Taiwai's Camera
He has this nice Canon digital camera that allows you to make all sorts of exsposure adjustments. We met for drinks a while back and he let me play with it and I took a series of 15 second long images.
I had way too much fun. It was like in college when I got my first shutter release cable and discoved the 'bulb' feature on my camera - rolls and rolls of film with long exsposure images over and over again.
Look streaked headlights!
Look ghost images!
Well, here they are...
Cell Phones
Is it me, or all cell phone companies just getting worse and worse. Ugh. We are thinking of switching providers from Sprint to Verizon - mainly because the Sprint retail stores are war zones and a pain to work with. No sales staff, no stock, mobs of people waiting to pay their bills. We were there Saturday looking for a new phone for Mrs. Robot, but were told that they only had two phones in stock.
Two?
Nice.
I don't think Verizon is going to be any better than Sprint - I am sure they will have their own lame issues, but I really want one of those snazzy Motorola flippy phones and Verizon's phones work in my office building better than Sprint ones do.
What are you using?
From our tour of cell phone stores Saturday, these are the ones we liked based on their staff and store appearance (naturally, this has nothing to do with their phone service):
1. Cingular. Clean store. Lots of items in stock and a friendly staff.
2. AT&T. Nice store - smart staff - snazzy phones.
3. T-Mobile. Fine store.
4. Verizon. Busy store - lots of people waiting, but they seemed to have a good amount of staff. The people waiting didn't seem in a bad mood. Staff was friendly.
5. Sprint. Store recently re-modeled, yet looks like they didn't finish it a year later. Floor model phones very roughed up. Very few staff on floor and next to no stock.
No Really
What are my neighbors doing upstairs. Would it be weird if I went upstairs one day and was like, "hey smart-ass white guy, I am curious - what in the world are you doing up here at 11:13pm that is making so much noise?"
Joe Frank
Are you familiar with this guy? He is on Sunday nights here on the local NPR station (WNYC).
What is up with this guy? I am all for neat, experimental radio, but, um, well... he just kinda bugs me.
It could just be me, though.
6am
If you stay up to 6am, you will feel like crap when your friend calls you at 10am to see if you want to go to brunch. And then hours later you will still feel funky and be trying to write and the words will be moving around.
G'nite.
