Running On Bravado

Writer's Block: Multimedia

2009-03-24T20:16:28Z

What is your favorite macro? Why?

my favourite macro is the Canon 100mm F2.8 :]

Delayed Transmission

2009-02-13T19:43:05Z

Since Em has moved in, I've been a bit uh, busy, so here is a run down of what's happened to me in the last month.

I've my retail job to focus on photography based work. I have now a promise of 3 jobs a week for the olympic work I'm doing, and I now teach at http://www.eyephotographicworkshops.com/ . This, combined with Em moving in has given me a bit of spare cash which, for me, is rare and is helping replenish my bank account after buying my new camera! However..

I've gone and got a new tripod. I'll take some snaps of it soon, needless to say it's amazing on a fantastic scale. Here is a brief picture of the leg/column angles:

Which means it can do this:

I've also got a new head for the tripod in the form of this piece of amazing:

it weighs 300g, and can hold a load of up to 10kg! It's a full ball head, and I'm madly in love with it, just got to wait for it to be delivered (it's professional kit, so special order!)

I'd best run and have a bath and a shave before taking Em to a TOP SECRET LOCATION for dinner tomorrow!

Happy Thing Day 4

2008-12-28T22:16:12Z

So there are gaps, pfft. I'm a busy man.

Today I'm happy because I'm in London with Em.

That is all!

Happy Thing Day 3

2008-12-26T23:08:56Z

As I avoided my laptop yesterday, here is day 3 of OMG I HAPPY thingy.

Today I am happy as it was the family get together.. and my cousins had a Wii. Ahh the fun you can have with a wii. Sadly my burn started to scream in agony due to the constant tensing on my forearm... long story short, i ignored it and kept playing and it bled a fair bit.

Razzle Dazzle..

2008-12-23T22:57:35Z

...my fantasmahgazzle.

Today what's making me happy is talking to Em about our christmas traditions, the order in which we do things, and quirks our families have.. It's all very nostalgic and "awwww".

So... Day 1

2008-12-22T16:49:56Z

So Lisa tagged me to do this whole WRITE WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY thing for a week.. Frankly I don't have 8LJ friends, so if anyone does it, that's up to you.

Today I'm happy about getting MY CANON EOS 5D MARK II

Hail John

2008-11-08T11:49:08Z

#theonering.net
Sir_Mordred> some bloke from hollyrood comes over and buys me a pint
Sir_Mordred> so i start hanging out with him
Sir_Mordred> we go upstairs
Sir_Mordred> and his friend buys another pint
Sir_Mordred> and then the first guy fucks off
* Barliman sets ban on *!*@cpe-76-90-7-86.socal.res.rr.com
* Barliman Is Frowning At Sir_Mordred
* Barliman has kicked Sir_Mordred from #theonering.net (banned:Sir_Mordred)
* Barliman Drags Sir_Mordred By The Leg To #theonering.net's Door And Says Wait Here

#theshire
Sir_Mordred> oh
Sir_Mordred> damn
Rich> lmao
Sir_Mordred> i'm not used to talking to you in main
Sir_Mordred> it's confusing
Rich> lol
Sir_Mordred> so the first guy fucks off

...

Swift Justice

2008-07-16T16:11:01Z

17:06:14 Sanjay || Bristol: put a blonde wig on you and you're bo derek
17:06:17 Sanjay || Bristol: i'd rape you
17:06:30 Sanjay || Bristol: wait, who's bo derek?
17:06:54 Rich/bristolol: who is fucking derek?
17:07:17 Sanjay || Bristol: derek?
17:07:29 Sanjay || Bristol: Who the fucking fuck is fucking derek?
17:07:38 Rich/bristolol: who the fuck is derek
17:07:42 Rich/bristolol: let alone who the fuck is fucking derek
17:08:05 Sanjay || Bristol: derek sounds like a bit of a fuckmook to me
17:08:13 Rich/bristolol: i hope he dies in a fire

halcalanky @ 2008-06-17T00:14:00

2008-06-16T23:14:57Z

brb

dominican republic

:]

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2008-06-03T15:56:34Z

Being able to laugh at yourself is important.

When you're me, you're laughing a lot.

Rich> I'm a moron
Rich> any input box i typed into, was being filled up with +s along with my other key strokes
Rich> reboot, nothing
Rich> off and on again, nothing
Rich> so i decide to phone the wonderful, free, apple support
Rich> "are you using an external keyboard too?" "well one is plugged in, but im not using it" "where is it" "on the floor" "on the floor?" "yes" "is anything on it" "... ok cheers bye"
andrew> lol
andrew> apple and you were made for each other

Stoled from Sus

2008-05-22T21:34:10Z

Below are the top 106 books (why 106, she wonders?) most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users – in other words, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, and italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Okay, then put an asterisk (*) by the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend – even if you read 'em for school in the first place.

- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

- Anna Karenina – so sad!

- Crime and Punishment

- Catch-22

- One Hundred Years of Solitude

- Wuthering Heights

- The Silmarillion*

- Life of Pi

- The Name of the Rose

- Don Quixote - I bought my copy in Spain though if that makes a diff

- Moby Dick

- Ulysses

- Madame Bovary

- The Odyssey*****

- Pride and Prejudice

- Jane Eyre

- A Tale of Two Cities

- The Brothers Karamazov

- Guns, Germs, and Steel

- War and Peace

- Vanity Fair

- The Time Traveler’s Wife

- The Iliad

- Emma

- The Blind Assassin

- The Kite Runner

- Mrs. Dalloway

- Great Expectations

- American Gods

- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

- Atlas Shrugged

- Reading Lolita in Tehran

- Memoirs of a Geisha

- Middlesex

- Quicksilver

- Wicked

- The Canterbury Tales

- The Historian

- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

- Love in the Time of Cholera

- Brave New World

- The Fountainhead

- Foucault’s Pendulum

- Middlemarch

- Frankenstein

- The Count of Monte Cristo

- Dracula

- A Clockwork Orange (seen the film!)

- Anansi Boys

- The Once and Future King

- The Grapes of Wrath

- The Poisonwood Bible

- 1984

- Angels & Demons

- The Inferno

- The Satanic Verses

- Sense and Sensibility

- The Picture of Dorian Gray

- Mansfield Park

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

- To the Lighthouse

- Tess of the D’Urbervilles

- Oliver Twist

- Gulliver’s Travels

- Les Misérables

- The Corrections

- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

- Dune

- The Prince

- The Sound and the Fury

- Angela’s Ashes

- The God of Small Things

- A People’s History of the United States

- Cryptonomicon

- Neverwhere

- A Confederacy of Dunces

- A Short History of Nearly Everything

- Dubliners

- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

- Beloved – I plowed through Sula for book club and hated it so I’m leery of another Toni Morrison

- Slaughterhouse-five

- The Scarlet Letter – twice! (and it was two times too many)

- Eats, Shoots & Leaves

- The Mists of Avalon

- Oryx and Crake

- Collapse

- Cloud Atlas

- The Confusion

- Lolita

- Persuasion

- Northanger Abbey

- The Catcher in the Rye

- On the Road

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

- Freakonomics

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

- The Aeneid

- Watership Down

- Gravity’s Rainbow

- The Hobbit *

- In Cold Blood

- White Teeth

- Treasure Island

- David Copperfield

- The Three Musketeers