a Humphrey Bogart Liberal. Dats right - i heard it last night on the way home...
more or less teh definition is: always standing up for the little guy!
For the workers against the rich fat exploiters/corporations
that kinda stuff - i'm kinda amazed i remember to write it down. It was used to describe Dan Rather by a not so favorable review of his career, and i heard it and thought: 'damn that's perfect'
so - this is just a short thought for today... but i think a good one :D
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
the corporatizing of education and other random thoughts strung together
how in the world an education institution supposed to recover 100% costs? Esp Public Universities? It doesn't make sense? How can you quantify value on teaching and research? You can certainly charge tuition and cover it that way. But what about a class like Intro Psyc? With 1000 students and one professor and a bunch of bubble sheets that a computer scores to evaluate and grade students? How does that compare to a hands on graduate level class using instruments (NMR/SEM) that might have 10 students in it? Equipment that Costs hundreds of thousands to acquire and then tens of thousands a year to maintain can't be compared to a single professor that may or may not be a temporary person getting paid $800/credit hour when the students pay $400/credit hour for the Intro Psyc AND the same for the Advanced SEM Class?
I dunno... what happened to many whole "expensive" research areas? They've been eliminated from the US and are now exclusively say in Europe or elsewhere. Where is that technology being applied? Certainly not here in conservative corporate greed land.
Sure lets vote to raise our own salaries 7 out of 8 years in a row, but the minimum wage? Nah... lets keep that super low, we don't want those millions of women and low income people to come up above the poverty line, that wouldn't be fair to the buisnesses exploiting them, not fair at all.
Now i hear Hunter S Thompson didn't shoot himself, its a right wing conspiracy to shut him up. He was too dangerous, his new book exposed too much, he was too close to breaking open the whole underground corporate mind control game the GOP is playing. Now don't go off and label me some liberal wacko, but i do favor individual rights over corporations, i favor protecting the environment over profit margin (but mostly because its a long term conservative approach), i favor choice but find abortion wrong, guns are great... if you hunt and enjoy it as a hobby, war is almost always the cowards way out of a problem, it is generally started by people who have nothing to loose personally by tossing their armies at another force, defending one's territory is different than "spreading democracy" with bombs and guns, and the root cause of nearly all war and violence is religious idealism, hitler, bush, Osama... You name em... they ain't no different, all egomaniacs, all killing/ed lots of misguided people who blindly (or not so) follow orders in the "name of the cause"
Was Gonzo on the trail of something more compelling and irrefutable than F 9/11? We'll never know i guess. Maybe he did cash in his chips himself, maybe not, maybe he's been unsuccessful at doing it with less dramatic ways (drugs, alcohol, motorcycles) and finally went the way the warden did in Shawshank...
Whadda ya say to someone who doesn't see the wrong in USA policy? How can anyone believe a slim majority is a "mandate"???? Regan had a "mandate" 'cause he blew the election away in a landslide... little Dumbass Dubya, the curious George president, certainly thinks he has one... flabbergasting...
Now another subject that gets people all worked up... photography of the human figure, generally naked. Now sure, i've been known to click on a few free 'nrop' sites (nrop, cause i donna wanna put the proper spelling in so no webcrawling buggers pick it out - and this is a second change now its just spelled backwards). But then where do you draw the line between nrop and art? For me i've not had a problem deliminating, from the artistic POV, there is nothing more compelling than a female figure as a subject, in photography, in sculpture, or in painting... Black and White photographs tend to be much less prone to the stereotypical "nrop" label, but there are boundaries. Now where would Palybyo (misspelled on purpose) fall? its certainly closer to the border, but in the intent and color and subject with emphasis on certain anatomical parts or expressions pushes it over, in my mind at least. I think everyone has to draw the line somewhere.
Take Picasso's sketch books. I saw the exhibit in LA at the museum there, what about 16-18 years ago maybe now. And i would certainly label many of his sketches in his notebook pages as 'nrop'... why? well the perspective and attention to the focus and the fact that they appeared to be grouped as specifically/explicitly just the female genetalia, now sure - its a sketch, pencil or pen, done by a master Picasso... but does it blur the line effectively?
anyway - there's art and there's pron and there's a different view on where the distinction falls... find the line for yourself, if for nothing more than you know where it is or so you know when you cross it...
sheesh... whadda day
and anyway who the hell is H. C. Hoffman:
I dunno... what happened to many whole "expensive" research areas? They've been eliminated from the US and are now exclusively say in Europe or elsewhere. Where is that technology being applied? Certainly not here in conservative corporate greed land.
Sure lets vote to raise our own salaries 7 out of 8 years in a row, but the minimum wage? Nah... lets keep that super low, we don't want those millions of women and low income people to come up above the poverty line, that wouldn't be fair to the buisnesses exploiting them, not fair at all.
Now i hear Hunter S Thompson didn't shoot himself, its a right wing conspiracy to shut him up. He was too dangerous, his new book exposed too much, he was too close to breaking open the whole underground corporate mind control game the GOP is playing. Now don't go off and label me some liberal wacko, but i do favor individual rights over corporations, i favor protecting the environment over profit margin (but mostly because its a long term conservative approach), i favor choice but find abortion wrong, guns are great... if you hunt and enjoy it as a hobby, war is almost always the cowards way out of a problem, it is generally started by people who have nothing to loose personally by tossing their armies at another force, defending one's territory is different than "spreading democracy" with bombs and guns, and the root cause of nearly all war and violence is religious idealism, hitler, bush, Osama... You name em... they ain't no different, all egomaniacs, all killing/ed lots of misguided people who blindly (or not so) follow orders in the "name of the cause"
Was Gonzo on the trail of something more compelling and irrefutable than F 9/11? We'll never know i guess. Maybe he did cash in his chips himself, maybe not, maybe he's been unsuccessful at doing it with less dramatic ways (drugs, alcohol, motorcycles) and finally went the way the warden did in Shawshank...
