A+E Interactive: REVIEW: Billy Corgan Embraces the Future on First Solo Album
Thanks Anne for pointing this out!
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Why people suck
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Shark Catch)
Quote from the fisherman:
I felt bad that we caught her at the prime of her reproductive cycle. When they get to be this massive they call them queens of the sea. I would have let her go if I had been by myself, but it's different when you have four or five other guys on the boat. You've got to win.
Quote from the fisherman:
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Strange days
Sitting at home on a Saturday night. There's loud music coming from somewhere and I've been sitting too long. Took the strangest walk around the block. The music is coming from the community center, which is filled with young people dancing like it's going out of style to a blaring Grease soundtrack. Tried hard not to laugh. One corner later, watched a pimped out Mercedes try to get to 80mph in the 50 yards between red lights. Walked back in to Dennis Hooper ranting about the virtues of Kurtz.
Strange days...
Strange days...
Canon camera woes
I'm sure everyone noticed that there haven't been any new pictures up in my image gallery. That's thanks to my Canon S400 crapping out on me. A while back it started giving memory card errors that would, from time to time, go away long enough to get a few pictures. Now the errors are permanent and the camera doesn't work at all.
I did some searching around online only to find out that many people have had the same problem, right around the 2 year mark, just after the warranty is up. I emailed Canon support only to get the same answer that everyone else got; minimum $150-$300 repair charge, not including parts or additional damages. Wonderful...
It's too bad I told so many people to buy these cameras, I really hope that their cameras don't have the same problem.
I will give Canon one prop. They offer an upgrade to a S410 for $175. That's at least kinda nice. A $250 camera for only $175... plus the $365 for the camera that doesn't work...
Eli's selling his old Olypmus C4000 with the Light and Motion underwater housing. I'm thinking about buying that, but it's slightly more that $175. What to do, what to do.
Darn toys
I did some searching around online only to find out that many people have had the same problem, right around the 2 year mark, just after the warranty is up. I emailed Canon support only to get the same answer that everyone else got; minimum $150-$300 repair charge, not including parts or additional damages. Wonderful...
It's too bad I told so many people to buy these cameras, I really hope that their cameras don't have the same problem.
I will give Canon one prop. They offer an upgrade to a S410 for $175. That's at least kinda nice. A $250 camera for only $175... plus the $365 for the camera that doesn't work...
Eli's selling his old Olypmus C4000 with the Light and Motion underwater housing. I'm thinking about buying that, but it's slightly more that $175. What to do, what to do.
Darn toys
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Bioluminescence
Last night some friends and I went surfing out in Cardiff in the red tide at dusk to see these little creatures called dinoflagellates light up the night. We surfed in the dark for about 45 incredible minutes. The bio-lum was bright bright blue-green and every wave that would break looked like a smoldering fire in blues rather than reds.
Read about these amazing creatures
http://siobiolum.ucsd.edu/Dino_bl.html
http://www.surfshot.com/items/item/221/223
Some professional pictures: http://www.biobay.com/
Nathan showed up and hung out even after the crazed tsunami scare. He and Tracy stayed late on the beach to play in the sand and tidepools. His story is here
For anyone in SD, I highly recommend swallowing your fear and going for a midnight swim somewhere in Cardiff/Encinitas
Cheers
Read about these amazing creatures
http://siobiolum.ucsd.edu/Dino_bl.html
http://www.surfshot.com/items/item/221/223
Some professional pictures: http://www.biobay.com/
Nathan showed up and hung out even after the crazed tsunami scare. He and Tracy stayed late on the beach to play in the sand and tidepools. His story is here
For anyone in SD, I highly recommend swallowing your fear and going for a midnight swim somewhere in Cardiff/Encinitas
Cheers
Who's who?
The other night I stayed up way too late watching The Goonies specifically because I thought Mikey (Sean Austin) was E from Entourage. Turns out E is Kevin Connolly and I'm not very bright.
Anyways, Goonies is pretty funny. Chunk cracked me up.
Francis Fratelli: Tell us everything! Everything!
Chunk: Everything. OK! I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog... When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out... But the worst thing I ever done - I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.
Why didn't he go anywhere?
Anyways, Goonies is pretty funny. Chunk cracked me up.
Francis Fratelli: Tell us everything! Everything!
Chunk: Everything. OK! I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog... When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out... But the worst thing I ever done - I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.
Why didn't he go anywhere?
Monday, June 13, 2005
Kit Armstrong, Wizz Kid
Heard this kid on the radio over the weekend. He's crazy talented.
NPR : Kit Armstrong, Prepared for a Key Performance
NPR : Kit Armstrong, Prepared for a Key Performance
Friday, June 10, 2005
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
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