Me encanta las exspolciones!

In the amazing new Batman Movie there were a lot of special effects that just made me smile. The explosions, the fire, the guns . . . in short I loved the movie.
however, there was a part that bothered me. It kind of bothered me a lot.
The Joker, being the evil guy that he is, burned a guy alive on a stake of money, everyone of course being confused asked him why? he could have kept it.
His response is what worried me, I'm sure my neighbors are a little concerened too.
He said he Liked the simple things in life. Gasoline, and Dynamite, and that they they don't cost much.
well gasoline is getting up there, but that's not what concerened me, what worried me was the fact that I too share that same love for explosions and fire.
Am I going to wind up like the joker?

Rory's Bachelor Party

Well, first I'd like to give a shout out to Ryan Russon for making this thing possible.  he did all the planning.  

Frankly I expected it to turn out well, I expected to have fun, but we had a blast.  We got a fire going, we launched off the potato canon and even accidently set off live ammunition when a road flare was thrown into an abandoned silo!  

Later when it got dark we got our game on with some classic 64 games and than on to some guitar hero.  The Night ended with Hot Rod, and a gorillia stripper that scared Rory aparently cause he tried to make a run for it! 

It was a freakn' blast!  

As for Rory now?  well he's married now. 

but here's some pictures to prove our fun.

yeah it was cool and all, but look at this!!!

So to start off this blog, by brothers and I saw the movie, Dark Knight.  frankly, the movie, was freakn' awesome!  go see it.  but I don't want to talk too long about the movie because every one and their dogs will be blogging about The new batman film, so me, I'm going to talk about our trip home.  

Every house company want to make you think you'll feel comfortable in their homes.  So comfortable you might want to, oh I don't know, take a stroll in your socks or bare feet, cuddle with a loved one, let your children color on the ground with the dogs while you enjoy a fine wine with your wife or girl friend that your wife doesn't know about.

But this company wants you to love your home so much that you and your significant other will hang yourselves inside of it.  

This is the sign we say on our way home from the dark Knight.  go see the movie!

ifried!

So for the good news, the new Iphone is out. now onto the bad.
So my new supervisor's wife dropped her Iphone in a pool. now electronics, believe it or not can handle water better than we give them credit for. However, there are some steps you must take for them to continue working.
According to Time magazine, these steps are called, "Water damage electronic recovery."
Step one;
Turn off the device and remove battery. the quicker the better.
Step two;
place said electronic device in a zip lock bag with either packets of desecate or rice. both are designed either by scientists or god to absorb water.
step three;
wait.
I'd recommend a week or so.
so back to the Iphone. Well it fell in the pool Nate (my supervisor) wasn't there to tell her what to do, so she decided to turn it off and back on again. realizing that the screen flickering and turning off was a bad sign she decided to charge it.

What you can see here is the communications board. It's function is to communicate power to and from the battery along with the device. This also the device that communicates with the antenna.

This is the Logic board. it has the micro processor on it, and as you can see has the Sim card bay on it aswell.
basically what happens when electronics get wet, the water (which conducts electricity) re-routs the traces and by passes resistors, once the resistors are bypassed, excess electricity is forced into components such as caps, trasnsistors, and because it's a phone, the transducers. caps, when over charged, explode, that's the white stuff.
bassically, this phone is dead.

outta shape

So a little while back (probably like 7-9 months) I visited a doctor who informed me I was under weight. Also he informed me I needed to stop running (at that time i was running almost every morning). So the anti-diet started. I ate worse, I snack more frequently, and i sleep more.
My job doesn't require me to stand so I don't do that much anymore. well recently I've noticed a weight gain. I might be the only one who has noticed this because lets face it, I'm a little kid.
So I started working out again. But it's funny how some work outs just don't seem to do it for me. before I loved sit ups, and now push ups seems to be my favorite, however I'm having a hard time getting up in time to go running, which in my opinion, is what I really need to start doing.
Now being me, the nerdy, slightly odd, sometimes dramatic, Nott that I am, I found my solution online and I'd like to share my new work out with everyone.

should searching really be this hard?

So as many of you know, I recently purchased a Nikon D80. a mid range pro-sumer camera. From day one I was impressed by the quality of pictures, the ease, the user-friendliness, and the comfort.
I purchased some extras for it as well. I have a vertical grip, extra batteries, more lenses, remote, bag, etc. and now I'm looking at a few other extras.
I"m torn between two flashes, the SB600 and the SB 800. Obviously the 800 is better but it's in some cases double the price. Now do I really need all that flash for my camera? After all I didn't buy the D300 because it was too much camera for me.
But the real kicker lies in the bag.


there is one questions you must alway ask yourself before you buy any camera equipment. I mean anything at all, the question is, what do you want to take pictures of? Obviously if I want to take pictures of sunsets, a zoom lense would probably be more fluff than needed. If I wan to take pictures of sporting events from the furthest part of the stadium, a flash would be useless.
And than there's me. I want to take pictures of everything and anything.
But right now I'm focused more on how to take my camera to new places.
This past week I've been searching for a Camera bag that is both a backpack and has a place for a hydration blatter. and you know what I've found? not a whole lot. I found one that was somewhere in the 500 dollar range, and another that some lady made on her sewing machine that looked more like gay kid pants than a real camera bag.


So the search is on.