Extreme Macro Photography on a budget - oh the fun that pringle cans get into...

bachelor cooking - HAHA!

More fun from Phoenix Sky Harbor.

100 best pictures from National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/100best/wallpaper01.html

In other news, I've found that my birthday coincides with the founding of the Nazi Party. Thank you, sober worm!

adj: Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.

5 weird habits of mine... hmm let's see:

1. when driving automatic, I use my left foot for braking
2. I collect coins and bills from different countries
3. I soak my cereal before i eat it... hard cereal has a tendency to scrape the skin off my palate. Grape nuts is basically gravel to me.
4. I compulsively organize things: racks of cd's, books, dinner plates, etc. If I visit a friend's house, I have to fight the urge to gather up loose stuff and organize them.
5. Sometimes I make stuff up just to fill in the blanks

Repost. I've always felt this needed a large version anyway.

Taken around springtime at my university.

More experiments in over-exposure... a familiar photo to people who have bought my poster.

I'm taking a break from xanga. Happy holidays, see you all later.

The original pic is part of gallery 140, a collection of my least worst shots.

Someone just had a bright idea. Har har.

With this pic, you can see why professionals use raw image formats and don't re-compress images (this includes annoying things like not rotating images before letting customers order proofs). With some experimenting you can see how the blocky effects surrounding the halos become obvious... the result of how jpeg uses a block area compression algorithm.

Pushing my über-minimalist layout design a bit more... suddenly I feel like designing skins. Anyone want to sponsor me with xanga premium?

Another repost. I love this larger image size, don't you? ^^ Having a new image format means I can recycle ALL of my old photos and it'll keep this xanga busy for another 230 days! hahahaa =þ

5 random things about me:

• I like cacti. I also like food. but the "southwestern cactus omelette" at the snobby brunch place wasn't very good.
• Sometimes i wish i could just let myself get swept away. Screw that "being in control" stuff.
• I want to avoid turning into a xanga whore. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. So even though I post a photo here everyday, I try to spend as little time as possible on xanga. Occasionally I have to fight the urge to quit.
• Freudian slips crack me up.
• I did the spelling bee twice in elementary school... but now I misspell so much, I swear I'm dicklexic. I mean, dyslexic.

dang... I think most people I would want to tag have already done this!

A test shot that I was going to delete... but I thought "how distracted"... I'll just post it here.

One time at lunch I was talking about hot sauce and my student intern said "I can handle a lot in my mouth." O_o;