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Expanding Mind

This represents my journey from being a point-and-shooter into the
world of composing good photographs.
On my side of the door, the instinct to cram every interesting thing
into the frame is strong. After all, if it catches my attention and I
get it in a picture then I have an attention-catching picture, right?
On the other side […]

From the inane-ramblings department:
Lunch has become my favourite meal of the day.
I’ve always enjoyed reading and eating at the same time. Ever since I was a kid who got yelled at a lot for reading at the table.
There’s something complementary about the two activities. Maybe eating by itself has […]

From the musings department:
The Shell of Politeness
Politeness: it’s the common ground that allows people with different ideas and personalities to get along with each other. It is a filter that lets through only the safe, politically correct and non-offensive. It’s what keeps us from saying “You hare-brained dolt” to that guy on the […]

From the dating department:
I’m a guy, and as such it is written into the fundamental rules of the universe that I will never truly understand girls. I believe there’s even a clause in there that ensures the rules I think I do understand will be almost immediately changed thereafter.
However, with all rules there are […]

From the deep-thoughts department (NB: written on July 29th but posted on August 2nd because yours truly has no internet at home):
My boss bought himself a flat screen for his desk today. A nice TFT 17″ screen.
(Yes, I’m going somewhere with this)
He says to me that he’s probably gotten his money’s worth out of […]