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Closure

Well, today, April 2nd, 2009, believe it or not, I got this plastic card that says I can [legally] drive a motor vehicle.

Allow me to make my statement concerning this matter:

"YOU'RE WELCOME."

Next, I'd like to say that X-Men Origins: Wolverine was really good, even though the 3D renderings were not yet textured.  Solid movie, Hugh Jackman is the man, and a beast as clearly depicted in the film. Awesome.

that's all.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Uh-oh, looks like someone leaked the "WORKPRINT" to this highly anticipated movie which comes to theaters May 1st.  I half want to see the workprint, merely because of the kid in me that wants it first before the other kids on the block get it.  Half don't wanna because I don't wanna ruin the movie for me, as I have heard that it doesn't have everything in it, and it's 14 minutes shorter, but still totaling 101min.

Maybe I'll have my boss watch it first.

More on that later.

Character

I've been known to say patience builds character, and today I built some.  Between lousy pictures like the one above, and lousy service at the below diner, I've had enough for a day.

Good lighting and color, but I couldn't get the focus right, and the cold was piercing through my button-down shirt, so I didn't have enough "character" to get this one right.  The colder weather made up my mind to not care for shooting that nite.  Lousy of me, since I used to jump on just about any photographic opportunity that came my way.  Gotta build up some more character.

The Usual, Please.

We're young. So, whenever I feel like it, we go out to Applebee's or wherever and get some dinna or cheap appetizers.  But, the thing that always stays the same no matter where we go, is the drink.  Coca-Cola with lime, please. Mm. Nothin' better than real Coke with fresh lime...which we really only had once, since I went across the street to get the lime that time.

We've been getting our Coke-lime drink at Applebee's for some time now, and just a couple nites ago, we get this waiter who tells me all they have is Pepsi.  Since when??  "Since, uh, as long as I've been working here..."  What?  So you mean to tell me that we've been asking for Coke and they've been cheating us all this time?  Wow, don't I feel stupid. 

So apparently there's really no difference between Coke and Pepsi, in fact...they were once joined (in a way) Pepsi-Cola!  With that red and blue logo; funny how Coke is red and Pepsi is blue though, but I think Pepsi knows that it stole the awesome soda idea from Coke, so it gave it some props with the "-Cola" thing and putting red in it's logo. Ta-da!

Coke owns.  Coke with lime is other-worldly.

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

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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.