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What Is Scrope?

Scrope is the name of my website. It was also the name of one of my cars. Before thatit was the name of my girlfriend's car. It all started in college when we wereplaying Kingmaker. One of the minor noble characters was Scrope which had a blue and gold coat of arms. My girlfriend thought her new car, which was blue, reminded her of Scrope so that's what she named it. Eventually she gave me the car. My next car was also a blue car so it became Scrope Mark II. When I needed a name for my website I remembered the name, which I thought sounded cool but didn't "mean" anything like Yahoo or Google, so that's what I picked.

You took a picture of me at a convention or an event. Can I use it?

Yes, with one small condition. You are free to use any of my photographs for personal and non-commerical use. Feel free to link to the photo or copy the photo onto your own site. However, all I ask is that you give me photographer credit.

If you are planning to use any of my photos in a commercial undertaking, drop me an e-mail and we'll talk.

If you want a higher resolution picture than those I post here, let me know. I've sized these pictures to be large enough to see on most monitors without scrolling but still small enough to they don't take forever to download. If you want to print out one of these photos (they make great gifts for boyfriends/girfriends) you might want better quality.

Are these all the pictures you took?

Nope. Uh-uh. Not even close. The problem is that I'm lazy. Well, not so much lazy as I have too many hobbies. I've been taking pictures for quite some time and have many galleries that I have yet to upload to the web. And before you ask the next question, it's because I have to examine each photo, correct the orientation, remove red-eye, adjust color and brightness, remove bad photos, build each gallery and then upload them to the web. Since I can easily take 1,200+ photos at a convention, you can imagine the time needed.

I'm revising how I post photo galleries which will make at least the gallery creation easier in that each gallery is generated automatically at runtime. Give me some time and eventually I'll get them all uploaded.

First Post

This is my first post to this blog. I've been running scrope.com for some time now but I'm getting a bit tired of being the system administrator and wanted to just concentrate on adding content -- not running a server.

If this works out, I'll move all my (or some of my) earlier posts to here and shutdown scrope.com. It also means that I'll be moving all my photographs to a separate gallery site but again, I'm still working on that.

So for a little while, this is just an experiment. If it works out, I'll let the rest of the world know.

Change Of Format

I've been unhappy with the format of my web site for quite some time. In my copious spare time, I've been working on a replacement format. Here it is. Either I'll keep this format or I'll switch to something completely different. I'm considering using a blogging format (which this is like) like Blogger in conjunction with a photo gallery hosting site like Flickr or Smugmug.

WAMALUG Meeting of August 10, 2008

The August WAMALUG meeting was held at the Dolly Madison Library in McLean, Virginia. This photo gallery is an attempt at trying something new. I'm now using Adobe Lightroom as a Digital Asset Management system and this is based on one of their HTML galleries.

WAMALUG Meeting of February 9, 2008

The February WAMALUG meeting
was held at the Thomas Jefferson Library since we are now homeless and trying out new locations for our monthly meetings.

General Dynamics 2007 Christmas Party

Here is the General Dynamics Christmas Party 2007. Sorry, no karaoke this year.

WAMALUG Meeting of October 14, 2007

The October WAMALUG meeting was held at George Mason University as usual. Galen brought in his completed UCS Millennium Falcon and was swooshing it around which is pretty impressive since it weighs about 20 pounds. He has a day-by-day record of building it.

Todd showed off the SuperKit from Brickgun where you can build the following guns:

• Desert Eagle Mark XIV


• Beretta 92FS


• GLOCK 17

There was some confusion because Todd thought you could build all three weapons from the kit. That was not exactly correct. You could build only one at a time. Somewhat expensive for basic parts but they did look very cool.

Galen also showed off his Indiana Jones diaorama that is on display at the LEGO Tyson's Corner store until the November WAMALUG Meeting.

As always, there were more cool LEGO creations I didn't mention.