Whadda ya say to someone who doesn't see the wrong in USA policy? How can anyone believe a slim majority is a "mandate"???? Regan had a "mandate" 'cause he blew the election away in a landslide... little Dumbass Dubya, the curious George president, certainly thinks he has one... flabbergasting...
Now another subject that gets people all worked up... photography of the human figure, generally naked. Now sure, i've been known to click on a few free 'nrop' sites (nrop, cause i donna wanna put the proper spelling in so no webcrawling buggers pick it out - and this is a second change now its just spelled backwards). But then where do you draw the line between nrop and art? For me i've not had a problem deliminating, from the artistic POV, there is nothing more compelling than a female figure as a subject, in photography, in sculpture, or in painting... Black and White photographs tend to be much less prone to the stereotypical "nrop" label, but there are boundaries. Now where would Palybyo (misspelled on purpose) fall? its certainly closer to the border, but in the intent and color and subject with emphasis on certain anatomical parts or expressions pushes it over, in my mind at least. I think everyone has to draw the line somewhere.
Take Picasso's sketch books. I saw the exhibit in LA at the museum there, what about 16-18 years ago maybe now. And i would certainly label many of his sketches in his notebook pages as 'nrop'... why? well the perspective and attention to the focus and the fact that they appeared to be grouped as specifically/explicitly just the female genetalia, now sure - its a sketch, pencil or pen, done by a master Picasso... but does it blur the line effectively?
anyway - there's art and there's pron and there's a different view on where the distinction falls... find the line for yourself, if for nothing more than you know where it is or so you know when you cross it...
sheesh... whadda day
and anyway who the hell is H. C. Hoffman:
Monday, March 07, 2005
i finally did it
i got out on the bike on the road both days this weekend...
it was fantastic - and damn it all if it isn't down to 25ºF here and falling after be'n almost 50 this morning... we'll see but the rollers are not looking like they'll get much use tonight - but... maybe i can get enough energy up to hop on em for 45 minutes or even just for 30...
dont wanna let this weekend go to waste... well it isn't a waste in that the rides were worth it isolated, but if i can keep building... that'd be super... i don't think i'll even come close to Mike W.'s 1000 miles at 65% max HR. Figurin mines around 190 max or so (well it was last i checked) that puts me at 124 as the target max for the first 1000 miles... well i blew that every rise pretty much... i wonder if that 1000 miles means being inshape first ;) or not loosing 100% of the base fitness from the previous season (which in my case ended over 6 months ago). I only hit 80% twice... and not for extended times... i'm thinking with some discipline and some more cold weather i could get through this in the basement on the rollers keeping the HR low... but 1000 miles? nah - no way - (maybe if i'm negative enough about the numbers i'll make it)...
ooh and i wanna try something with the flickr stuff:
http://photos4.flickr.com/4167169_d026319f97_m.jpg
http://photos4.flickr.com/4167169_d026319f97_o.jpg
it was fantastic - and damn it all if it isn't down to 25ºF here and falling after be'n almost 50 this morning... we'll see but the rollers are not looking like they'll get much use tonight - but... maybe i can get enough energy up to hop on em for 45 minutes or even just for 30...
dont wanna let this weekend go to waste... well it isn't a waste in that the rides were worth it isolated, but if i can keep building... that'd be super... i don't think i'll even come close to Mike W.'s 1000 miles at 65% max HR. Figurin mines around 190 max or so (well it was last i checked) that puts me at 124 as the target max for the first 1000 miles... well i blew that every rise pretty much... i wonder if that 1000 miles means being inshape first ;) or not loosing 100% of the base fitness from the previous season (which in my case ended over 6 months ago). I only hit 80% twice... and not for extended times... i'm thinking with some discipline and some more cold weather i could get through this in the basement on the rollers keeping the HR low... but 1000 miles? nah - no way - (maybe if i'm negative enough about the numbers i'll make it)...
ooh and i wanna try something with the flickr stuff:
http://photos4.flickr.com/4167169_d026319f97_m.jpg
http://photos4.flickr.com/4167169_d026319f97_o.jpg
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
pinhole
my latest experiment in imaging.. Pinhole Camera... I made one up (still gotta get the pics online - will do soon) and its pretty damn cool... the lastest crop of Flickr Pictrs are from the 'camera'
using an old used Electron Microscope aperature kicks ass... now i just need a more stable base - ie tripod i'm thinking to make it all work better... that and get my exposuring better.
F5 Kodabrome paper is TOO contrasty. RC III paper with no filter... works okay and if the exposure is good - photoshop can make it all happen.
nothing like getting in the darkroom a bunch. Down side to this camera i've made is: One shot- develope -reload... that and i've used most of the close areas more than once... still a bit of the library i wanna capture and the music building, but in essence i gotta tripod this sucker first...
