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The problem with having this Pencam here in DC is that Dave Faris has left no photographic stone unturned since Day One. I’m at a loss as to what I can take pictures of that he hasn’t already taken with his pencam. Which is a bit funny.
Anyway, watch for a new photo album tonight or tomorrow. I need to get back to work.
Aaron goes to Temple Square, and the Mormons boot him out. Echoes of Scientology from the LDS, eh?
Sorry, folks, I changed my mind on selling the Intel Easy PC Camera. The Aiptek Mini isn’t a very good webcam; poor light sensitivity, no color compensation, and quirky drivers which occasionally crash my webcam software. On the up side, it’s a fairly decent entry-level digital camera, and fits right in my pocket or the palm of my hand. I’ll find time to walk around Washington tomorrow and take a few photos, but the Intel webcam stays by my laptop for now.
(I’m bringing this entry back up because I forgot to mention Liam Neeson.)
I wonder if anyone has noticed this strange cinematic synchronicity:
In Hunt for Red October, Alec Baldwin played Jack Ryan from Tom Clancy’s novel, across from Sean Connery as a Soviet submarine captain. Later on, Harrison Ford picked up the Jack Ryan character in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger — a casting decision which prompted me to wonder what a waste it was that Ford didn’t play Jack Ryan back in Red October, where he could have revived the acting chemistry he shared with Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Now, just as Ben Affleck takes on a reprised Jack Ryan role in Sum of all Fears, Harrison Ford is back — this time in Sean Connery’s type of role as a Soviet submarine commander in K-19: The Widowmaker. His co-star: Liam Neeson, who played a Jedi master in The Phantom Menace, prequel to the movie trilogy where Ford played Han Solo.
All this, just as talk rises up of a new Indiana Jones movie in the works — with a quip by myself quoted regarding Harrison Ford.
I think we can see where this is leading.
Clearly, I am destined to be the next Indiana Jones.
Now where’s my whip?
Mmmm, whip…
I was reading the Inquirer letters section today, when I came across this specific missive. Its title was an hostile and un-judicious generalization, and its text, while onstensibly well-meaning, was incoherent and rambling, so full of trite, hackneyed cliches that I almost laughed out loud reading it. Towards the end, the letter-writer’s sweeping accusations of “murderous schemes” and “nasty attitudes” were so poorly phrased that I wondered about his sanity — and English proficiency.
Then I saw the signature at the end of it, and I could only roll my eyes and mutter, “No wonder.”
Inspired by the pretty digital photos at Pencam.org, I just bought myself a Mini Pencam. More tomorrow on how it turns out.
(And seeing as how it doubles as a desktop webcam, I can now get rid of my Intel Easy PC Cam. Highest bidder?) ;D
Apart from harassment, vote-buying and patronage politics, we are saddled with a poorly informed electorate that picks candidates because they look good or can sing, dance and speak well in the movies or on television.
Yeah, that about sums it up. And as an Issues PEXer opined last week, it’s actually advantageous to the average Filipino politician to keep the voters uneducated. :(
Rapatronic photographs of test nuclear explosions in the 1950s. Each shot was taken at intervals of millionths of a second. Even milliseconds after detonation, the deadly fireball had already engulfed the blast tower. Amazing.
Update, March 2019: I updated the now-dead link here because I got a Dell SEO contractor email asking me to remove “irrelevant” old VCE.com hyperlinks, which I find hilarious.
We have Erap’s Secret Diary, Osama’s Bin Bloggin’, and now the Diery of Presidant Bush. Any other popular celebrity spoof blogs out there?
Note: Those of you searching for info on the Festival, check out the Smithsonian’s official Folk Life Festival page.
I’ve just returned from the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival on the National Mall, featuring the Silk Road Project. It wasn’t quite Disneyland, but the different international exhibits were quite interesting, and the food looked potentially good.
(I say potentially, because I never got to try any of that Afghan, Italian, Chinese, or Mongolian food. The lines were just too long, so I ended up just getting a hotdog. Yes, that’s right. Giant international exhibit with exotic food galore, and I ate a hotdog with mustard. Can you say Accidental Tourist?)
Josh helped clear up some of my bad history in the “Under God” comments thread. If I’d read the linked article properly, I would have seen it for myself. Thanks, Josh. :)
