Just when you think things could not possibly get worse, your neighbor turns up with a giant (12″) bobblehead of Hank Williams Jr., dressed in black with a black cowboy hat and wearing big black aviator glasses, and puts it on the table. You know–the table that’s covered with a flowered vinyl tablecloth and is […]

Okay…the camera is dead. Long live the camera. 🙂 We can’t afford $500 for the Lumix–that’s just not going to happen. What we can afford (sort of) is $350 for a Canon PowerShot S2. I’ll lose on “gross mpx” (5.0 versus 8.0) and start time is a second longer than the Lumix (1.3 versus 0.3, […]

Well, I found out today why I had so many blurry shots of stuff that I was sure I had in focus yesterday. The goddamn camera decided to give up the ghost. I think it’s the sensor; I have no preview in the LCD, which would still mean I could use the camera if I […]

I like looking at pictures on Flickr. Some are good, some not so good and some damned good. Then, there are the pretentious arses who feel the need to use artsy-fartsy titles for everything. It’s a picture, not a painting, and even if you think you’re an artist, you’re not, you’re a photographer. I have […]

Stupid Girls She’s a freak and as ugly as a can of toads packed arse-end up, but I like this song, and the video even more. Girls don’t need to be Paris Hilton or Jessica Simpson; they shouldn’t even want to. I’d rather be Pink than Paris because Pink has some spunk. Paris isn’t anything […]

P looked pretty proud of himself when he brought this in to me, probably for the most part because he calls me the Mad Scientist, but also because it’s somewhat risqué. I’m not a big fan of MC Light, but they were out of regular and it’s better than nothing. Oh, and yeah, my desk […]

All right Originally uploaded by Mean and Pinchy. I just glanced as I walked toward the creek, and thought this was another crayfish burrow, but then I realised the dirt was loose, not packed, and there was something inside. I poked gently with a stick to tease the critter out and saw that it was […]

Got a 125 and a 55 on the way. Oh, do you? Well, that’s a little factoid that you conveniently forgot to mention before I spent half an hour explaining why you had way too many huge fish and one far too aggressive fish for your current tank. Suuuure you have new ones on the […]