This is one of my favorite photos from November’s Photo Safari and my only regret is that I didn’t bring the tripod thanks to the failing light brought on by upcoming winter.
I had taken a photo without the receipt in the photo, but it came out blur, and Foofy is too busy to help me photoshop it out, so maybe it’s better off with the receipt in it, since it’s considered un-tounched.
You know, take nothing but photographs.
I didn’t think I would make it, but I think this could sum up this year:
[photography(film+digital)], [good, bad(days)], [more (Flickr, Twitter)], [still(geek, crazy)], [love, hate, sleep, laugh], [iPhone(Apps)], [Chicago], [weddings], [botany], [culinary arts], [migration]
A lot of it is from last year, but it applies for this year too.
I’ll start this with, I have a huge amount of respect for Police officers. I will get nervous around them at first, but I consider it a form of respect for the badge. They do a line of work that not every one does, it’s not always good times, but day in and out, they get the job done to the best of their abilities.
Whenever I know I’m going to be on my cellphone for a while I usually take a walk around my apartment complex, since my apartment get really horrible cell reception.
There I was talking to my dad about my future plans, when I see the headlights of a Crown Victoria, aka Cop Car. First thought that went through my head was: I wonder if the neighbors called the cops on someone…
Second thought: Wouldn’t it be funny if that was for me?
Funny story: It was.
My first thought was, I wonder if a neighbor thought I was being too loud. Ironic, considering I’m usually calling in loud parties where the occupants have no regard for people they are affecting despite politely telling them TURN THE MUSIC DOWN WE’RE TRYING TO SLEEP.
Apparently, when you wear a black beanie, and sport a Santa Claus bear in black, you look like someone who wants to jack a car.
Normally, something like this would upset me. But I remember something that Belita Moreno said (playing Benny on The George Lopez Show) which went something like:
“If you don’t laugh, you’ll just cry”
So I went along with their protocol, putting my dad on hold. Gave them my name, birthdate and driver’s license # since my ID was in the apartment. They ran it, and I had that sinking feeling that I have every time I buy groceries or anything on a card, the sinking feeling of “Is the charge going to go through?”
It was also in this time I wish I had ran my details with my ridealong officer earlier this year to make sure I really had no records. I haven’t done any thing wrong (as far as I know), but it couldn’t help to double check. Last thing I want is to be told “You’re wanted for Armed Robbery in the state of Wisconsin But I’ve never been to Wisconsin!’ *wimper* ”
In this time, Cinthia came out of the apartment and was puzzled as to why there were two Police officers with me. Second guy snuck up behind me and was stealth till Cinthia came over and was looking past me at him. He must’ve been a ninja in his past life.
My report came back clean, and the lady officer apologized for the trouble, though she didn’t need too since she was doing her job. We did get a good chuckle out of it and that’s when I learned that my santa claus beard and black beanie gave me the carjacker-look.
I wish I remembered Cinthia’s camera in my pocket. I would’ve had a photo taken with them!
I should consider myself lucky. I had 3 police officers/cruisers show up for little old me =)
Oh, and I didn’t get arrested. That’s cool too.
Crazy thought:
What if you could delay email?
Would it matter if it sent now, a minute later, 5 minutes later, or 10 minutes later? An hour?
Sometimes yes, but a lot of times, no.
The scenario where this could play out well: You sent an angry email to your boss. Accidently mailed naked photos of yourself to your grandma instead of significant other. Better yet, you realized to typo’ed an email with your resumé attached.
It’s time to make this a standard. Not just a feature in some mail clients.
In an effort to show that I don’t just blog about the iPhone, here’s a thought that crossed my mind that won’t fit in a 140 characters.
This week, Kitchen Nightmares featured The Black Pearl, a seafood restaurant in New York City. Chef Ramsey as always put a bunch of effort fourth to fix whatever problems they had, and was successful. With one exception; one of the owners named David.
Not willing to waste time or break out a Human Psychology book to explain his behavior, I hoped that Chef Ramsey’s hard work would pay off. However if the recent reviews on Yelp are to be trusted, things are not looking good.
Damn shame, I’ve been adding all the restaurants that Chef Ramsey’s fixed to my ToDo list of places to dine. Here’s one that probably won’t make it.
