so when you have a new camera, a puppy and no photographic skill whatsoever you find yourself taking crazy amounts of pictures.
just fucking around w/ lenses and f-stops and other such craziness.

enjoy the many faces of buster….

The Many Faces of Buster

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so today stonebraker is leaving seattle for a camping trip to a destination that escapes me.
before he left we were chatting about his hometown senator, larry craig, and how sick it was that he was trying to get it on with someone in an airport bathroom after spending his political career cracking down on the “homosexuals”.

once stone was at the airport the following text messaging transpired and is presented here to allow you a snapshot into my life:

Stonebraker: At the airport taking a deuce and some guy kept trying to touch my foot and rub his hand under the stall!

Jeff: LOL dude was it the Senator?

Stonebraker: I think it might have been the president.

Jeff: ask for his autograph before the airport sex

…30 minutes go by…..

Stonebraker: dude i want to get it on with the flight attendant

Jeff: is he hot?

Stonebraker: Dude, I think he was the one in the stall next to me! BAM

Jeff: I’m blogging that

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i’m jazzed today because i’m expecting not one but TWO lenses to arrive on my doorstep.

josh was nice enough to lend me his EF-S 18-35mm lens because he said that while this is a good starter lens, he’d rather see me spend my pennies on something with a little more flare. i did not argue.

I’m also expecting the UPS guy to deliever the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens. Amazon has a really good price
on the lens and I snatched it up with all the cash I earn from this blog.

being at work sucks when you know that you’re getting new schwag delivered but when you’re waiting for TWO new pieces of schwag….wow it really sucks.

is it 5pm yet?

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so it was hotter than hell in socal today. i was driving home from lab and my very well-calibrated VW outdoor thermometer i can report that it was around 112F. of course i pulled my iPhone out and snapped this super-live-shot

heatwave aside, the best part of living in socal is that all of the local weather girls could easily be playboy playmates.

i guess when the weather only fluctuates by 40 degrees all year long you’ve got to have a hook to get people to watch the news…and it’s definitely working

this is a great blog post because i used the word “playmate” and “fluctuate” in the same post.

on saturday i met up with dawn and josh in bako.

we sat for a couple of hours and talked about all sorts of craziness, but especially about photography and my burgeoning quest to become the world’s next great amateur photographer. amidst all of the convo we ate avocado eggrolls and polished off a modified-sampler that was dee-lish.

i was tempted to pull out my camera and take pictures of our food/drinks al-a-raymi, but i figured that maybe you have to be canadian to pull that off in public.

before we left, josh gave me my birthday gift. it was this incredible framed/matted picture that he took in Bryce National Park and now it’s proudly hanging in my apartment for buster and I to enjoy. here’s the original photo (click it to supersize)

…thanks again, Josh!

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so i’m driving into bako today for another weekend trip. i’m going to try to fit in multiple visits with multiple friends while I’m there and that makes me super jazzed. that being said, it is Friday in socal and inevitably buster and i will be sitting in traffic on the 210 through Pasadena. ”dear santa jesus, please let know one else have the idea to use the 210West today…especially through the Pasadena/ 

so i just got an email that read:

you penis is a toy. i can makes it a tool?

either the LOLCats are emailing me about my penis or that is the greatest piece of SPAM of all time.

a couple of weeks ago when i picked up my new macbook pro, i went ahead and used the $100 credit the apple store was offering on a new printer towards the purchase of a shiny new Canon Pixma All-In-One printer to print sexy self-portraits and to scan pictures of my face/butt/etc.

so today i finally found time to unload the printer. i decided on the canon b/c it has these great individual ink cartridges for each color (black, yellow, magenta, cyan, etc). This makes for big savings on ink and i’m all about saving a buck—as you know by the fact that i bought a macbook pro.

i finished unpacking the printer and loaded up the print cartridges but was missing the ‘magenta’ cartridge. i started digging through the box, looking around my desk, etc but to no avail. as i stood up from the office floor, i turned to my sliding glass door and i had this zoom-in-on-my-face hollywood moment where i realized that buster was contently chewing on something on my patio.

as i slid the glass door open, buster’s eyes cut up and looked at mine. he was covered in magenta ink. the patio floor was covered in magenta ink. my printer had no magenta ink.

i spent about 2.2sec being angry and yelling at him before i look at his magenta-dyed-fur and i spent the next few minutes punishing him while trying to hide how hilarious it was that his big puppy nose was pink.

oh and if you’re wondering, a magenta ink cartridge for a canon pixma mp510 costs around $12 at Office Depot.

i always get this sad/sick/depressed feeling whenever i read on someone’s profile page that their favorite book is: The Bible. The only thing worse than this is when they start listing each of the books of the bible individually as their collective “favorite books”.

furthermore, on rare occasions, you can find someone who pulls off the jesus-hat-trick by listing their favorite book as the bible, their favorite person as jesus and their favorite quote as a verse from the aforementioned favorite book.

this makes me want to buy the world a barnes and noble gift card…

even though my freshman year of college was more than ten-fuck-years ago, this was still a fun survey.

Freshman Year: College Humor Survey

in other news, i was the most boring college freshman on the planet.

this is also true if the words were sent in a text message…