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I followed my friend Joe around today after work taking pictures of him jumping off of things. Click the images for a larger view.

Well, its been quite awhile since I have posted anything. Here are some things to make up for it. You can find some more pictures on the new skiing page.

OK, so I have a migraine. Yea I know, I probably shouldn’t be staring at this screen but its really not that bad as long as there are no other lights on in the room. I had my desk lamp on earlier and that was killing my eyes but the monitor seems to be ok for now. Anyways, I went out and took some pics earlier today though I waited to long and the sun had sunk a little to low behind the trees for me to get any decent pictures except for this one of my jeep in the steamplant parking lot next to the river. I think nit looks pretty sweet anyways. I’d like to lift it 3 more inches and put it on 33’s maybe. I think that would like sweet. I’d also like to get a new bumper but I’m not sure what I’m going to get. I want something with a winch mount because I’d like to pickup a warn winch sometime. I need to go do some wheeling. Maybe I’ll do that when I go home this week for thanksgiving. Get the jeep dirty and do some skiing. Now that would be pretty sweet.

Basically…

The Sox won last night.

It is currently snowing outside.

The website is back up and running and I’ve added new photos. Go to the Media page and click on Exploring/Compound and New Hampshire Grass Drags. Here are some high lites.

Oh and Video Of The Week

Yea, thats right, the Red Sox are going to the World Series. I know I know, its awesome.

So, basically. This series they have started on the new Freeskier website is going to kick ass. They’ve already started out at Sunday River because they are dong a bunch of things alot of the local kids do but for some reason its just way funnier. I especially thought the part with the bearded lady was hilarious, probably because I’ve seen her before and yes, she really does have a beard. Check this out. This is form episode 1, part 3. Its a riot

Ok, so tonights post is going to have a lot of mixed ramblings in it. I have a couple updates to do and then I’ll get to the interesting stuff and jot down whatever is on my mind. H’ok, so to start off. I have an image update that I had to do for school.

I had to make a photo montage of some political issue that I feel strongly about, which, in my opinion is one of the most absurd things to ask someone to do because its such a broad topic and usually leads to no good and most people don’t fully understand the issue it is that they feel is *important* and can’t clearly express their thoughts. I did mine on the war going on Iraq. If someone asked me what side I was on, I couldn’t honestly tell you because I don’t know enough to make an educated decision. I can’t blame the Bush Administration (awesome, the governments stalking system just flagged my website) and I can’t blame the Iraqi’s. But I do know that things are so messed up that we can’t just pull out and leave because of the complete and utter mayhem that will result and I do think that is one of the things people can’t get a grasp of and we can’t just Bomb the damn thing because that would most probably cause all out world wide nuclear chaos. As long as someone doesn’t try to tell me what I was feeling when I made the image or what I think of things I’ll be alright. But then again, the only reason I made the image is to see what kind of rise I can get out of the people in my class. I’m curios as to who is going to get extremely irate over it or who is going to love it.

This past weekend was my birthday, I got a Wacom Table. Its amazing. I’ve been doing a lot of doodling in photoshop and alot of work in illustrator and am currently working on a couple images in illustrator and a piece in photoshop. Its just hard to really work on things with school work. According to my roommate I “never” have homework. But hes an also an engineering major and actually has to open a book to study. Being a Digital Art major I get to play on my computer the whole time and no one knows that I’m actually doing work. Its pretty sweet I guess. I just can’t wait to get through my basic classes. Even my 270 digital art class is really boring. All we’ve done so far is photo retouching and photo montages. Those are things I learned way back when and aren’t really amused with anymore unless it has a real purpose. But hey, whatever, its easy work for me. Ok, back on topic. Tablets are real fun to sketch with.

I did this in about 10-ish minutes for one of my friends. She new I was up to some design work and asked me to draw her something so this is what I came up with. I found the table has opened up a whole new level of design for me because I can just sit down and sketch like I would in a class taking “notes” and things just seem to come more naturally instead of, kind of awkward with a mouse. You get a more lifelike feel on the computer, where everything is usually expected to look perfect and usually lacks that sort of hands on touch. I’ve also found coloring to be more fun because it feels like your actually doing something.

Oh, and another thing I want to talk about that I have noticed in college classes. There is always that one ass who masses up the god damn seating in the lecture hall. Usually by the third class or so everyone usually has their usual seat even though seating isn’t designated by the teacher, it just kind of happens and people know that they have a specific seat. But, then you always get that one person who has to be a real jerk and eff things up for everyone else, displacing about 8 people just because the thought they would “switch it up” that day. And yes, I’m only complaining because this happened the other day in my philosophy class. I walk in, right before the teacher did only to find my seat is taken by someone else, because there usual seat is taken by someone else because the person who took their seat was taken by the asshat who fucked up the seating. Oh, and I just thought I would mention how the Umaine campus smelt like marijuana tonight.

Family Guy Article

Read that article. Its the most RIDICULOUS things I have read in a long time. I mean honestly, does Ned Washington really have nothing better to do? Just in case you don’t feel like reading the article I will recap. Family Guy made a parody of the song “When You Wish Upon a Star” in which the main character, Peter sings a song called “I need a Jew”. Basically he needs help managing has finances and is in search of a person of good money management. Though the song is vaguely similar, it isn’t really that close to the original. The notes are off, the key is off, just the overall pattern of the lyrics gives it that feel of the song. Basically, I think Ned Washington and the other originator of the song is, well, a jew. There are numerous parodies of the song floating around and none of them have ever been challenged so why challenge this one? Heres the clip from family guy in question.

Well, its 3:13 am. Yep, thats right. But hey, I have no classes today so whatever. I’ll be on my way home sometime after I wake up and what not. This weekend should be pretty damn sweet. I’m going to snowmobile grass drags and freestyle demos this weekend in New Hampshire. I’m sure I’ll have tons of pictures to post when I get back from my short fall break this weekend. Hopefully I can get the jeep muddy this weekend. My friends and I want to turn up the old mud pit we made one summer and get it nice and dirty again. It should be a good time. It will be nice to have the extended weekend. A nice short break from school. Then in another month I’ll be skiing so thats where I’ll be on the weekends. A nice escape from school work which is somewhat over whelming at times. Oh well, it will pay off I think. Maybe not so much the actual piece of paper but I think the networking is whats going to be worth it.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention that I’m starting to dable with desktop widgets. Right now I am working on a widget which I think people are going to like as long as it will be ok to distribute it. I don’t thin it will be to much of an issue, I’ll just have to ask the right people before I do. I’m not going to tell anyone what it is yet so you will have to wait and see. Also, I’ll be changing the feel of Bagels Inc soon to a more winter-ish theme. It should be pretty sweet. I think people will enjoy it. Well I’m done typing for now.