Taylor Sings and Stuff

My friend Taylor has talent. He likes to play guitar and sing among other things.  He would say he “hates doing covers”. The fact of the matter is if he hated them maybe he should try sucking at them more. Here is a Nirvana cover of the “Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam”  

If you have some time to kill you can visit his YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/vitamint10

If you stop by his YouTube channel make sure you give a listen to some of his original works which include  ”End This Way”  

and  ”My Friend”

Coffee

After posting my latest photo, I realized how many photos of coffee cups I have. Some with coffee black, some with coffee cream, all thoroughly enjoyed I am sure. I started thinking why do I have so many coffee photos. The only explanation I could come up with is when I am taking a break during travel or photo excursions I have a coffee. Naturally I start to tinker with my camera and I guess the result is coffee in different states of repose, shot in various locations, like NYC, Paris or Charleston. Coffee is good

Soul Catcher

How funny would it be if we could grab our soul and show it to whomever was interested. It would be a way of saying, I am good, my soul is not black and tarnished. Life would be simple if this was the case.  No one would have to wonder who is good or bad. You could just say “let me see your soul”.

Then I would imagine the trend would be to market all kinds of electronic gadgets to help us read and quantify all those souls out there.  They could be used at trials, job interviews and pre-date screenings.  I could imagine the devices, marketed by Sony and the like of course, would have names like speed soul reader, or soul snatch (for scanning souls on the go). I would also imagine there would be a rise in soul thefts as well. Come to think of it not a lot of good would come out of it. I propose there are an equal amount of pros and cons. But one thing is for sure, the mystery of finding out who someone is, would be a trivial endeavor.  Show me your soul please….

Paparazzi Attack

Although she is swift with the hand I do occasionally get past the hand blocks. This one on her birthday was not one of those occasions. I would never make it as a paparazzi photographer. I guess I don’t have that many skills on sneaking a good shot in. But as they say practice makes perfect, so I practice.

McCoy Explains…

Damnit man, I am made in China not Toledo can’t you see?!?!

A Sunday Drive

Take a drive with me in my Jeep.  I know this is really raw and the second part is completely out of focus, but the song is outstanding  I tried to keep it as smooth as possible, but I was in a Jeep after all.  I am sure that the next attempt will be better. (Redux up now had to fix for proper length)

A Thousand Yard Stare

A Thousand Yards

Love the PJ ;)

Crash

I am finally back online and with my full compliment of photos and will start posting to my photoblog again today. My Operating System became unstable and as a result I lost everything in the end, well almost.

It was a perfect storm of events. I always back up my photos up on an external drive. Sometimes I even make an image of my hard drive using a program called EzGigII. Well as luck would have it last weekend I had to reformat the home computer because the 11 year old had gotten a really bad virus on it. My external hard drive was not large enough to hold both backups. I then deleted mine with the intention of backing up my photos the next day. The next day my laptop OS started acting funny and by the time Tuesday morning rolled around, it was in full arrest. Before I knew it all was lost. Panic does not even describe the word as I thought there was a good possibility I had lost about 9500 digital photographs.

With some luck and help from my friend I was able to rescue them. I was not able to re-instate the hard drive image I had taken but was able to get into the image and extract the photos (I think the image was corrupted). I guess I learned some lessons through all of this. I need to purchase a giant external drive (thinking about a terabyte) and that backing up your hard drive is easy, but getting it back is a little more complex than they would have you believe.

I am sure some of you have had this same issue and have inadvertently found some awesome software that works as promised for somewhat painless hard drive restoration. I am all ears at this point.

All Good Things Must Come to an END…

I caught wind of what I thought was a rumor earlier this week. The rumor that HULU would become a paid to view site by next year was what someone wrote on a random blog. After some quick google searches and reading, it appears this is not a rumor.  After I got over my dissappointment and shock, I read some more about how this will most likely happen.

I really think this guys has some good points. You can read Jeff Bertolucci’s article  from PCWorld here:http://www.pcworld.com/article/174271/5_ways_id_pay_for_hulu.html Jeff articulates in what fasion this proposed HULU paid site might take form. He also highlights each proposal and if it would be something he would be willing to fork out some cash for services rendered.

Sadly it looks like it will happpen this coming year. Exactly how I am not sure but it re-enforces the saying I know all of you have heard at some point in your life – All good things must come to an end…eventually.