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Allergy
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2010/01/02
This is a curious discovery: apparently I’m allergic to dogs. With a bit of an un-planned, non-scientific test, I’ve shown that I break out in spots and begin to sneeze after 5-10 minutes contact with one of my pugs. Well, that certainly explains why I seemed to get sick every time I came home from college. Nevermind that the house is cold, as the “colds” always went away when I came back to campus.
Too bad, as I do love my pugs, but I guess this goes pretty well hand in hand with my thoughts on (not) owning pets. So, still we have a silver lining.
Thankfully, I’m not allergic to all dogs:
Insane battery
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Humor, Pictures on 2009/11/08
So, I think there might be a problem with my laptop’s battery meter:
EDIT: And about 3 minutes after posting up this image, my laptop died, due to a dead battery.
GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Games, Gaming, Pictures on 2009/10/11
Rockstar’s second episodic download for GTA: IV is coming in just two long weeks, and I anticipate this to be the best experience, probably outdoing The Lost and most certainly the original. This episodic brings with it the content which was, unfortunately, missing from GTA:IV. Coming back is the glitz of Vice City, the super-weapons of San Andreas, the all-purpose tank (re-imagined as a SWAT Tank, or APC), a larger variety of helicopters (including one based on the AH-6 Little Bird from Vice) and the parachutes for those dearly-missed BASE-jumping exercises.
And, if that’s not all, we will now be able to experience Liberty City from yet another perspective. Niko was an OK character, certainly nothing stellar and sometimes just an asshole. Johnny was great, someone I could really enjoy playing as, but his was a dark world. Luis, the protagonist of the new game, will be the body-guard and assistant of the titular character, Anthony “Gay Tony” Prince. Seems like we’ll now be able to experience Liberty from a different vantage point. Some places, a tough biker or an immigrant mobster just can’t get into (at least, not without a fire-fight or an invite from double-crossing politicians).
Boring photos
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/10/08
I’ve hit a semi-boring patch of photos with the NY-NY and MGM casino photos. Nothing interesting to process/post. At least, that’s the reason I’m giving for only uploading 5 photos (and only 1 public photo!). Below is the fish tank from the Rainforest Cafe at the MGM.
In a bit of related news, a few hours ago I got an email from an online guide that is apparently considering using one of my photos on their site. The site is free, I’ll get no money for this, and all I heard is that my photo is being short-listed, but it’s still something. I’ll post here, obviously, if my photo gets picked.
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Currently listening to: Jethro Tull
Lioness in MGM
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/10/07
I’m too tired today. And, frankly, the photos I took of NY-NY were just boring, so I wasn’t in the mood to process too many of them. Did upload a few, then skipped ahead to the MGM lion exhibit photos. Those turned out a bit better. Below is an example.
Building under construction in Vegas
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/10/05
More of the Flickr project to motivate me. Managed to upload 10 more Vegas photos (8 public) to Flickr. This one wasn’t too bad.
Paris Casino
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/10/04
This is the next photo in my daily-upload project. Today I actually managed to upload 14 (only 12 are public, though) Vegas photos. Whoo-hoo!
Las Vegas and a new Flickr project
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/10/04
This week I went to Vegas and brought back some 600 photos. Not as many as the Japan trip, but then again, this was only a 5-day trip. Still, that’s a whole crap-load. So, in view of the relative success I had with the photo-of-the-day project, I’m starting a new set on Flickr and a new challenge: upload a photo every day. The difference between this new challenge and the one from before-last-week is that I don’t need to take a photo every day, I need to upload an existing photo. See, I have a crap-load of photos that I’ve taken over the past two years, and most of them still need to be processed and uploaded. So, I’m going to use this set/project as a motivation to put at least a small dent in the number of photos I haven’t processed yet. Unlike the last Flickr project, I hope this one comes to an end as soon as possible, and hopefully through the simple lack of old photos. But that’s a pipe-dream.
Well, on to the first photo. This one I took on my first day in Vegas, somewhere in Caesar’s Palace.
9, Hand with blurry finger
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/23
[Part of the 'Fifth Eye' set of daily photos.]
An un-named person at the office didn’t want his picture taken, so (for some reason) struck up this curious pose.
8, Fiery skies
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/22
[Part of the 'Fifth Eye' set of daily photos.]
Sunset sky as seen from my office building.
7, Bobble Head Jesus
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/21
[Part of the 'Fifth Eye' set of daily photos.]
A present from my sister
"Metric fuckton" and Olivia Wilde
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures, Random on 2009/09/20
Urban Dictionary definitions are always a hoot, and their take on “metric fuckton” is no different. I wonder what’s a good PG/PG-13 alternative for that? Crapload comes to mind, but that’s about it.
