Jack’s Old & Busted Blog

moderna.org: “These photos were either lost, forgotten, or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them.”

Bode (bō’dē) v.: 1. To fail unexpectedly amidst high expectations. 2. To defiantly dismiss expectations after spectacular failure. 3. To “rock,” in your own, special way.

nydailynews.com: ‘I just did it my way,’ Miller told an Associated Press reporter. ‘I’m not a martyr. I’m not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

‘The expectations were other people’s. I’m comfortable with what I’ve accomplished, including at the Olympics.’

In some ways I admire Bode MIller for saying this. On the other hand, has he ever seen the movie Miracle? The Olympics is more than about individual achievement. That’s why you wear the flag, for cryin’ out loud.

So, for $68, I finally broke down and bought an iPod. My old one was just plain worn out and wouldn’t connect anymore to the computer. I use MP3 players mainly for excercise. Even so, I’ve always thought I wouldn’t like a player without a screen. However, in practice, I use the shuffle exactly the same way I used my old player, that is, I just mash on the skip button until I find a song I like. The shuffle function is kinda fun, because I get to hear stuff I haven’t in a while. The key is smart playlists. It’s fine to random sample my music, but when I’m on the treadmill or running, I probably don’t want to hear Gregorian chants.

Anyway, Apple being Apple, Im sure my product will be obsolete with the release of the Wireless Video Brain Implanted Aromatherapy iPod Shuffle next week.

Shuffle Hacks
IpodHacks
Hacking the shuffle
(We like the cars, the cars that go boom!)

Now that I have spent a lot of dough on digital photography equipment, I’m considering ways to recoup my investment. We spend a lot of time at various gyms in between Ash’s games, so it might make sense for me to charge for shooting other people’s kids/grandkids/neices/nephews. The problem is I have no idea what this sort of service would be worth. I figure it’s an hour of my time shooting a game, plus an hour or so twiddling with some sort of slideshow and burning a disk. $50? $75 including the slideshow? $100 for dvd with soundtrack?

Headlines got you down? There are 18,000+ photos in the Cute Cat Pool over at Flickr. Three or four is all I could take at once.

news.independent.co.uk:: Ash and Ross live entirely from “urban foraging”, and say that it has never made them ill.

Better to call it “stealing from the rats.”

This is spreading like things are wont to do on the Interwebs, but I’m not so sure if it’s not a hoax.

lostcamera.blogspot: “Well,” she said, “we have a bit of a situation. You see, my nine year old son found your camera, and we wanted to show him to do the right thing, so we called, but now he’s been using it for a week and he really loves it and we can’t bear to take it from him.”