i just realized i don’t work tomorrow.. company holiday.

last night i popped some popcorn and watched a clockwork orange at home. it was nice to relax. and with a good movie!

your mother made you cry when she told you about the womb
and how people die
watching over you when you were young
smiling when you learned to crawl
you don’t know her at all ..

woi! my manager just dropped off a generous bonus check, for all the hard work and attention to emergencies over the past month.

went out with my brother, who was in town for the weekend. we ended up at vasona park in los gatos.. the weather was very pleasant. i took this picture of him along the lake.

who says you can’t handhold a pentax 67 at 1/30? the original negative scan shows the detail on his sweatshirt with clean, crisp lines.

was playing with studio strobes. this was a simple still life i setup using darkroom equipment. it turns out the flash measurement on the minolta flash meter v is right on. i connect the flash units to the minolta, hit the button, and it does all the work for me. i thought enough about it to do a control test, doing a long exposure with the model lights turned on. but thinking back, i should have run another couple tests: one with the model lights off, one with all lights out (save for the strobes) to see how that would have turned out. i want to try one more thing.. have a human subject.

went music shopping with my brother, who is a big dream theatre fan. he recommended scense from a memory, which he said is his favorite album out of everything. i picked that up and train of thought, which neither of us heard but has “as i am”.

some spam has been getting through my email filter. i grepped out the titles from my mail spool to generate the following poem:

[jss@detour:~]# egrep 'Subject: Re: [A-Z]*\,' /var/mail/jss
Subject: Re: VRYPUXBM, an artiste came
Subject: Re: FFBMKV, was very seldom
Subject: Re: IQTMP, knee - two!
Subject: Re: OWSVMFDR, twice the upset
Subject: Re: AL, who could show
Subject: Re: CNEYPOJA, extracted the deck
Subject: Re: WPTCWQY, with his head
Subject: Re: KPLCXF, this taletelling about
Subject: Re: FN, question is asked
Subject: Re: WGDVL, with lions muzzles
Subject: Re: KNZLMKL, little elongated cases
Subject: Re: QZCXLRM, at once that
Subject: Re: QPJPSFJ, threads flashed every
Subject: Re: IWHU, the fear somewhat
Subject: Re: ARF, the messenger karpov
Subject: Re: SYUCBOSV, on the grounds
Subject: Re: BNRMT, when he laid
Subject: Re: KRM, that had come
Subject: Re: GNA, unnecessary to take
Subject: Re: KRX, of the gang
Subject: Re: AUTNUZ, the belt girded
Subject: Re: HEBQCAI, the big windows
Subject: Re: KJNMJ, living beings also
Subject: Re: BR, yeshua was more
Subject: Re: KUSJZ, death would overtake
Subject: Re: QKHHX, correct thought that
Subject: Re: JHE, straight away there
Subject: Re: FKDVVLT, offered the brunette
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