Suit 'n tie

I already had an ultra formal three piece suit for weddings and stuff and today I put together a less casual get-up complete with a cowboy hat and a pair of cowboy boots. I look mighty nice in it all; so nice it's getting to my head! It's nice to feel good about yourself every so often though, I sure need to now.....I suppose I'll take pictures and model myself later on.

A whileago

So did you hear? Ubuntu 10.04 came out today! When I rebuilt my computer after the massive hardware failure someone who hates me convienced me to get a ATI video card. I'm a *nix user and ATI and *nix don't have a good history; a lot of things don't work or if they do their problematic. So this time around I will be going nVidia and forthe ps I'll finally be making the switch to 64bit ad well! 64bit with 8 gigs of ram~ that aught to be nice.....Not that there was a hardware failure or anything, I'm just tired of the creeping problems I get with this card.

For some reason or another, awhile ago, I had told myself I'd be seeing a lot less of the online world; then I met someone who anchored me to it again. Donno why originally but now most everyone I know I preocupied with school, work, or whatever it is they so with their time so now I get a lot less 'face' time with these people. The new person has started school and others other things so I figure I'd go back to where I was before a sorta move away from being online all the time. I donno not much reason in being online all the time if there is no one to talk to right? Anyway it's late for me, I'mma hit the sack.

The 200th post

Don’t do unnecessary things.

     I’m not sure who said that, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, or myself – or where I heard it from – but it’s been one of my mantras for a few good years now however This semester I for whatever totally dropped the idea and indulged in the whole-fully unnecessary. Taking classes that don’t directly pertain to my end goals. I’ve been wracking myself with things I’m not right for. I’ve been spending a lot of time out and about and it has been eating away at me. I’m going to start taking as many on-line classes as I can in the future. I figured getting face time with the instructor would do me some good, this has been wrong. However I’m not going to take classes this summer semester, instead I suppose I’ll prep for the up coming spring semester; see if I can contest a math level. I also want to get the CCNA and-additionally the CCNP, we’ll see how well that goes. Finals are next week.

     Socially I’ve not been doing well, I went to a Baptism and took some pictures that didn’t turn out so well. I made a sacrifice that was unreasonable: it was a low light environment however, it was full of people, the people and those being Baptized were the subject matter so I needed to go as wide as I could, and on top of all this I felt I couldn’t use flash. So I used my sigma 18-200mm on a 1.6 crop frame which starts off at 3.5/f. I could only drop my speed down to about 60 before blur would set in; all this together made for some pretty dark pictures. I should have used my 50mm prime. Which starts off at 1.4/f....I could jump it to 2.5 and get more subject matter in and still get more light than at 3.5. The bokeh woulda been crazy and I'd have had to stand on the other side of the building but at least the lighting would have been better and the subjects more than just brownish blackish blobs. Anyway, at the end of the actual event there was a gathering of people at the hosts house. I was over-dressed, I couldn't bring myself to actually say anything to anyone and instead was relegated to being the creepy guy in the corner. When someone did talk to me I shat bricks. I'm not all that great at group events with strangers.....
Regardless, I did get this:

Which ain't half bad.

     In other news. I gave a friend of mine permission to use one of my photos in a project they were working on. The photo:

is one of my early tests with my new 50mm prime, along with the fly at the top. It's a basic closeup of a rose and it was used as the back-cover for a 'greatest hits'-esq CD for a the group "12 Girls Band", sounds like Ancient Chinese Kung-Fu Secrets.

Grab a copy of the CD here or here. The CD's named "Perfect Best", which aught to be interesting.

Blogger doesn't have an outright "private post" option so I've been thinking about either moving to WordPress on jinkaku.net or a hosted WordPress. I believe WordPress does have private posts.

     Aside from that I don't think there is much else to talk about. I updated some of my coding books and have been working on some ideas 'incognito' so perhaps, if I don't scrap them, I'll write about them in aggidev.