The Real Caffeine

Pictures for... oops again

2006-07-12T13:56:00.000-07:00

Yep, there's not any pictures today, but a new thing! A domain name! Soon the URL for this blog will be www.therealcaffeine.com so get clicking, it should start directing the address to here sometime tonight!

Eagle Scout!

2006-07-10T20:52:00.000-07:00

Hey y'all, guess what? I'm an eagle scout now! :D

Photos for Monday... or not

2006-07-10T08:10:00.000-07:00

Hey all y'all, I just got back from SPAM (Serving People as Missionaries) and I'm pretty tired. I'll post the photos later today but not right away, so don't be expecting stuff right away. "Enjoy" your Monday!

And here's a poem I wrote on the spur of the moment:

And we of the now
watch we of today
as we of the future
watch it all slip away
and the we of the future
watch the we of today
as the we of the present
try to give it away

Photos for Wednesday, July 05

2006-07-04T23:29:00.000-07:00

We couldn't have a good month without a fourth of July celebration right? Well here's some photos I took that show fireworks! MUAHAHAHA!

My really weird dream.

2006-07-04T07:42:00.000-07:00

I had a weird dream last night. What happened was that Mic Jagger, Batman, Captain Hook, and I were fighing in a war, but we were captured by Hitler. They put us POW's in a room right next to Hitler for some reason so we woke Hitler up in the middle of the night to ask him what color the guard's uniforms were (brown) and then we made out own uniforms out of bedsheets. It was odd nobody recognized us when we tried to escape, because Batman had his cowl and Cap'n Hook had his hook and weird hat and everything. The only one of us that was recognized was Mic Jagger because he was distracting the gate guards with his wicked guitar skills. Then while they were distracted Batman dropped down from a ledge and KO'd them both. It was cool. Then we stole Hitler's space ship and rode to a floating space station, where Captain Hook turned out to be Ben Franklin. Then after a while I ran for President so I borrowed a pair of Ben Franklin's glasses and was almost instantly elected president of the United States. Or at least I think I was, because I woke up just then.

Happy 4th of July!

Photos for Sunday, July 3

2006-07-02T21:51:00.000-07:00

The beginning of the Firebox series that I did. Basically I went into a dark room with a couple of flashlights and did really long exposure shots while I waved the lights around. There's two more that I won't post on here for the sake of space here and here. I like this that I posted the best.

Funny how both the 3rd in the lightbox and the firebox series are my favorites. Anyway, this is the other half of those pictures I took.

01 02 03 04 05 06 07

Whoops...

2006-06-28T23:52:00.000-07:00

Sorry, I totally forgot that I was going to post a blog post today. I mean like totally forgot. And I had such a good streak going too... sorry guys. Photos on Monday.

You have not seen the droids

2006-06-26T12:27:00.000-07:00

I don't suppose you've seen any droids around here, have you? No, I didn't think so.

Also... "now class, your kidneys are inside of you, yes right there Bobby."

Photos for Monday, June 26

2006-06-23T14:00:00.000-07:00

Amanda thinks Gremlins are causing all her computer problems. They didn't take this picture though, I did. Notice the contrast between urban and rural. I don't really like this one, but everyone I've talked to has loved it, strangely...

These are rocks. On a wall! I especially liked making the matte on this one, it's not really a matte, more of a border, really...
Wow, I can't belive I spent 5 hours doing this photo. But I think it was five hours well spent. The objects involved: a magnet building set, a lite-brite, a R2-D2 Chess Set piece (he's a pawn ^_^), a rubik's cube, my sister's hand (it's in there, I swear), a piece of yellow paper, and my camera. And a hat. Can't forget the hat.

By the way, THANK YOU SO MUCH AMANDA! She really didn't want to help me all that much but she came through anyway.

Photos for Wednesday, June 20

2006-06-20T20:24:00.000-07:00

This would be... a stop sign. But it's a cool stop sign! Hah! It's um... I changed my mind. It's not really all that cool.

