I just updated my Macbook Pro to Snow Leopard (10.6.3) from Tiger 10.4.11. My activity monitor was showing 55% cpu usage but no process that was taking the resources. This was incredibly annoying and led me to work the last hour trying to figure it out. I uninstalled a lot of crap, moved preferences around, deleted user data. It turns out I needed Rosetta (which wasn't installed?) and it was cause by my Epson V750 scanner (Epson Scanner Monitor). I downloaded the latest SN compatible drivers - which triggered the Rosetta install. Immediately the CPU dropped and I am sitting pretty once more. I'm putting this in the blog so that someone doing a search for phantom CPU usage OSX or high usage fans at 100% OSX Snow Leopard can find the problem and a potential solution.

This is Jon. My friend in the Mac lifestyle. Both of us avoiding computers in a quant little house in Maine. Our wives are somewhere... just taking in the sun. I'm ready for another Maine vacation I think.

In late May I am going to be photographing Jon and Teri's slightly unconventional wedding. But, this past Monday I got the opportunity to photograph them in a less formal setting.

Oh and they said they love the cheese. I'm a romantic so I don't know if I call it cheese per se, but it made anything a "go". I'm not actually posting the funny photos that we did; I'll save those for the wedding (I think).

Hank (the dog) wasn't feeling like hanging out too much:

*just as a note - please don't dload the pics or post them elsewhere like facebook - cause I'll post 'em eventually and Facebook has some funky rights issues that will cause me problems.

Does anyone know what happened to Lincoln Woods Bouldering.com? It's a shame to see a resource just disappear. If you know, let me know. If I can help I will.

More pics to come from during the week... These are a mix of week and weekend (I managed to escape work for an hour or two.. work being photography... so maybe I didn't?).

*just as a note - please don't dload the pics or post them elsewhere like facebook - cause I'll post 'em eventually and Facebook has some funky rights issues that will cause me problems.

The Lincoln Woods are alive with climbers and bugs. I've been lucky enough to get out a few times in the fine weather. The bugs aren't too bad yet and for the most part I am surrounded by people that the bugs love so they leave me alone (thank you all the sweet people).

I think this year I'm going hitch rides up to Farley, Pway, and Mormon something or other (these are all Nina's suggestions). I'm open to more ideas... and lifts to wherever. I want to photograph strong cilmbers... but maybe more than that just a piece of camp life / daily climbing life.

I grew up watching Dragonball so I expect a "kamehameha!" any time now looking at these two dueling.

more to come.