ACK! I got my lomo today (about an hour ago!), and I HAD found an ENGLISH lomo manual online before, but now it’s gone and I’m having trouble finding one. If anybody knows of one online, leave a comment! 
I’m dying to play w/ my new toy and I don’t want to break it.
Ok, the other day I ran a search on Google for pencam photography and saw my site as the #1 return. I freaked out but then found out that it really wasn’t, that google was somehow reading my surfing habits in spite of blocking cookies, because when other people did the search, I wasn’t there. Also, if I opened a different browser, I wasn’t in the search results.
Well, I tried it again and there I was at #1 again. I tried a different browser and there I was at #1 again. I went to MegaProxy.com to try it (it’s like Anonymizer.com), and there I was again at #1. If you have time, clear your browser’s cookies etc., and search for pencam photography on google and let me know if I’m on the first page or not. I don’t really care, I’m just more curious than anything as to why the results are different for different people, even when cookies are blocked.
Why do they always play “well I’m a movin’ on up!” and “welcome back kotter” during hockey games all the time??? I just don’t get it.
U ever spend HOURS working on something for your blog, or personal website, or whatever, only to decide not to use it in the end? I spent hours last week making a gallery listing of ALL the photos in my gallery folder of photography. But in the end, I though “gee, if people want to see photos, they’ll just click on the category link for whatever camera“. If I start maintaining a gallery index, then that’ll just be more work for me. But I spent HOURS doing this, then trashed the idea. I’m such a dork sometimes.
I’m amazed at how fast I’m filling up my webspace. I have a webhosting package that has “lots” of space and lets me host multiple domains in it. I’m over 50% full already. The thing I hate is that the webhosting interface doesn’t show me what’s the biggest hog: my photography, my web design business website, the “files” folder of my blog (that has all the inline pictures that are in some of my posts). I assume it’s the photography. I’ll have to decide when the time comes whether to prune the photos in the archives or pay for more webspace. Hmmmm…..
Apparently my Lomo came today when I wasn’t home and the mailman couldn’t leave it because it’s registered mail. I can’t tell from the slip that was left if he’s bringing it tomorrow or not. If I go to the post office tomorrow to pick it up and it’s not there because the mailman has it to redeliver, I’ll miss it AGAIN and I have no idea at what point they send it back. Yikes!
Every day that goes by, I realize more and more that we’d better not have kids, that I don’t want kids.
[[I worry sometimes that if I reveal too much of my inner self on my blog that I'll piss somebody off. Just remember I'm only talking about me here. I'm not judging anybody who has kids. *I* just don't want them.]]
I also worry that certain family members will find my blog.
I know it’s weird. I don’t mind sharing my innermost feelings and thoughts w/ perfect strangers and the whole entire world on the internet, but I wouldn’t want certain people in my life to read it. I don’t know. I’m weird I guess.
But there was this SCREAMING NEWBORN at the grocery store today. A crying baby is one thing, but a SCREAMING NEWBORN is something totally different. With every wail I became full of anger, full of rage. I wanted to shove a sock in it’s mouth or do something worse.
Yesterday coming home a little boy almost ran in front of the car, I said to my better half “watch that little brat”. It rolled off my tongue without even thinking. I mean, it’s my natural mindset to look at kids that way and be angered by their presence.
I guess I’m unnatural. But I’m just me.
Where does Amazon get off charging 12.07 shipping on a 14.99 item!?!?!? Jerks! 
Oh, this is too cool: Lord of the Peeps: Fellowship of the Peep … this link via Christine
Am I the only person who uses Google as a spellchecker? Often if I’m not sure about the spelling of a word, I’ll go run a search on google for that word and if it’s wrong, it’ll come up and say “Did you mean Compulsive?” It’s not 100% effective, but most of the time it works just fine for me. It’s faster than going to m-w.com and waiting for it to load first. I’m a nerd.
Compulsive Camera Collector? One day last week as I was getting ready to leave the house I realized just how many cameras I had ON ME. In my bag I had my D60, but I also had my pencam around my neck, and in my bag is also my sony clie which has a built in camera. I had 3 cameras on me at one time. I wonder if they have a Compulsive Camera Collector’s Anonymous group? Oh, that reminds me, my LOMO comes this week! EEEEEEE!!!!!
Hahah, just found a text message on my phone that musta come in while I was napping. We went to Lowes today after lunch w/ mom. The text message is from mom and it says: “Did you go to Lowes today and see the naked man on the highway???” WHAT! I guess we missed that one! Ah, and of course it’s one of the few days I DIDN’T have my D60 with me. If I HAD seen the naked man and had the d60 w/ me, I’d have had a quick-responding camera w/ a telephoto lens on it. Oh well, we missed him anyway. I wonder what was up w/ that?
Lazy day. Slept in. I LIVE for staying up late on weekends, but then it really screws up my schedule. I stayed up till after 3am, and so then I slept till almost noon. So then “lunch” was closer to dinner time, then I fell asleep for a nap and didn’t digest my food right and so then wasn’t hungry fo dinner until 10pm. Now I’m not tired cuz my clock is shifted and I had a nap, and I want to get up early tomorrow. Oh well. You make your bed…
We went photo-ing today at the local nature center. There are some trails and birds and animals. It was nice. The weather was just a bit cooler than room temperature and there was a nice breeze. I toon a ton of photos. I mainly used my Canon D60, but I also used my pencam. I worked at that nature center (in it’s Planetarium) for ten years, so I have more than enough photos of those trails. But I figured I’d take some shots w/ the pencam just for fun. I’m a bit dissappointed in them, as the sun overexposed most of them. I’ll post some later.
