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Sad songs say so much
Isis has been moping since the vet made him wear a collar so he’d stop licking his battle scar, and he looked just completely forlorn and desperate to go outside. I, of course, saw that as an opportunity to take a couple of photos and play with some lighting.
20,000 miles
It’s odd. I don’t consider myself one of those “world travelers”. A year ago I didn’t even really have the desire to travel outside of the U.S. “There’s so much to see here, I don’t need to go over the ocean,” I would say. But life has an odd way of making decisions for you….
The crime line
Jeez… and all this time I thought it was a myth that Amherst didn’t want the MetroRail extended to it’s town because it would bring the crime to it from the city. Turns out, that’s actually a fact in places like “idyllic” Portland. When TriMet opened the light-rail line in 1986, it eliminated its transit…
The Shot
I’ve been watching “The Shot” on VH1, a pretty standard formula reality show about a group of budding photographers. I started watching it thinking it might be interesting since I like photography myself. Unfortunately, I think it suffers from not getting enough into the photography aspect, and focusing too much on the personalities of the…
Pause
After seven parties in six days, we finally get a break… until New Year’s Eve, when everyone will be coming here. Christmas is by far the busiest season for us. Amanda sang four masses between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, in between the various parties. I used my last two vacation days on the 21st…
Many years ago I requested that a new key be added to every developer’s keyboard – the EXP, or “Execute Programmer” key – which would send 5,000 volts through any programmer needing to be removed from the world’s programming pool.
I think it would have saved many of us considerable grief in the long run.
BBD