OzTV is back on the air, we resume transmission with Episode 3:
We start off with The Birds dancing to FunkyTown
Next up is a look into the history of LOLcats
We continue with dancing, this time with Cat, Kitty Cat
A great stop motion fight on this channel
Finishing up with a very unusual moose
Thanks for tuning in!
*chortle snort*
Tax season is done and over with. Thank goodness. Though I have to admit it wasn’t that crazy this year, as each tax year end passes, we get fewer and fewer clients, which I’m not complaining about in the least, though the ones that hang around are demanding.
But thats not what I’m here to talk about. I’m here to talk about my anxiously awaiting ‘Economic Stimulus Rebate Check’. Due to a slight over look when finalizing my taxes, my checking account information was not submitted to the IRS because I owed Uncle Sam money this year, so this in turn will result in me getting a paper rebate check. And since its a paper check I shouldn’t expect mine any sooner than mid-June.
There are a few points of this stimulus package that I’d like to bring up. My boss kept fretting last night about getting his taxes done before the deadline because he was under the assumption that if you file an extension, you wouldn’t get the rebate check. This is not true. So, the points:
Personally I don’t know how I feel about the whole thing. Giving everyone (nearly everyone) just a little extra pocket change (because really that’s it is) isn’t going to fix our economy. I know that really isn’t the goal, its just a ’stimulus’, but still, someones going to have to pay for it in the end. I’ll probably end up using mine to pay off credit cards. Credit cards that I had to get because I was ALREADY in a bind due to the crumbling economy.
Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands, 2008
Photography has always been a part of my life. My very first camera (before my first camera I’d always steal my parents’ brick of a 33mm) was a 110. I loved the sleek design, the easy load film. It was fool proof. I thought I was the coolest, artsy-est kid there was.
A brief history.
So I had the 110, off and on, I didn’t really start focusing on my photography until about high school. I borrowed a friends camera. You remember the Kodak APS, it was some kind of camera like that. Again, I thought I was the coolest kid around, and I took it with me to a Washington DC trip and compromised my trip budget on all the film I was buying. None the less, my pictures turned out great, and others let me know. This was the first time I was publicly commended on my photography and I even submitted some of it for the video slide show. That was a big hit and I believe the launching point in my hobby.
Around 2002 I bought my first digital camera. A 3.2 Sony Cybershot. Again, a brick. But I did what I could with it and what I couldn’t pull of I made up for it in Photoshop.
USS Hornet, Alameda Point, California, 2003
I didn’t get to graduate to the big cameras until June 2007. My new baby, a Nikon D40X. It was love at first site.
New Toy, Oz, 2007
Since then, its been a growing relationship, learning more and more everyday. I’m pretty sure I’m only using about 25% of my cameras true potential. But thats what the interwebs are for.
Well done did the upgrade, but all my tags on my older posts (anything before ounced.com, the stuff that was transfered over) have turned into random numbers.
Grah.
I had like 3 (oh who are we kidding, maybe 300) moments of genius last night, I even said aloud ‘Oh, I must blog this.’
Hello Monday, what did you do with my Genius?
I keep better track of my future karaoke songs than future blog posts.
Finally headed over to Coyote Point over in San Mateo last week. Boardsports School opened up their new location here last year but never made it over. Its quite the get up, retail shop, snack shack, large grassy rigging area.
Unfortunately getting down to the water isn’t so peachy. You have to finagle your way down big rocks, with your board and then back up to grab your sail. Good luck not scratching your precious either. Anywho, the SFBA is now accepting donations to help get this launch back in order.
So if you do anything, .10 cents, $5, $100, whatever, please help. It is also 100% tax deductible.
Expensive - they are only owned by rich white men.
Slim - easily lost between couch cushions and car seats.
Frail - both will crush at the slightest amount of man meat on top of them.
Highly Sought After - the l337est of dorks drool over them.
They all look the same - can’t tell who’s is who’s.
You want it on your lap more than it wants to be there.
You think it loves you, but it’s really more aloof than willing.
The more you poke it, the more sounds it makes.
You can put things in three holes at once!
Everyone else wants to touch it.
After 30 minutes of using it, you’re left wanting more.
You want to take it with you everywhere and show it off.
And dirties easily.
The Berkeley City Council jumped the gun and got all angry-hippy at the Marine Corp recruiting center that opened up in Downtown Berkeley. They had voted to put a letter together for the U.S. Marine Corp to tell them they were an ‘unwelcomed intruder’.
Hi! Welcome to Bizzaro Land.
Since when in the fuck do we get mad at the troops, and the people that have to do the recruiting and tell them to fuck off? Don’t kill the messenger you protest-panty-wearing mooks. We’re against the war remember? Not the people fighting it for us.
Berkeley City Council, you are an embarrassment. My favorite bit from the article:
“To err is human but to really screw up it takes the Berkeley City Council,” said council member Gordon Wozniak. “We failed our city. We embarrassed our city.”
They did realize the error of their ways this morning and voted to not send the letter. But where’s the formal apology? Yeah, in their pipe, smokin’ it.
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