Oh and i found the downside of a free flickr account... only 100 images are visible... means i gotta be doubly selective about everything from now on... that of dig deep for the $$ they want... although being an academic means i've never paid for ANYTHING internet wise... free webspace, free email, free dialup... all above board and legal stuff too... as cool at flickr is, the $ is abit much, more in principle than anything else...
anyway - i might look at creating a polaroid back type pinhole... that way i can load a 10 pack and shoot with faster results... and since the image becomes digital ultimately, no need for longevity...
wow - i'm not so profound anymore - maybe thats a good thing... maybe i should change... *shrug*
using an old used Electron Microscope aperature kicks ass... now i just need a more stable base - ie tripod i'm thinking to make it all work better... that and get my exposuring better.
F5 Kodabrome paper is TOO contrasty. RC III paper with no filter... works okay and if the exposure is good - photoshop can make it all happen.
nothing like getting in the darkroom a bunch. Down side to this camera i've made is: One shot- develope -reload... that and i've used most of the close areas more than once... still a bit of the library i wanna capture and the music building, but in essence i gotta tripod this sucker first...
Oh and i found the downside of a free flickr account... only 100 images are visible... means i gotta be doubly selective about everything from now on... that of dig deep for the $$ they want... although being an academic means i've never paid for ANYTHING internet wise... free webspace, free email, free dialup... all above board and legal stuff too... as cool at flickr is, the $ is abit much, more in principle than anything else...
anyway - i might look at creating a polaroid back type pinhole... that way i can load a 10 pack and shoot with faster results... and since the image becomes digital ultimately, no need for longevity...
wow - i'm not so profound anymore - maybe thats a good thing... maybe i should change... *shrug*
Friday, February 25, 2005
...
yeah dats about it:
...
its all i feel like saying but rather than not say it i feel compelled to just say it, and of course wind up saying even more...
and to say that i've found new inspiration, a new muse if you will... my step-father claims to have inherited his father's muse. For them the muse was the force that gave them the ability to compose incredible sonnets, many of my grandfather's sonnets are published like this one, pop over to amazon and check out the rest of them...
so a muse to me is an inspirational entity - sometimes its been an animal, sometimes a tree, once it was a whole arboretum... and rarely a person...
these muses help fuel the creativity - but sometimes frustrate me to no end - seeing possibilities - having impossible ideas of brilliant concepts build up and drive me insane...
so..
on that...
fini
...
its all i feel like saying but rather than not say it i feel compelled to just say it, and of course wind up saying even more...
and to say that i've found new inspiration, a new muse if you will... my step-father claims to have inherited his father's muse. For them the muse was the force that gave them the ability to compose incredible sonnets, many of my grandfather's sonnets are published like this one, pop over to amazon and check out the rest of them...
so a muse to me is an inspirational entity - sometimes its been an animal, sometimes a tree, once it was a whole arboretum... and rarely a person...
these muses help fuel the creativity - but sometimes frustrate me to no end - seeing possibilities - having impossible ideas of brilliant concepts build up and drive me insane...
so..
on that...
fini
Thursday, February 24, 2005
What the ***** h'v I been do'n
Seems a whole lot of nuttin lately - and - i donna like it sometimes - not talkin werk stuff - that's been rocking steady if a but foggy from lack of sleep and shizz - but i'm getting it done and its kickin aezz...
Damn if readin Jonny's epic about the damn Old P race in AZ this morn'n doesn't get me fired up and hungry for the same punishment... i'm digging the 'idea' of single speed more and more - diggin it in a way that means i wanna do it but haven't yet - i got the wheel that i built up on a 1x1 hub... the wheel rocks... but... um it's gotta be attached to a bike and what bike is it going on? That full on POS Mantra Carbon beast that i've got - yeah the one with the Rigid uniKlein fork - kinda deserves the single speed treatment... i mean fuck it is a rear suspension bike - i can put the front old school Manitou XCTi fork back on... i jumped it up with some mongo wide bars... gotta tweak and pick the gearing in front i think and then just farking go with it and start riding.
I keep thinkin about the Walden school of thought with the 1000 miles... at this rate i might have 1000 miles in two years if i keep thinking instead of riding... its just when the hell am i gonna ride? Looks like AFTER dinner if its gonna work - that or i bring the shit into my office and ride here - but who wants their office turning into a gym... its enough pain to have the Cross bike sitting here staring at me... its my albatross - and it aint' going away until i start riding something...
And yea - having a newborn AND a 4.5 year old in the house kinda screws everything up as far as me having me time, combined with the farking 1+hour commute each way every day... if only i couuld do it on the bike... hell that's something i've been thinking about doing for 5 years now... riding to work one day... 75-80 miles one way on the back roads... why the fuck haven't i done it yet? I dunno - summers get messed up and i get busy/lazy and i don't really have any good reasons why not - yeah it'd be stupid but its one of those epic stupid things that are worth doing...
Ane the whole "two niner" thing - the guys i used to work with at Velocipede are pretty harsh on em: "Why'd you want something that is heavier and slower"
To a point I agree, larger tires - more rotational force required to get em rolling... slower accel/speed changes, but bigger diameter has gotta be better for bigger riders like me and my 6'6" lanky big size... that and a two niner bike in MY size actually looks right - the XL Adroit or XL Mantra Carbon i've got look stupid goofy - like some tricky 20" bike or worse, like a Bike Friday: not that there is anything wrong with riding a Bike Friday... if you are traveling...
well i'm done - coffee break is over - work's not doing itself - and life, life rolls on and my frames are collecting dust... if nothing else they all need a good coat of pledge (lemon of course) if they are gonna be basement art fixtures....