Guess what! It's cars and a library dropbox seen from a peephole in the metal pole of a "no parking" sign! Really spur of the moment while waiting for the Kennedy's at Territory Days.

Morris is a good subject! Sometimes! He's really not a good subject 'cause he squirms a lot and it's annoying! But these photos turned out pretty well I think. The one on the bottom's my favorite.

ALERT-NOUNCEMENT!

I really need people to comment on my pictures on dA so I can know which ones to make available as prints. So if you e-mail me [link] the top 3 pictures in your opinion in my gallery and the percent chance of your buying them then I'll make you a siggy/avy set for you, just to spread the love. And you get to select what images, styles, etc get put in your set. j00 got it? Now tell all your friends too!

Cooler than you.

2006-06-19T21:31:00.000-07:00

Well, agent Jedi, are you ready for battle? MUAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!

The answer's no, BTW, because even though that picture is cooler than you or your mom, I suck at KOTOR II. End of announcement.

Photos for Monday, June 19

2006-06-18T23:45:00.000-07:00

These three are definitely not the best photos I've ever taken. I'm kind of sick at looking at them right now, I thought they'd come out a lot better than they did, but it's ok. I was experimenting. I think I'm going to go out tomorrow and figure out how to do the shots right. Enjoy for now, I'll post more of these kind of thing if I figure out how to get the amazing telethingy to work for photography. I just want to sleep for a week right now. Oh, by the way, happy birthday Dana!

The Amazing Telethingy
Who needs Schwarzenegger?

Photos for Wednesday, June 14

2006-06-14T23:17:00.000-07:00

Sorry, I totally forgot about this until just now. But y'all still get them! Hah! Oh, and also I didn't have any new pictures, none of the ones I've taken recently have come out well. So they're computer wallpapers that I've made instead.

This I came up with while in the car coming home from work. Particularly those little things on the bottom left. Then I posted it on dA and someone started a debate about it, go to the fullview page if you want to see it.

It's an old strange attractor intended for some or the other purpose. It's really simple. I was tired. Simplicity!

I'm going to quote verbatim the description from the dA page. Mainly because I was really tired and it's kinda funny because of it :D

Yeah, I was doodling around in Photoshop again. I knew I wanted something swooshy planety spherey but I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, I still can't. But anyway, if anyone has a good idea for this, let me know. Weird thing, the word "FIFA" kept running through my mind as I was doing this, it really reminds me of their logo. Which I had never seen before. But I kept thinking "FIFA FIFA FIFA!" only really loud, I don't know how to shout an acronym online. Maybe "fifa fifa fifa!" 'cause it's just opposite or something... random babble random babble.

Also a background, should you wish to display my crappy piece of whatchamahoozit on your desktop... you crazy crazy person... you...

If you feel so moved, instead of yelling at me that I did a crappy job I did, tell me what I did wrong. I need to learn more so I can make wicked cool stuff in photoshop instead of artsy little monocolor emo backgroundies. backgroundies... hehehe...

beans beans the magical fruit...

::goes to bed::

To clarify, if you know how to use photoshop really well and can give me some advice on making the edges on the globe smoother, I can't figure out how to. So help!

Photos for Monday, June 11

2006-06-11T17:50:00.001-07:00

I put this one in my scraps on dA. I don't think it's my best work, but meh, whatever. Then James yelled at me 'cause he thought it was better than scrap material. :P

Aaand... here's another one of Sammi. She posed so well for me that day. I took it the same day as the other one where she was looking at me with such a funny face. She's a good dog. Aren't you a good dog Sammi? She's laying right here and she's ignoring me. Good dog. Oh, you're awake now. Good dog! This one actually has a title by the way: "Nobility"

This is inside the library. Say that three times fast. Or type it. I can't really type right now, but that's not really the issue :P. I took this during the bake sale, I really liked the way the lines curved around and around. Have fun lookin at all these!

