(lesson 9 to be posted in the next week)
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"Two photos of yourself" (haven’t done them yet)
"Two photos of a person you know well" (My cousin, Alexis)
"Two photographs of a person you do not know well" (My aunt’s neighbor, Darien)
Party Over
The party is over. The decorations are down, and large quantities of beef and sausage have been consumed. I entered the party with the intention of taking a few pictures during the day, thinking I wouldn’t do more than 50 or so, but at the end of the day when they were all transferred, the total was around 700 exposures, at about 1000MB. I’m hoping to get them sorted out and post a few tomorrow. After I post some here, I guess I have to make about 5 copies of the pictures on CD to distribute to party guests.
My Day – July 3, 2008
Another haphazard day of half-assed work on stuff for the party tomorrow. Somehow almost everything is in place except for the decorations and the food, all of which can be done in the morning with great ease and grace. Had food from a restaurant I have never eaten at before tonight, Jim ‘n Nick’s BBQ, its actually decent food and the people are kind of overly friendly. The patio is clean, and so are the glass doors (somehow I get stuck with the shitty jobs around the house). Chris and I are both exhausted and I really want to go home, and we need to get my aunt to bed. I am a lot less angry this year, so maybe I will enjoy tomorrow, if not, fuck it and Ill try again next year.
ART390 Final Project Selected
For digital photography I have decided to do a macro photography series for my final project. I am still working on the details of the project, but the general idea will be a series of distinct images that showcase what macro photography can do. I have to complete my project by July 22. I think I am going to have a lot of fun looking for little things to photograph. I’ve already started playing with bees and of course the fine details of flowers.
Photography – Lesson 8
Photography – Lesson 7
draft-kularski-spam-spamreduce
There it is, proof that nothing dies on the Internet. During 2003-2004 I worked on a document known as an Internet-Draft document… documents with the power of RFCs with a short-term goal, or documents that are candidates for being RFCs. My document was in the second category, it was on the independent submission track for Informational RFC documents. Funny thing about I-Ds, they expire after 6 months. Once expired they are deleted from the IETF’s official archives. Unfortunately, to this day, when you search for "kularski" in Google, that document still comes up, haunting me.
I remain a little embarrassed at the simplicity and narrow view of the document, but yet there is no way to make the Internet forget that it existed. To make things worse, the document is linked from many SPAM resource websites as well as referenced in a patent application or two. Its really quite a horrible document and I don’t know why anyone would list it or reference it.
Proof that it is DEAD: https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-kularski-spam-spamreduce/
Internet Society’s copy of the draft: http://ietfreport.isoc.org/all-ids/draft-kularski-spam-spamreduce-06.txt
I really wish this document from my past would go away now. 
Coupling Off and Pairing Up
Lately there has been a trend among my friends and acquaintances from high school…. they are all getting married or getting partnered up in some form or another. I feel so strange because its as though everyone else is moving forward and I’m just stuck. Everyone seems so certain about their futures, and I’m in undecided hell, waiting to figure out what I want to do with my life.
Sad Realization
It is really sad when you figure out that all of your friends go to bed right after you do… kind of means you are at the top of the social pole I guess… Odd feeling, since usually I consider myself the lowest form of social contact.
My Day – June 29, 2008
Not much again today. Woke up kind of late, which really felt good. I went to help my aunt some more today. We got a lot done, painted some cement flowers, oiled a glider, pruned some bushes, places a glow in the dark mushroom and watched National Treasure 2 while eating some Italian fast food (I had Garlic-Herb Roasted Chicken with Broccoli in a cream sauce). At varying points during the day I also took some pictures. I don’t know how well or not they came out. I will check on that in the morning, hopefully before going on a hike.