Damn if readin Jonny's epic about the damn Old P race in AZ this morn'n doesn't get me fired up and hungry for the same punishment... i'm digging the 'idea' of single speed more and more - diggin it in a way that means i wanna do it but haven't yet - i got the wheel that i built up on a 1x1 hub... the wheel rocks... but... um it's gotta be attached to a bike and what bike is it going on? That full on POS Mantra Carbon beast that i've got - yeah the one with the Rigid uniKlein fork - kinda deserves the single speed treatment... i mean fuck it is a rear suspension bike - i can put the front old school Manitou XCTi fork back on... i jumped it up with some mongo wide bars... gotta tweak and pick the gearing in front i think and then just farking go with it and start riding.
I keep thinkin about the Walden school of thought with the 1000 miles... at this rate i might have 1000 miles in two years if i keep thinking instead of riding... its just when the hell am i gonna ride? Looks like AFTER dinner if its gonna work - that or i bring the shit into my office and ride here - but who wants their office turning into a gym... its enough pain to have the Cross bike sitting here staring at me... its my albatross - and it aint' going away until i start riding something...
And yea - having a newborn AND a 4.5 year old in the house kinda screws everything up as far as me having me time, combined with the farking 1+hour commute each way every day... if only i couuld do it on the bike... hell that's something i've been thinking about doing for 5 years now... riding to work one day... 75-80 miles one way on the back roads... why the fuck haven't i done it yet? I dunno - summers get messed up and i get busy/lazy and i don't really have any good reasons why not - yeah it'd be stupid but its one of those epic stupid things that are worth doing...
Ane the whole "two niner" thing - the guys i used to work with at Velocipede are pretty harsh on em: "Why'd you want something that is heavier and slower"
To a point I agree, larger tires - more rotational force required to get em rolling... slower accel/speed changes, but bigger diameter has gotta be better for bigger riders like me and my 6'6" lanky big size... that and a two niner bike in MY size actually looks right - the XL Adroit or XL Mantra Carbon i've got look stupid goofy - like some tricky 20" bike or worse, like a Bike Friday: not that there is anything wrong with riding a Bike Friday... if you are traveling...
well i'm done - coffee break is over - work's not doing itself - and life, life rolls on and my frames are collecting dust... if nothing else they all need a good coat of pledge (lemon of course) if they are gonna be basement art fixtures....
Monday, February 21, 2005
whats up with the gates
they are ubiquitous on Flick.com right now...
its a short term exhibit set up... here's one example of someone's set
well here are a bunch of links
The Gates
its actually kinda cool... the post started off as a rant about the massive amounts of orange gated pictures... on flickr...
now...
damn its cool...
would be cool to head to NY to see em in person...
this is the pic i like the best... the overhead shot of them all
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/sharedMedia/TheGates/update/tuesday/_H1U1462.jpg
anyway - no i didn't get on the bike - yes i got the plumbing fixed - yes there are visitors at home invading my space... hmmm maybe that means i have a better excuse to get on the rollers when i get home -BINGO-
(adding an addendum - freakin hell if there isn't a flickr.com account setup JUST FOR THE GATES
its a short term exhibit set up... here's one example of someone's set
well here are a bunch of links
The Gates
its actually kinda cool... the post started off as a rant about the massive amounts of orange gated pictures... on flickr...
now...
damn its cool...
would be cool to head to NY to see em in person...
this is the pic i like the best... the overhead shot of them all
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/sharedMedia/TheGates/update/tuesday/_H1U1462.jpg
anyway - no i didn't get on the bike - yes i got the plumbing fixed - yes there are visitors at home invading my space... hmmm maybe that means i have a better excuse to get on the rollers when i get home -BINGO-
(adding an addendum - freakin hell if there isn't a flickr.com account setup JUST FOR THE GATES
Saturday, February 19, 2005
time to ride...
i've got a dream...
i want to race in the single speed clydesdale solo catagory...
in the endurance series here in michigan put on by fun promotions...
but...
that means i gotta start riding...
getting miles on...
and...
most "training diaries" for endurance races say you need to get on the bike in November and put on low intensity base miles for a May/June race...
its february...
i haven't been on my bike yet...
gonna happen?
prolly not...
i had to turn down an invite to do DALMAC so i can keep the dates open for TDIFest...
Call my crazy but a 12 hour mt bike race sounds a LOT more fun than doing a big social quad century...
harder?
definatly...
I miss mt biking...
and the bike in the basement collecting dust do as well...
we'll see - question is...
can i get on the bike this weekend?
even if just the rollers?
I really hope so...
this is very cool and probably what i should do:
how long will it take to build up 1000 miles on the rollers in the garage?
i think its a worthy experiment...
far more so than watching The Amazing Race...
at least Project Runway is over this week...
am i a link happy fool this morning or what?
i'm also a return happy junky...
why?
cause rather than having a paragraph full of those three periods (why the hell can't i rember what they are called-edit-GOOGLE RULES) i decided to try it with a hard return after each: ellipsis (and yeah now that i found it i remeber the name...
okay - well - i should get off so i can get stuff done so i can even have a 'chance' to get on the bike...
right after i fix the plumbing in the bathroom sink i'm guessing...
i want to race in the single speed clydesdale solo catagory...
in the endurance series here in michigan put on by fun promotions...
but...
that means i gotta start riding...
getting miles on...
and...
most "training diaries" for endurance races say you need to get on the bike in November and put on low intensity base miles for a May/June race...
its february...
i haven't been on my bike yet...
gonna happen?
prolly not...
i had to turn down an invite to do DALMAC so i can keep the dates open for TDIFest...
Call my crazy but a 12 hour mt bike race sounds a LOT more fun than doing a big social quad century...
harder?
definatly...
