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Yes, that is an iPad 2 on a light stand.

By Dave | Published: May 9, 2011

Taken at Blue Bottle Café Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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Nutcases

By Dave | Published: January 27, 2011

Recently, I was tracking some inbound clicks to my blog through Google Analytics and found a bunch of traffic to my site from some random discussion forum. Apparently, a user there linked to my earthquakes article, which spawned a debate on my integrity and associations with black-hat hackers and government security services (haha, what?). Mind [...]

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Crazy emails from strangers [updated]

By Dave | Published: September 17, 2010

Alright, so someone keeps emailing me, thinking they have someone else named Dave Schumaker. This actually happens a lot. After receiving a number of recent forwarded joke emails, I decided to respond. Check out conversation. It reminds me of this earlier thread I wrote, about receiving strange email. Update: I just realized that it’s the [...]

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A sign of World Cup fever?

By Dave | Published: May 29, 2010

It’s no secret that I have vivid and strange dreams. Apparently, the build up to this summer’s World Cup tournament must be getting to me. Last night, I dreamt about playing in a volleyball tournament against English soccer player Wayne Rooney. And after our game, we went to a pub and had a few beers. [...]

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I get the strangest email.

By Dave | Published: May 7, 2010

There is a group of people who have me mixed up for someone else and keep sending me email. I’ve replied and emailed them on numerous occasions that I am the incorrect person, yet I still receive weird and even awkward emails. – Err… what? Here’s another gem. Names blocked out. – Yikes! I feel [...]

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