explanation

Sorry I didn't have anything to show for myself this weekend.

A) it was hot saturday.
B) I spent saturday night watching Ran's copies of movies.
C) I was put into a VERY bad mood late Saturday night.
D) I woke up in said bad mood today.
E) I chose to go to Ritz, an action I sort of knew would aggravate the mood condition. Ritz in Beltsville no longer has a Rotating Tower o' Filters. Also, they still want 100 bucks for the teleconverter I bought Used for 46, could have bought new for I think 60.
F) I went to taco bell to make up for that. Taco bell, however, reaffirmed my theory that the only good taco bell in existence is in the Union on campus and is closed during the summer.
G) I came home in a fit of rage and decided to watch a bunch of Finnish people talk about being in japan/playing a concert in said country.
H) Then I played my own music sans shirt, very angrily.
I) then I had a Paper Mario break.
J) Now I'm eating Frosted mini wheats and watching star trek.

You make make me into the terrible person I am for that, if need be.

I don't know which is better...

... as far as search strings are concerned:

vortex[three crazy symbols]hepatitis

or

WAM DRUNK SEX PARTY (apparently typed in all caps like that).

Good job, internet.

Making Amends

So yeah... as was evidenced by the fact that I was replying to comments, I didn't go anywhere this weekend. It was too hot here to hike today, and too poorly lit on Saturday. So, while I was busy rolling about in sweat and Paper Mario, I kept the camera handy for the activity at the feeder.







I'm fond of the fact that I got that third one to contain a floating bird and one stabbing itself in the face with its feet.


Click that for 100% crop, or something.

Gallery here.

Anyway, the shots are, for the most part, GlamorShots soft because I was shooting through the screen. It's "good enough" for entertainment's sake, though.

Snakes

20 some odd dollars in rubber snakes.
a 25 dollar non-official snakes t-shirt.
63 dollars for movie tickets.
28 dollars for pizza.
8 friends at the theater, wearing the same shirt as some other dude and...





Samuel L. Jackson himself (in the music video at the end).

It took both of us a second to realize, but we knew where we were.

SHIRT! SHIRT!

Monstrosity

So yeah, I put up bird feeders... and real birds started showing up. Jeff's seen Mourning Doves, and today a female cardinal. Then he told me a new bird showed up. I saw it and said "That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. Time to go get the camera!"

I didn't know what it was until 6 megapixels showed me the following:



Yeah, turns out it was a female cardinal with nary a feather on its head.

Lovely.

I apologize for the quality; I was shooting through a screen, then two panes of filthy glass. That said, here's what you could have been stuck with:



Let it not be said that shooting JPEG leaves you with broken images.

Because I was bored

Here's a picture of Testudo ruined by lens flare, a helicopter, and some dude in the middle of the mall.

Out West

When I left today at 11:45 am, I had one plan: "Drive West."

I made it to MD rt. 68 when I realized I was sick of driving, so I changed the game to "Drive to the next state park." Well, turns out that was the Western Maryland Rail Trail - not exactly interesting, based on what I saw, so I went the extra half mile down the road to Fort Frederick.



You can see some stuff in the album, but it's largely meh - I went out to interest myself, and the camera wasn't a motivating factor.