Category: Pictures

So I found a recipe for ‘old fashioned tea cakes’. My grandma used to make these and everyone loved them. I still have a few stored away. Yes, they’re 15 years old or something but they still at least smell as good as new! Anyway, my attempt has twice now turned out… not great.

I started out very genuine with all the right ingredients from a recipe I found. Mixed all my stuff together and proceeded to cut out the cookies. But they weren’t nearly what grandma used to make.

A second attempt didnt prove any more useful. Until finally I ended up making a new type of cookie from another recipe which did end up turning out great. You can see the adventure on my cookie making flickr set.

Here are the pictures I took for Animazement 2008. A sample of the top viewed are here

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I haven’t updated here much, mainly due to the fact just been busy.  More on that in about 2 weeks I hope.  In the meantime, everything’s kinda coming up real quick. For instance, Animazement in Durham this weekend.

Yes I’m going.

Yes I’m bringing a camera.

If you’ve found this blog because I gave you a card and you’re reading this, that means I haven’t had time to upload all the pictures yet.  I will probably get them all uploaded by Monday as I’ll have the day off that day.  Once I get the pictures up, I’ll add a new post with the URL to my flickr set.

In the meantime, you can see my past anime convention photo’s here:  http://radialmonster.com/pictures/

I’m bringing 3 cameras.  One, a quick, small point and shoot Fujifilm f30.  Second, a more advanced Fujifilm S7000.  (To which I have gotten tons of compliments on, thank you!)  Third, I’m bringing along a brand new Canon Xsi DSLR.  It’s not mine I have to admit.  But, it’s mine for the weekend.  Excuse me as I attempt to figure out the settings please and just smile and make cute poses and things and try to be still for like 5 seconds while I take the shot kthx.

I’ll be using the Canon mostly.  I purchased an 8gb class 6 memory card for it. This one card allows me to take about 1300 pictures at full 12m However, my limitation will be battery life which is rated to only give me about 600 pictures at no flash.  I do not have an extra battery unless I can find one to buy somewhere before going.  The battery is a LP-e5.  I checked Target tonight but they have no battery packs for cameras like a bunch of geniuses.  Maybe I’ll try to hit best buy or circuit city before heading to the con.  So if you see me with the S7000 then the Canon’s probably dead already.

Once that goes out I’ll switch to the S7000.  I should have plenty of batteries for that one, 2 sets.

I’ll use the f30 for just quick shots if I don’t have time to pull out the one of the big cameras.  I have 2 1gb cards and 1 512mb cards to share between the s7000 and f30.

At Nekocon 2007 I ended up only using the S7000 and they pretty much all turned out great.

I’m no pro, I just enjoy taking the pics and sharing them with you guys.  If I bug you several times to take a pic, I don’t always mean to, but sometimes I loose track of who I’ve taken pictures of, or maybe i just really liked your costume or I see you in a cool new pose.  If you’d like to not have your picture taken just say no thanks or something.  Feelings won’t be hurt.  Although in like 10 years or whatever of going to these things I’ve only had 2 people request to not have the pic taken.  One was super nice about it and just said no thank you or something, and one was an asshole.  Don’t be an asshole and ruin the rest of my day k?

If you have something you want to say or ask or whatever during the con feel free, but please tell me in person as I may not can check my emails until after the con.  You can also msg me on yahoo messenger as radialmonster and that forwards to my cell phone.

tl;dr –  pics arent here yet.  check back later

2007 Began anew in the single world for me where just over a month earlier was the end of a relationship (although unbeknownst to me, for her it had ended way before that and she already started a new one). I had decided my New Years superstition was that my next picture would be of me with my future mate, and by day 2 I completely abandoned that idea and settled for this first picture of 2007.

I passed the time with friends out to eat,

friends at hockey games,

and taking pictures of odd things such as this airplane on a trailer.

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So at some point I want to make a 2007 year in review post.  But whenever I get a few minutes to sit down and write it, I decide I need much more than just a few minutes and I never write anything.  Hm, I haven’t actually posted anything since before Christmas.  Ok, let’s do a year 2008 in review then.

To bring in the new year I hosted a small party.  We played with John’s wii all night to which everyone enjoyed.  By the end of the night John was pretty tired though.  Had about all my friends there, I even cleaned up the kitchen for it.  Which was difficult as I hadn’t seen my kitchen table in years.  Before clearing it off I piled it up with a collection of mail and gifts I’ve recieved over the last about 2 years.  A while back I decided I had some extra money and I sent $15 to the North Shore Animal League as a donation.  Ever since, I have been bombarded with letters from other charities asking for money also.  Some send letters, some little gifts such as preprinted address labels and calendars, and some send hand woven dreamcatchers, tshirts, umbrellas and coffee mugs.  They have totally blown my $15 donation a long time ago, and hence will not see another dime from me. 

Then I cleared off the table,

and took a picture as I don’t remember the last time this has happened.  I then proceeded to pile stuff on it

and get ready for the incoming guests.  Everyone pigged out on pizza and snacks. 

We then proceeded to hook up the games and laugh at each other’s lack of abilities. 

Afterwards we did some Christmas gift exchanging as it hadn’t been done yet and we some of us proceeded to stay up until 5am 2008. We did watch the apple and acorn drop to its most terrible climax ever as immediately afterwards instead of airing the huge party in NYC or a band line up at some club as normal, they switch over to a 10 year old David Letterman show.  Jokes about Monica and Bill are way out of style.  Otherwise, had a good time.  Afterwards, back to the lonely house.

Hi so I haven’t written in a while.  For a few reasons, I wanted to give a good chance that people I gave my website to at nekocon found their pictures from my previous post while it was on top.  That and I’ve been busy/lazy.  Here’s some recent pictures I uploaded tonight.  I’m missing the single yellow rose.  I have no idea why murray was purple.