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learning to take pictures

February 13th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Me, Photos

I’m taking a class right now called The Art of Photography. I laugh every time I think of the class’s name, because my photography usually consists of drunk people or my dog, but it’s art, dammit!

I missed last week, which was our 2nd class, because I had to work late. I know, right? You can imagine how furious I was. Since I’m in class with three of my homies, though, they were able to pass along the assignment for tomorrow night. But since I’m a slacker through and through, I forgot to write it down and here it is the night before class and I don’t have any of my homework done. Why does this sound familiar of most of my educational career?

The one class I went to was pretty exciting and it reminded me that I need to take more pictures like I used to! I guess it really stopped when I moved into my apartment and didn’t have the overwhelming urge to get the hell away from my living situation, but I miss it. I, and sometimes other people would join me, used to just spend a few hours walking around somewhere and taking pictures. That would be the whole reason behind going somewhere for the day.

In any case, I know part of tomorrow night’s assignment involves taking pictures involving depth-of-field. I have a broad idea of what that entails, but I thought I’d look it up anyway. And then Wikipedia gave me some information that had ALGEBRA in it. Really? Is it necessary to take my favorite thing and involve the one thing I absolutely abhor? Do not tell Mrs. Piatt, but I hated that class in high school, no matter how much I sucked up to her. I don’t even remember who I took Algebra from in college (both times), but I’m certain I hated that class, too.

This is comparable to giving me a brownie, but then after I’m thoroughly enjoying it, telling me it’s made out of tempeh. Not a happy surprise, my friends, not a happy surprise at all.

technology makes me happy most of the time

February 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Internets

My computer may hate me, or at least it’s getting close.

I bought in in April of 2003 with my first bonus at my current job. That’s just about four years that I’ve had it and it’s never been reformatted. It’s starting to become painfully obvious by the fact that I have to reboot it at least six times a day that it’s time to wipe it clean and see if that fixes things. However, there’s some issues with that. Would I be posting if there weren’t?

I opted to not get a DVD burner when I bought it, probably in order to save some money. As you can imagine, with the amount of pictures I take and the amount of mp3 files on my computer, it’s going to take A LOT of CDs to back everything up, as well as a lot of time I don’t want to spend copying everything over.

I may have found a solution: a Free Online Backup. If I can have everything uploading to storage space online while I’m at work, I wouldn’t have any reason to complain at all. Or at least for not very long. The free option of idrive gives you 2GB of space, but for only $4.95/month, I can get an unlimited amount of storage.

I was entertaining the thought of buying an external hard drive. Jodi pointed out that they’re not all that expensive and, well, they’re not.  But this whole online storage thing? Even cheaper, and I like cheap.