Wheat Thins...

Posted on March 30, 2008 in Dreamweaver mac (Default)

...are what I'm eating. On the back of the Wheat Thins box is a big picture of Rachael Ray, along with her recipe for "Refried Red Beans with Tomato and Poblano" which is as follows:

1 poblano chile pepper
2 15 ounce cans kidney beans, drained
3 tablespoons butter
1 small yellow onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 8 ounce can tomato sauce
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
WHEAT THINS REDUCED FAT BAKED SNACK CRACKERS

Now the first thing that struck me about this advertisement is the forced-to-the-point-of-painfulness smile that Ray Ray is wearing in the photo, almost as if she is winking at you saying, "this really isn't my recipe, don't try it it's gross". So until I had eaten almost half the box of wheat thins I didn't even look at the recipe. Then I was confused, because the first three items on the list are marked 1 (poblano pepper) 2 (cans kidney beans) 3 (tablespoons butter), leading me to expect the next item to be 4 (of whatever), so when it returned to 1 (onion), it took me a while to realize that the numbers were not there to denote each ingredient's place on the list. Stupid Chris. Anyway this recipe looks good, but I think it might work out better using tortilla chips instead of wheat thins.

In other news, I still have camera lust, and am unable to decide between the Nikon D200 and the Leica D-Lux 3. I brought my old nikon lenses that I had bought in Korea into the camera store yesterday, and after I clocked out I put them on the D200 and played with it for a while; it's so nice and sturdy, and I could do all kinds of cool stuff with it, and the technology is to the point where the image quality really exceeds 35mm. The Leica would be easier to carry around all the time, and would be awesome for travelling, but I could never do cool wide-angle landscapes with it, or play with shallow depth of field, or do timed exposures or anything like that. It's just not as versatile. If anybody cares, look at those two camera websites and tell me which one to buy.

Hopefully this weekend I will get all my photos from China up, and I'm going to try to write a little caption for each one.

Today I went rock climbing with my old school shoes, it was fun but much more difficult since we were trying to do specific routes instead of just going up the wall whatever-which-way.
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Camera Lust Status: Abating

Posted on March 30, 2008 in Dreamweaver mac (Default)

I've decided to go for the Pentax K10D, assuming my boss can get it in by Christmas. If not, then I'll resort to the Leica. Problem solved, let's move on.

Sorry I haven't put any more pictures up as of late; I was using the trial version of a table-making software called Goldfish, and it expired. So no more tables for me. I guess until I get ahold of Dreamweaver at least.

Food eaten today:
-Enchilada casserole (thanks to Grandmother) with a side of canned pears topped with maraschino cherries and crumbled pecans...for dessert, key lime pie
-Hong Kong Chicken from Chi's Chinese Takeout, which is situated in between the Coffee Beanery and Hangers Drycleaners

Jihyun wrote an awesome presentation about Lost in which she describes how Lost makes her feel lost. Maybe she will post it on her blog.

This weekend I got a free camera from Bedford. We have a junk box where people sometimes chuck their old cameras if they're broken and they don't want to pay to get them fixed; someone threw away an old Pentax Spotmatic that works fine except the rewind knob is broken off, so you can't rewind the film, and there's no light meter. Someone else threw away a crappy Vivitar camera with a crappy lens that also fits the spotmatic, so when you combine the slightly broken camera with the working crappy lens, you have a perfectly usable camera. My boss said it was alright if I took the pieces so I loaded some ISO 1600 film and went to North Little Rock with Vince and drank some Diamond Bear and shot some pictures.

Apparently we are allowed to work 11 hours a day, 6 days a week during the Christmas season and we get paid overtime for anything over 40 hours/week, so although it sounds horrible I might take advantage of that after Thanksgiving, and make tons of money.

The group of people I work with is quite the eclectic bunch; I may try to do a mini-biography on each one of my colleagues, but I don't know how well that would go over if they found out. Anyway for now I'll give them all pseudonyms and start by only talking about the guy I don't like, we'll call him Larry.

Larry is about my height, maybe a little taller, rail thin with glasses, short spikey hair, and a goatee. He generally wears what you would call 'earthy' color combinations. Coupled with the glinting hide-skinning knife he wears on his belt (which he often forgets to close after use) he cuts an image of someone who should be sitting in a deer stand or making crystal meth. At first I thought I would like Larry, with his dirty jokes and innuendos, but soon his short-man's complex shone through and he was constantly trying to push my (the other short guy's) buttons in order to make sure I knew my place in the Bedford heirarchy. The most bothersome aspect of dealing with Larry at work is that he resents my working at the camera sales counter, I guess because he thinks I will be stealing his sales. So what Larry has been doing is to butt-in on my customers while I am talking to them, all under the pretense of 'training' in order to sabotage my sale. I like talking to people about cameras and helping them find what they want, but I hate 'selling' things to them that they don't need. I actually sold my first camera yesterday, to this older man whose wife was gonna give it to him for Christmas. I was in the middle of ringing him up, when Larry interrupts and starts pushing all this crap on the poor old man in the most shameless, embarrassing manner possible. I could see the old guy getting uncomfortable myself, and could do nothing but hang my head while Larry blabbered on soulessly about some 'discount kit' that the old man didn't want. In the end, the guy got what he had wanted all along, but I just feel like Larry ruined his camera buying experience, and maybe his Christmas gift, by making him feel stupid for not buying all this crap he didnt want or need.

What can I do about this? I can't tell Larry to fuck off, and he's probably not going to take the hint anytime soon, so I need to find a more obvious, but just as passive-aggressive way of dealing with it. Hmmm...does anyone else have someone at work like this? What do you do?
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