Was in DC this last weekend with my old roommate and managed to snap a couple of decent photos.

Changing of the guard at Arlington Cemetery

Lincoln Memorial

New lens

Pretty cool shot from my new .66 wide angle lens that I took this last weekend out side Mammoth Lakes, Ca.

Inventions of the devil

I'll throw them right out there:
Empire waist dresses
Oversize sunglasses

These are two things that are fashionable with women lately.
I typed empire waist dress into google and found this definition that seems to fit:
http://fashion.about.com/cs/glossary/g/empire.htm

Definition: A type of dress or top where the waist line is raised above the natural waistline, sometimes as high as right below the bust. Best on slender-on-top or petite figures, the empire dress creates the illusion of length and camouflages a bottom-heavy figure or thick waist.

Camouflage! WTF

So between the camouflage dress and the oversized sunglasses guys are pretty much in a guessing game as to whom they are talking to.

I really do live in a cartoon

So apparently a while back I must have done a google search or something on ebay and ended up setting my default ebay to ebay.uk. So here I am buying things from the UK getting an unfavorable exchange rate that ebay/paypal (conspiritors) pick and having to wait weeks for delivory.

Short cut

I've always found it perplexing that delete and create shortcut are right next to each other in the contextual menu. Just when you want something to go away a little slip and you have more of it, which could easily happen again when trying to get rid of the first shortcut. Or inimically when you are trying to make it easier to find something you've pushed it over the cliff.

Sky dive pics

Went down to Perris, Ca a couple of weekends ago and here are some stills taken from the video:
We stopped at March AFB on the way home and took some shots of some hard to find but awesome aircraft on display:

B-29


B-47

Whats a landline?

So this weekend I get one of those annoying calls from my cable company trying to sell me home phone service to go with my cable/internet. I haven't had a land line phone since early in college and I see no reason to have one these days.
The conversation went like this:

Lady: "May I speak with Marshall"
Me: "This is he"
Lady: "Marshall, I'm from Time Warner and I would like to offer you home phone land line service."
Me: "Landline?...I'm sorry, but I don't seem to understand what that means."
Lady: "Oh, Vonage and AT&T would be wireless and we provide landline service"
Me: "Oh, I didn't think that kind of stuff existed anymore. I use AT&T for my home phone...my cell phone that is."
Lady: "Oh, I assure you that it does still exist. Would you be interested in this type of service for your home?"
Me: "I can't imagine what for, so no."
Lady: "Okay thank you for your time"

Of course I know what a landline is. I just want to try and drive home to the cable company to stop offer that crap to people and get with the times, and I wanted to make it where she gave up trying to sell me anything...its hard to sell when I thought it was extinct.

Filtering people out of life

So I frequent the facebook. Its a good way to keep up with friends... er acquaintances... er people whos couches you want to sleep on at some unspecified time in the future. Well that's all fine and dandy, but who gave them the nod to post every little piece of mundane crap thats going on in there life. Now, I like to know what my friends are up to, but here is an example of what I'm talking about:

Yesterday at 10:06pm
[name] ewww eff you myspace...and your stupid squirrel spider....creeps out!

Yesterday at 10:25pm
[name] photoshop, vitamin water, and duffy... could it get any better?

Yesterday at 10:40pm
[name] ughh my ADD is ridiculous tonight. done with photoshop, now playing piano lol

16 hours ago
[name] going to sleep. blah, i just dont know anymore.

15 hours ago
[name] its 3am...and im reading perez hilton..... insomnia FTL!

6 hours ago
[name] ughh, just woke up. i feel like such a bum. i did wash every stitch of clothing i own tho, and my sheets too. lol

6 hours ago
[name] dear girl behind be at starbucks... i do not care to hear about your "monster cramps" and "heavy flow". i just want my latte. xoxo [name]

5 hours ago
[name] home, folding laundry, and enjoying my period free latte... aim = [name] you know you wanna...

3 hours ago
[name] almost three weeks in... down 11 lbs! =D

3 hours ago
[name] working on Hotel California on piano... wish me luck =D

3 hours ago
[name] ohhhh sally field on Rachel Ray... umm yes please!

about an hour ago
[name] ive been switched to nightside tomorrow. its election night. should be interesting...

Really, really, is that what you want to leave for the world. That guy that had lots of nothing to say.
I'm not saying that you should wait until you have an earth shattering post of biblical proportions to post but give it a little for thought. Some people don't live on facebook which means when they log in all they see is the truck load of mindless dribble that society has give you the tools to spew to every "friend" you collected on facebook. {I do see the coincidence that is befalling me as I am doing the same kind of thing on blogspot, but I would like to think that I'm not pushing this little slice of the interweb onto anyone and thats its a little classier}

Now facebook does know that this kind of thing happens and have gracelessly given us the ability to filter applications and people out. I've been pretty hair trigger with filter applications because no matter who you are I don't care what city best describes your personality. I've been very hesitant to gun down friends as I'm afraid that I might miss something truly important.
After seeing the above refuse when logging in this afternoon I've been left no choice but to filter that dribble out.

The reason that I'm even blogging about it is I'm concerned that the offender will never realize there ways. I would really like it if facebook saw that I've filtered it out and send some sort of certificate to them that read something like,

"Congratulations douche bag but you had nothing but gibberish coming out of your life and some of your friends are quite frankly tired of it."

Well, thats kind of my rant for the day. I do have some real updates/pictures to post that hopefully I can get to this weekend.

Green eggs and ham

Made green eggs and ham for dinner tonight....tasted fine. Was really odd to get the eggs to cook correctly when they didn't change color while cooking.

Was In Utah this last weekend doing a little snowboarding. Pretty poor conditions overall but we did manage to squeeze out one day of pretty good riding.

Normally I'm not the kind of guy to buy pictures from the people standing around taking pictures, usually at the top when you get off lifts....but as it turns out there was a guy/girl taking pictures in the middle of a hill. I had no idea that there was even a person doing that as I was moving pretty quick. My buddy was behind me and heard the photographer yell out a number. So at the end of the day we went and checked out the photos and I pretty much had to have them since I never get any decent action shots.
Here they both are:




Like always you can click on them to enlarge the photos.
They turned out pretty well considering I didn't see this person.