Snow shoveling time lapse

02.15.10 Posted in Blog, Just for Fun, Media, Video by Jordan

About 11 inches of snow at our house in Roanoke, Virginia for our second big snowstorm in 2010. My time lapse didn’t quite work out when I shoveled the first time Friday night, so this is from the second go-around of shoveling Saturday. Three things I learned: – Should’ve made the interval between shots less [...]


Photos/video from Thanksgiving

12.06.09 Posted in Blog, Just for Fun, Video by Jordan

In trying to shoot our annual family photo, we got a little restless and decided to have some fun. More photos that didn’t make it in the video can be found at thanksgivingphotos.jordanfifer.net.


Some links I’m looking at: 10-29-09

10.29.09 Posted in Blog, In the News, Media by Jordan

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press // Arizona Supreme Court rules electronic data is public “The Arizona Supreme Court today ruled that metadata – information about the history, tracking and management of an electronic document – is subject to the state’s public records law.” Knoxville News Sentinel // FBI widens death-threats probe, subpoenas [...]


Another follow-up: news organizations report some false news

10.26.09 Posted in Blog, In the News, Media by Jordan

A follow-up to my previous post, CNN should be more cautious in breaking “news”: The Associated Press has this story about how news outlets are increasingly rushing to report the news without verifying the facts first. Aside from the “balloon boy” and Coast Guard non-shooting incidents which I mentioned in that previous post, the article [...]


A follow-up on the “Balloon Boy” news – SNL does balloon spoof

10.19.09 Posted in Blog, In the News, Just for Fun, Media, Video by Jordan

Saturday Night Live had this funny bit during Weekend Update: See my last post: CNN should be more cautious in breaking “news”