Then we went to my mom’s and when I went into the bathroom, out of habit I began to open the cupboard under the sink where Zachary used to nap. Only I stopped myself and felt so sad, because he’s not there anymore.
I ran a search on google for “pencam photos” and my blog was the first entry on the second page of results. Then I ran a search for “pencam photography” and I was #1 on the first page. I freaked out and told my better half and he ran the search and didn’t see me. So I opened a different browser and redid the searches and sure enough, I’m not in any of the results. I don’t allow Google to place cookies on my computer. What the hell are they doing?
UPDATE: and if I quit Mozilla and go back in, the search results are different. I’m not allowing cookies, this is so odd. Good thing I didn’t brag to anybody about being high in google. That woulda sucked.
My Friday Five:
>>>> 1. What was the first band you saw in concert?
Adam Ant! =:D I think… maybe it was Ratt w/ Night Ranger.
>>>> 2. Who is your favorite artist/band now?
A.R. Rahman
>>>> 3. What’s your favorite song?
too many, can’t think of one
>>>> 4. If you could play any instrument, what would it be?
Piano piano piano
>>>> 5. If you could meet any musical icon (past or present), who would it be and why?
A.R. Rahman. His music is so amazing.
If I spend any more time online I’m going to turn into a freaking cyborg!
How do I backup my Movable Type entries? I don’t know which folders/files to make copies of. I’m a dork.
I got to thinking last night. I do that sometimes. I was thinking about when I was a kid in the 70′s. Things just aren’t the same as they were then. “Things just aren’t the same as they were then!” I sound like an old fart. Yes, the 70′s weren’t as innocent and safe as the 50′s. But the… “two thousands” (???) sure are not as safe and innocent as the 70′s!
<crotchety voice> Back when *I* was a kid… </crotchety voice> two little girls could walk a mile to a fair that started at dark (in the summer that’s 9pm), stay for a couple hours, and walk back all alone. Back when I was a kid, all the neighborhood kids would walk a mile to the park for a Film-In-The-Park event where they showed movies outside in the park at night after dusk. You’d bring a blanket and a bag full of junk food and munch and laugh and talk and sorta watch the 2-hour movie. Then you’d walk home alone, with no adult. And it was safe.
You could not do that now. Not only are kids all over MY town being approached by would-be abductors on a frighteningly regular basis (a 10-year-old boy in my town had his face bashed in by a would-be abductor just last week), but the parks could never allow it for fear of being sued.
It’s weird the things that come into your head when you are laying in bed trying to go to sleep (or trying to wake up). I guess I was just trying not to think about Zachary, because I can’t stop crying when I do.
Christopher Bean Tiramasu flavored coffee kicks ass!
Barnes and Noble annoyed me today. I went to possibly pick up two books that my doctor recommended. I figured I’d buy them instead of going to the library to ensure that I had the latest edition. But when I got there, they had only hardcover. Come on. God forbid you carry the cheaper paperback copy. So then I go to seek out one of the many comfy chairs so that I can leaf thru and decide which one to buy (since I had picked up a third along the way). Turns out, they took away all the chairs. (I later found SOME in the back far far corner.) Ok, so… I head to the cafe figuring I’ll leaf thru the books there. PACKED. So first they make u go to the cafe if you want to leaf thru books where you smell the coffee and see the drinks and see the cookies and cakes and crap, trying to get you to buy it. So there was nowhere to sit. For a BRIEF moment, I thought “oh, I’ll just buy all three since there’s nowhere to leaf thru them”. NO!!!! That’s a second way they make money by taking away the chairs! So I plopped right down on the dirty floor and spread out in everybody’s way. Goddamnit you are not going to make me buy something I’m not even sure I want. Jerks. I leafed thru and decided to buy only one of the three, the cheapest one. Barnes and noble, go bite me.
Yes, Coffee IS a laxitive.
More “Pencam Love” (a term I got from Cisley), I think. 
.:PHOTOS:.
I updated my RSS FEED. I hope it works right. I basically just took the one that Christine mentioned, the one that Jeniffer shared. Thank you both!
I hope it works. When I view a post of my own blog in ***NewzCRAWLER***, it does not display the images. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to or not. I always welcome feedback.
UPDATE: I got my images to show up in NewzCrawler by hard-coding the urls for the images. Before I had /files/image.jpg, now I have to have http://www.laserblog.com/files/image.jpg, for example. At least it works.
UPDATE: I USE NEWZCRAWLER, I typo’d before, sorry.
They put Zachary to sleep. I am so sad. I don’t want to talk about it right now.
they want to kill my cat. i can’t handle this. i just can’t.
You should look at this: a pinhole-photo self-documentary of one man’s journey through cancer: by Tom Lindsay, entitled: Diagnosis: Cancer. … this link via Witold Riedel
Unconcious Mutterings:
1. Cost :: too much
2. Head :: giving
3. Eclipse :: my car
4. Pestacide :: smells
5. Private :: parts
6. Betty :: boop
7. Leech :: gross
8. Jam :: grape
9. Playground :: mean kids
10. Trauma :: kids being mean to me as a kid
Wow! These are so cool! CD-R’s that look like old 45′s! 
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