PICTURES! FINALLY! GAH!

2006-06-07T11:12:00.000-07:00

I took a photography excursion a while back. I came out with some pretty good pictures. I liked this one, but it wasn't stark enough, so I enhanced it so it's pretty much purely black and white. I think it turned out well.

Here's a picture of some wal-mart shopping carts. W00T. Whatever. I entered it in a contest on dA, I don't think it will win though because all the other stuff is amazing.

These rocks are silent. For now.

Sorry ^_^;;

2006-05-31T16:08:00.000-07:00

Yeah, no photos today. Or monday. I'm chaning this to a monday-wednesday schedule. There's really not enough time in a weekday to do this. Once summer hits (next monday W00T!) I'll have enough time to do it. I post on my dA page really sporadically though, if you want to go there.

[Listening to: Welcome Home (Demo) (3:22) - Jonezetta ]

Photos for Friday, May 26

2006-05-23T20:42:00.000-07:00

Uh oh! I noticed this morning that this didn't publish when I published it Thursday night! Quite uncool! You guys get two sets of photos today, lucky people ;)

This was just a spur of the moment photo, I didn't take much time to compose it, it's just a tree in front of the south gym of CSCS, it's not all that good either ::points to lens flare at the top that he couldn't remove:: Bah.

Trumpets are one of the coolest instruments known to mankind. This is a trumpet. Therefore this is one of the coolest instruments known to mankind.

I'm not even sure what to post about this one, it's another snapshot. All three of these were taken within 10 minutes of each other, if you could critique my photos about anything I'd be happy. I took these with the school's camera, a really nice Nikon DSLR. Yeah... sorry this is so late, I think I've finally got the posting schedule figured out to the point where I can keep a schedule, I might have to cut out Wednesday though. What I need to do is get the post completely ready by the night before and then post it then or in the morning on the day I said it'd be up. Yeah, sounds good!

Photos for Monday, May 22

2006-05-23T16:19:00.000-07:00

So this is a typical reaction for when I point my camera at our dog. She gave me this funny expression. It's actually the face she makes right before she sneezes, so right after that, she sneezed. When I looked at this for the first time I laughed. HARD. It captures our dog's attitude towards human life perfectly ^_^

I was, to say the least, very fortunate to get this shot. The deer around our house are really really cautious of anything that they don't know what it is, so they're always paranoid. This one was really noble, and it posed for me for probably 15 shots in different positions before it decided to run away!

Now this one wasn't so good. I tried to capture the perspective of looking along a deck railing, didn't turn out too well because of the background. I could do some major photoshop work on it to replace the background with something else (probably something deserty) but I think I'll leave it as it is (IE I don't have time)

Photo Blog

2006-05-21T18:18:00.000-07:00

I've definitely also started a photo blog! The first post on it's gonna be today, from then on the posts will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays! Exciting, eh? Anyway, the URL for said blog is

http://therealcaffeinephoto.blogspot.com/

(not there). And as soon as I get the new blog look up (which is in the works now) it'll be in a little widget-y thing on the sidebar. Hooray!

Hmm... on the other hand, maybe I should just post all my photos here on MWF! Then carry the camera around all week and snap pictures of whatever I see! That sounds plenty good to me. Yeah, I'll do that. We'll go with that.

[Listening to: Take Me (3:30) - Hawk Nelson]

On a completely related note...

2006-05-20T18:59:00.000-07:00

I wonder if ninjas floss? I mean, it seems like they'd be rather busy killing people to take the time to floss. Or sleep, for that matter. They'd have to take their masks off too, so everyone who saw them eating or flossing would have to be killed to preserve their secret identity. Maybe they just eat in the shadows and stuff. And then if you see a hamburger floating around in the air you should look away real quick 'cause there's a ninja eating there. And if you don't watch out, he's gonna kill you faster than you can blink. They've very stealthy. In the time it took you to read this post, a ninja could have killed you. And then run to Canada and back. They're just that quick. Hmm... I wonder if a ninja could find how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop, because they're very disciplined and they could probably pull it off.

