So it looks like I will be getting the 3G iPhone this Saturday and I need help choosing a color. Should I get the 16gb iPhone in Black or White? I really appreciate your votes on this!
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I am leaning towards to the black iPhone, looks sleek and should not show dirt as easily. The white is luxurious but kinda not my style, I think… Hmmm… Either way they will be in a case.
Last night I had a dream I was getting my iPhone, the AT&T store was guarded by Apple employees with machine guns. It was scary.
Last night, after enjoying a meatless bar-b-que with Geoffrey I went off to The Blue Note to see Chase’s band, Scouts, play.
I hung around for the first band to play, headed by a feisty lesbian (broad assumption), they rocked pretty hard. Not my particular style, but I did enjoy their sound. I had not been to The Blue Note in a while so that was fun in itself. Not many people were around for the first band, but as they left the stage and Scouts went on to setup, people starting coming in through the woodwork.
I watched them set up their stuff. Glad I didn’t have to do it.
They were awesome, of course. Just for who cares, my friend Chase is the guy directly above this picture. It’s pretty cool, like three of the guys in the band all play percussion, keyboard and guitar. Something like that. I thought that was pretty awesome, but maybe that’s cause i don’t play any of those things…
I went upstairs to waste some time while their broke down their stuff and saw a sign for the women’s restroom and it totally reminded me of how Chase says “ladies”. So… I took a picture of it. Of course I did.
The concert was great, I look forward to hearing them play again, hopefully a longer set. I’m also hoping to do some photography for them, just like some studio type work, but we’d need to find a cool set/place and I’d probably need to get some new strobes (read, an SB-800 or two) to do it properly. Course, for that money, I could get an AlienBees strobe light setup which would kick 20 SB-800’s collective asses!
This is the first time for me to come back to Houston and not hang out with high school friends. It seems that I have reached the point in my life where old friends have become forgotten friends. I spend my time with my family and alone doing work instead of prowling the town into the late wee hours of the morning.
I was just here in March for Spring Break and my Lasik surgery and even then I had friends with whom I got to enjoy my time here. It is amazing to me how quickly our lives change and how few of my former high school classmates have decided to stay in Houston, or even Texas altogether.
It isn’t just my high school friends either. My friends from Mizzou seem to be moving to the coasts, primarily San Francisco and New York City/Washington DC.
And coincidently, or perhaps not, right now Ryan and I are planning our escape and what are the two top places on our list? San Francisco (the bay area) and Washington DC.
What is that draws us all so far from the Midwest? What is so undesirable? The east and west coasts are significantly more expensive and the job market is much more competitive, especially for college graduates. Housing is up to ten times more expensive on average and crime is up.
We sacrifice security, cheap housing and our set of wheels for these destinations and what’s more? We stay there! This isn’t a vacation. On top of that, we recruit. I can’t count the number of people that moved to San Francisco after I did.
Alas, until Ryan and I pack our things and move to the coasts of California or the Capitol City, we will be rehearsing our goodbyes as our dwindling number of friends continue to venture out of Middle America for the cities with the power to make, or crush dreams.
I’ve been getting toys like crazy lately huh? It’s all for a reason, or at least it is in my head. Here are my latest two gems. Arrived today from Amazon.com is the Crumpler 7 Million Dollar Home. This holds ALL of my photo equipment, less the tripods and ARRI lighting kits haha.
That’s not my stuff (which is too bad cause DAMN!) but that is my bag. I’ll be reviewing this guy after a while once I get to use it a bit. So far I could not be happier. Took a bit to get it properly configured but wow, what a wonderful fit the two of us are!
The second bag purchase was a Built.NY Laptop Porter bag. This thing is the shizbizzle. They really thought of everything.
Let me just copy and paste what they said about it…
The new Laptop Porter boasts two exterior pockets for easy accessibility to documents, files and accessories. Constructed from neoprene, the Porter provides remarkable protection for your laptop. The main compartment features a heavy-duty zipper closure and the zigzag stitched seams improve water resistance and durability. Our proprietary removable shoulder strap makes carrying our bag more comfortable.
DESIGNED TO HOLD LAPTOPS UP TO 15.4″
DUAL EXTERIOR POCKETS FOR EXTRA FILE AND ACCESSORY STORAGE
THE BAG ABSORBS THE SHOCK, NOT YOUR SHOULDERS
SOFTGRIP HANDLES
So it holds the laptop, a binder or papers in the accessory storage doo dad, my power cable and headphones and flash drive and media reader and everything has it’s own place. The bag is so comfortable since the entire thing is neoprene. So where more bags would pull on your shoulder with each step, this one stretches to absorb the shock. Genius!
