A few notes on driving

Ok, lets say I'm driving on the highway. The speed limit is 70, so I set my cruise control for 80 mph. I'm sitting there, zipping along in the left lane.

If you pass me, that's cool. However, if two minutes after passing me, I have to pass you because you dropped back from 85 to 75 mph. You are an idiot. If this happens five times in a row over the course of half an hour, you are a fucking moron.

The new plan is for everyone to get a car-mounted paintball gun. It will be loaded with neon green paint. If someone on the road is a fucking moron, you shoot them with a green paintball. Since I figure we will all do one or two stupid things, the paint can be made to fade away after a day or two. This way, if you are driving and see a car with 50 green paintball splobs on it, you know to stay the fuck away from that idiot.

RIP, Mr 50mm 1.8

I headed out to the Jungle for a bit Friday night to hear the great DJs Jennocide and OMAC spin. I had to be up at the crack of dawn to drive to Florida, so I didn't plan on staying long.

After about 30 minutes there, I'm standing by the middle riser, and a guy walks up to me and holds out a hunk of black plastic. "You dropped this. I think it fell out of your camera."

I look closer. It's a single glass lens surrounded by an odd ring of black plastic. It looks like no part of my camera. I look at my camera and realize it's sitting on the ground, not hanging off my shoulder where I left it. I grab it off the floor and take a look. Apparently it slid off my shoulder when I wasn't paying attention and landed face-first on the ground.

The entire front assembly of the lens has fallen out. I quickly run to a more brightly lit part of the club to survey the damage. The two chunks I have are pretty much intact, but lots of important little bits are gone, probably scattered on the floor of the dark club, under the soles of stompy boots.

Thank god this was my "cheap" lens, only costing $75 or so.

This is the lens I bought for shooting in clubs. It has an f-stop of 1.8, which means it takes cool pictures in very low light. If you like a shot I've taken in a dark club, or bar or some other dim location it was probably shot with this lens.

So here's to you, Mr Canon 50mm F1.8. You served me well these past 3 years. Rest in peace (and pieces).

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I think Beaker and Deena will be interested in this, but maybe some of you will to.

Ever read Cerebus, the comic book? It was part Monty Python, part Conan, and park Aardvark.

Well, the creator, Dave Sim went through a nasty divorce and in the 90s the comic got strange. Sim began posting these bizarre rants about the evils of feminism and "creative male light" and the "emotional female void." He went kind of nutso.

The latest development is that he's found religion. He was an athiest for decades, but he apparently decided Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all the same, so now he practices a combo of all three.