April 9, 2019

Red Eyes by The War on Drugs


Does anyone read this blog anymore?  It doesn't matter because the War on Drugs is my favorite band right now.

December 30, 2009

Star Wars Openings

Star Wars: A-Team Opening



Star Wars: Dallas Opening

July 30, 2009

Back Off Man, I'm a Scientist

If Ghostbusters was filmed in 1954...



And...

Fan created Ghostbusters 3 Trailer...using clips from other movies...

March 15, 2009

February 19, 2009

Ghost Riding

I had never heard about this until tonight. Am I just getting old?

February 5, 2009

Speed Run

This guy makes it look so easy. Many a weekday afternoon was spent trying to beat this game.

January 12, 2009

Smart Cars

Various Smart Car videos:

70 mph crash test:


And another:


And the doubledecker Smart Car

December 19, 2008

Worst Roommate Ad Ever

Trying really hard to figure out if this is a joke or not...

December 18, 2008

I'm honestly not sure if anyone still checks this (other that me, and, obviously, Jeff, who is the lone remaining contributor), but I saw this and immediately thought of high school:


Seriously. Real Headline. Here is the story.

Reminds me of a joke I heard in high school. Anyone?

And apologies to Jeff.... if, indeed, you are the only one still reading this, you probably won't understand since I am alluding to a quasi-inside joke.

December 14, 2008

The More Facebook Friends You Have...

A recent study of college freshmen showed those with 200 or more Facebook friends scored lower self-esteem than those with less than 200 Facebook friends.

Link to the study is here.

The reasoning behind it is those with 200 friends are likely not to go out and stress about real-life friends.

September 21, 2008

In the Middle

Just in case you hadn't heard. High is now Middle.







But you can still see "High School" on the sign....

August 28, 2008

July 3, 2008

How to Photograph Fireworks

I wrote this for another website. Your mileage may vary:



Many a budding shutterbug has attempted unsuccessfully to photograph fireworks by merely pointing their film camera to the sky and shooting, resulting dark useless prints.

With the advent of digital photography, photographing fireworks has become easy, just by following some basic steps:


  1. Find a location away from the crowd and power lines. An elevated location on a hillside or on the back of a pickup truck might be adequate. You might even want to scout out your perch beforehand.

  2. Set your camera to use standard quality pics. Having too high quality settings will result in too long of write speed, thereby making you miss shots.

  3. Set the shutter speed to 1 second or longer.

  4. Use a tripod. If you can't find a tripod use a nice steady base.

  5. Turn off the flash. This might seem like common sense. Remember you are photographing lights. Any light projected onto another light will merely take away from the light you are trying to photograph.

  6. Point your camera toward the sky and shoot. A key to getting a good shot is anticipating when the firework will explode. Initially You will have many hit and miss shots. As the show goes along, you will be able to perfect your timing thereby getting excellent shots. Being able to review the shots afterwards and delete the poor quality shots is satisfaction enough, rather than using up a great amount of film with a film camera.