MightyFunk

I just wanted to apol­o­gize if any­one ever checks in here. My inten­tions when I set up this blog was to keep the con­tent fresh but my busi­ness has taken full atten­tion away from post­ing. Plus, it’s been much eas­ier to post to sites such as Face­book and Twit­ter (although admit­tedly, I have yet to set up an account there) where I know some of my clos­est as well as long lost friends reconnect.

I’ll try to be bet­ter about this from now on, although now that I look at this blogs setup and design, I’m half-tempted to change things around or rebuild it from scratch.

I posted this press release to sev­eral web­sites, and I thought it couldn’t hurt to post it here as it might drive up traffic:

I’ve been fol­low­ing the stock mar­kets closely for the past month and a half — in par­tic­u­lar the oil indus­try as that’s where all my stocks are placed. As much as I hate oil and love the envi­ron­ment, I would be fool­ish oth­er­wise to place my invest­ments else­where as other indus­tries are con­sis­tently los­ing money. There’s a lot of finger-pointing as to why these oil prices are record high, but I can tell you.

Some peo­ple blame sup­ply and demand — is there enough?

Oth­ers blame spec­u­la­tion — the com­modi­ties mar­ket and stock own­ers for arti­fi­cially inflat­ing the price of oil.

Bear with me a lit­tle bit — there is a ‘con­spir­acy’ I will men­tion, but first I need to elaborate:

I’ve been away from writ­ing the last cou­ple of weeks because I’ve become highly inter­ested in invest­ing. My moti­va­tion is that as I run my own busi­ness, I don’t have some­one to hold my hand and tell me where my funds should be placed for retire­ment. Unfor­tu­nately, it’s some­thing I need to think about — but I sup­pose I’m all the wiser for it.

From the AP 5/30/08:

TOKYO — A home­less woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived unde­tected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became sus­pi­cious when food mys­te­ri­ously began disappearing.

Police found the 58-year-old woman Thurs­day hid­ing in the top com­part­ment of the man’s closet and arrested her for tres­pass­ing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from south­ern Kasuya town said Friday.

The res­i­dent of the home installed secu­rity cam­eras that trans­mit­ted images to his mobile phone after becom­ing puz­zled by food dis­ap­pear­ing from his kitchen over the past sev­eral months.

I got ticked off a while ago and went out on a rant why Yahoo! should have sold to Microsoft. Basi­cally, I got locked out of my own account and had to go through a 2-week rereg­is­tra­tion process to get ‘my’ stuff back.

Truth be told, Yahoo! isn’t as use­less as I made it out to be. It’s hard for me to believe, but peo­ple DO use Yahoo! as a search engine — and some alter­na­tive is bet­ter than a com­plete monop­oly by Google (or any other search engine for that matter.)

Okay, so I don’t know exactly what they are serv­ing at this gala-dinner event. And no, the title of this post is not intended to be racist but to point out a dichotomy between ‘expen­sive’ and a rel­a­tively ‘cheap’ food source. Chicken wings just hap­pen to come to mind. If it makes the reader happy, I sup­pose I can change ‘chicken wing din­ner’ to ‘fish fry’ even tho a fish fry would prob­a­bly cost more. But why bother me about semantics.

In a few days (or weeks) from now, an acquain­tance will be attend­ing a din­ner event with Barack Obama. The price tag? $4,000.

I’m updat­ing my research into cam­eras for cre­at­ing HDR pho­tos. As of this writ­ing, I’m putting 360-degree HDR imagery on hold. To be com­pletely frank, you will want a Nikon D300 or a Canon Mark III series cam­era in order to pro­duce ade­quate HDRs with the min­i­mal amount of work involved. You may ask why, but my rea­son­ing involves fast shut­ter speeds/frame bursts for min­i­mal blur and arti­facts, greater AEB range, and full-sized frames.

Am I the only one who finds it hyp­o­crit­i­cal that peo­ple are attack­ing Obama for his remarks on ‘com­mu­ni­cat­ing with’ some of these Bush-dubbed ‘Axis of Evil’ pow­ers, when Bush him­self turns around today and announces on the news that it’s okay for peo­ple here to send the Cuban peo­ple cell phones?

I’m all about keep­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions clear — the great­est harm comes with iso­la­tion — it keeps oth­ers from access­ing knowl­edge, edu­ca­tion, and poten­tial oppor­tu­ni­ties. It also makes the peo­ple of these other coun­tries some­times suffer.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02h0nGBryU

There’s not much more I can add to this…