I miss mt biking...
and the bike in the basement collecting dust do as well...
we'll see - question is...
can i get on the bike this weekend?
even if just the rollers?
I really hope so...
this is very cool and probably what i should do:
Michigan coaching legend Mike Walden kept his road racers on a 42/15 fixed gear at a heart rate never to exceed 65% of their maximum until they had logged 1000 miles for the season, and he claimed a single sprint would negate all the "capillary developing" of this phase
how long will it take to build up 1000 miles on the rollers in the garage?
i think its a worthy experiment...
far more so than watching The Amazing Race...
at least Project Runway is over this week...
am i a link happy fool this morning or what?
i'm also a return happy junky...
why?
cause rather than having a paragraph full of those three periods (why the hell can't i rember what they are called-edit-GOOGLE RULES) i decided to try it with a hard return after each: ellipsis (and yeah now that i found it i remeber the name...
okay - well - i should get off so i can get stuff done so i can even have a 'chance' to get on the bike...
right after i fix the plumbing in the bathroom sink i'm guessing...
Friday, February 18, 2005
photography
i've mentioned Flickr a few times lately, and have added the recent upload links on the left...
i like how addicting it is, addicting in a way that is helping me focus on the creative, the presentation and the image...
i've spent so much time just 'snapping' pictures, not to say that i'm recklessly pushing the shutter and hoping for a good image - far from it... its just that before i'd dump a big bunch of unedited (except for rotation) files on a page and leave em up there... and forget about them...
with Flickr i've been forcing myself to thinking about cropping options and which one is better out of two... really starting to be critical about the images...
not only that but the inspiration from looking at others, while i may not have the 'resources' to really do what i want (black and white art nudes) i'm finding the occasional bouts of self portraiture and landscapes filling that desire... there is just something unmatched about the lines of the human body - not in a sexual way but in a sensual tactile way that other subjects cannot offer...
i guess also getting stimulated by the use of the new camera, also the freedom to drag around the old one... but now having used the new one the limitations of the D-460z are painfully apparent... but not limiting, fortunately...
so maybe what i'm saying is - between this oft neglected (in the past) blog and the Flickr space, maybe i can satiate the creative beasts that roam in my head...
maybe...
maybe just for a while...
and that would be okay...
i like how addicting it is, addicting in a way that is helping me focus on the creative, the presentation and the image...
i've spent so much time just 'snapping' pictures, not to say that i'm recklessly pushing the shutter and hoping for a good image - far from it... its just that before i'd dump a big bunch of unedited (except for rotation) files on a page and leave em up there... and forget about them...
with Flickr i've been forcing myself to thinking about cropping options and which one is better out of two... really starting to be critical about the images...
not only that but the inspiration from looking at others, while i may not have the 'resources' to really do what i want (black and white art nudes) i'm finding the occasional bouts of self portraiture and landscapes filling that desire... there is just something unmatched about the lines of the human body - not in a sexual way but in a sensual tactile way that other subjects cannot offer...
i guess also getting stimulated by the use of the new camera, also the freedom to drag around the old one... but now having used the new one the limitations of the D-460z are painfully apparent... but not limiting, fortunately...
so maybe what i'm saying is - between this oft neglected (in the past) blog and the Flickr space, maybe i can satiate the creative beasts that roam in my head...
maybe...
maybe just for a while...
and that would be okay...
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
colors
if not a pure duplicate it is exactly what the i saw in terms of the feeling of driving into a rose colored snowstorm. The snow was just lightly falling as the sun was setting behind the bank of clouds. Thats gotta be how the light was getting that effect...
strangest thing was looking in the rear-view... it was the normal blue gray...
that C-7000 does a fantastic job at nailing the colors... I'm very impressed
that site meter i put up... kinda depressing... i knew no one was checking it out but ... now i know it... itssokay but kinda like being in high school where no one hangs out with ya - and you can make yourself believe it is because they are all busy doing other stuff... then when ya get told - no its cause you are too weird... taht kinda feeling i guess - maybe its that coupled with my lack of sleep and caffine buzz and massive hunger pangs and the 100 extra pounds my head feels light it weighs this morning.
Oh and next week is going to be hell.... i can feel it already... maybe i can just sink into the influences of Drunkcyclist.com and Flickr's groups... that or i could be productive at home and still have a hellacious week... not so much from the work side of stuff - but the 1+ hour commute... well lets say when ya get woken up 4 times in the course of 6 hours... THAT sucks...
Monday, February 14, 2005
... the drive ...
as interesting as it could have been this morning is was not...
few if any cars along the way to work...
roads just wet...
shoulders of the road covered in ice...
remnants of what might have covered the road hours earlier...
and through the mist...
and fog...
a sort of peace is felt...
as it passes by at 120km/hr...
--
yes the new camera showed up, its sweet... just have to get a card reader so i'm not chewing batteries while d/l-ing from the camera - esp those 45meg video files
few if any cars along the way to work...
roads just wet...
shoulders of the road covered in ice...
remnants of what might have covered the road hours earlier...
and through the mist...
and fog...
a sort of peace is felt...
as it passes by at 120km/hr...
--
yes the new camera showed up, its sweet... just have to get a card reader so i'm not chewing batteries while d/l-ing from the camera - esp those 45meg video files
Friday, February 11, 2005
what is a camera?
an escape mechanism?
