Man-hat-tan

After photography class today, I went to Manhattan Bagel and 'illed for a bit with a Jalepeno cheddar bagel pasted with hot cream cheese.  Now that I think about cheddar and cream cheese, I'm so glad cream cheese isn't really cheese like cheddar is. Cuz that'd be kinda wierd, to have some spray cheese on your bagel. yuck.

Anyway, this picture has decent color qualities if you need such ones. ;)

Lame, or not?

Here's an interesting snippet of a recent conversation of mine with a friend on AIM:

-She said i was lame, so I expanded below:
iamnoteastwood: lame has "me" in it, so i must be lame!
iamnoteastwood: quotes, i love making a good quote
iamnoteastwood: lame is also the unofficial root word of "lament", so that's pretty miserable
"Ruth": haha
"Ruth": wow
iamnoteastwood: and "lament" has "men" in it...cuz as we all know, men are lame, and women lament over them
"Ruth": lol
iamnoteastwood: so..in saying all of this, i conclude that the word lame, is ultimately derived from the description of man from the point of view of woman
"Ruth": wow very analytical
"Ruth": lolll
iamnoteastwood: interesting, i never thought of it that way.

bonus expantion:
iamnoteastwood: since women and men are different in the way that it's like, "woah man!" and they are much more than man, then that would mean they are naturally more lame than men but only a deep thinker would figure that out, because us stupid men only see the word lame, itself. phew. good thing the women know that too.
iamnoteastwood: they know we don't analyze things.
"Ruth": LOL
iamnoteastwood: indeed
"Ruth": thats amazing

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In other news, I started a new blog (xfaktorhdr.blogspot.com) where I put High Dynamic Range photos that I spontaneously decided to start shooting and compiling.  It's a pretty sweet concept. Check it out.

Early

f/2.8 | 1/500s | iso400 | 17mm

@6:49am

Spontaneity

Some St. Patty's Day tones...

Our chef, Jeff, from the Beninhana Hibachi Grill. :)

Had little sleep, lotta caffeine, and bought some kicks for the woman, and had a nice dinner at Benihana's for our 8-monthiversary/St. Patty's shindiginous. ;) Yay!

I had some chicken picante entree, and she had the beef teriyaki, lotta good food.  Certainly filled up satisfied on it. :)  $58

Regent Events

stool

mini muffins

a la creme

The lady & I went to the ol' Regent Diner in Lakewood/Howell,NJ this past Sunday. It was nice. We had waffles and I had some extra eggs and sausage with mine. Tea was good.

total: $18.75 + $2 tip

DSC4000!

That would be my 4,000th picture shot yesterday with my Sony Alpha, since I've had it in Sept 08.  I'm shutter-happy.  I assume, this camera won't poop out at 5 or 6 thousand pix like the other cameras I had before it.  I never reached DSC7000 on any of my cameras, yet. I've gone through 5 cameras, and this Alpha is number six:

-Kodak LS420 2.1MP

-Sony U40/S 2MP

-Sony T5/B 5MP

-Sony T5/S 5MP

-Sony T500/B 10.1MP

-Sony Alpha 300 10.2MP

-The next?  Sony A900? (yeah right.)

Energy.

Good color.  I came by the store today and was tempted to get some Full Throttle, but found the color of the cans to be more benefitting to my well-being. :)

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Question Mark Man

A recent, well-dressed client of mine, poses for the shot.

X FAKTOR PHOTO!

C-ing Beef and Twisted Metal

Corned Beef, that is. Lot's of it, and I have no relation to or take part in anything Irish whatsoever.  My emails start with "cornbeef"! Ugh!

I like the color orange, and I like oranges, but I don't like the color when applied to natural hair.

I like lime too.

Classic.

Winter Games '09

Real winter came late this year. March 1st and 2nd, and we get like 13inches of snow and nasty 10-degree wind-chills on the "Cemetary Hill" in Eatontown, NJ, as the little snot-nosed brats fly down the hill till their boogers freeze across their cheeks. Woo!

Everything was white..

Somewhere around 13 inches of snow fell between last nite and today.

The above pic: That's the actual color and light intensity at 12:30am last nite.

Just wanted to take a macro pic, then I picked up my 30-06 shell

...and my knife from TN.

New Logo!

If anyone, out of the billions of people out there, cares...I redesigned my logo above. :)

Moving on from day 1.

My cup runneth over...

My meta-physical sponge of learning is saturated, thus, my cup runneth over...

My tolerance for the ridiculous abstract has come to an end, thus, my cup runneth over...

The things I have to worry about have yet to subside, thus, my cup runneth over...

Responsibility is a never ending list, thus, my cup runneth over...

My ability to function efficiently is decreasing at an exponential rate, thus, my cup runneth over...

In all of this, you understand, hopefully, that I am overwhelmed, and therefore cannot function further due to an excess of 100% stress on my soul.

What to do when your cup runneth over?

Drink or Spill it.

Start filling it up again.

FEAR 2 & diNovo Keyboard

First off, FEAR 2 is disgusting.  Disgustingly disgusting and distgustingly amazing.

And so is the diNovo keyboard I just received last night.  Great solid keyboard with wireless freedom. woo!  With the supplied SetPoint software, I can customize both the MX Revolution mouse and the diNovo keyboard so that it's no different than when I'm at the desk with my customized G17 keyboard and Razer mouse.

And another thing about FEAR 2......yuck.  I believe I played it to halfway through all just yesterday.  I cannot yet describe how awesome or gore-ily disgusting this game is, but I can say that if you like Call of Duty gameplay and graphics, and like Resident Evil and probably all other horror games, check this out.

Loaded.

the XF theater in its current state

that's my receiver displaying the "X FAKTOR" input.

SIGMA Lenses

Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4.5 DC MACRO Lens

My intentions when buying this lens were to replace both my kit Sony lens (18-70mm) and my Sony T500 camera (macro camera).  I bought it off eBay and received it this night for $320.  It retails for $610. This lens is highly versatile. I took it out of the box and was impressed with its macro capabilities.  When zoom set at 70mm, I can focus as close as one centimeter from the lens, with a 1/4.5 aperature.  Excellent.  Great quality, great finish, and compatibility with my Sony Alpha.  A very solid, yet durable and versatile lens.

SIGMA 70-300mm f/4-5.6

This lens, however, I just bought tonight after seeing how great the first one was, I couldn't help but want to replace my Sony 75-300mm lens.  This one retails for $210, I bought new for $150, (but only because I added $10 for 2nd day air shipping)  Should be nice.

Upgrades.

That's a beautiful SIGMA 17-70mm Macro Lens, finally got one.

The Vizio 42" 1080p HD LCDTV

Western Digital 2TB Mirror Edition External HardDrive

Logitech MX Revolution wireless mouse

DE M85A Airsoft Shotgun

F.IRST E.NCOUNTER A.SSAULT R.ECON 2 for 360

The ultraslim Logitech diNovo wireless keyboard

Yep, so those are the upgrades for the first quarter of 2009. Party time.

The Million-Dollar Keyboard

Apparently, since this Logitech diNovo Keyboard is "Temporarily Out of Stock", it would take the sum of $1,019,448.55 to increse their efforts and get that keyboard to you. Amazing. I wonder how the system came up with that number?

Michael & Mary together again!

um, yeah, I'm pretty sure it explains itself.

If you want the cereal box featured atop, I'll be posting an auction in eBay soon, so check back here for the link. :P