I decided to investigate the amount of spam email that I actually receive in a month. For October 2008, it was 3,741 messages. 37% of these were missed by my spam filter, and needed to be manually deleted.
And no, this graph was not just an excuse to experiment with a new font. :)
Several weeks ago, while I was at work and googling for information about databases, one of the pages I examined mentioned a contest. And, of course, I spent about 15 minutes solving the puzzle and sent in an entry.
As it turns out I won, which is cool, because I never win anything.
So now I’m waiting for my ipod nano to arrive; when it arrives, I can stack it atop my iphone and my video ipod…
I am now excessively i’ed.
So where have I travelled?
Create your own visited map of The World
I like to think I’ve travelled a lot, but this really shows me how little of the world I’ve seen…
I bought my current digital camera, a Canon 20D, in 2003. That’s five years ago, or about 3 trillion in camera years.
Every year, I’d watch the trade shows, hoping that my dream camera, a replacement for the Canon 5D, would come out. Every year, a new upgrade of my camera would come out, but still no 5D replacement.
And every year, I’d hold off upgrading my camera because the one I really wanted wasn’t out yet. Even when the autofocus stopped working. Even when the aperture stopped working reliably. Because I knew, if I upgraded, the camera I really wanted would come out the next day.
And it finally has! Yay! The Canon 5D Mark II!
I’ve already pre-ordered it through Amazon. Unfortunately, now I have to wait until at least November to get it. :(
When I have huge batches of photos that need to be worked up in Photoshop, I follow a certain order…
I’ve got numbers 1 and 2 done ;)
First up, Susan and I. I’ve known Susan from dancing for about eight years now.
Next, Darren looking like an idiot with cute girl. Hey idiot, look at the cute girl, not at the sky!
It seems to be quite common that I either have nothing to do on the weekend, or way too much stuff to do.
This weekend was one of the latter, with friday and saturday night dances at the San Francisco Lindy Exchange, and sunday at the Art Deco Society’s annual Gatsby picnic.
And, of course, tons of photoshop work to be done, because I took my camera to all three events. Add in some studying for my Japanese course tomorrow, and I am basically dead on my feet. Or would be if I wasn’t sitting in a chair.
I also managed to come up with a witty saying in conversation; Saturday night at the dance, my friend Sharon was mentioning how many single women there were at the dance, and I said on the spur of the moment “I’m good at flirting, but not at converting,” which would be even funnier if it wasn’t so painfully true.
Photos coming up over the next few days…
There seems to be something wrong with physics; specifically in my freezer…
Do I have a tiny little black hole sucking the water towards the top? Is the water trying to escape? Is it alive?
100 F°: The Canadian Point - The temperature at which expatriate Canadians finally begin to think “You know, perhaps snow wasn’t so bad after all.”
One of my many bad habits is that I only check my mailbox about once a month. I’m sure the postman hates me.
In this months’ mail:
I was looking at other people’s photos from Fanime on Flickr, and found a photo of me taken by CrashFaster! Fear my totally uninspired and lame generic Japanese schoolboy cosplay!
Oh, and 9 more photos sent to Flickr - It would have been more, but Lightroom decided to blow chunks all over its database and I had to restore it. Technology hates me this week.