I didn't start off this blog thinking i'd be all about the images, then i sort of went into the landscape stuff and now with the Flickr.com account i'm liking the ritual of updating and sharing and all...
still nothing redirecting here (other than one brief post at P.'s blogg which kinda strange as much as i think about it and as much as the on stage performer in me is craving broad mass appeal and attention, and considering as many times as i've mentioned it - i'm pretty cool with it...
Finally broke down and just got the C-7000... too many cameras to choose from, sooo soo many cameras with very similar functions... so while i still may be relegated to using the old D-460z as my traveling companion, i can be happy in knowing i've got a great 7 megapixel controllable setup when i need one.
Walking out to the car yesterday afternoon, the brilliant sun had left a nice salt crust over the whole car... and the sun's angle begged me to get at least one good image...
And then with the brilliance i realized with my glasses on i had a new opportunity to capture some images that were different than before... giving me one more mirror surface to play the light off of, and a couple i think were fantastic as black and whites...
the rest of the day's uploads are hanging out in my flickr space...
I didn't start off this blog thinking i'd be all about the images, then i sort of went into the landscape stuff and now with the Flickr.com account i'm liking the ritual of updating and sharing and all...
still nothing redirecting here (other than one brief post at P.'s blogg which kinda strange as much as i think about it and as much as the on stage performer in me is craving broad mass appeal and attention, and considering as many times as i've mentioned it - i'm pretty cool with it...
Finally broke down and just got the C-7000... too many cameras to choose from, sooo soo many cameras with very similar functions... so while i still may be relegated to using the old D-460z as my traveling companion, i can be happy in knowing i've got a great 7 megapixel controllable setup when i need one.
Walking out to the car yesterday afternoon, the brilliant sun had left a nice salt crust over the whole car... and the sun's angle begged me to get at least one good image...
And then with the brilliance i realized with my glasses on i had a new opportunity to capture some images that were different than before... giving me one more mirror surface to play the light off of, and a couple i think were fantastic as black and whites...
the rest of the day's uploads are hanging out in my flickr space...
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Three Days of Michigan
Driving home on Monday:
Same spot driving home on Tuesday:
okay well not quite the same spot... but the same sign...
now onto this morning:
SNOW! Yeah snow...
there are a few more shots like that over there - Big debate ranging in my head is new camera or no new camera...
THis ol' D-460z is SLOW - as in takes many seconds to write each little 1.3MP image... Spend $200 on a little nikon coolpix 4100 or 3200 or something? or jump into an Oly C-7000 or wait for the C-5500 to come out... ahh the fierce debate rages in my head - i should just get one, get it overwith and move on to the next interal head debate...
Same spot driving home on Tuesday:
okay well not quite the same spot... but the same sign...
now onto this morning:
SNOW! Yeah snow...
there are a few more shots like that over there - Big debate ranging in my head is new camera or no new camera...
THis ol' D-460z is SLOW - as in takes many seconds to write each little 1.3MP image... Spend $200 on a little nikon coolpix 4100 or 3200 or something? or jump into an Oly C-7000 or wait for the C-5500 to come out... ahh the fierce debate rages in my head - i should just get one, get it overwith and move on to the next interal head debate...
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
SLEEP
I
NEED
SLEEP
coffee don't do it anymore... it helps but... only a little
when the painter comments that you look like a raccon... that can't be good...
aahhh the joys of parenthood!!!!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
NEED
SLEEP
coffee don't do it anymore... it helps but... only a little
when the painter comments that you look like a raccon... that can't be good...
aahhh the joys of parenthood!!!!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Monday, February 07, 2005
Soo whadda ya know
the pats pulled it off - and man did i enjoy watching it - as much as i could empathize with the Eagles fans... i was uncontrollably root'n for the Pats... even though my FFL playoff league was split between the teams i didn't realize until the game was going on how much i actually wanted the Belly-check boys to win...
oh and good news for the newest family member of ours - she was 3.995 kgs at birth
check this story out for why that's so good
images? today? yeah - i snagged the camera - but damn nothing noteworthy in the fog and drizzle this morning... too cloudy, no sunrise....
And oh BTW - support your LBS!
oh and good news for the newest family member of ours - she was 3.995 kgs at birth
check this story out for why that's so good
images? today? yeah - i snagged the camera - but damn nothing noteworthy in the fog and drizzle this morning... too cloudy, no sunrise....
And oh BTW - support your LBS!
Friday, February 04, 2005
as seen on the drive
a beat up old caprice classic...
merging on the highway...
total rust bucket...
car is obviously neglected...
guy driving it is also neglecting himself...
well over 350 pounds...
car suspension is so toasted...
its sagging visibly under his weight...
And then you realize...
yes indeed Michigan is one of the fattest States in the union...
But surpisingly enough the beat up old car is a rarity...
Salt...
and big three connections keep most of the cars new(er) ...
i should have had the camera with me - to juxstapose the beauty of the sunrise through the fog and clouds...
merging on the highway...
total rust bucket...
car is obviously neglected...
guy driving it is also neglecting himself...
well over 350 pounds...
car suspension is so toasted...
its sagging visibly under his weight...
And then you realize...
yes indeed Michigan is one of the fattest States in the union...
But surpisingly enough the beat up old car is a rarity...
Salt...
and big three connections keep most of the cars new(er) ...
i should have had the camera with me - to juxstapose the beauty of the sunrise through the fog and clouds...
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Time warp
Issa what it feels like... everything a bit fuzzy... facts in order - wait - out of order...
Sleep - a valuable commodity now... how was i ever able to go on no sleep for so long... i must be getting old...
crazy stuff - cool stuff - just a bit - nuts...
a few cool links for today:
a photo 'mapping' site
okay - so there's just one...
