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Standing problem: Move up and left from sit start using only blue granite holds.

I continue to be amazed how much difference a  good camera makes in the enjoyment of the act of taking pictures. Since getting a new one, my eye has become an extension for the lens is a key new way: zoom-lens vision. Now mental cropping and positioning of elements reveal photo opportunities beyond the snapshot. This [...]

The old lady’s old man left and the new one will too when he loses the house because he doesn’t care anymore and is going on a walkabout next so she is basically all alone and has to sneak into the spa’s healing waters like the local mexicans do when they crap by her back [...]

I really wanted to like the movie  Somewhere. I’ve always loved the work of writer and director  Sofia Coppola , not so much for what happens but for what doesn’t. I imagined the random scenes (Las Vegas heliport, floating pool bed, swimming laps) as being carefully staged and full of visual irony. I kind of had to imagine it [...]

One thing I never realized is that our new camera shoots at a gazillion megapixels so all the files are all too big for raw use in social media. At least, that’s my suspicion because most of my posts (screenshots and camera pix) thumbnail onto my facebook status updates. The last few from my media [...]

Getting the photos off the camera we found was hella easy. All I had to do was plug it in and they sucked into iPhoto lickety split. Once there, it was easy enough to post one on my Tumblr . Then, the link didn’t do anything for me socially, so I upped it to my server , then posted that image by [...]

We took a mini-vacation up to Orange County ( San Clemente Skatepark , Climbing at Pirate’s Cove in Corona Del Mar (we have your lost Canon camera), touristing at Balboa Island and Laguna Beach , PCH back home…) for a couple days. Had some classic CA beach weather. Weird fact: the sun rises over the ocean in Dana Point. The  Dana Marina…[Read more]

I took the kids prisoner again today and made them see Tron Legacy 3D . Their ewws turned to aahs however when the effects kicked in. All I can say is “wow” cuz that was a fun movie! We spent a lot of time wondering where we have seen Quorra. It must have been Princess Inanna . The best part [...]

I can’t quit thinking about the girl who was murdered around the corner on 55th a couple days ago. I tried to joke it off to the kids with a made up story, but the reality was harsh. Turns out that some guy got dumped, shot her on the sidewalk outside her condo, then killed [...]

Last night we finally got to see Holy Rollers and it was spectacularly relevant. Like most movies that look into Hassidic culture, they missed many technical details ( tefillin straps ) and muffed the hebrew. Fine. That’s to be expected. What they did do, at least for me, is tap into the emotional response to very heavy situations and philosophies. [...]

I’ll admit it. My daughter got me into Tumblr by talking about little else. After one day, I’m hooked. It began as a social media integration project and I was stoked to autopost there. Then, I started looking around. Most pages aren’t encumbered with useless things like contact information and relationship status . What they are is pretty. My page [...]

This x-ray (photographed by my phone backlit by my laptop monitor) does not paint a pretty picture. After years of neglect ( floss?) my jawbone has lost 30% of it’s density around my last bottom molar. See you the tooth on the bottom has more bone on the right than the left? The tooth no longer had [...]

I have two slaves. When the move strikes me, I kidnap them and make them do terrible things. Last month it was the heinous Taquitz trail . This week, a Mt. Woodson bushwack. And they brought it on themselves. We got to the Television Screen , a 5.10 splitter arete, after a steep asphalt stretch and some easy trail. After [...]

The last time we saw our beloved Kate, she was a demure little thing waaay down there from our balcony seats. Man, last night’s show at House of Blues San Diego could not have been any different. She was a stumbling drunk screamer, and that’s hot. Drunk like six drinks stashed in various places on stage at once. Screaming like, [...]

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Call it what you like. I like actresses. They determine which movies I see, really. Seriously. Do I care about Queen Victoria ? The whole ” Victorian Age ” gives me the creeps. Plus, Queen Victoria herself was butt ugly .  Which illustrates my point. I love actresses because Emily Blunt made the queen out to be a fox and turned an incredibly [Read more]

I have been working really hard to make my businesses pay to the point where I don’t have the “internet leisure time” enjoyed on an employer’s dime . Thus, fun stuff (like the smoking-hot Angie Payne sending above) falls away in the chase for them damn dollars. Unless I make blogging a “job” and earn an income doing it. Same [...]

I didn’t mean this to be a rant about all things google, but what research project does not begin there? I’ve used health.google for my personal records, but as a resource it is awesome as well. There was a new interface at images.google as well. Just when you thought their offering was perfect, it gets better. Anyway, [...]

My Cancer Treatment Information site actually makes money from advertising. Then again, it was built in 1996 and online ever since with huge traffic and links to it from all over the world. For new sites, like the one above , there is no traffic so it is impossible to earn ad income. In the month of June, [...]

You can tell a lot about me from this picture. At first glance, it’s torrent post of Wayne County & The Electric Chairs reprint of their Blatantly Offenzive EP . Not so unusual to those who know me. Downright shocking to those who don’t.  Observant types would see “Upped by deeg” and know that it was my alter-ego (the [...]