August 2005

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August 31, 2005

Evening fun?

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Because I am lefty, I haven’t been really able to play guitar with the musician dudes around here. No, I’m not musician, I just abuse my guitar..
 
Now that we finally got together in the “music room” to just fool around, jam and have few cold ones. Well, we have drum set, two basses, two keyboards, two mics and zero guitars.. For a while it was fun to have two basses and drums going, but it got old pretty soon. Bass, drums, singers and keyboards were fun for a while, but after couple hours it was old too..
 
For some reason we miss the guitars! Nothing feels the same without guitars. We are lost.. ..drinking and music is never just as fun without guitar..
 
Thank god we’re off to karaoke bar later this night.. And yes, I still feel a bit sick but my temperature is in the range called normal..
 
D-Ma
 

August 31, 2005

Finally improvement

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Yes, I’ve been sick and still am.. But I feel whole lot better, finally!
 
I’ve had lot of time on my hands while sick and I have spent it wisely: I’ve been watching Robin Williams, Denis Leary and few other standup comedians. I have been informed and engertained the same time. I loved especially Robin Williams’ Live at the Met show. That man is getting faster every year!! I also enjoyed Leary’s “No cure for cancer”, even though lot of people thinks he’s too angry. I just love that kind of fury and angst. He’s hilarious.
 
A friend of mine also played me few chapters from audio-book (or what ever it is) from ancient times. It’s called “Christianity for mentally retarded”.. ..it’s just insane!! Someone should do flash animations for those chapters! If interested, I have ideas.. ;)
 
I’ll get back to you later. I’ll be also back home for good next friday, so I will have more time and things to post!!
 
D-Ma
 

August 29, 2005

I’m still alive.

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Yes, still here. I’ve been sick for over a week now.. Finally I feel good enough to play with my gadgets.
 
Unfortunately my desktop pc lost it’s power supply.. New one is on the way. Also my wireless router is down and I’m unable to use my laptop to connect.. Yes, I could go wired, but my router is located so high and I don’t want to crawl and get ethernet cable from my desktop and connect it to my laptop. I also have difficulties to use my Nokia 9500 as a gprs modem for the laptop.. ..can’t get it working.
 
And being this lazy until I get the new power installed, I’ll do my surfing with my communicator. It’s just hard enough to keep me away from internet..
 
I’m still sick.. ..ok, mostly just lazy.. I’ll get back to blogging when I feel better and have everything set up again. ..or I’ll just post meaningless posts in the meantime..
 
D-Ma
 

August 22, 2005

Monday and it feels like..

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..well you can imagine the rest.

Yesterday afternoon I started to feel bit sick and tired. In fact last night was hell on earth for me (healthwise). I’ve got flu and fever. Yup, summer one.. I didn’t know where I was and what was going on for the most of the night and in the morning medicated myself just enough to go to see doctor.

Now few hours and prescription from heaven later, I feel somewhat sane (but sick) person again. I’m bit annoyed that sunday went down the toilet when I got fever and even though I have three more days to stay at home, it’s not possible to really enjoy being with my family. No, I’m just crawling from fridge to coutch to bed to fridge.. Can’t concentrate on anything on tv or dvd. Don’t really like to eat anything, but I have to. All I can get done is looking like idiot and drinking lot of fluids (hot chocolate, tea, etc.).

So, no crappy photos or boring thoughts to day.

Oh, I got another envelope prom this one university in USA that offers recording arts training. They’re sneaky. Just when I thought I’d study here back home in Finland, they mail me this new brochure about their brand new state-of-the-art facility and tell me even more things I like to hear.. I just might have to start my studies there in 2006/2007.. But: you/I never know what happens..

D-Ma

 

August 20, 2005

Few Commu-Cam pics from Salo

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For some reason I do not have anything to complain and no thoughts worth of posting right now. I apologise, but now that I’m home for the weekend and away for week-days (again), I’m going to spend most of my energy and capacity to spend time with my loved ones and just check out web and email to keep myself entertained electronically. ;)
But:

We spent most of the day at Salo (my fiancees home city) and for some reason I didn’t have a real camera with me, again. It’s funny how I always forget it.. So, I had to snap few shots with my Nokia 9500 (Commu-Cam). They suck in quality, but I hope you see the reason why I had to take them. ;)

*Oh, I’m from Helsinki, but we currently live in Vantaa.

Ok, the pics.

That’s Klementina’s head you see in the bottom of the pic. :-)
To the opposite direction from the same spot.
That bigger vessel in the biddle is a restaurant/pub ship.

Some smaller boats.
 

August 19, 2005

Lazy photographer

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For the last week I’ve had this intention to go photographing every evening. For some reason I’ve spent most of my time listening to people play music and jammed with them instead of doing what I had planned. Everytime there was beautifull sunset, I didn’t have my camera with me. So, I had to snap with my Nokia phone.. ..unfortunately it’s not exactly a camera, more lika phone with ability to catch blurry and grainy moments out of focus..

Still, I just have to share couple of those crappy phone photos:

One version of the sunset at the lake..

Same spot in bit different angle..

About 20m left from the earlier spot, about 26h later.

