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Willpower and Me

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I have no willpower. Ask my friends. They’ll tell you about how I can rationalize anything. How I went from going to buy a MacBook Pro in “a few months” on Monday to being in the Apple Store on Saturday, $2000 poorer. My soft spot is mice or input devices. If it’s cool, I MUST have one. That’s the reason I just got a MX1000 to replace a perfectly good Logitech G7.

I have no willpower. I know when I start rationalizing things, and I know that I shouldn’t be buying some of the stuff I do. But I do it anyway. No idea why.

So the latest object of my desire is a digital camera. The Vox Hunt kinda pushed along my buying process a bit. I want a real camera, as I’m getting tired of having to take pictures with my phone. My phone could have a worse camera, I know…but it’s not really that good either. The reason I mention this is I went out this afternoon to the store to buy some breakfast cereal and almost came home with a digital camera. I say almost because good sense kicked in just at the last moment.

I figured it might be a good idea to do some research first instead of just grabbing one that looked nice. Also, I still owe my parents money from when they helped me pay for my car transmission breaking apart. So anyway, I’m looking around for a digital camera in the $100 to $150 on a digital camera. Nothing fancy, mind you…just something that’ll take pictures that look good. Working on OS X is a plus, although I guess they would all kinda work. I guess I’ll look around some.

But if I write in this blog that I bought a digital camera in the next week or so, somebody smack me please.

Vox Hunt: Tall, Cool One

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Take a photo of a tall, cool one.

The Fridge

The Fridge

And here’s my tall cool one. Taken from the floor at a very weird angle. Behold. My refrigerator.

QoTD: Is This Thing On?

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When was the last time you had to speak in front of a group?  How did you feel?

The last time I had to speak in front of a group was in my third year of college (back when I was still going full time). I had to do a presentation in my Operating Systems class about network security. Like firewalls and intrusion detection, things like that.

I hate, Hate, HATE public speaking. I’m a generally shy individual face to face, and as such, I really dislike getting up in front of a group to talk. This time was no different. But for some reason once I launch into the talk, I’m fine. It’s just the anticipation that really gets to me, if that makes any sense at all. I dread actually going up there, but once I’m there, I’m fine. Aside from my really bad habit to say “um” a lot.

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