Archive for May, 2009
Tiller Murdered, Nutjobs Rejoice
Stumbled across this blog online tonight that’s been collecting Tweets from extreme religious nutcases in the wake of George Tiller’s death. I’m confused: How exactly are these people “pro-life?” Fucking disgusting. These are absolutely fucking disgusting people.
The big hoopla is that Tiller worked at one of the few clinics in the country that would perform [...]
Water Drop Photos
I was reading Strobist the other night during lunch at work and he had just posted a blog about shooting water drops, which I decided to try myself this evening. For the first batch, I shot water dripping into a wine glass. In a smaller container I think I got more interesting drips, because it [...]
Fruit of Forgetfulness
Today for lunch, Nina and I blended bananas, strawberries, pineapple juice, coconut, some ice, and a whole lot of rum. It’s much better than breakfast was.
Fruit of Disappointment
Today for breakfast I had an apple pear. It’s a pear shaped a bit like an apple and, as Nina observed, “not as good as an apple or a pear.” Don’t bother buying apple pears.
Why Didn’t I Get the Goddamn Full Keyboard?
When I picked out my Blackberry, I wanted something roughly the size of my previous phone, a first-gen Motorola RAZR, which was tiny for its time. After a lot of deliberation, sizing up of features, specs, appearance, and perceived ease of use, I went for the Blackberry Pearl 8120 over the Curve. I’ve now had [...]
Stoop Troop
It’s sad, but our building doesn’t actually have a stoop. We have a porch, but smoking and drinking are not allowed on it, so everybody has slowly migrated from Cameron and Leslie’s window over to a brick wall in front of the building next door. The residents of that building have given them a name: [...]
Extreme Macro II
I tried a couple more shots today with that macro technique I learned.
From left to right: 1: A regular zoomed picture of a miniature plastic Pope figure Nina has, with keys in background for reference, 2: Up close you can see it is actually made out of nightmares, 3: Sugar, 4: A picture of Nina’s [...]
Extreme Macro
Nothing has made me want to shoot pictures more than being stuck at work for 8 hours listening to photography podcasts. I hear so many techniques I want to try and learn so many names I want to check out that I’ve started keeping a list of things to explore when I get off work.
Tonight [...]
New Job
Well, I started my new temp position today. I sit at a computer and punch addresses into a database from an endless sea of envelopes. I’m not really sure what I accomplish at my job, but it is really, really easy. And I don’t have to deal with customers, or even people for the most [...]
Sorry, Blog
I forgot your birthday yesterday. Four years old! You’re getting so big.
