Happy Holidays

Quotes from Christmas day
"Stop calling your wife a slut!" Mom
"That bitch!" Brother
(generic ow/ stop chocking me/ etc) Everone
"I could take her out back and shoot her" Brother
"I'll give you a mushroom stamp on your forehead" Brother
"Don't say B-U-T-T" Nefew
"I saw that and threw up" Brother
"Are we waiting for dad and grandma for dinner?" Brother
"NO!" Me
//Mom dumps food back into serving containers
"Wait, why are we waiting for them?" Mom
//Mom dishes food out to herself again
//opening I Can Has A Cheeseburger book
"Do they speak a foreign language or something?" Sister in law

Backlog

Many of these are photos I took a while ago, and have been stored in my phone. Just random interesting things I saw.

Like this, I don't know what the target audience was, but it seemed suggestive to me.

A leaf made a cool imprint in the concrete.

Looks sort of like mr. Hankey.

Happy thanksgiving!

I thought this was cute.

Out back of work, water was gushing out of this quite a bit.

These "green" water bottles chose a somewhat unfortunate name.

It is the simple stuff...

Things we can do.

• Awesome 3D graphics
  
• Insane resolutions
• Shit-tons of weapons and armor
• Multiplayer with people on the other side of the world
• Like 10 sound channels

Things we can't do.

• Pathing

Computer MFGs

It makes me upset how confusing buying a computer can be, even to someone like me who has some basic computer knowledge. I'm not saying I know everything, but I believe I know more than the average consumer. Between RAM clock speeds and timings, GHz, cores, hyper threading, dual and triple channel, Graphics cards (where not only does each gen have different models, but each model has subsets of each model, and then even among those there is variation based on the RAM, manufacture and even clock speeds.) Power supplies, MOBOs which are virtually imposable to compare objectively, and HDDs, and even more that I didn't list, who wouldn't be confused?

All cycles are not created equal!
Some people don't seem to understand that the Hz rating only tells you the number of cycles per second. It doesn't tell you what gets done in each cycle. Don't try to compare an Atom processor to a P4 based on clock speeds. If you do, you are an idiot.

A computer will get slower over time.
Unless you know what you are doing, trying to maintain your computer can often make it worse. There are an endless list of things that can slow down your computer on both the hardware and software side. For example your HDD will often develop bad sectors over time.

The whole is equal to whatever the hell is slowing it down the most.
If any one component is shitty, it doesn't matter how great the rest of the computer is, your computer is still going to be shitty. To be continued later.

We went to the pond.

Yea, he escaped when my mom dropped the leash and the geese went flying.

Erm...

Old people are kind of wrinkly but this just seems offensive. (click for bigger)

Hmm...

Sometimes I feel like I'm not very useful.

Bunny.

I bumped the ISO up too high in an effort to compensate for the low light, but at a small size it looks ok.

Swine Flu.

I got swine flu a few weeks ago, and when I finally started getting over it I got pneumonia. Anyways, I'm still hacking up stuff, but I'm hoping I will be better soon.

Dragon*Con photos.

Bug

Didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but I'll post it anyways.

Like spiders?

Aren't they cute? (click for bigger)

Sweeper.

I would like to sweep the house, but someone took our fucking sweeper AGAIN. Is it too much to ask? You know, to be able to sweep the house? There is no point in buying a dyson, because everyone will be constantly "borrowing" it, only the people in my family don't return things after they borrow them, you have to go get them yourself.

Dragonflies

This one was out back long enough for me to get quite a few photos, which one do you like best?
(They have been shrunk to 33% and compressed to save on file size.)

lizzard photos.

So... not much interesting going on .

Really?

Even more photos!

All can be clicked to see at 50% (all are cropped too) The top and bottom photos actually look fine at 100%!

More photos

Click for 33% zoom

Click for 50% zoom