Mad lootz

Yesterday, in the mail, I got about two-and-a-half-fuck-tons of loot. As you can see I'd already begun to "sample" some of the things I received before I took the photo.



The yellow bag one to the right is okonomiyaki flavored puff balls. They're like cheetos except okonomiyaki flavored instead. They're also much much better. If they have them hereI can see these being a problem for me in the future....the ones labled "Just Pack" are also very good. top most one is cheese, the brown one is little fish (sardines) with almonds mixed in with them. and the other is some sorta fried breaded...something...I wanna say squid. The red package is peanut puffs and the green next to is is soybean pod shaped/flavored puffs. They're also very good. I've had these before and had almost forgotten about them until I got this. I don't know what the brown back above that is but it's also very good. The blue mug has the kanji for various fish. I don't know if they're antiquated kanji or not as I'm unable to find some of them. The packages in the red/tan box are sento treats my buddy steals. I love these to death. And I don't nkow what the two cups are.

What's really noteworthy here is the black'ish outfit underneath everything. That's a jinbei. I'm wearing it now. It's comfy. It also came with a matching fan.



But yeah, did I tell you? I signed up for classes. All of my classes are online this semester so that'll give me more time to do....less things...fewer things, whatever. Either way I don't have to go outside nearly as much as I did last semester and that's always a good thing for me as I'm staunchly against going outside....I'll be taking another Spanish class, an linguistic anthropology class and a math class. Skimping on total classes this time because they didn't have a class I really wanted to take. Classes start on the 30th so I guess I gotta get my books soon....



Aside from all that not much else has gone down. I've taken up C, which so far is interesting. I'll be able to dodge a lot of the OOP stuff even though I've gotta learn it in the future anyway. But at least this way I'll have more fundamentals under my belt before I hit C++. That's what I wanna tell myself.

I've done mostly procedural programming in php, if that's even programming....That's just scripting. I've also done a bit of C#, I didn't like C# at all. I don't know if it was me or the language or the situation. I hope it was just the language or situation because if it was just me I'mma have just as hard a time this time around with C# as I did last time around with C++.

I've got a solid idea I just need to work at it. "I won't tell you what it is because I don't want you to steal it!". It's not easy, it's not easy to do alone, and it's especially not easy for me at all.

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.

picture taking.

Sigma 18-200mm

This lense is an econo-lense (cheap and only mildly efective) so I'm not dissapointed with its performance I am dissapointed with my decision to purchase it.

I took a lot of pictures today and only a few came out. I should have taken my tripod with me, next time I will.

Going to the park by yourself is very lonely once you notice all of the couples there....

Meh

Fuck that shit, that is hard. You're on your own. I've started making flash cards though.



I only know one of those stacks. The other two I just recently wrote down.

Anyway, I've been going outside a bit more often. I've got pictures to prove it.

Near where I live are the Sandia Mountains. I　was at the...base..I　guess. I was up there after getting my hair done and realizing that my camera was in the car. I　wish I　had my zoom lense with me but eh...I didn't have good shoes on or water so I didn't go far.


Some rocks...








a sun set, this is my favorite but not my most viewed.




This is the most viewed of my sunset pictures. I　want to take more sunset pictures.


I took it with my 50mm prime.

This is my most viewed picture, at about 86 views (internet superstar)


Anyway, I'll try to update more regularly.

床に会う(?)

So I went out with the intent of taking pictures of the skyline at night from near the mountains and whatever. Instead I drove around for about an hour in some residential area at night. I also managed to pull into a police station parking lot; "Oh shit, this is not where I want to be" Is the only thing I've said out loud today. I should have stayed inside and did blender. I think I'm going to take the whole "Go outside" thing off my list. I don't need to go outside anyway, plenty to do about the house....After getting un-lost I got chastised on the phone on the phone for calling Floor fat. Then for a bit longer for calling 'er robust.. People these days.

Yesterday I went to get burger king, since it had been about 5 years since I had any, and when I woke up I felt horrible. I felt exactly as it smelled....

Today was my first day working from home. It was lonely but I think I can get use to that real fast once I actually have a task list. I didn't have loneliness problems during my vacation. I guess I just need to get use to working from the house.

そして今は時の萌です〜




( ° Д°)......黒い髪........私の妻

それは仲間由紀恵ですそしてその女は大好きだよ！
....

I want I want I want....

Today was nice, had a conference call. I felt all businessy took notes, nodded, and said “mmhmm” over and over again. I get the feeling conferences calls and meetings can get real old real fast. I've been on one on one calls for the past 3 days.

I got a phone for home now. It is an IP-Phone. Although it is not nearly as nice as the Cisco phones I got to work with a while ago it is spiffy to have around. The phone is next to my bed so one of these days I know someone is going to call me at what is my 4am


I've found that the more intelligent, unique, and “random” a person claims to be the more ignorant, insipid, and cookie-cutter they really are. Donno but I don't think being “unique” is something you set out to do. Those that actually are aren't trumpeting the fact.

And so I was thinking of spending a -lot- of money on things that I probably should be getting. I don't really “do” photography as in I don't go places to take pictures of things. There isn't much here in my town that interest me however when I do take pictures of things here and there I've felt the limitation of my camera. I suppose that is inevitable regardless of what camera had. Even so I've looked around.

I'm not a real photographer and don't -need- any of this but I want to do what I call “Going Red Ring” I currently have the Canon Rebel Digital XSi/Canon EOS Kiss Digital x2/Canon EOS 450D weighing in at 600~800usd. I don't really think I would feel comfortable with a red ring lense on this camera. The camera that I've been looking at is the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, a 4,000~5,000usd camera. What made me -really- want this is the following video:

Tokyo Reality ( Canon EOS 5D Mark II )
by lejapon

The Mark II is also full frame and that means a lot.

However I found you can do this with just about any camcorder as long as you have a “DOF Adapter”. Anyway, Red Ring; the red ring lens are generally better: better build, better functionality, and more quality in the picture. However they come with a price, a hefty price, My current prime lens, the Canon EF 50mm f1.4 goes for about 300~500usd while the red-ring version or the “L series” goes for about 1,300~2,300usd. And the lens I have is in the middle of them. The one below it, the Canon EFF 50mm f/1.8 II goes for about 82~150usd, and I think that is the one most amateurs have.

I'm just wanty. But I guess its good to have dreams and know/show restraint.

Also I think my laptop may be at the end of its days here soon. I'm not sure but sometimes she acts silly for no reason, sometimes at BIOS/POST, OS startup, OS usage, and shutdown. She'll do things like hang for longer than usual or be slower than usual. I haven't really sat down and dried for figure out whats wrong and further than HDD or RAM replacements there isn't much that can be done for a laptop a replacement motherboard would be the only other option and that normally costs just as much as the machine originally did. So I was thinking of getting one of the new macbooks because they are...well...nice. I'd probably get the 2.4GHz 15-inch pro or the 2.0GHz 13-inch base model. But of course I don't really use all of that power and I don't need it just in case. Again...being wanty.

In addition to those two I want to go back over seas! Thats a good 5,000~8,000usd depending on where I go and how I do it.

I always tell people to try not to buy/live outside of their income. Gotta live by that! I've been Interneting too much recently Need to get back into 'dem boox Some links:

I just found out about Ronald Jenkees
The silly ape-like haters he gets......



and:


I wish I had a talent so I could produce things.....Going to bed.