March 30th, 2005
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A day off in track pants
Still dragging from the rush to our last milestone, I decided to spend today recuperating and got some pictures taken. These shots carry very little post-processing other than some blurs and level changes to fix some CCD noise, so they may be less interesting than some of my more dramatically modified images. However, they’re useful studies in depth-of-field and shadows nonetheless, so you may enjoy looking at them.
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An unexpected gust of wind knocked my poinsettia off of the stand today, effectively killing it. I did a kind of death scene documentary in honor of my long-lived Christmas friend, you can see some of the chaos in one of the pictures.
[Artist's note: If you look closely at the skin moisturizer, you'll notice a drop of white cream on the bottle. This is the sap that was oozing out of the broken flower stems-- my poor, frail poinsettia's blood.]
I spent about an hour transferring and cleaning these up, it’s pretty revolting how bad my hard disk performance has become. I’m sure it’s a combination of several Windows disk management failures, so unfortunately I think I’m overdue for a reinstall. It may have to wait until a three-day weekend though because I can envision getting things back with full hardware support to be quite bothersome.
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Japan won its World Cup qualifier against Bahrain today. It’s great to live in a country that actually supports and cares for its national soccer institution.
