Goddamned ingrates and how I cannot stand them

A friend of mine, let's call her Susie. She's married to Brad. It's is his birthday soon, and she wants to do something special. She wants to make a video for him. Helpful soul and aspiring filmmakerthat I am, I agree. It turns out that the charger on my very amateur video camera is blown.…

I want to be just like Whistling Jack Smith

Tell me this guy isn't awesome. I don't care what anyone else says. This man is awesome and I want to dance and whistle just like him. I know the guy's not really Whistling Jack Smith, but I don'tknow his precise identity, so I shall simply call him Whistling Jack Smith. But seriously (I wasn't…

Twenty pages and a headache

I've noticed that whenever I get around to doing something, I pour myself into it. It happens with anything. If I work, I focus on working and do nothing else. I don't even want to take my lunch break.When I attempt to troubleshoot and fix a computer problem, I don't stop until it's done. Recently…

I almost signed up for Apple's MobileMe

With the work on my screenplay picking up, I recently thought about signing up for MobileMe (for some reason I thought it was .Mac), Apple's attempt to synchronize all of your pertinent data across allof your devices, namely a PC, a Mac, and an iPhone. Now, I don't have an iPhone (though I considered getting…

A real broken lens this time

Well, this time there is a real broken lens, not like in my article about photo manipulation. My Sony DSC-P10 Cybershot digital camera somehow got its lens all screwed up. You see, the barrel of thelens extends and retracts upon power on and power off. Without a clue as to how it happened, the barrel…