I had a thought regarding the Magic 8-Ball, which you have no doubt seen, a fluid filled ball containing a 20 sided die with words on each face, that has provided random answers to untold millions of questions. The thought was this: it would be a great practical joke to create a special die that has an lcd display on one side, that once... Read More
Friday I had an early day at work so I actually got a little time to go home and sleep a little and practice a little guitar before doing open mic night. Then when I got up to play I immediately hit some wrong notes on the first song I started to do and the people who... Read More
Today I saw an old concrete stairway that used to go up from a street to a train platform. The platform's not there any more, and the lower half of the stairway has been torn out, to stop people from walking up it. The upper half of the stairway is still there but it's starting to crumble away. I thought to myself that if I was a photographer I would take some pictures of it. It has some really nice textures, and of course it's part of that whole "old disused things that are crumbling away" aesthetic.
I really should take some pictures. I'm in the long established habit of not taking any at all. I have a digital camera that's a few years old that I received as a gift and never used. It's nothing special but it would be fine as a starter camera for me. I keep meaning to figure out how to use it, which I bet is pretty easy, but so far I haven't gotten to it. Maybe I will soon though.
Last night at open mic I cleared the room with half a song. A few bum notes. I try to tell myself that I'd be okay with something like that happening but I really can't manage to be okay with it.
I've been in this positon before, not knowing whether it would be more pitiful and childish to keep trying... Read More
It was a little disconcerting to find comments on my last blog after something of a comment dry spell. Hopefully I won't get any comments on this blog.
A while ago, as in 20+ years ago when I was in high school there was a bit of an argument in my psychology class about the nature vs nurture disagreement. The subject was... Read More
Vexation is a day that is bigtime humid and cloudy and gross. I like sunny with maybe a few puffy white clouds, indicating that it would be good to head off to boston or hartford or new haven and wander about on my bike. A day of pouring rain would also be markedly less vexing than this, I would stay in and have a... Read More
I had the thought that if I were an advertising person for the Mini car company I'd go after the actress Minnie Driver to be the spokes person for my company. She'd be Minnie Driver the Mini Driver. On the other hand if I were Minnie Driver I don't imagine I'd want my name to be a permanent automobile advertisement.
SomeboIdy got hold of my debit card number and cleaned three thousand dollars out of my checking account. It was rather upsetting to phone the bank when my card was declined, while paying for some work on my car, to find that i had $48 left in my account.
Somebody apparently from indiana. I never really liked Indiana when I... Read More
Well that's certainly an unpleasant surprise. I guess banks and credit card companies try pretty hard to catch cases like this, but obviously they don't always do a very good job of it.
If it was me I'd get the forms filled out as soon as possible. You have a financial incentive not to procrastinate.
I went back to Sanderson Brook Falls, which was featured in my last blog, thinking that I would climb down in on the other side of the great log which was lying across the falls in my last picture, and photograph the falls from closeup with a wide angle lens. But in the week or two that it was between the times I went there,... Read More