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New Cameras

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Links

Like many com­puter geeks with a pas­sion for pho­tog­ra­phy (and a lim­ited bud­get) I’ve been lust­ing for a DSLR cam­era. Don’t get me wrong, I really like my lit­tle Canon Pow­er­shot. I just want the abil­ity to use mul­ti­ple lenses again. Like I could when I was tak­ing pho­tog­ra­phy courses back in col­lege and used […]

Tags: camera

Read more | Comments (2) | May 22, 2006

Banana, Crackers and Gatorade… Oh my!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Well, I finally feel like I am at least partly back from the dead. But really, that’s get­ting ahead of myself; allow me to back­track a bit. 2005. May. 7th. Ariesna and I were joined in wed­ded bliss. Unfor­tu­nately with her just fin­ish­ing her degree and pay­ing for a wed­ding money was tight so we didn’t […]

Tags: bathroom, doctor, failure, Food, HAL, health, home, money, office, problem, pun, shopping, Sick, sleep, vacation, weekend, weight

Read more | Comments (0) | May 14, 2006

Employment Woes

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Wednes­day morn­ing, my super­vi­sor pulled me aside to tell me since man­age­ment wants to go into beta just before I take 2 days of vaca­tion. And since one of those vaca­tion days con­flicts with a week long Microsoft train­ing course I was signed up for they are pulling me out of the class. I wasn’t […]

Tags: dinner, HAL, home, humour, office, problem, sleep, sound, vacation

Read more | Comments (1) | Apr 28, 2006

Daaaaang, that’s loaded!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Today, I have to travel to my company’s home office to teach a class. The day before I’m sup­posed to drive over I find I’ve got a voice mail. As I do 99.9999% of my job either via emails, IMs or F2F, this in itself was extremely odd. Then I lis­tened to the mes­sage and […]

Tags: coffee, driving, email, home, Love, offer, office, park, Travel

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 26, 2006

Real Life Recap

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’ve not been post­ing any­thing for a while because… Well, I just have not felt like it which is not to say I haven’t had any­thing to talk about. Today, I decided to update the world at large about what I have been upto in my lit­tle slice of it. We sur­vived the tor­na­dos and hail […]

Tags: basement, family, Golf, home, Links, offer, office, park, radio, remodeling, strange, thanks, VW, Weather, weekend

Read more | Comments (1) | Apr 20, 2006