 

August 19, 2005

Back home for the weekend

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I finally got back to civilization and high-speed connection!

Last night I finally got out with my camera and shot few pictures, 50 to be exact. Now that I got back home, I just went through them and I’m happy with about 20 of them.. ..20 of them will go and others will spend most likely rest of their digital life in my storage forder for raw pics that I didn’t like. Ometimes few lucky ones will get back to use and in photoshop for something new. Mostly not.. :(

Anyway, I just did few little things to one picture of a old boat I found right next to the lake shore. I will go back to it in different time of the day for bit different lighting conditions and my tripod might be usefull for night pics. :) Anyway, here’s three quickies i did in photoshop from that shot. I will spend more time to get just the right result, but these will do for now.. :)

 

August 18, 2005

Lazy blogger, beer, karaoke and cabbage

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I just realized I didn’t post anything yesterday. I had the time and opportunity to edit couple links in my earlier posts, but didn’t actually post a single thing. Oh how sloppy of me indeed. :)
 
Yesterday evening, after classes and dinner I was wondering around the property. I was supposed to go out with my camera and snap few shots, but the weather was bit wet and windy to take my camera out. Unfortunately. I headed back to our accommondation and basicly found no one! After brief investigation (went to look at the bulletin board) I found out that it was karaoke night! Yes, wednesday. I took of with my car and to the local motel where the karaoke bar was.
 
People were already in reasonable beefy state of intoxication and singing was still ti be started. I watched 3 performances and had one beer before got back into my car and drove back. About 1.30am I could definately hear karaoke loving people returning for the night. Drunken singing and laughing.
 
You may wonder that cabbage thing in the title. Well, think how my stomach felt this morning after one dark beer and cabbage for supper……..
 
D-Ma
 

August 16, 2005

Not too good day either

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I woke up with sore back and horrible pain in my left shoulder. Since morning, my back has settled down a bit but is still reminding me now and then. Shoulder is numb, pain is gone but I have a severe headache.
Eeven thought my current state is less than desirable, I have been able to pick relevant info during this morning meeting and class. Although 90% has gone right pass my comprehension, I think I got all I need from there. I hope so..
The funny thing is, I can’t consentrate on world around me, but I can easily just mind flow. To be honest it’s only way I can stand this headache right now. So I let my mind float and thoughts flow.
Thoughts worth mentioning
Am I really this tied to modern technology? Are we all? Today it was close to armageddon when one data projector didn’t work at all. After 30min of panic they decided to have the presentation verbally and on chalk board. When they were done, I thought it was great that way. It might have been boring and too ordinary with projector and powerpoint. And half an hour of panic before switching to traditional way?? What’s with that? It’s not the end of the universe and everyone understand it’s not presenter’s fault if someone else’s projector dies.
And:
When I DO have the time to clean up my car?? Wash it, take useless stuff from trunk, clean inside of the car??
D-Ma
 

August 15, 2005

Frustration, connection and gadgets

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Right now I’m extremely frustrated: even though I tried it at home, I’m unable to get my Nokia 9500 to work as a GPRS modem!! Sucks big time!! I am able to surf with my Nokia, but not able to connect my laptop to www through my Nokia. This really pisses me off right now!
I should’ve known, at least when I took my laptop out of the case and tried to boot. Everything seemed alright until Windows should’ve appeared in screen. No, nothing. I had to perform manual reboot: remove battery and then I tried again. It worked, thank god!
Anyway, I can go down to this other house and use the computer at the café, but it’s still not the same. I cannot post pictures from my laptop. Ok, I could move them to my phone via Bluetooth and then email them to myself and download them from webmail, but it’s so stupid. I will not post any pictures then.. ..until I get everything working like they should.
This brings me to another subject (yes, no complaints): gadget/techno freakness. I have to admit that I love all gadgets. I might not get one myself, but I still think they are cool. For instance usb shavers are just awesome! So simple and still it seems so good that you wonder why you didn’t have one already. I can tell you there’s at least three reasons why: 1) You are female and don’t need to shave. 2) You are growing beard. 3) You are on of the millions of people who have shaver that has built-in rechargeable batteries. You can post more reasons if these are not enough.
There’s lot of gadgets that I find useful myself. Like having two mobile phones, one for calling, messaging and MMS:ing and another for email, as pda and web surfing. Sounds stupid, right? I also have 3 desktops and 2 laptops. One laptop for daily use, another is the old one that is still 100% usable. I just wanted bigger screen and more features. I have one desktop for music recording and photos. One is my linux test-bed and one is currently waiting for assignment. I’ve had different uses for all of them, but things change and I even have one more desktop as a spare/donor computer.. Stupid? Yes.
I’m also picky about the looks of my new gadgets. They have to look cool. Otherwise they’re not as desirable as if they were just functional. And I want them to look cool for me. I don’t need to be this guy who has all the new gadgets before anyone else and it’s the only way he’s cool. I don’t get any gadget just because it makes me cooler than the guy in next cubicle. I get the gadget because it talks to me, it wants be to want it. And buy, I do want it if it’s useful!
D-Ma
 

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