaking of? It’s...

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No Longer Cell Phone Only

After being a part of the “Cell Phone Only” crowd for a couple of years, I now have a land line again. When I moved from the house in South Knoxville to the house in North Knoxville, I decided that I...

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Check This Picture Out

So a few weeks ago, I got one of those clocks that has a sensor that you put outside and it will give you information such as the temperature and what the barometric pressure is doing. Anyways when I...

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Pick up a Daily Beacon

Coupon printed in The Daily Beacon: I suppose you’ll get it free even if you “forgot” the ad. Don’t try anything silly like saving a bunch of Daily Beacons and using that coupon every week. Technorati...

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Why is it that … (Probably many more of these to come)

Removing the old sink faucet can take 2-3 hours, yet installing the new one, takes less than 10 minutes? Actually…. I am not done removing the old faucet yet, but I know it won’t take me long to...

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Sawmill and Laurel Fork in Big South Fork

Ok, I promise I hadn’t forgotten about my blog. Sure its been over a month since I last posted, but things have just been really busy. A lot has happened over the last month since I lasted updated and...

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Beware…

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2007/10/03/geeks/ A while ago someone passed this video onto me and I watched all 26 minutes or so of it. I never thought I would find myself in that situation, but today...

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Listen…

Are we afraid of silence? What happens when we just stop and listen to encounter God? That was the theme of the fall retreat for the youth group. Instead of a lot of free time like most retreats have,...

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Laurel-CSC Fall Cookout and Morton Overlook

This past Saturday was the annual Fall Cookout at Caroline Evan’s house. In the past few years it has been scheduled for either the Georgia or Alabama game, since those rotate between home and away...

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Election Day Woes

Well its Election Day in Knoxville today. Shortly after I moved, I changed over my voter registration. At my old house it was nice that the voting place was in my back yard but I was surprised at how...

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Big South Fork: Honey Creek Loop Trail

Honey Creek Trail is probably one of the funnest trails you will encounter in Big South Fork. Yesterday I meet up with Bryan and some others from Brentwood Hills to do Honey Creek. This trail offers a...

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Don’t Try This At Home

And please, don’t ask me to try it for you either. For a while now, I have noticed that my laptop has been getting really hot after it runs for a while and starts to really slow down. So for the past...

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Beware of Malware

malware – n. Malicious computer software that interferes with normal computer functions or sends personal data about the user to unauthorized parties over the Internet.   The American Heritage®...

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Which of Santa’s Reindeer Are You?

You Are Dasher You’re an independent minded reindeer who never plays by the rules.  Why You’re Naughty: That little coup you tried to stage against Santa last year.  Why You’re Nice: You secretly give...

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Just Call My Car Hit and Run

It’s not that I’m guilty of hitting and running… it’s actually quite the opposite. My car has been the victim of a hit and run quite a few times. It happened again today, this time there was something...

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Gulf Coast Getaway 2008 or "Can You Believe This is a CoC Conference?"

I just got back from Gulf Coast Getaway in Panama City Beach, Florida. For the past couple of years I’ve been going down to work on the photography staff. This year, I got a last minute call that would...

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30 Hour Famine

This year I will be participating World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine. The Youth Group from Laurel will be doing it February 22-23. As a youth worker, I’m not only going to be there to encourage the kids,...

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Superbowl, Advertisements, and Blogroll

I had predicted that the Patriots would probably win. I’m really glad my prediction was wrong. I was pulling for the Giants last night. If you didn’t watch the game, the 4th quarter pretty much sums up...

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Contemporary Art Photography Assignment 1

In addition to doing make up course work for an incomplete I took a couple of years ago, I am taking some photography classes. After hearing Jon talk about the Photography Certificate offered through...

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Contemporary Art Photography Assignment 2

This assignment is a little broader than the first assignment. It was to emulate the style of one of the photographers we studied in street photography. At first I tried out street photography at...

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Five Factor Personality Profile

Thanks Jim for pointing out this personality profile test. Ok, enough with the plagiarizing and now onto the results: Your Five Factor Personality Profile Extroversion:   You have medium extroversion....

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Contemporary Art Assignment 3

The plug-in I use for displaying the pictures direct from my gallery website has stopped working. Instead of trying to fix it for now, I am just deactivating it and linking to the main page of that...

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Contemporary Art Assignment 4

The Nature shooting assignment is wide open for you to bring in any landscape/nature images. You are also welcome to develop an idea based on the Nature photographers that we discussed. The first three...

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Nature and Travel Photography Assignment 1

I should have posted this last week, but I got kind of busy with the baby day stuff at Laurel, so I didn’t get around to it. In the meantime, I upgraded WordPress to 2.5, which includes a photo...

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Fundamentals of Digital Photography Assignment #1

* Shoot a properly exposed picture (manual mode) of a normal scene, not a back lit, not a front lit, not an overly light or excessively dark subject. I don’t care what aperture or what shutter speed,...

