One of these days, when I’m not always working until 8 or 9 at night, I really should:
- Either start digging into some of the techy books that I’ve got in progress, or find something really fun to read. I miss reading something really satisfying (still coming down from the Neal Stephenson high of 2006). Why haven’t I bought the new Neil Gaiman collection yet? Or any of the various Absolute editions from DC (Sandman, Watchmen, Dark Knight)?
- Get out and shoot some photos. Get more experience playing with my camera. Maybe spring for the “thrifty fifty” 50mm f/1.8 lens for my camera and do some portraits or something.
- Fix up bogus EXIF dates on old photos. (Gee, that sounds like fun…)
- Rate and upload old photos.
- Work on the multi-protocol IM bot that I keep tinkering on every so often. If I was really cool, I’d get it some svn/trac love and start accepting input from the outside world.
- Freshen up the mix CD’s in my car.
- Get through the forest temple level of the new Zelda game.
- Go see a movie. I think we’ve planned to go see Pan’s Labyrinth for about three weeks now and keep finding excuses (weather-related and otherwise) to skip it. I should go see something so that I get out of the house for a bit.
- Fancy up my personal site so that it’s easier to maintain the things that get so quickly out of date.
- Get back into some regular exercise schedule. I like doing it, I like how it makes me feel… so why can’t I seem to motivate myself to do it more often? Frustrating.
- Oh, I should probably finish up preparations for my PyCon presentation, since I’m doing a dry run of it for ClePy on Monday….
Right. Just got to get the primary roadblock out of the way (if only I could live without the need for a paycheck!), and then I can get right on that.
- Mood:pondering
- Music:This Mortal Coil - “Alone”
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12. Play some DOOM!!!
I’m in favor of you doing the photography bit.
Photography is a kick.
Admittedly, I’ve been taking less pictures since Diane left, but depression takes away the energy to follow through on creative endeavors.
You! Yay I keep finding people!
I bet you can guess my identity ^^
For portraits I recomend a 70mm lens. Why you ask? Well, telephoto lenses, even a mild 70, flatten things. Oddly, when a person is slightly flattend in an image they look better. Funny huh? ^^
Yeah.
Hey, sweetie! How are you?
I’m sorta bouncing all over the place, emotionally, but I understand that’s normal during a divorce…
I’ve added you as a friend. Yay! I’m glad you found me!
Well, assuming we are talking about ‘Fragile Things’. Like most short story collections, it has moments of sheer brilliance (two stories in the American Gods universe and a Cthulu-inspired Sherlock Holmes pastiche come to mind immediately) a few moments of averageness and a few real stinkers (half the poetry sucks badly). Overall, it is much closer to brilliant than average.
As I understand things, the wacky crop-sensor nature of my 350D makes a 50mm lens effectively 80mm, so that should be about in the right neighborhood…
13. Build a four-iteration fractal from business cards.
Ahhhh. I was told similar things about our digitals (10D, 20D, MarkII), but I didn’t see such a marked diffrence.