{"id":12183,"date":"2006-08-01T01:37:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T01:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/08\/blood-guts-adobe-octane.html"},"modified":"2006-08-01T01:37:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T01:37:43","slug":"blood_guts_adobe_octane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/blood_guts_adobe_octane-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood, Guts, Adobe, &#038; Octane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fair bit of what I post here is somewhat tangential to Adobe, but this time the subject is literally, <i>physically<\/i> tangential to the company&#8211;or just about.  Sunday saw the second annual running of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanjosegrandprix.com\/\" \/>San Jos\u00e9 Grand Prix<\/a> and featured <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Champ_car\">Champ cars<\/a> screaming past our downtown HQ at a buck 80, rattling windows, dental work, and everything else with their 750hp turbocharged engines.<br \/>\nI walked around the building with my Rebel XT, and though no one from <i>SI<\/i> is going to fear for his or her job, I came away with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/sjgp\/\" \/>a handful of shots<\/a> I liked.  My 17-85mm glass left me thinking&#8211;to paraphrase Roy Scheider in <i>Jaws<\/i>&#8211;&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna need a bigger lens.&#8221;  Note to self: sell left kidney, do more curls, and then step up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berger-bros.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=BBCVD&amp;Product_Code=CAN7042A002\">a suitable monstrosity<\/a>.  You can see more images courtesy of Adobe engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/bwinston.smugmug.com\/gallery\/1721962\/1\">Winston Hendrickson<\/a> and his 300mm lens.  [<b>Update:<\/b> Craig Schamp, also part of Adobe engineering, used Lightroom to produce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logographer.org\/photos\/sjgp06\/content\/index.html\">this gallery<\/a>.]<br \/>\nBy the way, a word to the wise: If you ever find yourself spinning out in a Grand Prix, then attempting to re-enter the race &amp; getting T-boned, <i>do not try to punch the other dude <a href=\"http:\/\/www.champcarworldseries.com\/News\/Article.asp?ID=10682\">while he&#8217;s still wearing his helmet<\/a><\/i>.  Watching all this transpire down below, someone remarked, &#8220;We went to a car race and a hockey game broke out!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fair bit of what I post here is somewhat tangential to Adobe, but this time the subject is literally, physically tangential to the company&#8211;or just about. Sunday saw the second annual running of the San Jos\u00e9 Grand Prix and featured Champ cars screaming past our downtown HQ at a buck 80, rattling windows, dental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}