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Friday, August 15, 2008Tuesday, January 01, 2008
What an accidental surprise! My great good friend Janet Anderson, who means a lot to me, mistakenly called me on New Years Day. ... It was very good to talk with her after such a long time away. 
Monday, December 31, 2007I have been playing with Dave's new FlickrFan, (Currently Mac OS X Only Download) for the past couple days. ... It reminds me of my past life at the Danish School of Journalism, where I used Frontier to download all the news images, news telegrams, and move them of to a searchable database, with all their captions, photographer, location, ... All the information the news items had, we gathered, and maid available on the web for all the Journalism students to create their own stories from. ... It was cool! I had a script that also downloaded the news images into my personal computer for my screensaver. ... That is one of the things I miss most from Denmark, the raw images. ... I mean, the un-redakted images. Blod, gore, heads, whatever. ... Not that I am in quest of the gore, but that I am in quest of the information, so that I can make up my own mind about what went on. Dave. Thank you, without any reservations, for the access to images without having the hands of people that think they know what is good for me better than I do.
Happy New Year. ... I am making a couple resoloutions for my new year. Most of them are about making enough money to grow my photographic business. I mean the money for new tools to extend the reach or my vision. For example, a new camera body so that the images can be enalrged tho a size required for high end photography. New tools to allow me to use my tools from a longer distance, so that I can increase my range. A new off road vehicle so that I can go places where normal photographers cannot go with my equipment. And I want to make enough money so that that can happen> Change that. ... I have everything working right now, so I will keep this weblog. Wednesday, October 31, 2007Wow. ... It has been a year since I last visited this OPML site. ... Happy Halloween again! Things have changed quite a bit since then. I am working as a photographer, just starting out, but making money. ... Next year I plan on making enough as a photographer to become an honest, hard working, citizen, and buy a new car! ... I only buy tools, so the car, Toyota FJ Cruiser which is not really a car, but an SUV, would be a tool to take me, and my photographic equipment, out into the desert. I love lighting my subjects so that they pop out from the background. Tuesday, October 31, 2006Happy Halloween
Hello all my fellow OPML'rs. Have a great Halloween. Here are a couple links, under the image to the right, to my little video greeting, and two Halloween parties that I went to over the weekend. The video was a spur of the moment thought that seems to have worked out ok. The parties were both, a lot of fun. Certainly, the parties are of two different types. The small party at Mike Hire's house is more family oriented. Mike has turned his garage into a fun house for the neighbors for many years. He said that he gets 300 children going through there every year. The party at the Heat, Supper Club, in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego, is of a more young adult nature. It it was also a lot of fun. I have been taking pictures of these parties since I hooked up with DJ Blue. I love them because the people are so nice. Sunday, August 27, 2006
I think I finally got my updated OPML editor to register Monday, June 12, 2006I must have missed an update because I cannot, from the "Community" menu, choose "Get Latest Code." I get and errot Sunday, February 19, 2006
Last week I got a little carried away at a photo meeting. ... After the meeting there was an Open Mic night at "The Otherside Coffee Shop." I was not prepared to do an open mic standup, but I have always wanted to try my hand at the art. The truth is, I tried it last year and it was not much fun, but this time it was much better. Instead of trying to tell jokes, I just opened my PowerBook and read a short remembrance of my youth. I read this short little story, October 1959 - UFOs. You can read the story, or click on the little icon under the picture and subscribe to the podcast. Subscribing will get you this first podcast, and all future podcasts, until you unsubscribe, or I quit, whichever comes first. The podcast is after the fact, and only the second time I read the story out loud, but to me, it makes a promise of things to come. I was playing with a great piece of software called VideoCue from the company Vara Software. ... Check it out I was a little wrapped up in the execution of the technology, the story could be told better, but it is my face, and my voice, and one of my stories. Monday, February 06, 2006
Benjamin Franklin is over there on the right just to remind us of a few things. "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." "A mob's a monster; heads enough but no brains." "The cat in gloves catches no mice." "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Where are the voices in the free world to stand up against the violence, and derision, directed towards Denmark? The world stands and watches as criminals are incited to destroying embassies. Not only are we quiet, but we are impotent. Our news programs justify the rioters by saying that the cartoonist has crossed the line by depicting Mohammed at all. We attack the cartoonist because he is small, and we can stop him. When we look at the rioters, we purse our lips together and go, "Tsk, tsk, tsk." Our lack of voice shows incredible weakness in the face of an enemy, distributed across the planet, but organized in their goals to destroy the western way. They are using religion to motivate a wave of hatred. Because the western world has freedom to any religion, the western world will not fight a religion. We are powerless. Is Mohammed a sacred cow? What of our sacred cow of free speech? Which cow, in the end, should we respect? Are religions, and sacred cows, the ties that bind us to history of tribal man? Do we not need a new way? If I had the money, I would commission some new cartoons, all containing likeness of Mohammed. One cartoon would have Mohammed looking over the bodies of the leaders of the western world running around like chickens with their heads cut off. The intent of this cartoon would be to show that the bodies of the western countries are having the heads of their countries removed by ridicule and dissent of misguided people that believe the talking point propaganda of the liberals, encouraged by hate for the U.S. from around the world. A second cartoon would have Mohammed looking over the Danish embassy, looking towards anti-Danish rioters with approval and inciting more killing. vrs. A third cartoon would have Mohammed looking over the same scene, but standing with the Danes saying to the rioters to go home and grow up. In the end, the fourth cartoon would have the fanatics dancing on the graves of the dead free men that gave freedom to those that would kill it. Thursday, December 29, 2005Christmas is over and the New Year is upon us. For me this past year has been an opening of books, as I started off in a new direction as a photographer. The period to my past life has come in the visiting of my ex-wife, whom I love very much. So finally the awareness of my divorce has hit home. ... I will miss her for the rest of my life. Tuesday, December 13, 2005Tuesday evening and it is time for my Photo group meeting. There were discussions of future photo shoots. Sunday, December 11, 2005"Glædelig Jul!" Today, my ex-wife wrote me out of the blue, wishing me a "Glædelig Jul!" That is the Danish Seasons greetings. "Jul" is Danish for wheel. The greeting goes back to the olden times where the cosmic "Jul" turns from the darkening of the onset of winter, and to the lightening of the returning sun, bringing spring, and rebirth to the world. It is a good, non-religious statement of hope. Thursday, December 08, 2005
Tuesday, December 06, 2005Well, it is now 10:51pm, and the day was long. We wound up scrapping all the other alternatives, and drove on out to Glamis. Glamis is a state park with Dune Buggies. I met five professional skateboarders that were out having fun in an eighty-thousand dollar Dune Machine. You will see pictures tomorrow. I am tired tonight. Today, myself and a couple friends, Barry Bunker and Jeffery Eiche, will be going on a little tour around some part of San Diego County. We are not sure where we will go as of yet. That decision will be made sometime during breakfast. We may go to the San Diego Wild Animal Park, or The Train Museum in Campo, or we may just wind up at Torrey Pines. Wherever we go, we will have fun, and I will get a lot of good images of something or other.
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