After much wrestling with self and encouragement from friends (do you have to push a guy who is already about to jump?), I have decided to buy the Nikon D90 with 18-105mm lens. I ordered it last night from Amazon.com. It is on its way here now via UPS Next Day service. I feel that […]
Remember a blog entry a few weeks ago, one in which I mention that there is certain criteria for getting an upgraded body? Well, I haven’t met that criteria, but it doesn’t stop me from wanting to upgrade. I have had several situations in which having the different body would have helped me get a […]
If you have a password that is so long that you sometimes lose your place and have to start over, the password may be too long or too complex.
About 7 minutes ago my step sister gave birth to a baby. The interesting thing about this is that with the empowerment of a BlackBerry, all of her friends and family have been kept in the loop on the events of the day since about 4am, when she happily announced that contractions suck, but epidurals […]
One of the most difficult things I have found is giving titles to photographic work. When I upload to Flickr I tend to do it all as a batch in a rather unpolished kind of way. I don’t tag and I don’t title. It’s just there, for the taking. Some of my photographs I have […]
Enemies are closer to being your friends than strangers.
I believe portrait photography to be the hardest form of photography there is, now imagine applying that principle to 21 people, plus one dog. First of all, in this situation, I find that the more legs a subject has, the more cooperative they are. There are many things to consider when taking a portrait, the […]
I am beginning to hate Blackboard for many things. First of all, most courses are based on these things called “due dates”, which I can only assume were never used before distance education, since Blackboard doesn’t seem to support them. Nowhere on an assignment in Blackboard is there a listing of a due date, or […]
We have an ID. It is a Florida Predatory Stink Bug. Copyright © 2006 Charles Weber http://www.entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/e_floridanus.htm http://bugguide.net/node/view/2716