---
i keep looking at this format and saying i'm liking it - but then sort of think........ there are really cool sites out there - cool set ups - but then this is mine - a few formatting bits nabbed from other places - but the colors, the image... all mine... the hard to readness of it... mine... but then being stuck in michigan - finding cool hip sites in NYC and heck even in AZ... i just sort of say... hmmm for a michigan basement dwelling giant... it works...
basement - yeah... they've just painted the facility here a peachy apricoty "orange" not a good strong Orange... but its better and brighter than the baby poop brown and tan that was down here before... and yeah - the formating at the facility is messed - it needs to be worked up a bit better - not all the pages are there - some are in process - others - not there yet... oh to be out of michigan... to take my two girls and let them grow up near the salt water - near family... near friends ...................... yeah - i'm a fan of the long strings of periods... my favority punctutation for thoughts... when i used to write letters -by hand- email them to girlfriends (doh - I said email... duh - MAIL - too damn switched - that or no sleep) they'd be these long stream of consiousness flowing random but connected documents... i'm not listening to yahoo now... i've got my winamp relaying T R A N C E kindom's full length DJ mixes as SR is pulling the nice 192 stream in to the HD (damn if music doesn't fill up HD space fast doing that)....
sleep and energy is tied to motivation i think - that and some people are hardwired to be that way.... that and what i think i'm finding is alot of the energy i find is from artistic expression, a littlle from teaching but nothing near what i used to beable to find, and what i still experience with a camera in hand looking to capture a moment, a scene, a landscape...
take my "Magic Hill" session (yeah those are the big image ones.... -meh- i can seem em fine) as an uneditied whole i really enjoy them... i think once they are trimmed down to an exclusive collection they will be impressive... I love my Lecia R3 SLR... but... the frugal side just has a hard time snapping through 160 shots in less than an hour... that and the instant gratification side doesn't want to wait for someone else to process them (color) or spend my time developing and printing (B&W) ... That Lecia Digital camera is something to lust after, but the practical side says - D70.... a mantra in my head now... D70 D70... down side is neither are cheap... and that new C-5500 from Olympus is looking mighty tempting... something to replace the good old dependable D-460zoom that'll be going on 5 years old that still kicks major ass even with a 1.3 MP chip.... ah well -
Manuel Le Saux is beaming in on the LAN... pretty nice - clean mix... i'm liking - need more coffee - might go find some... we'll see
till later
Sleep - a valuable commodity now... how was i ever able to go on no sleep for so long... i must be getting old...
crazy stuff - cool stuff - just a bit - nuts...
a few cool links for today:
a photo 'mapping' site
okay - so there's just one...
---
i keep looking at this format and saying i'm liking it - but then sort of think........ there are really cool sites out there - cool set ups - but then this is mine - a few formatting bits nabbed from other places - but the colors, the image... all mine... the hard to readness of it... mine... but then being stuck in michigan - finding cool hip sites in NYC and heck even in AZ... i just sort of say... hmmm for a michigan basement dwelling giant... it works...
basement - yeah... they've just painted the facility here a peachy apricoty "orange" not a good strong Orange... but its better and brighter than the baby poop brown and tan that was down here before... and yeah - the formating at the facility is messed - it needs to be worked up a bit better - not all the pages are there - some are in process - others - not there yet... oh to be out of michigan... to take my two girls and let them grow up near the salt water - near family... near friends ...................... yeah - i'm a fan of the long strings of periods... my favority punctutation for thoughts... when i used to write letters -by hand- email them to girlfriends (doh - I said email... duh - MAIL - too damn switched - that or no sleep) they'd be these long stream of consiousness flowing random but connected documents... i'm not listening to yahoo now... i've got my winamp relaying T R A N C E kindom's full length DJ mixes as SR is pulling the nice 192 stream in to the HD (damn if music doesn't fill up HD space fast doing that)....
sleep and energy is tied to motivation i think - that and some people are hardwired to be that way.... that and what i think i'm finding is alot of the energy i find is from artistic expression, a littlle from teaching but nothing near what i used to beable to find, and what i still experience with a camera in hand looking to capture a moment, a scene, a landscape...
take my "Magic Hill" session (yeah those are the big image ones.... -meh- i can seem em fine) as an uneditied whole i really enjoy them... i think once they are trimmed down to an exclusive collection they will be impressive... I love my Lecia R3 SLR... but... the frugal side just has a hard time snapping through 160 shots in less than an hour... that and the instant gratification side doesn't want to wait for someone else to process them (color) or spend my time developing and printing (B&W) ... That Lecia Digital camera is something to lust after, but the practical side says - D70.... a mantra in my head now... D70 D70... down side is neither are cheap... and that new C-5500 from Olympus is looking mighty tempting... something to replace the good old dependable D-460zoom that'll be going on 5 years old that still kicks major ass even with a 1.3 MP chip.... ah well -
Manuel Le Saux is beaming in on the LAN... pretty nice - clean mix... i'm liking - need more coffee - might go find some... we'll see
till later
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Driving Thoughts
Why the Freaking hell can't i post live in the car when i'm driving home... it'd be much easier.. i wouldn't need to spend the whole freaking day smackin my head saying WTF was i trying to remember?
