Hot Baths 25c
[as i type this, it is August 18, so i'm catching up and posting the photos of the day, as i took photos each day, but didn't upload them until now]
Hot baths are only 25 cents! Get them while you can!
Sketchy iPhone Photo
[as i type this, it is August 18, so i'm catching up and posting the photos of the day, as i took photos each day, but didn't upload them until now]
Playing around with an iPhone app that I like, but that apparently doesn’t save images very large! Not happy about that. It’s called Cartoonatic and it does video too [kinda like that old Ah Ha video].
Back to Bridgestone
[as i type this, it is August 18, so i'm catching up and posting the photos of the day, as i took photos each day, but didn't upload them until now]
Finally found and bought [via mail order!] some new Bridgestone tyres for my Mazda 323. It’s about time! I’ve missed not having Bridgestones on my car, as I’ve had amazing luck with that company, so I’m sticking with them.
Country Commute
[as i type this, it is August 17, so i'm catching up and posting the photos of the day, as i took photos each day, but didn't upload them until now]
A shot of the late afternoon sun on a Carolina backroad while on the way to run some errands.
Warning! Warning! Battery Power! Warning! Warning!
[as i type this, it is August 17, so i'm catching up and posting the photos of the day, as i took photos each day, but didn't upload them until now]
Yes, my photos of the days are still lacking, as this one shows. This is a shot of Mac OS X complaining that for the 7th time during the day, the iMac is running on backup battery. This happens nearly 10 times a day while working on my iMac and this dumb pop up window comes up and interrupts my work. My battery backup beeps for a few seconds, then power is restored, but this window remains on my desktop until I dismiss it. There is no preference to keep this thing from popping up. Back in Leopard, this didn’t happen, but in Snow Leopard, you get a popup that reminds me of having to use someone else’s Windows XP, Vista or Win7 computer with pop up alerts telling you way more things than you need to know.
ColecoVision from the Past
[as i type this, it is August 17, so i'm catching up and posting the photos of the day, as i took photos each day, but didn't upload them until now]
A trip to Charlotte, NC for business ended up going fairly well. On the way back, I stopped in Shelby, NC and found a shop with this old 8-bit video game system – a ColecoVision! I never owned one [i had the IntelliVision by Mattel and a friend of mine had the Atari 2600], but I did have a friend who did so I’d sometimes play games on his. Of the 3 systems, the graphics on the ColecoVision were the best, but it was also the highest price of the 3 too!
I didn’t end up buying it, as I have no games for it, but it reminded me that on a cold winter day it would be nice to get my old IntelliVision II out and play some MLB Baseball or some RiverRaid! 
The Machine’s View?
Yeah, only one snapshot taken today – was a bit too busy, sadly enough, to take a real photo. 
But I do like seeing the world through a fisheye. I imagine this ATM might see me in a similar fashion, with its hidden camera.
Wanting a Road Trip
An Olloclip close-up/macro shot of a small bottle of shampoo from Super 8 Motel. Grabbed from my 2010 Spring trip cross country – I think I stayed at about 25 of those Super 8s last Spring. I miss it!
Rocky Joins the Fun
So July 25th’s photo of the day was a combined shot of Roland and Shadow, but I left out Rocky! So on the 26th, I had to capture her through the fisheye lens of an Olloclip lens accessory for the iPhone. I don’t think she would like this shot of her very much! Thankfully she rarely browses Flickr and my vjl365 site. 
A New View of Shadow & Roland
So…today I received a very cool device invented by folks from my home town of Huntington Beach, CA. It’s called an Olloclip. It’s a small lens that clips onto an iPhone and gives it either a macro, wide angle, or fish eye lens, depending on how you attach it. I had some fun with the fisheye, as you can see from today’s photos. Roland, the cat on the right, looks like one of those Hallmark characters with his legs so small. Something tells me I will have some fun with this device. I already found some cool things out with it – you can rotate it just a bit off the iPhone and use the iPhone’s flash to create some interesting flare effects. I’ll be posting my shots taken with the Olloclip on Flickr in this set.
