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Thirty-seven didn’t turn out to be the year I expected it to be, in some ways that was good and in some ways that was very much not good. Leading off with the bad because it really felt like a dark cloud over the year, work drove me to some dark places. For me, I […]

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Photographing a Lunar Eclipse on 35mm Film

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If you were to ask my wife why I do all of the hard things I do, she’ll tell you that it is because I can. And she isn’t wrong. I genuinely love to find out about something new, or old that I should be able to do and then spend days and weeks researching […]

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Six sixes. Four nines. Three twelves. Two eighteens. One thirty-six. The past year started out with my baby girl turning one. It’s hard to think she’s approaching two so quickly now. We threw her a big bash to ring in the whole year. Two months later she started walking and has been getting fast and […]

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Madison, Wisconsin Capitol – Fall 2006

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I don’t have the usual gallery to share today. However, I do have 20 exposures from a roll of 24 all stitched into a single image. I used my Kodak Retina Reflex S camera with a 135mm telephoto lens, all of which was mounted on a tripod. This was the first roll I shot once […]

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High School – Roll 13

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This is the last of my rolls from my film photography class in high school. Following this class, I had a semester of digital photography which I didn’t enjoy. That class had too much emphasis on Photoshop edits and those aren’t really my thing. These photos, however, are not the last of the photos I […]

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Nom nom nom nom


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I am, and have been since Tuesday, officially declared as an English major with an emphasis on creative writing. I am not sure if you know the joy that comes with being able to say that. I have been undeclared for the past two and a half semesters. For a while it was because I […]

February 8, 2009

3rd Person Limited Narrative – Chair Shopping


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She had wanted a new chair for some time. The chair that they had needed to be replaced, it was worn through in places and there were stains that would never come out. Plus, the old one doesn’t fit with the new decor in the room and there is no other place in the house […]

February 8, 2009

Character Sketch – Writer


Fiction

He wore a watch. He always needed to know the time, though he never had any particular place to be. If he had some place to go, he’s positive that he wouldn’t be late. Today, a glance at his watch made the fedora that rested lightly upon his head move from its habitual place. He […]

February 8, 2009

Charles Wright


Fiction

May the Angels lead thee into Paradise; may the Martyrs receive thee at thy coming and take thee to Jerusalem, the holy city. May the choirs of the Angels receive thee, and mayest thou with once poor Lazarus, have rest everlasting. Amen. The grass still had dew upon it, the sun hadn’t risen enough to […]

February 7, 2009

What if it did work


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I was going over some code today at work, cleaning it up and making it work with the new system I am implementing, and I came across something like this: <strong><img src=”http://whatever/something.jpg”><strong> Apparently someone wanted to put emphasis on a picture by making it bold?

February 4, 2009

Simple English


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I just was glancing over the various languages that Wikipedia has to offer and I saw Simple English. These are more or less dumbed down versions of the normal English articles. Each one gets the basics across but without confusing jargon. Is it wrong that I prefer these pages to the normal English pages?

February 1, 2009

Men’s room


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“Y’all only like Obama because he’s god.” “Have you seen him? He’s dreamy” –Written inside a bathroom door in the Anthropology Dept.

January 27, 2009

Are you real


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I know that there are a bunch of my friends abroad this semester. I am really happy for you. I am hoping that all of them at some point or another get around to stopping by here. If you are one of those friends, drop me a comment and let me know where you are […]

January 25, 2009

An Exquisite Corpse


Fiction

There was a sparkle in the eye of the dark haired man, as he watched from the last row. He laughed to himself quietly. It was done, he told himself; it was all over with and no one would ever guess he had done it. He walked away from the bank just as everyone else […]

January 20, 2009