Macro Monday: The Future Is Looking Bright! (Part 1)

Answers to last week's pictures:
1) Digital alarm clock.
2) Watch strap/links (Fossil brand).
3) Analog clock hands.
4) Sundial (in the Rose Garden at Butchart Gardens).

And now this week's pictures:


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Tetris Redux

Tetris may have been invented by a Russian, but the Japanese made it so much better! Well, it's not quite Tetris, but it's hilarious to watch. I present to you: Human Tetris. Don't bother watching the non-Japanese ones... they are far from entertaining.

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Macro Monday: Time For More

Answers to last week's pictures:
1) Soldering iron.
2) Baseboard heater.
3) Portable mini-heater.
4) Barbeque lighter.

And now this week's pictures:


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Macro Monday: Things Are Really Heating Up (Part 2)

Answers to last week's pictures:
1) Thermostat.
2) Stove element.
3) Toaster.
4) Matches.

And now this week's pictures:

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Intelligence-Free Zone

There's a lot of stupidity in this world. Most of the time, it's just your basic run-of-the-mill stupidity that's easy to ignore. But once in awhile, a shining star of stupidity rears its ugly head (mixed metaphors be damned). I was on my way to the ferries earlier and saw this car driving a little quickly (averaging about 120kph in a 80kph zone) and fairly aggressively (cutting people off, tailgating, etc). That's run-of-the-mill stupid, nothing extraordinary there. What made this stand out, however, was the fact that the car was full, including one kid in the back. Four adults seated, while this kid was free to roam around the back seat! Free as in not buckled in, not even sitting.

Obviously, Darwin didn't work fast enough with the parents...

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Butchart Gardens, Lack of Good Title Edition

Move along, nothing to see here. Oh wait, yes there is:

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Are you STILL talking?!?

I swear, some people should not be allowed to leave phone messages... or should be required to take Remedial Phone Message Etiquette. Phone messages should be short, sweet, and to the point. Anything over thirty seconds, in most cases, is far too long. Really, fifteen seconds should be enough.

"Hi [target name], this is [source name]. I'm calling [to|for|regarding|etc.] [purpose]. You can reach me at *slow down* [phone number]. That's [phone number]. Thanks. Bye."

That's generally about how my messages go. I might add an email or some other form of communication, but that's about it. (Speeding up when saying phone numbers is a whole other rant...)

The other night, I got home and there were two messages on my answering machine. (Yes, answering machine, not voicemail. One of the ancient, tape based ones!) It's a bad sign when it takes a relatively long time to rewind the tape for only two messages... The first message plays and this woman starts talking... and talking. And talking. And talking. And talking. And rambling. And rambling. And RAMBLING! My God woman, are you STILL TALKING?!?! And after literally a minute of talking, she STILL hasn't even come close to saying her purpose for calling. No, this is back-story that doesn't matter. Back-story that she basically repeated several times already. A few minutes later, the message FINALLY ends.

Next message. OMFG! She called AGAIN! Immediately afterward to "make sure she said what she wanted to say more clearly"! If you haven't guessed already, this message was JUST AS RAMBLING! Sure, it was only about half as long, but it was still a couple minutes. She went over the back-story AGAIN, while repeatedly talking about making it more clear. *bangs head on wall*

Wow. Holly listened to all of it with an incredulous look on her face. I couldn't actually stand it and walked away a few times... only to come back with the woman still talking.

Yes, some people should not be allowed to leave phone messages.

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Macro Monday: Things Are Really Heating Up (Part 1)

Answers to last week's pictures:
1) Car battery (terminal).
2) Headlight (high beam).
3) Tire (right rear).
4) Air vent (passenger front).
5) Disc brake (right rear).

For bonus points, what make/model of vehicle are those from?

And now this week's pictures:

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You like me! You really like me!

But still not enough to comment!

So checking the stats for May, I've broken my personal best records! Not by huge amounts, mind you, but it's still something. Number of visitors increased from the previous record of 254 to 269, and number of page views from 362 to 438. Looking at the graphs, you can see nice spikes every Monday.

On a general note, I've had visits from 72 different countries since I started tracking stats (May 26, 2006): Canada (3,629), United States (1,377), Great Britain (UK) (143), Australia (58), Germany (40), Sweden (25), Italy (22), France (22), Netherlands (19), Brazil (18), Israel (13), China (11), Portugal (10), Poland (9), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (9), Switzerland (7), Ireland (7), Spain (6), Singapore (6), Denmark (6), Venezuela (6), India (6), Mexico (5), Norway (5), Iceland (4), Thailand (4), Finland (4), Ukraine (4), Greece (4), South Africa (4), United Arab Emirates (4), Japan (4), Austria (3), Philippines (3), Belgium (3), Chile (3), Slovak Republic (3), Turkey (2), Romania (2), Argentina (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Guatemala (2), Korea (South) (2), Indonesia (2), Suriname (2), Yugoslavia (2), Russian Federation (2), Lithuania (2), Macedonia (2), Qatar (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Iraq (1), Kuwait (1), Czech Republic (1), Bulgaria (1), Zaire (1), Egypt (1), Tunisia (1), Slovenia (1), Ecuador (1), Afghanistan (1), Paraguay (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (1), Taiwan (1), Colombia (1), Hungary (1), Guadeloupe (1), Uruguay (1), Iran (1), Hong Kong (1), Lebanon (1).

On another note, I'm taking lack of response to the AdSense question as implying consent. I'll wait until Wednesday (one week for comments) for an official 'decision'.

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Macro Monday: And Away We Go!

Answers to last week's pictures:
1) Fork.
2) Toothpicks.
3) Cheese grater.
4) Tea strainer ball.

This week's aren't so much macro shots, as they are crops. I didn't have much time to do these ones, with a 'proper' light setup, so I shot them non-macro and cropped. The idea is still there.


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