Tropical Depression 4 is spinning up in the middle of the Atlantic and could become Tropical Storm Dean in a day or two. Probably won’t be until the middle of next week or so before there’s a reliable forecast of whether it will come by us or not. Something to keep an eye on.
Hopefully a storm doesn’t decide to pop up while I’m away on my reunion trip.
Camera time
Time to get a new camera soon so that I’ll have time to play with it and figure it out before the reunion.
I was looking at the Panasonic DMC-FZ28, but now I’m thinking about splurging a little more and going up to a Panasonic DMC-FZ50 instead. It’s an extra $200 (although I found one place that’s priced it $100 lower), but one big plus is that it has a hot shoe for a flash, which is something I’ve been missing with my previous digital cameras. The CCD on the FZ50 is a little smaller though, and it’s almost double the weight of the FZ28. Having the hot shoe is pretty hard to pass up though, considering the built in flashes on most cameras are always so wimpy.
Oh, decisions, decisions.
Hotness continues
It was really hot last month. This week it’s been really, really hot. 8AM and it’s already 30 freaking degrees °C outside. 38°C for a forecast high with a heat index well into the 40s.
If it wasn’t for air conditioning, I’d have moved back home years ago.
I don’t know why people around here say they hope for some rain to cool things down because rain never really does cool anything down here. You just get a warm rain (sometimes a warm downpour), and all it ever seems to do is jack up the humidity even higher.
Well, take the good with the bad I suppose.
Wii me
A friend of mine got himself a Nintendo Wii over the weekend, so yesterday I stopped by to check it out, and we spent a couple hours playing different Wii games.
The sports games that come with the Wii are surprisingly fun to play, and working with the controller is pretty cool. Takes a little bit to get a feel for it, but it’s pretty cool.
I might consider getting myself one, but I hardly have time to play the games I have for the computer. The thought is very tempting though.
A funny
THE AIRPLANE RIDE
A stranger was seated next to a little girl on the airplane.
When the stranger turned to her and said, “Let’s talk. I’ve heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.” The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, “What would you like to talk about?”
“Oh, I don’t know”, said the stranger. “How about nuclear power?”
“OK”. She said. “That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?” The stranger thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”
To which the little girl replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don’t know shit?”