anacronyms

Before the New Year starts, I’d just like to get down in solid electrons and magnetic patterns the things I’d like to get out of/experience in 2009.

I’d like to get certified in MSSQL Server. I realize that this is a matter of getting down to work – most of this is reading and memorization, as [...]

I’ve always been suspicious that perhaps May you live in interesting times might not be the actual ancient Chinese curse that everyone knows it is1.
However, speaking personally, I would have to say that the fact that 2008 was an uninteresting year is a good thing. As much as it is confirmation of the possibly-ancient, might-be-Chinese [...]

You can find wisdom, even in the movies.

“Work like you don’t need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching.”

I originally thought that this was from Terms of Endearment, but on further investigation the quote is older than that, and often either unattributed or is attributed [...]

I think I have another post titled ‘Aftermath’. Probably written on Dec 26th a couple of years ago.
Oh. Last year. Well, I’ll add the year to this one.
It was a reasonably successful Christmas, especially considering the weather. I opted to leave HouseApe 1.0 earlier than planned on Christmas Eve because of the snow, and so [...]

Even though I try to avoid ‘conventional’ beauty in these Flickr Babes, sometimes I run across one so beautiful I just have to point to her.

Way back when, when Chris and I started going together, we had some decisions to make. Each of us had a child from a previous relationship, and we had to figure out how to fit all these complexities together. It was fairly simple at first: I was the typical divorced father whose ex had moved [...]

So, what can be done in post-processing? Tons.
The most important is cropping. I crop close to 100% of my images.  Cropping allows you greater control over the final image, and it is one reason for having a digital camera with a high pixel count. I can crop quite a bit out of the image my [...]

And I, for one, am damn glad.

Because this woman willingly shares my bed.

Holy shit, but I’m a lucky man.

Anacronyms started getting a database connection error last night. I was busy as hell finalizing things and getting ready for this morning’s trip up-island to stay with HouseApe 1.0, so I thought, well, if MySQL is down, the hosting company will get an alert and it will be back soon.
So this morning I got up [...]