Now for the completely related note. I'm going to start trying to post here regularly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. And have a quality post each time. And... then start a photoblog too where I'll post a photo on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sounds good? Sounds good to me too.

[Listening to: It's Like Me (3:52) - Kutless]

Quote!

2006-05-13T20:59:00.000-07:00

In lieu of a blog post, I'm going to have to post a quote. Life is cool though.

Dana: im really sorry if im annoying you with all this, guys. i blame my mom.

No Contacts? No sweat!

2006-05-06T21:17:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I have fun on my computer when I don't have contacts on. AS I said to Pat, one of the greatest advantages of not having your contacts on while you're working on the computer is that instead of 17 inches wide, your monitor seems like 80 inches wide. It's ginormous right now. Except the fonts are all close to 80pt and I can see the pixels. I'd better go to bed...

[Listening to: Like a Racecar (2:48) - Hawk Nelson]

Ivy's Top 10 Junior Senior List

2006-05-06T14:35:00.000-07:00

Like almost totally you know like totally got this from this web'd site here

What I learned tonight after seven hours at
Junior/Senior. Enjoy!

10 Things I Learned at Junior/Senior

1: The only way to completely clean off waterproof
mascara is to remove each individual eyelash, rinse
thoroughly, and reapply to eyelid with glue and a pair
of tweezers.

2: Wearing uncomfortable shoes for over six hours is a
very bad idea, even if most of that time is spent
sitting down.

3: Dancing is not as easy as it looks.

4: If wearing a color lighter than beige, do not
attempt to dip your fruit in the chocolate fountain
unless you have a napkin.

5: Never underestimate the spectacular boredom that a
thirty-minute slideshow can induce.

6: If a teacher winces sympathetically when you
announce your date, laugh it off and avoid
introductions for the rest of the evening.

7: Unless you are willing to dance, encouraging a
friend to do so is not in your best interest.

8: “Killing Me Softly” is the worst song in existence
to play at a high school prom.

9: When three quarters of your peers have never seen
you in a dress, try not to look offended at their
obvious surprise when they see you in a full-blown
formal.

10: Never, under any circumstance, allow your date to
order for you while you are out of the room.

And it's raining! YIPEE!

[Listening to: Rain Song (4:01) - Day Of Fire]

"Race at Morning" by William Faulkner

2006-05-05T13:06:00.000-07:00

Here's some quotes from this book that we read in English class. Actually, it's a short story and it's pretty cool!

"So you're going to school. Because you got to know why. You
can belong to the farming and hunting business and you can learn the difference
between what's right and what's wrong, and do right. And that used to be
enough-just to do right. But not now. You got to know why it's right
and why it's wrong, and be able to tell the folks that never had no chance to
learn it; teach them how to do what's right, not just because they know it's
right, but because they know now why it's right because you just showeed them,
told them, taght them why." - Mister Ernest

"And git him, too," I said. " We wont' even fool with no Willy Legate and Walter Ewell next time."
"Maybe," Mister Ernest said."
"Yes," I said.
"Maybe," Mister Ernest said. "The best word in our language, the best of all. That's what mankind keeps going on: Maybe. The best days of his life ain't the ones when he said 'Yes' beforehand: they're the ones when all he knew to say was 'Maybe.' He can't say 'Yes' until afterward because he not only don't know it until then, he don't want to know 'Yes' until then."

Un quote

2006-05-04T13:57:00.000-07:00

Amanda makes crunching sounds
Brian: What are you doing?
Amanda: I'm eating a cheezit...
Brian: Did you say you were eating Jesus?
Amanda: NO! CHEEZIT!

Happy NDOP, BTW!

[Listening to: The Slam (3:19) - Toby Mac]