Just Another Manic...

Yes it's Monday. So what's going on to cause this blog entry to be posted at a time other than the now normal 4:00am? Ab-so-loot-ly nothing. Just felt like typing random dribble really. :)

Work's getting more interesting - we've finally managed to wade through the vast majority of the backlog we faced. So now we can get on with designing new products. Which makes Adam a happy boy.

Photography is in a bit of a rut at the moment. I had a paid job last week but I just don't have the motivation to get off my butt and shoot something. Probably not helped by the total lack of inspiration I've got going on right now. But hey, it's not like I've never faced this sort of thing before and it went away. Just gotta give it some time to finish its hissy-fit and let me move on.

I've been trying to think of something I can do as a hobby, alongside my photography. So far, all I've thought of are getting back into building plastic model kits (something I used to do a number of years ago) and perhaps seeing if I can fin a cheap acoustic guitar and go back to chicken-scratching along to my favourite music, and dreaming of that-time-that=-will-never-come when I'm a rock star. Other than that I'm a not really sure what else would keep my mind involved for very long. I'll figure something out.

Have been getting into Facebook a lot lately. I've been able to find a bunch of people I went to school with, which is always cool. I always like reminiscing about school days - they were a lot of fun to me.

Other than that, all is well. :)

Cog's new video

My current "hero" band, Cog have a new song out. Here's the film clip.



Sounds like they're taking some inspiration from their early stuff, which is awesome. We're going to see them on November 11th @ HQ, and I cannot wait. New album is out early next year.

It's Just Another Rainy Night...

Ah, you gotta love an early 90s Queensryche reference...

So here I am, about a week after my last night-of-shitty-sleep, tapping away on the keys (woo a Fear Factory reference - I'm on fire!) because I woke up at about 1:30am. The cat's been pissing me off this morning. I tried to lie down and snooze for a while, but she kept moving things and making the little noises that prod me out of anything that approaches a nap.

Hope that coffee machine is stocked up...

I've been workng through my CDs, getting them ripped and onto the MacBook. Not too many more to go now and I'll be set. One beautiful thing about this little sucker is that Sony BMG's copyright protecion bullshit software on The Butterfly Effect's Imago album doesn't work. So I have sweet MP3s of the whole album on all my machines now. Take that, big business!

I discovered Facebook the other day too. I've so far found a bunch of people I went to school with, one I went to uni with and I found a mate who moved to the UK six months ago who I thought I'd lost contact with. So it's pretty cool for that I guess. Other than that, it feels a little inflated. But I'll give it some time to settle down and see what I think.

Speaking of inflated, I had a dabble in Second Life a few weeks ago. Kinda cool that you can fly around the worlds, but really, what's the point? Other than a dodgy 3D engine, it's just a dressed-up chat program that chews up my bandwidth.

Can you tell I'm a little tired?

Yawwn

So here I sit, once again unable to get a good night's sleep. This really bugs me, because I'm constantly in need of sleep (at least that's what my sore eyes tell me!). I was able to pass out for about three hours, but about 2am I was awake, but unlike most times, there was nothing on my mind.

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with a revelation, or having suddenly remembered the name of that 1980s artist you have been trying to recall for days? Howard Jones is the one I can never remember, with his seminal (cough) track, Like To Get To Know You Well. But anyway, this time there's nothing bugging me. Nothing that justifies this lack of sleep. And that shits me.

So I guess the coffee machine at work is going to get a workout later today.

I've now got my little MacBook set up with the software that I wanted. This will allow me to do a lot more mobile photography and to shoot heaps of shots, particularly in RAW mode, which is something I want to do a lot more of. Especially now that I've got a 2Gb CF card in my camera. Course, when I eventually upgrade my DSLR (That damn Nikon D300 is calling my name... curse you Nikon!), I'll be capturing images at over double the resolution, so I'll instantly lose capacity! It's a vicious bloody circle, all this new fandangled technology, I tell ya.

FYI, if I start posting with a lot of spelling mistakes, I apologise. This keyboard is taking some getting used to...

The Photo Booth application was something I wasn't expecting to use much, but I figured I can use it to pop up a current image of myself at the start of each blog. NERRRD!!

Uh yeah, anyway, that's about all I can be bothered typing up right now. Till next time.