its gonna rain rain

everything is so bright, vivid, and alive after a good thunderstorm

i like rainy days anyway, because naps are pretty much mandatory

note i still havent decided to make the HDR effect subtle

Student Discount = $7.99 Large Pan

Most of the newish Counter-Strike: Source has HDR maps (think: HL2) ... pretty sweet. This reminded me of a certain photography technique... yay CS2! Future uses shouldn't be so obvious.

Oh and I'll also keep the images down to <500k>

Extra Long Post Cause Its Been A Month

First up, a picture from before the repair. I think Jeff is the photographer/culprit.


Next, our lovely local Scott Park. Thank Champaign for bothering.


What's the difference, CRT or LCD?


And finally, the 1974 CL360 Scrambler photos.

. . .
So I finally got my camera back. Canon shipped it out on April 7th, but FedEx was nice enough to make sure the guys up at apartment 302 got it, not yours truly here at 203. Luckily, the s70 was chillin' on their kitchen table, and my tendency to believe in the general goodness of people is intact.

Naturally, I immediately drove down to the park to snap some photos.
I was confident that I'd creeped out the only two girls there, so I explained my actions.

"Funny, we wondered what you were up to."

"Those pictures turned out nice, I'm glad you got it back."

for jason

Thanks Mike, Kim, and my Chocolate for the pictures.

Jason L. said he "enjoyed reading about [my] days," so I'm doing a mini-update. My camera is finally at Canon's repair place. It took me like 2 weeks to find the paper with the phone number on it, because I am slow & I don't like thinking about it being broken.

I bought a motorcycle over spring break! Its a 1974 Honda CL360 Scrambler. It had 3500 miles on it when I bought it, and it has 4100 miles on it now... :) It is lots and lots and lots of fun to ride. Actually, the Jason I mentioned earlier let me use his TANK 150cc moped to take the driving test at the DMV. I had to get the license before I went with my friends to Dixon to get the bike. It was located near there, so we got it, and checked it for mechanical soundness at their garage. Then I rode it 250 miles back to Danville. Note that if you google that trip, it is only 200 miles; it suffices to say that I took a scenic route. At one point I was actually blasting down a gravel-dirt road in the middle of nowhere but woods and cornfields. For a few minutes, I really thought I might had managed to slip inside of Walter Salles' Motorcycle Diaries.

More pictures when my helmet and classic goggles come in.

Sad times.

My pretty new baby stopped working!!! :(


On Thursday, I went to adjust the zoom for a shot back home in Danville, and it made a strange motor sound, like the gear came off of the zoom lens, and it said E18. :( :( :(

it was new, so the warranty should cover it.

it better.

Bighomeworknight

I was eating lunch when I remembered to take a picture today.

More great stories later.

no time

This isnt really even a photo, but definitely an image. I have no time early in the week.

I only wanna know one thing: taylor, WHY??

Edit: Turns out he replaced "dancing" with "dancing like whoa!". . . that sounds more like it.

green, brown

look at all the shiny people

Altgeld

nice coat

It rained today.

There was a full day's worth of rain, crammed into the five minutes between two of my classes.

I'm not mad, I like the rain. I actually enjoy running around in torrential downpours. It was nice out today, too. I mean, it was POURING. It was like God took an 8 octillion gallon bucket of water and just poured it on our campus.

I just wish I didn't have my favorite leather jacket on, with my camera in the pocket. I think it'll be okay though. The sun was out after class, so I actually got to use the camera after all.