May be offline for a while. Technical problem developed before we left for New York/Paris. To the best of my evaluation, we got a virus (possibly from my father-in-law...one of the idiotic right wing things he forwards to us...my e-mail blocked it, but my wife's e-mail may have opened it....) and it has resulted in us not being able to access the hard drive or our files...Microsoft has been outstanding in their efforts to resolve the problem...almost twelve hours of tinkering with our machine.
It looks like I'm going to have to wipe the hard drive clean and rebuild....so I may be out of the loop for a few days....
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Major Technical Problems
Thursday, July 17, 2008
We'll Always Have Paris....
We're back (my wife and I, not the schizzo "we")...
Back to the land of "hard work", baseball caps and unlimited supplies of cheap gasoline.
What's the buzz?
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
The American Empire
As I'm getting ready to go on vacation, I returned a few books to the school library. I just logged into my account to make certain they had been checked back in (really, you can't trust the student workers to get simple tasks right...) and the following text greeted me on my patron summary:
While only you and not library staff have access to your reading history with the optional My Reading History feature, the history is retained in the library server and might be subject to federal government authorized inspection.
I hope you're satisfied Amerika. This is what you wanted. You allowed your tremendous fear to trump all reason and you sacrificed your freedom for authoritarian control and "security." You deserve what you get...
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
I'm Laughing At You
Yes, at all of you who are so excited and worked up about this election. You're a bunch of fools. You're participating a circle jerk and no one brought any lubricant. Morons.
So cheer your little candidates on and pin all your hopes and dreams on career politicians.
Me, I'll be off to the side laughing at all of you.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Minor History In The Making
For the first time since 1986, I didn't participate in an election. We had a minor voting thing this past Tuesday and I refused to vote. Fuck it.
Felt good.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Changes On The Horizon
Time to do something different...not sure what course of action to undertake...shut down this blog?
reformat it completely? move it to a different venue? blog in Esperanto?
Not pleased with the direction it has stalled out in and yesterday did not please me....I assume full responsibility.
Monday, June 02, 2008
Correction
many of the posts you will read here are often self-mocking....self deprecating humor aimed at myself with perhaps a nudge or sharp elbow at the bigger picture...
Cool to mock culture, society and me (particularly if I start it)....
Previous post deleted as it strayed way off target too readily.
Apologies are herewith issued.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Interesting Development
Over the course of recent days I often find myself muttering "I don't care", mostly about world, national and local events.
And I find myself not caring.
Very liberating.
And just to prove I'm not completely heartless, I was upset about the Tasmanian Devil being put on the Endangered Species list. I like Tasmanian Devils.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Goldman Forecasts $141 Oil For Second Half of Year
No sympathy here. We've had thirty years...thirty fucking years to address this problem. And now it's gonna bite us on the ass big time.
California Vote On Gay Marriage Expected
The article expects the vote to be very, very close. I imagine every single vote will be crucial.
Too bad I've opted out of the system.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Average Morons
"Average Idol Voter Casts 38 Ballots"
But look at the losers they are willing to support when it comes to national politics.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Saturday Night Photo Experiments
(click to enlarge)Computer memory board backlit. Image captured with Nikon D80 with 55mm micro-Nikkor lens. Mild enhancement in Photoshop CS2.
Friday, May 09, 2008
The Return of Friday Cat Blogging
Highly stylized OscarWhat started out as an attempt to correct a poorly exposed photograph...lots of sunlight from the right side and it was only the ninth photo taken with a new zoom lens (55mm to 200mm)...ends up as this
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Photo Manipulation
(click to enlarge)
Many, many keystrokes ago this was a photograph of Times Square....
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
More Images
(as always, click to enlarge)
For the curious: Nikon D80 with 18-55mm zoom lens...ASA 100....shutter set on "bulb" and aperture at f/22...three or four second exposure with zoom out...minimal color correction in PhotoShop CS2
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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