I just got a new Canon camera as my old one had a spot that wouldn’t go away and would crop up in pictures on people’s faces and such. I wanted to see how much better the new one is, so here are cropped images from the old and the new.

I just read something on http://www.engadget.com about ringback tones. So I geeked out and gave it a whirl. Now when someone calls me they don’t hear a normal ring, they get Run DMC’s It’s Tricky
I’m sure it’ll bug one of the 3 people who call me and I’ll remove it.

I just bought a T-Shirt supporting the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The site goes into how FSM is another alternative to the normal Intelligent Design (ID). As I think ID is a crock, I want to support FSM. FSM at least can explain our global warming as an inverse relationship to the number of pirates.

I was looking at this site treehugger.com that has links to interesting tree hugging things, like solar or wind power or super earth friendly cotton.
I saw they talked about compostable plates and thought that looked interesting. It’s really not that more expensive than plastic, but you can compost it. I was thinking back to the Pig Roast and when I cleaned up I would put the scraps in my composter but then throw away the plastic. So with these plates and forks I can just put everything into the composter.
I also bought a T-shirt for the hell of it. They’re supposed to have olive oil soon, so I’ll pick some of that up too.

I just bought a card reader for my iPod. It’s going to allow me to upload pictures from my camera to my iPod.
It didn’t work at first because the software version of my iPod was too old. And I can’t update the software from my computer because Windows Home XP sucks, and that’s my techinical opinion. I went over my my work buddy Dipesh’s house to use his computer. Everything went smoothly and I got the little reader to work and now I essentially have a 15GB flash card for my camera.

After getting a call from my mechanic regarding the laundry list of crap to fix on my car, I’ve decided to buy a VW microbus. An old one that I can fix. Or at least steal parts from my parent’s bus. My repair bill is going to be around $1000, or $1300 if I decide to fix the brakes. Who needs brakes?
So I looked on craigslist and found a VW for $1200. Or the price of a new water pump (that was just replaced, I might add), some hoses, a flex disk (WTF?), a boot, transmission seal, thermostat and oil change.
I emailed a buddy at work with a link to the bus I want to get. His response?
“What a piece of shit. You like that?”
I didn’t think it was that bad.

Well, it’s time to get stuff for my new home, and what better place than craigslist? I realized a while ago that I don’t have time to make all of the things I really want, like bookshelves, coffee table and TV stand.
I already bought a fair amount of paduk wood for a coffee table, so I better just make that. I made a bookshelf a few years ago and really like it, it’ll just take too long to make shelves for all of my books (and National Geographic magazines). A TV stand will have to be made, I think.
So I’ve been visiting craigslist again and finding stuff to buy from there. I’m gonna see a teak bookshelf today, hopefully it’ll be pretty dope.

Yesterday I made an offer on a house on 10th and Failing. There were 3 other offers as of yesterday and the owner was reviewing them last night. I was hoping to hear back last night, but haven’t heard anything yet. So I’ll have to wait today and if nothing comes back I’ll assume someone plopped down a larger offer.
Well, the house didn’t come through so I’m gonna have to keep looking. Someone must’ve way outbid me, and I had offered over $5000 more than the list. jeesh.

I downloaded iTunes this weekend and started buying music. It’s pretty slick and works well with a cable modem (not so good with dial-up). It’s nice to be able to buy a few songs and not the whole album.
My main complaint is that with Windows XP Home Edition iTunes does not see my iPod and I can’t directly download them to it. Instead I’d have to burn a CD, rip it and then copy it over with ephpod. Kinda lame.

I just walked back from Camera World where I bought myself a new camera – Canon PowerShot s230. It’s pretty damn small and has the features I want, like taking movies at 640×480. Hopefully I’ll get some good shots during mountain biking.

I’m trying out a program called Zempt for posting blog entries. Thanks to Radwin from Brown. Pretty slick.