Pretending we have a football team

If we can’t do it in real life, I’ll do it on the Xbox. College football ’07. 3 punts returned for touchdowns. 2 pick-sixes, including one with 17 seconds left in the game. 2 safeties. Several one-play drives. 110-17. It was epic.

An early Merry Christmas from Molly!

We’re almost done decorating the house for Christmas. It looks pretty awesome, and there will definitely be pictures coming. Katie definitely has an eye for this stuff.

In the meantime, I caught Molly taking a nap on one of our new Christmas pillows. Fortunately this time, unlike most times, she actually stayed asleep long enough for me to run upstairs and get my camera.

This comic really hits home sometimes.

You wouldn’t know it from the name, but What The Duck is a webcomic about photography and photographers. Every once in a while, a strip will seem particularly appropriate. The strip above reminds me of this weekend, when some lady at the state XC meet saw me with my (borrowed) 70-200 f/2.8L and (borrowed) Gitzo carbon fiber monopod and asked me if I was with a newspaper or something.

Want to be a stock photographer for Facebook?

Because if you post pictures to Facebook, that’s what you’re doing. Here’s an excerpt from the Facebook User Agreement, emphasis mine:

“When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.”

The Gallery is filling up

I figured a cute dog would get your attention. I’ve updated the 2008 photos page with almost everything I’ve shot this year, so head over there and take a look. I’ll post again as I continue to fill up the archives.

Way to go, KPark!

The girls of Kingwood Park dominated the 4A girls’ Cross Country meet, scoring 35 points and coming in first in the state. They also had 4 runners in the top ten. The gallery of entirely too many pictures is right here.  

Now HERE'S Some Change I Can Get Behind

Newsweek has been running a series of 'special projects' that involve getting reporters deep within the presidential candidates' campaigns under the condition that they can't reveal information until after the election. However, if they would have released this quote from Barack Obama, it might have actually helped:

When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."

Whether you agree with what he plans to do or not, you've got to admit that's some refreshing honesty in a sea of bullcrap.

(via Newsweek's "Hackers and Spending Sprees")

Quote Of The Day

The opinions presented or not presented in this blog post may or may not reflect the views or lack of views of the blog's author or non-author, but I thought this was too clever not to share: