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Photoblog

mdl — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:44:25 +0000

So my website has been long ignored. I just don’t post on it the way I should, although I really want to…I just don’t.

Do I keep the blog, or just swap this out for a photoblog to chronicle my 365 project on flickr?

Decisions decisions.

A dollar saved

mdl — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:06:28 +0000

I canceled my cable yesterday. The company called me back today and offered me a couple packages to keep me a customer. One of which was keeping my current internet for $35 a month…. I’m super stoked about this, because that is pretty much EXACTLY what I was willing to pay… Its great internet service, very speedy, I was bummed that I was going to be losing it. BUT now I get to keep it, and I get to save the cash that was paying for cable TV that I didn’t watch.

Snoopy dance.

:-(

mdl — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:52:18 +0000

Being away from home on Christmas is highly over rated.

Fridays

mdl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:39:04 +0000

Fridays are almost as addictive as oxygen. Without them I’d die.

WAHOOO

mdl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:38:19 +0000

I’m an LGI Uncle :-p

Baby Bump Corr is now on the scene! Joey’s text said it was a looooooong labor. I’m sure some stories are forthcoming

Forgiveness

mdl — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:31:30 +0000

“Forgiveness is a lovely idea until you have something to forgive.”
~ CS Lewis

What forgiveness is not
Reccomended listening
Noel’s teaching: OUCH!
Places to find Noel

Canon 7d

mdl — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:46:59 +0000

Canon released a new monster on the dslr market. The 7d replaces the 50d which according to some wasn’t the greatest in the world, citing some focus issues and the like. But I do have a friend in the photo community using the 50d and has grown to love it, despite some hesitations at first. The 7d has a bunch of new goodies in it. If I’m not mistaken it has a new focus engine as well as 2 digic 4 processors. The 2 processors is what totally blows my mind. That is better than my 5d mk II, and the 7d is a “lower” level camera (as far as Canon’s pecking order).

I’ve had some complaints about poor focus ability of the 5d mk II even in what I would consider decent light. I was shooting side by side w/ an XSi and the XSi was focusing and making the shots my mk II could not focus in and grab successfully. I’m very curious to paw through some more reviews about this camera vs its competitors. I recently had it out with a Nikon snob online, so its nice to see Canon drop a few more bombs onto the playing field.

Time to go read a head to head on the 7d vs the mk II.

Stay classy San Diego.

No good deed goes unpunished

mdl — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:29:36 +0000

Di calls w/ a flat tire (or at least dangerously low) right after leaving LCC. I ask her to stop trying to drive to a gas station, pull over and just wait for me to get there. I run home, fill the air compressor and toss it in the back of my car (brilliant), drive to LCC fill the tire, all is well she drives home happy. I drove home to snag some lunch, unload the air compressor from my car (not brilliant), jacked my back up. Pulling that thing out was a very awkward lift… Bummer.

Grit your teeth bro

mdl — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:53:44 +0000

So. My brother got some rough stuff dropped on him last night.

The hard part is he is 13 hours away at school, meaning I can’t just pick up and go hang out with him for a couple days…you know do the dude thing, eat cold pizza and pop @ 3am playing video games till our eyes fall out.

But I can’t. Coach put me on the sideline for this part of the game… *sigh*

Diana as an acountability partner

mdl — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:09:07 +0000

Roxie no, you can’t have that tiny morsel of food on the floor in the garage, its not dinner time, and we are on a diet.

Mike we need to finish these donuts tonight.