Matt Rude Hi, my name is Matt Rude, I’m a 31 year old guy, living in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. I have worked in Information Technology for over 15 years. During that time I have worked for business sectors as diverse as Public Schools to Auto Part to Health Care.

Tempest Milky Way

Here is an amazing time laps video of night’s sky by Randy Halverson.

You can see more infromation about this video on it’s Vimeo Page.

Lemon Cucumber

I was sitting outside tonight with a couple of guys from my building when one of our ex-building mates came over with a bag of Lemon Cucumbers.

Lemon Cucumber

So now the question is, how do you eat it?

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Summer at the Cabin

A few friends of mine and I went up to the cabin this weekend.  It was a perfect, cool, weekend up north, compared to in the Cities.  We had a nice…

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To a cat/dog’s mind, when the people leave, the house gets colder and colder as time goes on, and bottoms out as they lay in the cold house. Then it starts warming back up as it gets closer to when the people get home until, the house is nice and warm and the people are home once again.

Most camera’s focus on a single point in your shot and the rest is only sort of in focus or not at all.  But those days may come to an end.  The new Lytro technology allows the picture to be refocused after the picture is taken, forever, like a living photograph.

Light field technology captures all the light rays in a scene, which allows photographers to focus a photo after it has been taken. In traditional photography, photographers have had to focus the camera first and then snap. Lytro cameras, the company claims, will be able to be perfectly focus photos after the fact, forever into the future.

Below are a few samples of how it works, try clicking around on the pictures to refocus the shot.

And you can’t release or even talk about a new product without a video for it:

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Christmas, 2010

Christmas with the family.

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Brooklyn Space Program

Here a Son & Father launched a balloon from Newburgh, New York, and it climbed at a rate of 25 feet per second to 19 miles above the surface of the earth, high enough to see the curvature of the earth.  Once at altitude the balloon burst and the craft containing the iPhone and the camera fell back to the ground on a parachute.

They were then able to track the craft via the iPhones on board GPS.

You can see more images of their flight or support their effort on their website brooklynspaceprogram.org.

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Thanksgiving, 2010

We had Thanksgiving with the family as always this year.  The whole family was there.  I was a pretty uneventful day, but it was cold out, just the bitter cold, so…

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Dad’s 59th Birthday

Today was my Father’s 59th birthday.

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