city of eggs

Would you rather build your own omelet or be presented with a pre-made set of ingredients? Egg whites, feta, mushrooms, spinach, avocado, red and green pepers, with salsa and light sharp cheddar on top. Maybe I’ll get a Western Omelet instead. Sure it’s lacking a few things I love about the first choice, but it adds a unique spin to something that I had never thought of before.

Which one is more interesting to my palate? I know exactly what to expect with the first choice. Does it still taste as good as something unexpected? This is also why you go to Nobu and do not, under and circumstances, order anything from a menu or get a meager roll made with rice. Bland, boring, expected I would say.

What if you see something on the menu that has been pre-meditated, yet seems perfectly custom created for your unique palate?

Dear Mr. BlurryCam

I have a handful of professional photographer friends. One teaches at Weber, one shoots everything from random objects to local city events, one doesn’t shoot as much as she used to, but taught me a lot about the fundamentals of photography. These three have helped me the most in my pursuit of photographic success. All three are incredibly talented at what they do. I find myself constantly seeking advice from two of them nowadays as my basic skills have developed. Which lens would be the best value, what’s a good technique to shoot like …this…, when is a good time to shoot at this location, etc. etc.

The teacher (Barrett) will also take pictures with me from time to time when I need to do something at work. Last week we took to the roof to get some ideas about some sunset pictures. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky so it was more of a training, lighting and timing exercise than it was anything else. With that in mind we hauled my secondary tripod (craptastic) and took a couple of test shots. Barrett quickly noticed that I had my camera set to autofocus. What ensued was something about me being a pussy and how real photographers don’t use autofocus when doing landscape, something, something, something. He quickly switched it to manual and we set it for infinity focal distance due to the occasion and went on about our merry way.

Fast forward to last night…

My brother and future wife decided to have a co-bachelor/bachelorette part a week before their wedding. Suffice to say, it was an awesome time, with one little caveat. I didn’t really man the camera so I let everyone else take photos with it. Needless to say, Mr. BlurryCam showed up due to the previous setting from earlier in the week. All the pictures that were shot, turned out blurry.

Despite Mr. BlurryCam it was an awesome party and I found one of my favorite pictures of my brother in the set. His smile is infectious and I’m so excited for the life he is about to start…

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snippets

these are the types of IM conversations i have at work…

Aurelia: there is no reason for me to ask this but i can’t help myself. 
Aurelia: do you really not like blowjobs?
Aurelia: can i ask you a really personal question?
Chris: yup
Aurelia: well…. you have had a good blow job in your life right? Something better to compare to the bad ones you got from your ex.
Chris: yeah, i have… still not my thing
Aurelia: ok :)
Aurelia: it’s not for everyone
Chris: if im presented with sex or a blow job, ill take sex… if i was to choose between going down on a girl and a girl going down on me, i would choose to go down on a girl, i will take a blow job over prolonged cuddling on most occasions
Aurelia: lol
Aurelia: i have to go into some interviews. talk to you later… blow job hater.

 

josh: yeah, but you have 2GB of ram
cmillar: not on my G4
dan: I’ll try it at home on one of my celerons
cmillar: or my iMac at home
josh: how does it work on your imac?
josh: err G4
cmillar: not good
josh: with all the chrome excitement did anyone notice the release of face-recognition in Picasa Web?
josh: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/news-from-picasa-team.html
cmillar: does the proximity car key implementations use RFID?
cmillar: do the…
josh: RFID is a blanket term
cmillar: pardon the grammar
josh: technically our Proximity security cards are RFID
josh: but yes they use a chip that talks via RF and they have an embedded unique ID

 

Chris: hmmm, to go or not go
Madi: free m&ms … you need calories, remember
Chris: dude, i just had a cupcake
Madi: dude – eat another one

 

twotontubbie: wanna hang out soon?
Chris: yes, of course
twotontubbie: i can’t do anything at all that requires money cause i have ZERO
Chris: thats fine, i don’t charge for sex anymore… see! Im making strides too!
twotontubbie: oh wow chris… i never thought you’d do that!!! i’m so so so proud of you!
twotontubbie: so now you’re not a hooker, you’re a whore

chicken of the sea

If you’ve ever gone fishing before, you know it can be a pain in the ass, and a lot of the time you go home empty handed. It’s the nature of the game, the challenge of the hunt. Depending on whether or not you’re a lure fan, or a live bait fan can change the type of pursuit as well. You have some fisherman that simply cast and cast with their lures hoping that the shiny spinner will be enough to hook a fish, and if not, cast and cast again. Then there are the live bait types. These fisherman fundamentally believe that substance and nutrition will claim a fish worthy of the wait.

No matter what type of fisherman you are, the hook and pull technique seems to be the preferred method once a nibble is detected. You feel it in your rod as a subtle little bouncing motion, you wonder if you hit seaweed or if it’s truly a fish, and you pull back hard hoping your hook was enough and hoping your not about to reel in something other than a large mouth bass (hey, everyone likes blowjobs, right?). As your line starts running out in the opposite direction you know the fish has been hooked and it’s time to reel them in. If you reel too fast you’ll snap your line and the fish will go on about it’s merry way. If you reel in too slow, you and the fish will get bored and tired. You also hope that it wasn’t just recently caught by another fisherman. After all, you came for excitement and curiosity, not tired and worn out. If you and the fish so happen to give the right amount, and take the right amount, you will find the fish slowly coming closer and closer to your boat.

You finally get your first good look. As luck would have it, it’s not the large mouth, but it is an absolutely beautiful and rare fighting fish. You realize that it’s too wonderful to eat quite yet, and too beautiful let go. You take it home, do as it requested and put it in a bowl to be marveled at while maintaining a safe distance from other fish. You know that if you were to introduce the fish to another fish, nature would intervene and a fight would be had. As the years pass you long to see your beautiful fish interact, you wish it was a little less bite, and a little more practical, as for someday you want to swallow it and make it part of you. You decide to return your fighting fish to the sea, knowing that while it was an almost perfect pairing, these are neither of your natural habitats. You want more interaction and your fish cannot help but fight with anything in it’s path. It’s the fight and beauty that held your interest for so long, but practicality and long term needs set in and you hadn’t been fishing in ages.

You finally release your fish into the vast body of water it came from while you stay and sit in peace on the still morning water. As you sit and ponder life, you think about taking up fishing once again. You wonder if you should start using lures this time, or if you should try a different approach. Almost immediately the calmness of the water is disrupted by a beautiful small mouth bass jumping out of water and glistening in the sunrise. You think to yourself, if live bait has gotten me this far, how much further can it get me? You row your boat in the direction of the bass, remove your trusty rod, find a new worm, and cast into the morning sunrise… Afterall, maybe not everyone likes blowjobs.

Mini

What doesn’t take up an entire coffee shop table, is stylish, runs linux (with decent power management) and costs $349?

The Dell Mini 9… a 9″ wide netbook that weighs less than 2.5 pounds. I could significantly lighten my load with this… ever since I got rid of my 12″ powerbook I’ve hated how big my 13″ Macbook is. The Mini 9 may be a good interim solution until Apple pulls it’s head out and realizes people care more about width than they do about thinness. No one cares how thin a laptop is when it still takes up the majority of a small table.