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Random Trip to Foothills Parkway, Cades Cove, and The Sinks

You may remember that a couple of my previous posts had pictures, but now they are gone. This is because I just wasn’t happy with the new built in WordPress Image Gallery. So instead I have removed...

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Backpacking in Big South Fork One Day… Nature and Travel Field Trip #1 the Next

This past weekend was a really busy one, but fun filled. It started on Saturday by meeting up with Bryan and Meredith, Justin S, Derek, Dale, and Ann for some backpacking in Big South Fork. They all go...

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Fundamentals of Digital Photography Final Four

While I could probably start this and most future posts with “I know its been a while since I last posted”, I’ll try to refrain or find some other creative way to say that. I suppose I could write...

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The Cost of Renting

$4.95 x 102 months of service = $504.90 vs Purchase RCADCM245 in 2000 = $99.00 Well it finally happened. My cable modem bit the dust. It just wouldn’t stay connected. I could be watching something on...

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Fireworks Are Only Illegal in Knox County in Theory

So this is the first time in several years that I have been in Knoxville for the 4th of July. This is also the first time in a few years that I haven’t been in Brazil for the 4th. Since my parents are...

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Cumblerland Falls Moonbow

Tuseday of this week I had gone to Big Ridge State Park to see if I could get a map of the park, ride my bike a bit, and then see if there is anything else worth photographing. I hadn’t really been...

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Yearbook Yourself (1950-2000)

http://www.yearbookyourself.com/ Real Senior Picture 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000

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(Not So New) Photography Site

Besides owning justinacuff.net and justinacuff.com, a few months ago I also added justinacuffphotography.com to the list of domain names that I own. When I eventually move from the category of hobbyist...

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Being a Part of the Problem

Normally when my gas tank sits in between a quarter and a half tank of gas, I just drive it for a few more days until it gets close to empty and then I fill up. But last night, the news agencies...

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Gameday Gas

Two gas stations, both located on the UT Strip. There is only about a quarter of a mile of difference between the two. Is it a supply thing? Probably. Is it a demand thing? Probably. Is it a gouging...

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Should You Vote for Obama or McCain?

Your Issue Profile: 60% Obama, 40% McCain Truth be told, you’re not really satisfied with either of the candidates. You could vote for either of them. You are the typical coveted swing voter. You may...

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Cades Cove: Hyatt Lane

Technorati Tags: Cades Cove, Hyatt Lane, HDR, photography

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Creative Spammers?

Ok, so yesterday someone said they tried to comment on something on my blog but something went wrong. They weren’t exactly sure what happened. My blog has a pretty aggressive spam filter running on it,...

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Dreamhost Unlimited +50GB

A few days ago, I saw where Dreamhost was offering its users unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and 50GB of personal backup space if they would be one of the first to volunteer to move over to...

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! This year Christmas came early and was pretty much done with by Saturday the 20th for our family. I left Knoxville to go to my Grandma Acuff’s (my last living grandparent)...

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Happy New Year

To all ya’ll that still read this blog (Hi Mom and Dad) or have subscribed to my RSS feed… Happy New Year! This year, instead of resolutions, I’m going to do a project. This is nothing original, as it...

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Photo-A-Day Location

In addition to Facebook, I’ll be posting the Photo-A-Day photos in my other gallery at http://photoaday.justinacuff.com/ http://www.justinacuffphotography.com/category/photo-a-day-2009/. (After I...

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I Haven’t Given Up on this Blog Just Yet

I know I haven’t posted on this blog in quite a while. It’s not that I’ve given up on it or intend to stop blogging… I just have been blogging a little more on my photography blog. As my previous post...

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Time to Revamp This

I finally found a new look that does require me to reformat a lot of posts. There’s still work that needs to be done, but it looks to be relatively minor. I have contemplated removing all previous...

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Two Blogs Too Many

One blog is hard enough to maintain, but two or more and you’ve got to be crazy! Except, I haven’t really been maintaining them. It’s not even that I don’t have things to blog about… I just haven’t...

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Strobing Basketball

Full galleries for the games below are located at: Webb School of Knoxville vs Farragut High School (January 25, 2010) West High School vs Knoxville Catholic High School (January 26, 2010) OK, I’ve had...

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Fist Annual CSC Solid Rock

So tonight the First Annual Christian Student Center Solid Rock show finally took place.  It was originally scheduled for two weeks ago, but was postponed because of the wintry mix storm that hit that...

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Cades Cove Loop Road Closed… But for How Long?

I have noticed that over the past few days one of the keywords that is still driving people to this blog is Cades Cove.  Living in East Tennessee, I am very fortunate to live so close to the Great...

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Gluten-Free Diabetic Friendly Brownies

I admit it… It has been ages since I have updated any kind of blog.   There have been a lot of things (very positive) going on in my life since my last post on here.  I won’t even attempt to catch you...

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