Ok, I’m off to hang out with Micheal and Dustin. Some Will and Grace and maybe some video games and some beer. Yay to great friends. Too bad they are all leaving me soon! Sad face!
Let it be known. I am a loser. I returned the Wii today. Saved me $398 that will be better spent… erm, saved, on my photography needs. That lens is sure looking sweet!
Plus, I have a photoshoot in Birmingham in a few weeks so having the tools necessary is more important than my 1600 level Wii Sports Tennis rating. Yeah, that’s right. In one hour and fifteen minutes scored 600 points over the “pro” level.
Watch out Serena Williams! Oops, I mean Andy Roddick
See what happened when he heard the news?! He seems a little too eager to play real tennis with me.
So a couple of days ago I went on a midnight Wal-Mart run for, of all things, potting soil for our garden. I just happened to walk by the electronics department and lo and behold, what sits before me? Two Nintendo Wiis! This is pretty amazing considering that the average time a Nintento Wii lasts on the shelf is only one hour.
Ten minutes later it was mine and the second one? Sold to girl who was equally surprised to see one actually available to be purchased.
I got an extra controller, nuchuk, Super Maria Galaxy, WiiPlay and went home to set it all up. Takes only a couple of minutes, three cables, that’s it!
And after one hour of play time, one hella fun hour of play the Wii, I was wondering… Do I really want to keep this thing? I’m going to let Ryan make that decision. I hate to spend $398 on something I don’t need when there are things like lenses that I want more and possibly even really need.
What do you think? Keep the Wii or be half way to the one of the lenses I want?
I’ve been lazy posting recently because I’ve been going back in time and re-categorizing and tagging all my old posts. I did some work on my MySQL database and deleted one extra table too many… oops. So I lost all the categories for posts. So, slowly I am putting categories and tags to all my posts. I’m 10% done. Seems like I should be closer to finished. Ugh.
So, in leu of an actual post, here are some videos that caught my fancy this week.
First we have the Skittles Chocolate advertisement. If all advertisements were this entertaining, I wouldn’t “Tivo” past them. It’s so simple, yet so hilarious. Maybe just to me, you be the judge
Next up is a documentary that calls out the coffee companies on their bean purchasing practices. That really irks me about this movie, is how misleading it is. [Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen it, but if it is as the preview advertises and most of these stories go, I think I know what's going on]
They act like companies, say… Starbucks, pay pennies on the dollar for the beans as compared to the price at the store. What they neglect to mention is the fact that when the beans get to the beaneries, they are raw. No treatments have been done beyond maybe some washing and curing in the sun. They haven’t been roasted, flavored, QC’d, packaged and shipped. It is the price at the scene.
It’s like calling out Chick-Fil-A for selling a sandwich for $2.59 when the breast they used for it cost them $0.65. There were so many things that happened between the death of the chicken and the serving of the sandwich.
Now, I can’t say much for bulk coffee companies like Folger’s and Maxwell House, they are both notorious for poor practices. Either way, the movie looks interesting.
I decided to dip my hand into this tight aperture (f-22 to f-36) on a mirror game, literally.
Hard to take a picture of your own hand… Lesson = learned.
Next time I am going to spin that dradle, I bet it would make for a pretty awesome shot.
Looks like motor oil but it is honey. Sweet, delicious honey injected with red wine to increase the golden color. Thought up that one on my own ;-)
Learned how to double my money in a flash!
My prized Nikon F3. I never use it, but I do prize it. Click for a larger version.
I didn’t have any food coloring and corn syrup to make fake blood so I just tried some of that wine. No go. Just couldn’t get that blood look. So here’s the pic sans faux blood.
Funny story, after putting all of this stuff up, i accidentally cut myself and bled all over the mirror haha, damn the timing.
Guess what, I’m a Central Bank customer. Oh wait, no I’m not. But some Phishing scam people are sending emails to people at Mizzou email addresses hoping that at least a few are members of the local bank. They have created a site that sure does look like Central Bank’s site care of an address that appears to be www.centralbank.net but is really
They ask for your login ID, I put in “calloway42″ and hit login. What do you know, I’m in!
Notice the Phishing warning haha. But I “logged in” and got to this next screen asking me for my opinion on some random things and then my account number, expiration dates and pin number.
I’m pretty sure that I would need to provide a username and password to log into my account, at the least, and then they would already have this information. With my bank, Bank of America, I have to have a user account ID, a pin number, a picture identifier and finally a code that is sent to my cellphone each time I try to log in just to make positively sure only I can log into my account. If you want to do that, you gotta know those three items AND have my cellphone with you.
Oh well, it’s always fun to almost be phished. Also of note, none of the phishing pages were secure. Not the best phishing scam I’ve ever seen.
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