77percent™

the brother came by for the weekend , pleasant relief .. definitely accomplished very little more than zero learning this weekend ; however i did realize that my history notes were kind of ridiculously complete, i surprised myself .. most of michael’s stuff that i photocopied [and that i still quite greatly appreciate] was in fact redundant … i blame the unusual completeness on the relative increase in interestingfulness [it’s a word now] of the year’s curriculum at least compared with past years’ /etc

in other news lawrence [brother] ’s Rebel XT (canon d-slr) is simply amazing .. firstly he’s got some great lenses to match it , but alone that has got to be one of the most supreme mass-produced cameras around … i love SLRs i have a couple old Minolta and Canon ones that i use every now and then for super-analog b&w stuff which i refuse to scan [ my ilford prints are just too good/divine for any digital process ] .. but the XT is so ideal as far as a d-slr can be ; of course it lacks the form factor of smaller digital cameras but honestly i’m not too keen on ridiculously small cameras : they certainly don’t do any good for the pictures , and their form factor really isn’t worth it :]
goodness, the XT is easily the idyllic combination of a real nice canon eos conventional film slr and a premium digital camera ; most importantly b&h is selling one for under a thousand (body only , but i have some more-than-decent compatible canon lensesaround)

[if you’re scanning for the end of the xt ramble here it is].
anyways though this weekend has been nicely chilled and it’s a great thing

really looking forward to these metallic prints that should be coming soon, they shipped friday afternoon [turnaround at mpix was precisely half their predicted 24hrs] i’m a little pissed that i was too impatient to send them the pics at proper resolution [i sent 300dpi while they’re capable of nearly ten times that] quite fortunately my resampling is of great quality and well i think they’ll come out pretty nicely .. i’m thinking of getting some or all mounted but it’s a bit of a hassle so i can’t say for sure … in other news my dirt cheap printers [winkflash.com] printed 60 of my better shots on 4×6 for a total of just over $5 including shipping ; they’d be lucky to break even on that, in fact i’m relatively confident they lost money on it [it was a promotional offer] quality was excellent and printing was prompt ; i didn’t quite know what i would do with those prints when i got them but i’ve since decided to cover two 20×30 foam-core boards with them and toss it on my wall somewhere . spent some time arranging the bunch of them earlier today , lookin’ good i must say
those metallic prints are going to be pretty damn great , the prints should actually arrive before the pape- sample-kit, which i ordered from them a half week before the prints, get here .. i would have loved to see sample paper before i got these 8×10s printed on the metal stuff but i really did want to give to vaughn&buck and there wasn’t much room for delay so i figured i’d go ahead with it .. metallic prints were 2.49 for each 8×10 [pretty decent considering how i spent $55 on 50x sheets of Ilford’s heaviest inkjet paper (which looks great btw)] …
but yea .. they’re gonna be great

also in case you have yet to notice, i got this monkey and it’s a sort of magical monkey , and he’s going to pick you a new song every time you reload the page. do play with him, he likes to be played with.
.. fuck it , i don’t think that he’s actually a monkey, monkey smell bad .. he’s a sloth because he’s lazy and all he does all day is pick songs for you when you load a page , except he’s still magic and as a result doesn’t smell like crap
yea, sloths are cool like that ; particularly magical ones …
i like abusing semicolons .. mr heilman think we can’t handle the semicolon when in fact the semicolon can’t handle us and he just wants to protect it
yea i think it’s time i got some rest , g’night everyone