Ski Trip: Breckenridge

Breckenridge
Originally uploaded by Archigeek

I spent a few days last weekend in Colorado, mostly in Breckenridge, skiing the slopes and feeling some massive burn in the quads.

Feel free to click that image over there, and you can see a slideshow of all the pics I took. I'll try to add my comments and titles in the next few days, but knowing me that'll likely not happen. (Movies might end up on youtube... I haven't decided due to the, er, 'nature' of the flicks.)

I realized today that Flickr added web-editing of images via Picnik. This is pretty sweet... I can do all the red-eye fixing and cropping and auto-leveling without having to re-upload manually.

New camera!

If I could have used the camera to have taken the video of itself, I would have. This gave me the task of figuring out uploading videos to youtube. Whoopee.

I've been thinking about and researching point-n-shoot cameras, and gave serious thought to a Sony Ericsson k850i, but the price on that bugger pushed me away. So I decided to wait for another day to get the uber phone/mp3/camera gadget, and instead I purchased a Canon SD1000.

It's little and has 95% of what I wanted from a pocket camera. (The other 5%: image stabilization, a bigger LCD, and better manual controls.)

Newegg shipped me the camera in 17.5 hours, and now I'm ready to take photos of friends, snowy mountains, ski lodges, and who knows what else!

you suck at photoshop

I've been watching these, and I have to suggest these if you 1) have a twisted sense of humor, or 2) have a twisted sense of humor and use photoshop.

You Suck at Photoshop

the gamer in me

It must be the week for gaming because it seems to be swallowing me whole. After checking and calling numerous electronics retailers, trying to locate a damned Wii to buy, it was my mother that suggested I check Sears. At first it seemed like a silly idea, but a mother knows best, and she also knows Sears is not thought of as an electronics place. Anyways, long story short, they had Wiis stashed in the back, and my Saturday night and Sunday disappeared, leaving my eyes aching from staring at the screen too long.

I've never been a huge fan of the Mario games, but Mario Galaxy is awesome so far. Last night I got sucked into the latest installment of the Metroid Prime series, which, again, is awesome. I think that these would be great games alone, but with the wii's new controls, they become something even more fun and enjoyable.

And then to top it off, Maxis and EA finally announced a release date for Spore: 7 September 2008.