Dundar Mifflin Infinity - Columbus style.

I was contemplating how Avatar went over the $ONE BILLION mark this weekend and was looking at the paper and there was a photo of Maggie Gyllenhaal (I was on a movie train . . of thought). Many might remember her from the Dark Knight but there was another movie where she caught my attention but I didn't know what it was so I had to look it up.

"Stranger Then Fiction" starring Will Farrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal. I like Will Farrell but can not stand his movies! However, this one is a WONDERFUL movie. Serious good, a sleeping gem. Not stupid and slapstick jokes.

If you have not seen this I urge you to rent it. Here's the trailer.


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Milo!!!

I was the first class at MATC that did not use cards for computing. You know those punch out hanging chad cards where you would carry around a few hundred or a thousand to run computer programs. Then I got a job and I was working on a "dumb terminal". No email or anything like that. In fact, and this is the 100% truth, my keyboard only had 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, there was no "1" or "0". We had to use a "I" and an "O", which if you know anything about computers not having a 1 or 0 is sort of weird. What! were they trying to save on plastic or something?

Then we started , one by one, to get this new "PC" computer. Most of us had an easy time going from a dumb terminal to a PC but some of the older people had problems. Each computer had a few games and we were told we could play the games so we would get used to using a new creature, the mouse.

Well, some instructions were just beyond some people. One woman read instructions that said "put your mouse on the upper right corner of the desk top". I won't even bother finishing that joke but it was real. Of course this was the same woman who got pretty upset when she thought we were all being watched by a camera in our office. What she thought was a camera was actually a pencil sharpener that I had "pointed" down the aisle and then put the bug in her ear that we were all being watched. It looked like a camera I guess. It was a lot of fun working with her sometimes.

She said she grew up on a farm up north and when she was a kid her and her sister lived next to a slaughter house and for entertainment on hot days they would find dead bloated cows and jump on them to listen to the gas escape. Ahhhh, the good ol' days. Kids just don't get out and have real fun anymore.

Another person complained to me he hated PC's because they were so slow. I said I thought they were pretty good and asked what he was doing. He said he was just trying to work the email and I asked him to show me. He clicked on the email icon and we waited and nothing happened. I said what is behind the thing he is working on . . . .what?? he asked?

I clicked out of his current screen and found 25 email programs all running at once.

I mentioned Milo because Milo reminded me of Al (the email guy). Milo has found that laptops get so wonderfully warm on his butt and are perfect for naps if the screen is up. Last night I went to turn off my computer and found Beer Smith open, my homebrew software. But there were 30 warnings telling me that I could only open Beer Smith once. Also some Quicktime thing was open and then WORD was open with qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuur typed.

MILO!!!
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Packers. Looks like the NFL is trying to get a Minnesota/Green Bay Championship game. If the Packers win next week vs. ARZ (they are 3 point dogs) they will play Dallas or New Orleans.

I can't believe the Packers are dogs and I LOVED how the Pack kept the foot on the gas the entire game. A lot of psychological game play going on. Well done Packers.

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Any dream people out there? Had a dream last night. I woke up in room at mom and dads house and went into the bathroom and the sink and toilette, WERE GONE!!! I tried to screen but nothing was coming out (really? was it that scary??) I walked around the house looking for a potty (I must have had to go) and all I remember seeing was a bong! (WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?)

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I hate this time of year, not because we are 2 days into the coldest 24 days of the year (the average temp starts to rise the day after my birthday) but because I can not seem to get out and take scenic white winter photos. Nothing inspires me. I can't even envision what a good outdoor photo would look like.

I went out Saturday for a drive in the country, took a few half ass shots but it's not like I saw horses frolicking in the snow or anything. I saw a dump truck 3 times but that is hardly worth snapping photos of.

Then I came across the Fall River Dam. It seems all roads lead to Fall River (FR as we Cbus people call it). So I stopped and walked around it for a while.

Then Blake and I went home and I process photos.

I need your with The Rainy Day in Madison photo. People seemed to love it but when I made the original it was too small for printing. So I've been trying to recreate it from the original shot and striking out. Here is my latest effort AND one that I did a little extra to it.

Which do you prefer. One thing photo.net people commented on was my use of black matting. hmmmmm Here are the two with no matting.
I like the 1st one! So nevermind! 2nd one is over the top a little. Almost out of focus.

HEY - does anybody know what is up with Columbus recycling? Can we co-mingle now?

Not sure he reads the blog but way to go Nathan Roberts. He is a friend and a fifth generation blacksmith-welder and he purchased the Maysteel facility and will move his current business (which I still have to photograph) to the new place.

And

Columbus has it's own Dundar Mifflin Infinity . That's right, under our own noses Discount Office Items . com, located across from the bowling alley is now in the top 500 in the world for online internet retailers.

OH - they have the paper clips I was looking for, the Baumgartens Plastiklips Paper Clip. SWEET

That's enough for today.

Have a great Monday. You think it's cold now? wait till this coming weekend.

Rod