motionblur monday

Originally I had intended this to be "mobile phone image monday"... but due to user error with the phone, the photo I took this morning on my walk wasn't suitable for posting... and rather than skipping an image completely (and because I don't have any Monday Montages laying around at present), which I think starts the week off on completely the wrong foot, I trolled through my digital archives to see what I had "lying around"... after I took the Light Play image back at the end March, I fooled around a little with my fairy lights and tried doing the same kind of images with them. This one came from me spinning around and around in one direction, then stopping, and spinning the other way... I think...

Like I said, I'm still getting used to my new phone... It's happened every time I've upgraded from one model to another... you've used the old version for two years solidly, you know what you're doing, how to do it, how to take the appropriate shortcuts, all the ins and outs... and then you get a new phone and you're completely clueless again for a while...

Just about everything that can be different with this new one is different... different style of headphones... different incoming message tone... in fact a completely different text messaging setup... then there's this whole split level keypad thing because it's a "slide" phone... and then there's the camera... The reason for the screwup this morning was because although my phone is set to take 1600x1200 images (so I can still shrink them down and keep some level of quality), as soon as you use the zoom it takes the image at a lower size... which just seems dumbass to me... but I guess I will have to get used to it (and avoid using the zoom at all costs).

One thing I do like is that I can now take ANY image I like and turn it into wallpaper for my phone... porn, famous works of art, Random Hotness, Photo Fridays, or any of my other photos... or anyone's photos really.... so long as it's croppable to 240x320, I can make it wallpaper... my phone jacks right into the computer and even has a program to create the wallpapers and send them across... scary!

Oh, and so baffled by the new technology was I last Thursday that after I'd fiddled with the new headphones and got the radio working and worked out where and what I was doing... I took the wrong set of keys off my keyring (Ma and I have the exact same brand of doorkey) and since I automatically set the top part of the lock so that it locks when I pull the door shut, I managed to lock myself out of the house.... at 7am... and my landlord's office doesn't open until 8:30, so I would have had about half an hour to kill after my walk. Instead I called Ma and she came down while I was walking, let herself in and waited for me to get back.

J is probably coming down to dinner tonight for Mythbusters Monday... It'll be just like old times... well, except that I'm going to do a big-ass stirfry... which reminds me, I should get some chicken out of the freezer... which just turned into veal, because I couldn't find the chicken to start with, and the veal is in a longer tray and is taking up more space...

I noticed this morning that my Parlour Palm is doing funny things... It's sent out these strange little alien tendril things... in two spots... and one of them has this very H.G. Wells-esk looking "four fingered hand" on the end of it... It almost looks like it's getting ready to either flower, or fruit or something... but I've never seen one of these do either... luckily I have an online buddy who happens to be trained in botany... so I'll have to ask her what the hell is going on...

Unfortunately there aren't really any new naked Big Brother links... just more of the same really...

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