The Gilmore Girls has been on for 7 years, or is it 8? This highly erudite show about two coffee guzzling, fast talking women dealing with the general problems of life, the universe and everything–is history.At the end of last night’s show, they said come back next week for the series finale. What?!? Just like that, it’s over? You bastards bring back 7th Heaven and can the Gilmore Girls?Well, such is life I suppose.Just wanted to put my two cents worth in, this is one of the best shows on TV, even if it is on the worthless CW Network.…
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Spiderman 3-Rent Spidy 2 instead
In the modern blockbuster fashion there is a lot of CGI magic going on and not a lot of story. They have run back to the well of our tormented hero and the death of the his uncle once too often. The three villains are a bit over the top, but then, they are comic book villains, so I guess that is ok. Sandman is the neatest bad guy as he is made with Vue 6 or the Hollywood equivalent, in that he is a pile of sand and rock that is shaped like a man. He is the most…
Success is a habit
We are what we do everyday. Good bloggers blog. Good dancers dance. A clean house is always a work in progress, just as a messy house is always a work in progress. We add to these things everyday. Fat people do a lot of eating in order to be fat. Wealth is made one day at a time, if not one dollar at a time. OK, I guess I could go on with that line of thought, but really, what’s the point? I tend to start things and then go on to other things. One of my all time favorite…
Killer Thoughts
Saucy Jack is credited with killing five people in 1888. Five. Two of which happened at almost the same time and it is unlikely that they were both committed by the same killer and the last was most likely what we call a copy cat killing these days. So in this famous little spree, Jack most likely killed three people. Since was not caught, or at leas not caught and kept, the odds are very good that he went right on killing for the rest of his life. But he was the first great killer of the industrial age, and…
Taking Portraits
The main kind of portraits that I take are the standard old fashioned styles of a woman seated in front of seated man, their bodies overlapped halfway and the man half a head height taller than the woman. If the woman is standing, she is about half a head height taller, standing halfway behind the seated man. These are the same poses and rules of composition that Leonard da Vinci used a few hundred years ago when they were sitting around writing rules for everything. Nothing wrong with it, in fact a lot of people like it.I also like to…
I wonder why
I spend a lot of time thinking, and not so much time acting on those thoughts. My current job is so, just a job. I am not sure what I expected, or if I expected much of anything. I went in with the hope of making more than I had made at my last job, which is always a nice simple goal to have. So I am making more than my last job, which is really no mean feat. But there are days when I don’t make more than the last job, where I make about a third of the…
The Perfect Employee
Agent Smith loves his job. He sees his job as a mission. He was made for his job. He’s pretty good at what he does. And yet, he doesn’t seem all that happy in his work.I have been thinking rather a lot about work, as I have been doing little else the past few weeks. I am one of those people that look at what we do and wonder why we don’t do it better. The big wigs that run the show want to know why we don’t do it better as well. But they are also clueless. We take…
What Business Are You In?
Most photo companies have a really hard time answering this question. At Wal-Mart we were in the low price/keep the customer happy no matter what business. Which meant that anyone who bitched and moaned loud enough got all the pictures they wanted for free. At the school photo places, we were in the yearbook business and if someone happen to buy a few extra images then we got to eat as well as produce a yearbook. At the place where I shot Shirners we were in the directory business, and if one or two of the old farts bought pictures,…
what does it matter anyway?
I hate my job, but then, I guess that a lot of people feel the same way about their jobs. You see people on TV and they say things like they are so lucky and they love their jobs and their lives and all of that. Of course, they are like rich and famous for the most part. Not that those things helped Britney much. Still, it would be nice to have a bit more money, ok, a lot more money would be nice.There is that old Zen bit about before enlightenment, fetch wood and carry water-after enlightenment, fetch wood…
The rain, rain, rain, came down, down, down
Lots of water and wind and grey skies. The kind of weather that kind of depresses me once in a while. The house tends to flood in heavy rains. There is that whole damp and dreary business. I am not all that happy as a general rule anyway. Work has sucked for the past couple of weeks and then I have to work with a couple of the loonies that I don’t like. One I have had to put up with all week and she has been OK for the most part. The other is a kind of trainer or…