And now, for no other reason than because she’s hot, here are two photos of Olivia Wilde.
Wilde at the 2009 Emmies.
Wilde with Salman Rushdie at White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2008. OK, so if getting a date with Olivia requires having a fatwa issued against me, then I’m game. And anyway, it’s been almost 24 hours since I’ve pissed someone off, time to do something about that.
EDIT:
Reading up a bit on “The Satanic Verses” controversy I’m entertained, saddened and alarmed by this line, explaining one of the reasons for the unprecedented rage that the book generated:
Unfamiliarity with the concept of free speech. The belief among many Muslims in or from the Middle East that every country “has … laws that prohibits any publications or utterances that tend to ridicule or defame religion.” It followed that permission to publish a book that ridiculed or defamed Islam showed an anti-Islamic bias in those countries that permit publication.
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Currently listening to: “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”, “On A Night Like This” and “Forever Young” by Bob Dylan.
5, 50's diner-style table
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/19
[Part of the 'Fifth Eye' set of daily photos.]
50′s diner-style furniture at Vivace Espresso Bar at Brix.
4, Garage elevator sign
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/18
[Part of the 'Fifth Eye' set of daily photos.]
Sign in my building’s garage.
3, Steve the spider
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/17
[Part of the 'Fifth Eye' set of daily photos.]
This scary spider lives on my balcony. I call him Steve. We don’t talk much.
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Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/16
[Part of the 'Fifth Eye' set of daily photos.]
A lighter that a coworker got me from Ireland. The design on the front may not be too bright, but it’s circular Celtic thing.
Fifth Eye
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/15
Over dinner I suggested to a coworker, who is taking singing lessons, that he produce daily videos where he sings a song – the same one every day – but sings it in a way that would reflect the overall mood of the day. So if he was having a good day, the song would be sung in a more upbeat fashion, etc. Well, he didn’t go for the idea, but it gave me one. Not exactly an original one, but that’s not the point. The plan is to create a photoset on Flickr where I will upload a daily photo. The hope is that this exercise will get me using my camera a lot more often. Doesn’t really matter if the photos are crappy, and doesn’t matter that just about everyone out there is already doing something like this, the point is to get myself (even more) motivated about photography.
So, as we were still eating dinner, I decided to get started with this project. Below is the first photo of the set.
Yes, so it’s crappy and corporate and there’s practically nothing I like about it. I can probably try and read some BS into it, like the bowl of food represents my day, unfinished and ultimately unsatisfying, but that’d be stupid. And, once again, not the point of the exercise.
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Currently listening to: Bon Jovi, “It’s My Life”
Darwin film "too controversial" for a release in the States
Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.
The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.
However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.
Holy fuck. If the rest of the world didn’t think Americans were out their minds, then this – blocking a film because it deals with a historical figure who described one of the most influential scientific theories – will not help in the least. I’m curious as to the exact reasons that the Religious Right is opposed to this movie: if your faith can be shaken by 120 minutes of cute Paul Bettany and his hot wife Jennifer Connelly (playing Darwin and wife Emma, respectively), then maybe that says more about your faith than it does about the movie. And if evolution to you is as much a fairy tale as the Bible is to me, well then, you can just look at the film as a story of a confused and troubled man suffering from the death of his daughter. Big whoop.
This debacle brings to mind a somewhat related bit of controversy that recently swept the nation: the President’s speech to school-children. Now, that is old news, but I’d still like to comment on it. Unlike some people, I was perfectly fine with parents keeping their kids home, telling them not to listen to the Big Bad President or being prepared with a rebuttal after the speech was made. I actually think that that was a very good thing to happen. America’s Right helped emphasize a point I’ve been making for years, and that is of personal responsibility: if you don’t want your kids brainwashed by MTV, the liberal media, evolution-spewing “science” teachers, violent movies or whatever, stand up and ACT LIKE A PARENT. Which is what the Right finally did. I’m somewhat disappointed that they would pick this time to do it, but that’s their choice. It’s actually good parenting to talk to your children, find out what they were taught in school that day and reconcile that new-found knowledge with whatever baseline you happen to adhere to. Maybe the Religious Right should take the same stance with Creation: let your kids watch it, then at home explain that it was all horse-shit, non-sense and contained about as much truth as a Harry Potter flick.
Spider and mosquito, 2
Posted by FuzzyGamer in Pictures on 2009/09/14
Here, the spider shrank in on himself because he felt me bump the edge of the balcony.