What has two thumbs and would do almost anything for a Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VR lens?

This Guy!

If you know anyone who has this lens just sitting or is selling one or might sell one, please drop me a line or ask them. I can pay as much as 1250 for this lens, though it costs 1799… I would be willing to work off or otherwise work out any kind of labor deal or… something.Not that I expect anything, but I hope.

The truth is no one knows. For all the clamoring and falling over one another, we aren’t sure, we don’t know, can’t be certain, undecided, indifferent… We don’t know what we want. We don’t know what is possible. We’re unhappy.

We achieve? We gain? You finally obtain that goal? Got enough money, married the guy with money, or the guy for his mind, or the girl for her tits, or didn’t for all those one night stands, or even choose him/her so you could specifically fool around. 3 days later your bored. no longer satisfied. We don’t really want to be happy, we enjoy the quick fix. We look down on that heroin addict, we gnash our righteous teeth at him and push our secretly promiscuous thirteen old daughters behind us as if to shield them from some communicable disease of living, only because we see our own sick, sweaty, wanting faces peering needily, futilely, and desperately staring back at us. We hate that reflection of resonance.

Do we embrace this? Sure we do. Half of us that even protest do so with so little conviction we fall right over if pushed. China sent tanks to mercilessly run down it’s insurgents, we can just ignore ours, we can nudge them into quiet. That half of us, just wants to look good all day.

Knowing our own insatiable habit, we still want more. one by one, little by little, a sorrow few of us gain our goals in completion, in finality. With nothing left to gain or garner we set about destroying it fast and  or slow, we set to the real addictions of drinks lined with guilt and sex, with fixes that have a passed “best by” date and a skin of leavings on top.

We don’t care because we care so much. We hear so much and listen so very little. We smile and help while we’re turning our heads. We let them go out the backdoor on all fours while we shield them from the truth out front. Selling our own blood because interaction is such a hefty bill, a real look in the eyes  makes us honest, and honest won’t make this fucking itch subside. We keep applying the prescription of money, but the rash is still on the rise, our modern snake oil has failed us again.

So here we are. We want it all for doing nothing and so no one is king. The most mediocre is fame. Nothing is to die, to gain is to kill oneself, and to do just enough to get by is royalty. If your anything else, but here, then you’re not even real.

So I’m just the jerkoff guessing your weight, making you pay in time for information you already know but hate to hear out loud.

I want to talk about video games for  minute. Apparently, video game developers are unhappy because they see only initial profit from a game. They say that a game sells initially and within a a couple of weeks gamers turn to buying used copies and rob them of profit. They see none of this money and merchants like Game-Stop get to pocket that precious profit.

I find a multitude of things wrong with this thinking and anyone who buys into it. First of all, if your losing significant profit on new game sales from used game sales within two weeks of the release of a game it is because the game was worthless and everyone dumped it. This could be for a bazillion reasons, all valid.

Secondly, you are overcharging for these games. These companies and developers complain at a loss from used sales, from pirating, and more. Let’s be honest though, when a game comes out that is popular to any real degree, these companies can’t even keep the game in stock for more than a day. If they see sales climbing to this degree step up production. At rates that are nearing the 55-65 dollar range they should be able to. The same goes for the consoles themselves.

Sell these games for less and enjoy selling far more copies. This is easy. Obviously the amount of people who simply do not find these games worth that price is not just growing but is in the majority. Perhaps these people are not all bad but are rather are offering up a huge glaring loud statement to the saleability of what these companies have been producing, worth playing but only if drastically cheaper or free and either way used. How many more copies will they sell if they rearranged their business model to reflect this? All of those pirates, I am quite sure, wouldn’t mind instant access  to the product without long download times the benefit of physical media and the accompanying art, info and more if it were priced correctly. People who do wait for used status, even those who actually hold out for long periods to pick up titles used would be far more likely to simply buy the titles new if they were priced correctly. Game downloads are great and all but I would be happy to get well priced games without having to wait, for the physical media which benefits me aesthetically and if I choose to sell used, etc.

I do not think you can avert everyone who waits for used games, but then it would not matter if you made enough money in the first place. Ignorance seems to be the only excuse/reason.

Finally, most companies in most industries do not get any kind of share of used status sales.  Perhaps they should just deal with it like everyone else. Welcome to business in this paticular “free” society.

