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I just got word that one of my photos is set to be included in the fifth edition of the Schmap San Diego Guide, to be published later next month.

Wow, first the museum, then this?

Maybe I should think about this as a career, hmmmm?

By the way, I don’t really know what picture it is, but I put this one up.

I just found out that I have downloaded and installed Firefox 3 more than the country of Guinea-Bissau. They have downloaded the software 4 times as of this writing.

So now Sony has usurped any other company as the place I seem to spend exorbitant amounts of money.

The Sony HVL-F58AM pops up the guide number to 58 at 105mm (I currently have the 56 version). Not only does it swivel and tilts, it rotates all over the place and has a cool screen in the back. What’s extra cool about this flash is that in portrait mode, I can have the flash in the same orientation as it would be in the landscape mode. It also has a built in bounce-card.

It also has faster recycling than my current flash. What’s more, it also automatically optimizes the illumination angles for both APS-C of full frame sensors to reduce light fall-off.

Dang…there goes another $500 of my money. See you in the Sony store this September, buddy.

Edit: wife says no. Says yes to 10-24mm f/2.8. I love her so much.

Roaches do not need heads to breathe — they absorb oxygen through their bodies and can survive for a month without food. A headless cockroach will live for about a week until it dies of thirst.

If allowed to breed unchecked, a single pair of rats can produce 20 million descendants in three years.

A mouse can get into your house through a hole as small as a dime. Rats can squeeze through a quarter-sized hole.

Rats and mice are known to spread more than 35 diseases worldwide, either through direct or indirect contact with humans. That’s a good reason to keep them out of your house!

Bed bugs feed on human and animal blood, like mosquitoes. They generally hide in small cracks and crevices in bedroom furnishings and are active during the night while we sleep.

Cockroach allergies are common where there are large concentrations of roaches, such as inner-city areas and the South. Asthma sufferers are especially prone to roach allergies.

According to entomologist E.O. Wilson, there are an estimated 10, 0000 trillion ants on earth and their combined weight is equivalent to the weight of the entire human population. That’s roughly 1.6 million ants for each person.

Termites’ digestive processes produce such large quantities of carbon dioxide and methane gas (among many others) that they are considered to be a major contributor to global warming. Beagles and other sharp-nosed breeds can be trained to detect termites by essentially sniffing out their farts.

With venom believed to be 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s, the black widow spider is considered the most venomous North American spider. The amount of venom injected through a bite by this small arachnid is rarely enough to cause serious harm to humans, but before the advent of indoor plumbing, black widow bites in sensitive areas were a common hazard of outhouses.

When a fly lands on your food, it vomits up digestive enzymes that break it down into liquid form so it can suck it up. Since house flies are known to carry a large number of diseases, it’s best not to eat anything after a fly has snacked on it.

Yuck, thanks Discovery Channel.

Today, Goog-i-reader (as I like to call it) was made more awesome by having the ability to share with a note while I peruse the RSS feeds while on the go (or on the pooper). Now, it’s nearly function for function just like the big-brother browser counterpart.

Yay, Google!

Now if they would only provide a .mac (or MobileMe) alternative.

If you are confused, know that the title makes no sense. It’s my homage to weird titles for regular pictures.

Interesting how this photo is very similar to our Save the Date postcards.

I have several images that are selected to be part of an exhibit at the SDHM exhibit: Water-A California Story. Yay!

Yes. I shall have one. In white.

Damn you Apple.

Update: Maybe I won’t. Now that I see that the service costs more and that there really isn’t that much of a difference. Many of the new advertised features are coming out for my Gen1 iPhone, and the Google Phone is right around the corner.