The new uploads of old photos

I admit that I am a lazy photographer. I take them and then I wait and wait and wait to share them. There are two reasons for this. The first is I am lazy. The second is you don’t seem excited to see them. Well, not all of you, but most of you. You know who you are.

Anyway, I went on a jaunt this past Sunday night to capture some new interestingness and figured I’d better get crackin with getting the old up before the new. I was a bit shocked when going thru my photostream that I was missing lot more than I thought. The good news, again, is you weren’t excited for them anyway. Also, you need to be a friend or family contact of mine in Flickr — you need to be logged in too — to even see the majority of those I just uploaded, and in one case, finally titled and tagged. If you are scared to give Flickr (Yahoo) your precious info, then send me an e-mail and I will send you a super secret link(s) for the sets.

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Shiny bits

At long last, here are the shiny bits.

I know, it is plain, but not as plain as what came before it, right?

Well, this is pretty much all the shine that is going to be around here. I’m going to move on to some feature bits. In fact, the reason getting the shiny bits out here took a little longer was due to taking a feature bit out as I didn’t feel it was quite ready yet. (Oh, and working a lot.)

Anyway, I won’t be working quite as crazily as I have been lately, so now I’ll feel up to coding a bit when I get home at a reasonable hour. Oh, and that means I can catch up on telly too. And Xbox. And comics (really!). And blogging.

You’ve heard this before. I know.

You don’t believe me. I know.

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No bowling

In case you were wondering about my Super Bowl status, you can wonder no more. No super bowling for me. I figured you didn’t figure it out from the silence, so I’d tell you. Heck, that’s better than what Jay and I got, but I’m not complaining. We never heard back from his friend with the tix and that leaves us to both assume it didn’t happen. Either that, or he ain’t tellin and is instead sellin dem tix on the craigslist or ebays.

Anyway, just as well cuz now I won’t miss the commercials… wait… they sucked last year, right? Actually, hasn’t that been a trend? Oh wait… I didn’t even watch it last year… I think. Yeah, I don’t think I watched much anyway… can’t watch Peyton. Let me see if I posted about it…

Yep… a little bit. I posted a comment as a post. What what what? Just go read it if you are curious. I may have said if I watched it or not on a comment at the Zone or BBn. I really don’t remember though and don’t care to search it out. I mean, I didn’t want to search for that post and gawd, it sure was horrible good reading though. Seriously... Continue reading »

Seventeen

I posted some photos [slideshow] from Saturday’s playoff win against the Jacksonville Jaguars. I took it easy on you and only posted 33, or the just over 400 frames I fired off. That’s a ~55 percent drop off from my last set, so you should have no problem zipping thru them. Right?

Anyway, seventeen and Oh baby! and… yes… I went to the game… I know people.

Not really… but, it is funny how many people wonder just that when you tells them you went to the game.

Well, guess what… I am going again this week and… knock on a lot of wood — how about an everwood tree — and wish me good luck… the Super Bowl. Of course, our source has to win the ticket lottery and oh… the Pats need to get past the Bolts too. He’s been 0-3 so far, so maybe we’ll luck out this time. Or not.

I am not looking forward to this Sunday’s game with temperatures in the teens. Last week was just the right amount of cold, but this week is gonna suck. Much.

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Lensgate

It is only fitting that I finally write this post the week of the expected decimation of the New York J-E-T-S! Jets! Jets! Jets! Oh yeah… you know that’s going to happen (short of Tom Brady getting hit by the short bus).

So, the name of this post is Lensgate and I’m guessing you might wonder why. (Hey Ed, at least I procrastinated so long it is now “topical” again.) It does have something to do with the first Pat’s game against the Jets, but that was Videogate or Spygate or whatevergate. I actually hate that we name every conspiracy since Watergate — Contragate being the first I can remember — with a “gate” at the end. I just think it is media silliness… which is an oxymoron. Continuing on… naming this with a “gate” on the end of the title lends itself well to the preposterousness that is this story… and I am getting there, believe me.

So, I attended the Pat’s home opener against the San Diego Chargers. Of course, this was the game after the Jets game and everyone was excited to see how the Pats would respond, especially against a tough foe like the Chargers (and crybaby... Continue reading »

Bird and bee

Because there’s just one of each.

I posted some new photos, which I referred to in my last post about photos. I went back for more photos of the flowers in my Mom’s yard and ended up with some bonus bird photos. She routinely has an excellent variety of birds in her yard around dinner time, which is apparently the same for you and them. (Not so much me as I eat late.)  One of these days I’ll get some photos of the cardinals that come to feed. It is all about patience and time, but that’s true for a lot of photography I guess.

Anyway, I almost got some of two hummingbirds flitting about the yard, but they weren’t stopping anywhere convenient. I almost mistook the first one for a big dragonfly! Her hummingbird feeder wasn’t yet up, but it is now, so maybe I’ll luck into some, but the season is getting pretty late.

So, the new photos are spread across the Flowers 2007 and new Wild things sets. You might be better off viewing by date though. If you can identify the flower, leave a comment on it.

Orange fluff

I have been lazy with the writing lately, so more on that in the next post, but I also feel like I’m in a rut in taking photos only at Sox games. With my first Pats game just over two weeks away, I need to get some other photos out there, so I have been better about trying to take photos of other stuff. Now, since I don’t live in the city, that is tough. It leaves me with flowers and sunsets. Grrrl photos.

Well, I have even more! I took a couple different sunsets over the past couple/few weeks and this is the first. I have added these new photos to my Sunsets set on flickr. I’ll leave it to you to check the “date taken” to figure out the new ones, but as of now, there are eight in total at the start of the set. Or, I guess you could view by date instead. Whatever works for you.

More to come.

Clay pitcher

I had the pleasure of attending the first game of yesterday’s doubleheader to see Clay Buchholz make his major league debut. That makes two in two years as I got to see Jon Lester’s last year.

Unfortunately I missed the start of the game after just missing a Red Line train and then having some ticket pick-up issues. Joe joined me for the game after Ed had to bail on me due to some work mumbo-baloney. I told him instead of getting comp’d an extra day off, he needs to get comp’d some Sox or Pats tix. I think it was the third time we tried to hook up for a game with no joy. Oh wells.

Buchholz looked pretty good and pretty young. I mean like twelve years old young. Kid looks 140 pounds soaking wet if he’s lucky and has he started shaving yet? He’s so thin he could take Casey Fossum’s old nickname: The Blade. Anyway, he was helped out by the Sox offense having a big first inning off John Lackey and picked up his first MLB win in his first start. That’s a pretty cool parting gift considering he got sent right back down to AAA after the start.

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More grrrl photos

Not really… but, they are of flowers and a sunset…

I also added them to some existing photosets, flowers and sunsets, but you are better off seeing just the new ones with those first two links. Don’t forget to look at the flowers in the larger sizes because those thumbnails definitely don’t do them justice.

Three chins me

I put up some new photos tonight. One, which you can see above (at least at the time of this posting) is of me and my three chins. Yup, I’m now fat. Heck, this post needs a permanent link there…

The new photos were taken while down in Hyannisport and Nantucket a few weeks ago. I was visiting with family and the majority of the photos were of my younger cousins, which are marked family private on flickr. Have to keep these safe from the evil people trolling the interwebs.

There are some of Nantucket, but they are just newer, rinse-and-repeat of other shots I have taken in the past. Others are of the beautiful flowers and bushes around the Hyannisport cottage, which was more like a mansion, right down the street from the Shrivers’ and the Governator. I’m not even kidding.

If you can identify any of the flowers without a label, leave a comment on it. I would appreciate it.