These companies were failing previous to this economic crisis. It was in the papers and the major news magazines months ago. the articles all stated that the American auto makers would have “barely” enough to survive.

They don’t deserve to be bailed out unless they can be regulated into producing cars that people will buy, cars that are fiscally and ecology responsible. This is what GM gets for sinking the electric car. This what Ford and GM get for stating that ecology was a fad, and that they would return to primarily SUV and large truck production within months.

It’s sink or swim time. Dump the CEO’s, CFO’s, the people in charge of R&D, and design including style. I’d buy a Ford if beneath the hood it was as reliable, gas friendly, and even sexier looking than Honda’s or Toyota’s. Is it possible?

Again, I apologize for all the politics, and not… other stuff…

but it’s important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds

Listen, this car is going off the road and we’re in the middle of choosing a different driver, and nearly everyone has decided to choose from the red drunk or the blue drunk…. WHERE is the sober guy? Either way the car’s still gonna wreck.

Sorry for the recent foray into politics. I feel it has to be done…

I honestly feel like I live in a country of complete morons. I’ve lost all faith in nearly every area. I think the people really involved both red and blue, donkey or elephant, have basically sold out. They all know the true score of lies and what is at stake and they have chosen to ignore it because all of these people at those levels benefit. The backbone of the country is what is left behind.

You know Che, though he fought hard for communism which is just another outdated idea that looked great on paper but fell short in practice. Che traveled the South American and Central American continents. He stayed, met, talked with, and befriended a lot of indigenous people. He knew that change would take a revolution, and that revolution would be made of those hard working people. The same thing is eventual if true change doesn’t happen here.  You stop the influx of Starbucks and McRibwich’s, the consumerism and people are going to get tired faster and then unrest will settle in.

I’m saying we need unrest. We need protests, we need to draw a line. We, keep them, in check. That is how it should work. They, should be afraid of us. Afraid we won’t so easily vote for them. We should be choosy and hard, high expectations, short fuses when dealing with them.

I am sick of seeing these conservatives and liberals talk like they know anything about anything. Spouting off inane asinine arguments about the liberal traitors or the neo-conservative evil, your as worthless as your rhetoric’s are haggard and so played out.

I blame the old people. Thanks. Your genius ideas for the last several decades have done nothing. Playing it safe? Lesser evil? With friend’s like this who needs enemies. A conspiracy is something you can’t prove. This is simply idiocy. Obama? McCain? Republican, liberal, conservative, democrat?

You vote, “None of the above”. If you’re smart you stop playing with your children’s future, you stop believing in what you don’t see. We stand as real Americans and say, “Prove it”. You say, “Do Not! Tread on Me!” You make your Rep vote your voice not his and we abolish the Electoral! Popular, paper votes are the votes that count. Counted by citizens chosen like jury duty. How can we teach a country to vote if we can’t even prove the validity of our own.

A rough 11-point plan to solve issues in the Middle East:

1.       Stop Using Oil. Period. Within 2 years. Research clean coal, nuclear, and flip to Hydrogen Cells. There is no threat to our economy that we won’t already experience as a result of Oil anyway.

2.       Withdraw. These people will always side against occupiers; it is in their heritage just like in ours. We would never stand for anyone being in our country ever, and they are exactly the same.

3.       Overthrow the Egyptian government and president. Assist in democratic elections assist the people not the govt. The people.

4.       Full fill our promises to the people of Afghanistan.

5.       Supply vast amounts of aid, rather than might, to uplift the poor regions of all of the Arab countries where 100% of all of the terrorists come from. Just as has always been the case they choose poor, outcast, alienated youth. Easy targets.

6.       Put pressure on Israel to release the territories. It’s not Anti Semitic, it’s sensible.

7.       Publically apologize and remove all of the dictators we have put in power, and for all of the democratic leaders we have removed and or assassinated. See 3. Above.

8.       Admit that more than 95% of everyday Arab people don’t hate us, just our govt and foreign policy for committing acts like the above. That Islam does not teach hate of us or our beliefs. That we have caused all of this. We chose the Shah, he was overthrown we chose Saddam, etc.

