Cocoa Crusty

Well, the other night a very lovely friend of mine and her youngest son, all of 7 years old, went downtown to take some photos at night. I was using a strobe on a tripod, the hot shoe flash on my camera, and the 7 year old was holding a LED flashlight helping me get a focal point on mom’s face. Needless to say, in this night scene, there were strobes going off and a flashlight flying around the brick walls.

About 10 minutes into the shoot we were approached by a security guard from the local county jail. He walked up to me and asked me if he could help me… Now, picture this: I’m holding a camera around my neck with a hefty flash sitting atop the camera, there’s a young man next to me holding a flash light shining it at a woman standing next to a brick wall with a flash mounted on a tripod behind her… I simply told him we were taking some photos.

To his offer of assistance, I wanted to reply with “Yeah, you can hold your flashlight on her face so I’ll have even more light to focus with”, but I didn’t. He then asked what we were doing… Again, remember the scene I painted in the paragraph above. I told him we were just out taking some shots with the strobes. He asked me “why?!” I simply said “just for fun…” He asked me a series of other questions and said he had to check it out because they wanted to make sure we weren’t trying to break someone out of jail… Now, I’m no jailbreak expert, but I think the equipment I had on hand wasn’t in the correct realm to be breaking someone out of jail… That’s just me… We were a block or so off of the gate surrounding the compound as well so I think if I was going to be breaking someone out, I may need to be closer to the facilities… Plus, I don’t think you bring along beautiful women and 7 year olds for a jail break… That’s just me and my limited comprehension of what it takes to break someone out of jail.

We finally completed our conversation and everything was cool, but I guess in this post 9/11, heightened sense of security society we live in, you must check everything out… I’m glad he did. We weren’t up to no good. We were just trying to have a little fun… I guess we were just a little too close to the “you can’t have fun around here” barrier…

Oh, well. We got some good shots with some interesting light scenes and left un-arrested. All in all, it was a good shoot… I still have a lot to learn about the strobes… placement, angles, shutter speeds, aperture, etc. I’ll get there!

Until next time…

Patricia G. Feliciano writes in to tell us:

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Well, now I whizgiggle at them, because I took M eg ad ik
for 7 months and now my tool is terribly bigger than civil.
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She goes on to say:

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Thanks for your e-mail, Patricia. I still find it odd that so many women in the world today are having issues with their penises. I am glad that Mega Dik worked for you and that your tool is terribly bigger than civil. I also love the use of the word whizgiggle in your e-mail.

I just have one question, Patricia: How big is civil anyway?!

Until next time…

I know I am blowing up my site today with SPAM, but I just wanted to start writing again…

Since I have been carrying my iPhone and checking my personal e-mail account with it, I have been very amazed by the amount of SPAM that Thunderbird detects and blocks. But, since the built-in mail client on the iPhone doesn’t have a SPAM filter and my e-mail host has limited resources for blocking it at the server, I have received many SPAM messages lately. Most of them are hilarious!

I am about to start a new category on my blog titled SPAM. In this category I will be posting up a lot of the SPAM I receive that I find humorous. I’ll post any links and whatever with these posts. Just be sure you don’t follow any of them.

I’ll start with this one today:

The SPAM Message:

http://arratx.com/
Mail to jeff.cross
I always wanted a bigger pe*nis, so did my wife!
Josiah ledger

My Comment:

Josiah’s wife wants a bigger penis, too?! Interesting…

Until next time…

This is such a waste of my time to post, and a waste of your time to read, but I feel it needs to be posted.

I have been using my iPhone for a few weeks (a month or so?!) and love it!!! There have been some cool Web based apps released for it and I will post more about that later… Ok, here’s a teaser: iBloglines: an iPhone formatted version of the popular Bloglines RSS reader.

Ok, so tonight I was trying to write a message to a friend, and I wanted to write a common curse word for “fecal matter”. I accidentally typed “sgit” and the iPhone promptly showed me the correct spelling of this word. When I pressed space, the proper spelling of this common curse word popped in there and I was quickly completing my sentence.

I know I shouldn’t be typing in language like that. It’s wrong and I don’t condone it in anyway. As a matter of fact, I have already washed my thumbs with soap and told them how bad it is.

Anyway, I thought it was funny that the iPhone will autocorrect profanity when sending messages in e-mail or SMS.

Until next time…