Archive for July, 2005
Heyyy, Now Here’s a Dumb Fad
Brainstorming roundtable:
Exec #1: “Those stupid scooters were a HUGE hit! Who could have possibly seen it coming?”
Exec #2: “They took an established but dead fad and put a hip, modern, edgy spin on it!”
Exec #3: “How could we possibly follow an act like that?”
Exec #1: “Okay okay, see if you can follow me here: What [...]
Rotating Mastheads
Behind the scenes, I have been assembling a small collection of zhx.home mastheads. Today I finished up 2 more, bringing the total to 6, and I think that’s enough to enable a script to rotate them.
While Bonnie visits her parents, I messed around with a little PHP and got this thing going. Every time I [...]
Well,
Bonnie’s home. Plan on never hearing from me again.
Wow, This Country Is Stupid
Hey, here’s a delightfully vomit-inducing little tidbit:
Everybody knows a platinum record has sold a million copies. What I didn’t know was that 10 million records is awarded a “diamond”, which I had never heard of. Very few albums have gone diamond (only five of which have gone double-diamond), and though you’d think the list is [...]
Oh, My Sweet Misfits…What Have You Become?
So today I was sitting at my computer with Winamp on random and classic Misfits track “She” came on. I thought “Goddamn, what a great song. How tragic that the people currently calling themselves “The Misfits” suck really really hard.” I basically understand how the transition from classic Misfits to the travesty Misfits happened, but [...]
Tuesday Night at the Skatepark
The Casper Skatepark is an interesting place. Once seen as a “beautification project” by the city; a place where parents would drop off their grade-school kids for the day, it has long since been orphaned and the ramps and surrounding area have fallen into disrepair. It is a fairly popular hangout for non-skateboarding types, and [...]
Some Skate Photos
Just came back from the skatepark to get some oil for my bearings but can’t find any. I decided to fix up a couple shots I took today, along with a couple older shots. Skateboarding is the reason I started taking pictures, afterall. The problem is finding the best skateboarders in town at the right [...]
More Night Pics
I know, it’s almost overkill… I’ve submitted a ton of photos in the past couple hours, but I left tonight planning on getting some normal night shots when I happened across a house that the storm had knocked a tree into. I set up and snapped several pictures. They didn’t turn out as good as [...]
Makeshift Macro Lens
So I wanted to take pictures of wet plants and such after the storm, but I wanted to see if I could figure a macro technique other than “get really close”. There’s a famous skateboard photographer that got his first skate pics by taping a fisheye lens intended for a video camera over his 35mm’s [...]
Insane Rainstorm
AT 545 PM MDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER CASPER…MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR…EDNESS K WILKINS STATE PARK BY 555 PM MDT
DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE [...]
