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so around the interwebz camera geeks are drooling and arguing of the new nikon D90.

what is so damn magical about the numerical’d digi slr from nikon? well for one, its got some sensor and ISO improvements. two, has a higher number than the D80. and three, shoots 720p HD video.  

yup, i said video.

so now you’ve got all the photojournalists thinking, “hey, i don’t have to mess with that damn video camera anymore!” and video guys screaming, “wtf!? rolling shutter, cmos, mono audio with no audio inputs!”. but some video guy in the back mumbles, “least i aint gota buy that damn letus 35 adapter now..”

as far as i’m concerned, i like it.  i’ve been using a loaner d1x from work with no working functions other than a shutter.  it will be cool to have a video option, but its not my main concern, i’ll use my hvx/future letus for that stuff. but of course i’ll play with it.

if you know me, you know i like snacks.  its no secret. a couple of months i got my ass handed to me tho.  a visit to the dentist.  homegirl was not stoked on my toofs.  so i cut back on the sugary snacks a bit and started focusing on more healthier snacks(still can’t turn down laffy taffy tho). while i was in st louis a couple of weeks ago i found an awesome gas station snack attacker at the QT(the midwest’s version of sheets).  it was packaged like a lunchable but was not an oscar meyer product.  it was full of cheese cubes, grapes, apple wedges and some fuckin caramel dip!  omega nom noms! and not too bad for you either, mother nature’s snacks from the earth(minus the processed cheese and caramel, at least i’m on my way to better..).

and since i’ve returned back to the less humid NC i’ve been searching for a similar like product to fulfill my nom nom snack needs.  thus far i’ve found walmart selling an apple wedge with caramel dip packet from reichel foods. they’ve got a couple of other different dippers as well, good stuff all around.  but its still no QT omega snack attacker.

i should prolly start snappin pics of these things i find interesting.  it would probably make a much better blog entry.  atleast i did some linking.

one thing i hate

pdf files on the interweb.  its fine and dandy when the link tells you its a pdf so you can just go ahead and download it.  but when its a blind link to a pdf, or even worse, a link out of a flash object to a pdf when you don’t have an option to download it.  

drives me fucking nuts.

here is my imdb listing. waiting on clearance of “Good Morning Mr. Brown” to get put on there.  i had way too many roles on that film.  but take a look at it.

the triad area of north carolina has been heavily influenced by hispanic implants over the past 10 or so years.  mainly due to a large tobacco driven economy(which has now began to perish). some people frown at the influx of this race. the ol “they’re takin our jobs..” shit is definitely not too true.  they just work the jobs most of us collar sportin whiteys won’t man up and do. but they have brought many great things to our area.  in no other part of the east coast have i found authentic mexican restaurants that taste so damn good!  or that could just be the lack of my culture, but who cares, its good food.  also, a new found treasure… and damn’t if i didn’t forget the name of the place.  but its a hispanic bakery.  located on the finest of main streets in all of north carolina, that of kernersville.  april and i had heard of its fine pastries so we decided to drop in one day.  oooooo mmmm geeeee. what a spot we found.  amazing pastries and cakes for amazing prices!  i got this awesome pastry, bigger than a doughnut, that had a wedge cut into and then filled with creme. maaaan sooo good.  oh, and it was covered in powdered sugar for fucks sake!  and it was only 75 cents too! they have horizon’s organic milk but its still the same price as starbucks…  thats the new hot spot in k-vegas.  

voicemail is dead.  it sucks and i hate it.  i think i have like 12 messages on my phone right now, that i probably won’t listen to. so if you left me a message i’m sorry, i’m not gonna listen to it.  but hopefully we’ve communicated on the topic of your unanswered call.  just don’t leave a message.

years and years ago i used to ride at a skatepark called flipside(now known as the shithole of 915 skatepark). and on bike night a band would practice behind the mini ramp.  i don’t remember their name but i do remember they had a song for “North Carolina’s Southern Hero”, Jesse Helms.  it went something along the lines of “die jesse helms, die jesse die die!”.  well some 10 years later they got what they wanted.  

i don’t keep up with politics much, but to me, jesse helms stood for every backwoods uneducated whitey. he hated gays and was clearly a racist. but after reading a CL rants and rave it was pointed out that he eventually apologized for his remarks and beleifs on homo’s and blacks.  i’m sorry for the loss of life, but for some reason i doubt he’ll be missed.

however, April thinks he’s cute cause he looked like an owl.

so a couple of weeks ago april and i got real hooked on lost.  we started from season 1.  a couple of weekends, pretty much every evening, in the car, we watched it everywhere!  we finished it last night.  so many questions, such a crazy show.  we were so spoiled with having all 4 seasons at our disposal and now we’re with everyone else, waiting till 5.  which i think starts in Feb. of ‘09.  not fun.

one thing that would have driven me crazy was the writers strike.  imagine having to wait to who knows when for it to continue.  it was bad enough waiting for The Office, let alone what would be happening next on the island!

so i saw this behemoth of an airplane circling greensboro today. a quick phone call and i find out that the us air force are doing touch and go exercises at pti. so the tl88 and i haul ass out to the airport. a couple of turn arounds and manuevering through parking lots and i find myself in the back corner of the UPS lot awaiting the beasts decent. seeing such a huge aircraft come in for a landing is wild. its so friggin’ huge that it looks like its going like 10 miles an hour. i was actually standing on top of my car filming it and i could feel it shake as it touched down. only on the ground for a few seconds they gassed it and she was well on her way to the beautiful blue carolina skies. i was hoping they’d give a second pass so i snaked my way over to the other side of the airport, but no dice. the air monster was long gone.

the news & record just posted a news story about a serial flasher in the elon university area. maybe i’m just weird but i don’t think barging in some chicks apartment, pulling down your sweet pants and masterbating would be considered flashing, thats closer to sexual harrasment to me. but to each his own.

but thats an odd individual who seeks a lot of “special” attention.