This was shot near Bull Creek, Austin, TX, desaturated in PS7.

Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D
Minolta 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 (70mm, f/4.5, 1/60 sec)

On the way in to work, I decided to take a picture of the small waterfall at the dog park.

Konica-Minolta 7D, 2 second exposure

Today for lunch, I met my friend Ryan at a pizza place I hadn’t been to yet. It’s called Saccone’s, and it was great. It’s thin crust, and is super floppy. If you want to eat a slice with one hand, you need to fold it a bit. We ordered a whole pizza (the sizes are either a slice, or a whole pie), half of it was plain cheese, and the other half was with sausage. The crust was very basic, which was excellent because it complimented the sauce and cheese nicely. Thinking about it, there wasn’t anything so special or gimmicky about it; just tangy sauce, tasty cheese, and a nice crust. A little red pepper and parmesan, and it’s perfect. I think this Jersey-style pizza is my favorite.

Concentrating the power of the Sun is dangerous business, especially to rubber duckies…

[link via Robert>

I always feel kind of funny when I take my vitamins with a beer.

I have been listening to my mini-collection of Cocteau Twins music on my mp3 player today. It’s great. My favorite album by them is “Treasure”, and my favorite songs are “Ivo” and “Lorelei”. I remember I saw them in concert a couple times in the late 80’s, and they were great. They used a recording of the drum machine, and for one of the encores, they had to rewind it. I think Elisabeth Fraser cracked a joke about that, which was kind of cool. My bud Colin was totally into them. I like Heaven or Las Vegas as well, there are so many good songs from Cocteau Twins!

My friend Chris wrote me an IM: “Crappiest court sketch ever.” I have to agree. Shame on you, Vicki Behringer!

[link at CNN via Chris>

My pal Mikey showed me Last.FM, which is a website that tracks your music listening habits. It uses a free plugin for most of the popular music players like iTunes, Winamp, and MediaPlayer which transmits data to the Last.FM server. You can view your profile which will show the last 10 songs listened to, top albums, etc. I just started, so I don’t have enough data in Mikey has it! Check it out sometime, it’s very neat!

It was a fun weekend for us! Saturday morning we went to the big downtown Whole Foods again. We parked in the underground garage and were using the stroller, so we headed to the elevator. Unfortunately it was broken. So we asked a couple policemen who, for some reason, were working down there, where another elevator was. They didn’t know, but called somebody in the store to help us. The guy actually put the movable walkway that normally descends into the garage into reverse and we rode up it. That walkway is cool because when you put a shopping cart on it, the cart is locked into place. Someone said they use magnets to do it, but it looked like the wheels had small discs attached to them that get wedged into the grooves on the walkway (like escalator grooves). Anyways, it was cool that they did that for us. I saw a bunch of people took advantage of the situation and followed us up the people mover.