I installed the latest iPhone 2.1 firmware this morning. While poking around the Settings app, I went on into Safari and found a tab called Databases and found a bunch of Google Databases, ones related to Google Talk and Google Translate. Apparently these are known HTML 5 Database Storage, according to this tweet. I don’t understand much on how it works, whether it’s supposed to work offline or what. My initial testing still shows that Google Talk still has to reconnect when you switch tabs.
As a funny aside for the URL above GoogleTranslatePhrases has an arrow (pointing to the right) which usually indicates you can click it to go somewhere.
I wish I knew what it all meant.
Dear @JohnMcCain2008, Thank you for adding me to your friends list. I’m not sure what I tweeted that would require your patronage, but I appreciate it. However, I would like you to know that I won’t be voting for you. Or anyone else. For I am not a citizen, I don’t even have a green card. However, were you able to change that status for me relatively soon? I might be able to sway my vote your way.
Same goes for the rest of you.
I’ve had so many things I’d been wanting to blog for a while now, I just, as soon as I log into Wordpress, I’m not inspired anymore. My buddy Jason Schupp put it best:
Jason Schupp: Yeah, that’s happened to me too, a lot!
Jason Schupp: I don’t know what it is. I’m starting to wonder if it’s the writing tool or what.
Jasmeet: you know where I feel I write best?
Jasmeet: Twitter.
Jason Schupp: Ha! Constraints are amazing.
Jason Schupp: Honestly. You give people a blank sheet of paper and a pencil and say “write about anything,” they’re going to flounder. Give them constraints and they’ll write something.
Jason Schupp: Twitter has the 140 character constraint.
So when I read posts like this, it just annoys me like a fly flying in the bathroom. Honestly, if you feel you ‘need’ for all these features that Twitter lacks, go use Pownce or some other service. Twitter works because of constraints and simplicity. When I go over 140 characters, I don’t think “I’ve hit a limit”; I think “I need to cut this down, or it’s not worth tweeting.”
Back in 2000, my dad gifted me one of the first and best gadgets, a Palm Vx. Back then it was one of the best mobile OS’s (IMHO). These days, I rock an iPhone and the App Store has kept me pleased for about 80% of the time.
In terms of quality between the two platforms, there’s no comparison. Palm OS isn’t being left behind in the dust. Mobile OS X is about to finish the race while Palm OS is still putting on its racing speedos.
However, I honestly feel these then great Palm OS apps shouldn’t die.
Vexed is a game where matching blocks makes them disappear, the plot of the game being to get rid of all the blocks. Currently hosted on Sourceforge, so obtaining the source code is not that difficult at all.
Trism’s Syllogism actually mimics this game. Still, would love to see Vexed ported and improved for this platform.
PortaPets were these demon-like tamagotchi-pets. You could purchase a PortaFish, PortaKitty, PortaPimp, PortaHo and there was the free PortaMonkey. The animation was pretty decent for a DragonBall EZ/VZ chip, imagine how much more animated they could be on the iPhone.
Unfortunately, seems like the site is defunct, and emails to them bounced. Not to mention the app in itself is pretty R-rated, what with the constant toy humping and what not, might not make it through Apple’s Strict ‘no-porn’ filter.
Traffic is a game where you where move the blue and green blocks in such a way that you make a clearing for the red block (car) off screen, where the arrow is pointing. Attempt each course and try to make the par, or under.
The concept is pretty simple, but it does get tougher as your progress, like any good game.
[UPDATE] Monday; September 8, 2008: There’s a version called ‘Blocked’ (App Store link) that I’ve just installed and is pretty much a really nice version of this app. And it’s a steal at 99¢’s.
[UPDATE] Saturday; September 13, 2008: Vexed debuts up at the App Store. Graphics could use some Adam Betts’ing.
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originally uploaded by Jasmeet.
It’s an eraser.
One afternoon I had the ‘need’ to do Macro Photography so I used my love for stationary as a subject. Propped the stationary outside (natural light) and used a single sheet of paper for a background. In only had an 18-55mm lens, so I tried to get as close as I could, with the help of a tripod. This is one of my favorites. I added a vignetting affect which seems to give it a nice glow.
My name is Jasmeet though I go by J quite a bit. I’ve done all kinds of things in the past, mostly related towards computer-repair and even some HTML Design, but these days one of my bigger passions is Photography.
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