Can you hear me now?

Verizon dude comes to DeKalb, IL

What's The Deal?

I've been pensive lately.
I haven't slept well in over a week.
I feel physically rested enough, but not mentally.
My nights are full of dreams.. too much thinking during sleep..
What gives?
I've had a lot on my mind lately, but that's nothing new.

Scanner Photography

So a guy converted old box cameras to work with a modified flatbed scanner.
It takes pictures... www.scannerphotography.com
All of his pictures are greyscale, and not very refined.
but can a scanner take a really nice looking picture?
I might try. I have an old and probably already broken scsi flatbed scanner sitting here. a cheap usb one would be nice too.

music video idea

Free idea, comment if you want, steal it if you want.

Music videos. Since I have nothing better to make videos of, I could take a cool song from iTunes, take my camera, go around and shoot a video for it.

Right now I'm thinking maybe a Portishead tune, maybe at night, maybe near the student center.

Oh, and the music track will be on main speakers, ambient sounds will be on the surround channel.. just as soon as I build a surround encoder board, or find software to do it.

a nice, portable, mp3/wav recorder that has xlr inputs and solid state recording (maybe SD cards?) would be great for this. and for films in general.

a wide angle lens, and waterproof camera housing would be good too.

≠

Comfort:
  ≠ safety
  ≠ happiness

I hope someday to more fully understand their relationship to each other.

Riddle

In the Three Stooges short Some More Of Samoa, there is a line where Curly says: "Beat me, Daddy, down to the floor."

Word.

Something I didn't blog about.

A few months ago the IRC channel I would frequent broke up.
With tempers and egos flaring, it all changed forever. All due to a prank/attack on a channel operator's website.
I took this as my cue to leave. I figured I would never go back.
I haven't.

Now this may sound like nothing special, but these are people I have been talking to, usually on a daily basis; on and off for the last 6 years or so.

It was a very hard thing to leave. But I have. And I haven't gone back.
And I'm still decided that I won't.
I never posted a blog about it. I only did now because I was reminded about how bored I am when I'm up, and online, and there's nobody to talk to.

Dog

It's been rainy for two days, and Ralph has been wet and smelly.
I refused to let him in my bedroom to sleep last night. Same thing tonight.
I feel bad for him, but he's way too smelly to handle.
This has got to be a record. Poor dog probably thinks he's not loved anymore.
OH WELL!

Posture Update

I'm still correcting my posture.

Minor event

I met with some friends of mine at the bar and one of them starts having a burning sensation in her throat during a dart game. She's sitting down drinking water, I come over to ask her what's wrong. I offer to pray and she says, "Yeah, that'll help."
Can't say I blame her. I said something like, "yeah, well, you never know."
I'd really like if God would answer my prayers for healing with an immediate "Yes" more.
I should probably read another Bill Johnson book.

Nothing important

I'm making a conscious effort to correct my posture.

Og Mandino

I just read The Greatest Salesman In The World.
I watched a Matthew McConaughey interview by Barbara Walters tonight and he said that book changed his life. They even held up a copy on camera.
And more importantly, Greg, a previous pastor of mine mailed me a half dozen books by Og Mandino, and recommended that I read them.

I started on one, but never finished..
But this was the celebrity endorsement that tipped the scales.
I went to the bookstore at 10:30pm and read this book in one sitting.
It's good stuff. I'll be reading it over the next few months so I can remember it.

Perhaps this will help me to break out of my pattern of.... underachievment and defeat