Too Busy

Christmas

The Holidays, because 2 of them fall within a week of each other. A time to be with close ones. Actually, every day is a time to be with close ones.






Even ghosts celebrate Christmas

Songbird

Really sweet music software. It's the Firefox for music, with add-ons like one that downloads/displays lyrics of your songs. That, and everything else you'd want iTunes to do.

South Park: Woodland Critter Christmas

Monster's First Snow

Stupid People

An ongoing series I'll have every now and then about stupid people. Imagine waiting for 20 minutes because a stupid cable van is double-parked like always. They're not even quick like a mail delivery who take maybe 2 minutes. Cableguys can sometimes be there for an hour. So while the truck is trying to plow the snow before it builds it up, a line starts forming behind the truck since now, nobody can pass because this cableguy can't hear honking.

Barcelona and Rome

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Still tuning my website's gallery that Jason is structuring. In the meantime, I posted some on Facebook.

30 Minutes

Take half an hour of your time to watch this and put a different perspective on the way you make decisions.

Wolverine Origins

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer

Very disappointed at how ugly Gambit is.

More to Come

Not quite a post, but finally able to look through Barcelona/Rome pictures. After that, have a few Killington pictures too. They all convinced me not to bring my camera up the mountain. I didn't have any bad spills, but I ended up falling a lot saving the same person time after time.

NYC Safe?

Walking around without direction has come to be a pasttime of mine. However, in unknown territory it requires more attention to surroundings and using that peripheral vision. In the streets of Barcelona, wandering aimlessly, I end up near the water. In the distance I see a group of kids, about JHS age, just hanging around like kids would in a park. My attention goes to some cars driving by and boats in the marina. I turn back around to take a picture of the kids, when one of the girls, about 12, comes up to me with a clipboard. She points to something in English on the paper, and it looks like a petition. Not really caring, I sign some random name, when I notice there´s 5 more kids near me. I had forgotten that in almost every city I have been to in the Eastern hemisphere has this same social flaw. It´s the groups of kids you should be watching out for more than anything else. But chalk one up for the old people. Some old guy you would probably avoid in NY because he would be muttering to himself, comes along and starts yelling at the kids. The kids are pissed off, but start to leave. One tries to grab my camera, but as soon as I feel the tug, POOF, there´s the old guy behind the kid sticking his foot out to trip the kid. The kid let go and all the pack returned to their original area. I have no idea of what to make of all that except that it woke me up. I´ve always been on guard, especially the last time I came to Europe. I can usually spot the signs ahead of time, but I was utterly defeated this round. It makes me think of how I don´t see packs of little kids preying on tourists in NYC, or at least in my lifetime I have not witnessed it there. Thank you to that random old dude. When we started walking in the opposite direction of the kids, we parted ways. He looked at me, and shook a ´no-no´ finger.

Barcelona Day 1

Hiatus

Been slacking and haven't been keeping up with the writing side of things. Will be gone to Europe for the next 2 weeks, and then weekend excursion to Killington the day I get back. Of course, my camera comes with on both trips. Even though it's an expensive toy, it wouldn't do it justice to keep it pristine and not take the risks to reap the rewards. My tool will have to survive what I put it through in order to grab the moment.


Still deciding on a nicer layout, so bare with the empty spaces on the sides of pictures.