Sleep Deprivation sucks... but last night - being awake at 2:30am was freaking heaven... makes it all worthwhile for that moment of pure perfection and joy... call it 15 minutes but there isn't much time when an infant is awake and just happy to be hanging out... they are either angry and pooping or hungry... i can't help with the pooping, and i can't help nurse... i can change diapers and i can hold and comfort... and when the baby is just hanging out looking around listening to your voice... there is nothing like it... nothing at all.
I kinda remember what i was going to say that i thought of last night.
It was spurned by the track from Mightnight Oil's Our Country song... damn if i don't recall right now which album - blame it on the sleep... or lack there of.
But the Song is kick ass perfect for My Country now. It my country right or wrong... and that fact is what i've got to hold on to and believe in and hope that someday it will be right again and not trip and fall into the pit of retarded fundamentalism and all that crap...
OH btw - FireFox ROCKS... that and its -6ºF here right now... thats right folks - minus 6 on the scale that only the AmuriKans like to use exclusively... -21ºC for those F impaired... tonight it is supposed to be a balmy -10ºF (-23ºC) Thankfully i don't have to make the 75 mile pilgrimage to work tomorrow... the old Golf can sit in the garage tonight and chill... this morning it was subject to the GD outside... still got plugged in but there is a massive difference in being plugged in inside the garage and being plugged in outside in -6ºF weather... It took me a good 15-20 minutes to warm up just getting into the car and slowly loosing all my body heat...
Well - one of these day's i'll get a picture or two up...
Also one of these days i'll get on my Bike and ride... i can only hope this job comes through and i can start commuting by bike again... but in the mean time i gotta get my ass in shape so i can be around and beable to keep up with my girls...
Sleep Deprivation sucks... but last night - being awake at 2:30am was freaking heaven... makes it all worthwhile for that moment of pure perfection and joy... call it 15 minutes but there isn't much time when an infant is awake and just happy to be hanging out... they are either angry and pooping or hungry... i can't help with the pooping, and i can't help nurse... i can change diapers and i can hold and comfort... and when the baby is just hanging out looking around listening to your voice... there is nothing like it... nothing at all.
I kinda remember what i was going to say that i thought of last night.
It was spurned by the track from Mightnight Oil's Our Country song... damn if i don't recall right now which album - blame it on the sleep... or lack there of.
But the Song is kick ass perfect for My Country now. It my country right or wrong... and that fact is what i've got to hold on to and believe in and hope that someday it will be right again and not trip and fall into the pit of retarded fundamentalism and all that crap...
OH btw - FireFox ROCKS... that and its -6ºF here right now... thats right folks - minus 6 on the scale that only the AmuriKans like to use exclusively... -21ºC for those F impaired... tonight it is supposed to be a balmy -10ºF (-23ºC) Thankfully i don't have to make the 75 mile pilgrimage to work tomorrow... the old Golf can sit in the garage tonight and chill... this morning it was subject to the GD outside... still got plugged in but there is a massive difference in being plugged in inside the garage and being plugged in outside in -6ºF weather... It took me a good 15-20 minutes to warm up just getting into the car and slowly loosing all my body heat...
Well - one of these day's i'll get a picture or two up...
Also one of these days i'll get on my Bike and ride... i can only hope this job comes through and i can start commuting by bike again... but in the mean time i gotta get my ass in shape so i can be around and beable to keep up with my girls...
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Patrick O'Grady is Da Man
what more can be said than his current page... http://www.maddogmedia.com/
No doubt in honor of the disgrace about to befall this country of mine... a loose cannon who's dumber than a box of rocks, who's daddy bought him every position he's "attained" and who now believes he's got a "mandat" with a "win" in an election, its as if he acknowledged that he DIDN'T win his first term...
the quote OGrady's got on his page now is this:
and how true it is
and how sad it will be... here's a cup of coffee raised to the nation in hopes that the second term proves to follow history, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton... 2nd term scandal... BRING IT ON... not that there is any evidence lacking...
Doesn't Rice just sound like a smug brash bitch? She's out right lieing... and if she isn't knowingly purguring her self and if she actually believes what she is saying, she is sick. She needs to be committed for evaluation and mind control. Powel was the last free thinking in that adminstration. He might have been conservative but he was an "outsider" of the GWButthead machine that his daddy has paid for and supported.
We the impoverished people, We the undertaxed and overextended people, We the country of misguided morals and corporate corruption...
I will NOT be watching a bit of this crap from today- nothing of the sort... i'm gonna boycot the events
No doubt in honor of the disgrace about to befall this country of mine... a loose cannon who's dumber than a box of rocks, who's daddy bought him every position he's "attained" and who now believes he's got a "mandat" with a "win" in an election, its as if he acknowledged that he DIDN'T win his first term...
the quote OGrady's got on his page now is this:
"We are to guard against ourselves; not against ourselves as we are, but as we may be; for who can imagine what we may become under circumstances not now imaginable?" — Thomas Jefferson to Jedidiah Morse, 1822.
and how true it is
and how sad it will be... here's a cup of coffee raised to the nation in hopes that the second term proves to follow history, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton... 2nd term scandal... BRING IT ON... not that there is any evidence lacking...
Doesn't Rice just sound like a smug brash bitch? She's out right lieing... and if she isn't knowingly purguring her self and if she actually believes what she is saying, she is sick. She needs to be committed for evaluation and mind control. Powel was the last free thinking in that adminstration. He might have been conservative but he was an "outsider" of the GWButthead machine that his daddy has paid for and supported.
We the impoverished people, We the undertaxed and overextended people, We the country of misguided morals and corporate corruption...
I will NOT be watching a bit of this crap from today- nothing of the sort... i'm gonna boycot the events
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