9.       Admit that our “greatest Ally” Saudi Arabia is one of our biggest problems.

10.   Call for a change in our government. Demand it. Start a revolution. Possibly a civil war The People vs. The Govt. You can say blah blah, pickup truck, blah blah, patriotism. Sir, I am a patriot, our ancestors did not fight off British Tyranny for this mockery of justice and our good name. We aren’t even educated correctly, 75% of us do not even have passports.

11.   Withdraw from all of our standing bases and return to a sensible policy of minding our own damn business, unless absolutely necessary.

Hell is other people

So I took up photography. Which I may have mentioned… or I might even blazoned it on my title bar up there. A good friend got me involved, thanks.

So here are some of the reults of that inspiration so far.

more soon…

You can always look at the whole volume of my work less identifiable photos at my flickr HERE.

Why! Why the hell does Honda run these ads? Why so often?

You know the first time I saw one I thought it was for some kickass water gun. Then the punchline, Honda has made a Hydrogen Fuel car.

“NO!? A hydrogen Fuel car? It’s almost as if I really did see that episode “30 Days” like 2 years or more earlier. It’s also as if they really did cover that very car, where the CEO actually drank the water that came out of the tailpipe.

I see this ad nearly every other day. What do they want me to do? I checked they’re only trying them in areas with Hydrogen fuel centers. That’s like Bakersfield or something. So why run the ad nationwide? Why not include that you can actually make Hydrogen fuel pretty simply in your garage.

Then there’s McCain. For the love of god sir, give the 3 mil to Honda, or maybe the guy who made the first electric car ages ago in the nineties.

I’d like to make an analogy here. Yugo automobiles were better automobiles, than the American government is a government. Let me go one step further and say that Yugos, as automobiles, were just about the worst pieces of crap you could ever hope to accidently waste several grand on.

Well, what can be said for our country? Can’t solve poverty, can’t manage credit (re: paying minimum payments with SS funds, repeatedly), moron leader, mis or false representation (major reason for founding country)… it goes on. So, we were going to go over and fix all these other countries? So we’re the fat lady in that movie? The meddlesome one we all hate causing more problems than fixing, because she can’t even fix a sandwich, let alone her life, let alone someone else’s life.

That’s great. Thanks a lot, conservatives. Yeah, you guys are just leaking quality aren’t you? Don’t go patting yourself on the back liberal. It’s half your fault, and it’s been your fault before. You both suck. You’re the past, over, useless. Get out of the way, it’s time to back and yet forward. Preserving what should be, like a responsible government truly for and by the people with honesty, and removing the rest.

Party politics…. scoff. A pathetic, unintelligent, archaic and antiquated system is what it is. It only worked by monopoly and the sad social system of early America. Don’t read polls. What does a poll prove? Who investigated that poll, were they thorough, was it verified? Pragmatism, people, pragmatism.

Indeed. Ask a question. Question an answer. Nothing is more American than saying, Prove it, or Why, or No. Only we don’t say it nearly enough. Suddenly we of all countries are the ones afraid to question? And no one is even holding a gun, or standing at a pulpit. Except that moron. Does anyone here fear him?

I’d love to meet someone still rooting for Bush. Still believing. It’s disturbing at the very least.

We’re the saddest example of a free country, at best. I hate it, it makes me sad. How’s that go? We’re the smartest guy at remedial camp? The happiest guy at a depression clinic? We let our freedom go, we don’t even notice it leaving. We notice when we need it and it’s gone, and we let it happen because we’re kept fat. It’s the smartest of all the tyrannies. It’s like smuggling drugs on purpose into ghettos in third world countries. No revolution, the citizen is seemingly, falsely happy. He does what he’s told to get the drug, to stay happy, doesn’t rock the boat, and is locked into it. He’s a better slave if so happy he cannot think. Only this is even more sad. It’s not drugs!

It’s time for change. I’d like to see us depart from world politics. Bring our troops home. Stop using a system based on fluctuating markets. You want to know what I find sad & un-American? We need to borrow money. Yeah, we’re really powerful. I’d like to see us make real change. I’d like to see us go for the common good, JUST ONCE, the first time around rather than later… late… uh… never.

Anything is better than this. Obviously what we have now doesn’t work. Let’s not be complacent and boring let’s actually… maybe… be the fucking best, eh?