Ferris Wheel

Here's a shot of the amusement park inside the Mall of America. Across the way you can kind of see the roller coaster, and the movie theatre.

The Mall of America is rather large.

(January 2, 2007)

SOO DOPE

On January 1, I started a new project 365. This is my selection from the pictures I took that day... A thoroughly vandalized boxcar sits near one of my favorite restaurants in Rochester, MN, and the side that faces away from the street looks like this.

(January 1, 2007)

I took some photos, but I don't really like any of them.

Maybe I'll restart the 365 photos thing from the top on December 2, instead.

Multitasking in Preparation

In preparing for the trip to Gen Con SoCal tomorrow, I'm ripping DVDs, putting them on my iPod, doing laundry, looking into putting more books on my Sony Reader, and... um... gratuitously propping up the PSP in front of the computer to make it look like I'm doing more stuff. I'm also doing laundry and folding it, and taking time out to play Martian Chess with housemates' houseguests.

(November 14, 2006)

Another One Joins Us

My coworker got her Toyota Camry Hybrid over the weekend. She was willing to wait a lot longer for hers than I was for mine, so she got the color she wanted. Also, her center console doesn't squeak. Maybe I should ask my dealer about that.

Join the Hybrid movement! Add precious Smug to the atmosphere!

(November 13, 2006)

A little WoW

My camera was out in the car all day, so I'm substituting a screnshot of the raid charts for Sunday night's Molten Core raid that Dagny went on. Since bdeakin wasn't going all out healing, I got to be top healer! It was a fun run, with time split between tank healing and just moving around and healing where needed.

Do any other priests have fun with the game where you sit just outside the range of Magmadar's fear aura, and wait for it to hit... then see how many you can dispel before it runs out? Or is it just me?

(November 12, 2006)

A little D&D

A touch of gaming with a few friends. My guy's the rightmost figurine on the board in this picture, the little one trying to make all the hags laugh.

Sorry about the mass nature of this catchup... I'll try to be better in the future.

(November 11, 2006)

Cooking Friday Style

Today we got the day off from work, in order to go to the department celebration for shipping RFID Enterprise Server 2.0. We all convened at the Cambridge Culinary Institute at 10:30, and split into two groups to prep our Tuscan meals. Each team had a professional chef helping us. I chose to make the soup (someone remind me the full name of it? It had farro in it) since it looked like one of the more interesting recipes. I think it came out very nicely - mine's the one on the right, with the spinach in it. (It was supposed to have kale, but they didn't have any. Our chef dug up some spinach to use instead...) I learned how to chop vegetables (I always always used sliced carrots in recipes that called for chopped - no longer!)

The whole spread is better visible at this link if you're interested. And you can see my coworkers in general if you look around that gallery. There's even one of me - though I think it's rather unflattering.

(November 10, 2006)

Cooking Thursday Style

On my way home I really really started to feel an urge for beanie weanies (a.k.a. franks & beans, or numerous other names), so I stopped at a Store 18 and picked up a can of baked beans... This is a picture of the feast I assembled.

(November 9, 2006)

Distinguished!

The front stairwell of our house has ivy growing on it, and it's gone all colorful for the season! If you click on the next images after going to the gallery here, the remaining photos look like they're part of the same series, don't they? This photo, I took before leaving for work this morning; the next photo, I took upon getting home after dark, with a flash. I would have expected the lighting differences to be a lot more pronounced...

What is Project 365 to me? So far it's been just an attempt to keep my camera on me, and to take photos that grabbed my fancy. twe talks about it additionally as a way of recording "a year in the life"... So far my photos haven't done much for that. Of course, for me, a year in the life would consist largely of cubicle photos and World of Warcraft screenshots, so, I guess I may just keep on going along these lines. We shall see. I'm keeping my eyes open for more opportunity for representative photos.

Voting Day

Since I disagree strongly with the Question 5 and 6 people in Somerville, I get to be amused at the incredulous looks these signs get from the other sign-holders present at the polls yesterday morning.

Going Out Of Business - Now Hiring

At lunch, I saw this juxtaposition of contradictory words. It amused me, and made for an easy entry for the 365.

I guess I might kinda miss Tower Records... but not really. CD stores are kinda toast, these days, aren't they?

Porter Floor

I took the camera with me on the T tonight, determined to get a start on the "365 days of photos" thing. I was looking down when I thought to myself, "huh, these tiles are differently colored. It's kinda texturey." And I looked around and saw a few more textures. Neat.

I then went on to Uno's for pub trivia with friends from out of town (lemurtanis and yandros - though yandros didn't show)... the get-together was actually kinda small (just lemurtanis and tirianmal and I) but we ended up kicking ass at Pub Trivia. The waitress took a photo of our winning team, but I have been forbidden from putting that photo anywhere accessible. Oh well. Textures for you all, on day 1.