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Month: December 2004

California Holiday Weather

California Holiday Weather

The photo didn’t turn out how I wanted it to, but I’m still new at this and I haven’t found the Ansel Adams setting on this camera yet. Anyway, this is the sort of scene to expect where I live. The closest I can get to capturing frost on evergreens is raindrops on poinsettia petals. H.E. took me shopping today for a couple of camera accessories. I now have a UV filter, a circular polarizing filter, and a lens hood….

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Christmas, Take Two

Christmas, Take Two

Last year, H.E. got me a camera for Christmas, but it turned out to be one of those things, where you think it’s defective so you return it to get a replacement, only to find out that the replacement works exactly like the first one. Like shit. The camera gobbled up brand new batteries after only eight shots, auto-focused whenever the hell it pleased (which was whenever the hell you didn’t please), and was lickety-split pulled off the market not…

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Keep the Snowflakes off my Yard

Keep the Snowflakes off my Yard

I know people like my free snowflake wallpaper. I see them use it as background for their sites now that December’s here again. But for crying out loud, I wish they’d save it to their own server. Speaking of snowflakes, I’ve added some to Santa Loowis‘s world. Um, and that’s about all I have right now on snowflakes. Share this post:

Epenthe-oh-sis

Epenthe-oh-sis

I haven’t even tried to get back in the word game I’ve been playing. The thought of writing an entire post with only five-syllable words makes me shudder. But the Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day made me think: if everyone just pronounces whatever words I use in the way that Bush pronounces words, we’ll be okay. In other words, I could have used the word “nuclear” in my three-syllable post. Hm. That means I can totally use epenthesis in the…

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