I think I get it

I started the Flickr account, just because I really didn't understand some of the concepts of Web 2.0. I just really didn't understand why I should care or why anyone else should care. But now I think I kind of understand it.

I check my flickr account every day now, hoping I get more views on my pics. And then getting excited about what's getting views. It makes no sense. I have no idea who's looking at these pictures, or why, but I am giddy that someone is. Hell, two of my pictures are having a race as to who has the most views. It's almost like a competition in which no one else is playing (right now, since I'm not currently following anyone else.)

So I guess that's how I "get it."

My desk at work

My desk
Originally uploaded by PowerLlama

This is where I work every day. I made a little panoramic version.

fun with a camera.

Sometimes it's hard to see.
Originally uploaded by PowerLlama

I like this picture.

New camera!

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Originally uploaded by PowerLlama

So I got my new camera tonight, and I've played with it for the past few hours.

The thing is fucking TEENY. All the reviews said it was small, but jesus, this is smaller than I expected. It's like smaller than a deck of cards.

So far, it seems to take some pretty nice photos. I'll have to take more in the sunlight, because the lighting in here is crap though.

Initial verdict is: I like!

Pictures

Geotagging is one of the coolest and creepiest features to come out of the digital age in regards to photography. You put in the data where it was you took the picture (latitude and longitude) and when you upload it to a site like Flickr, you can see it on a map. Which is really cool when you want to see pictures of home and you just zoom into Midland on the map and see some great photos. But it's really creepy when you see some kid's birthday. You can restrict who sees that information for a reason you know.

I just bought a new camera, and I think I'm going to start taking more pictures, and trying to just get more into photography in general. It's something I've always liked, but never really got that into. But my new camera is pretty small, and fits into my pocket so I should be able to take it anywhere and just snap pictures when I feel the need.

I put a thing to my flickr pool over on the right there, but all it has so far are pictures from bars taken by my crappy camera phone. It almost makes me miss my old phone. My K790a took absolutely great pictures and had a flash. Take that iPhone. Oh well.

So yeah. Hopefully expect more photo stuff from me.

I think I'm balding

Someone please tell me I'm wrong.

My desk!

This is what's on my desk right now. Man I'm bored, waiting on stuff.

New job!

Well as many of you know, I just started working at Digital Domain.

It's only my second day though, and I haven't done much. In fact I'm updating while at work waiting for my first meeting.

Alright gonna go. Bye.

Brutal Halloween!

Just got done dressing up for halloween. Here's how it went down:

Before:


With a 'stache, I look JUST like my dad:


Completely clean shaven:


Straightened hair = NATHAN EXPLOSION


I pulled my pants up to old man height after the picture, and it looks better.

I am a retard

I just learned the lesson of why you should always proofread everything. Apparently for the past few weeks, I've been sending out a resume with false information on it. And wondering why I wasn't getting any callbacks.

It says I worked at Zoic from March until April 2007. Wow a whole month's worth of experience.

I'm a genius sometimes.

Bored

Just bored on the plane.

It's raining!

It never rains here! And it's raining so hard our porch is flooding!

Correction.

Dear readers,

I am very sorry to inform you that I, Austin Brown, had made a mistake in the previous post. I rescind the statement that Shawn ate 3 wings. He actually ate 5.1 wings, with the .1 being a bite of a 6th.

Please accept this humble bloggers apology.

Thank you,

Austin Brown

So fucking hot.

Oh. My. fucking. GOD.

Went to go eat wings today right. Not that big of a deal, I've been there a ton, the wings are fucking delicious. Well Shawn loves hot shit. He decides he wants to try Suicide flavor. Well the guy behind the counter dips a toothpick into it and gives it to another of my friends, Ryan, who then proceeds to down like 3 glasses of water and a few packets of sugar. He says "It's like someone sprayed mace into my mouth."

So Shawn gets the tray of 12 and starts chomping on the first one. I have never ever heard him utter the words he said after putting that first one in his mouth. "Holy fucking shit, this is hot."

He manages to down 3 of them in the span of like 30 minutes. And then he tells me he'll give me 50 bucks to eat just one. Knowing what it did to the both of them, I said fuck that. A little while later he says 20 for a good sized bite. Well I could use 20 bucks, so I did it. About 5 seconds later I decide "The heat hasn't kicked in yet, I'll finish it and get the 50." So I did.

Holy mother of fucking god. I have never had anything so hot in my mouth ever. I actually stuck my tongue into the ranch. Nothing helped except for putting ice directly on the heated parts.


And now I just got out of the bathroom. My stomach is killing me and now my asshole burns. I almost feel like it wasn't worth it, but 50 bucks can go a long long way.

I'm hungry

And I'm watching Hogan Knows Best. It's my guilty pleasure shh.

Ok that's all I got.

Holy shit, earthquake

So we just had a pretty big tremor. Scared the absolute living shit out of both Callie and I. It started off small and I thought Callie was jumping around in the living room but then it got pretty big.

What an incredibly shitty and awesome feeling. You feel so helpless as the entire earth literally shakes everything around you.

Apparently it was a 4.8 on the scale. Jesus christ that was fucking scary.


Brandon was a bit closer and had all of his toys topple off of his shelf and land on him at his desk. He went outside and his car alarm was going off. Jesus fucking christ.

4th of July

Our 1st hot dogs on the grill!

I've come to a realization

Over the past few days, I've come to a realization. I am the youngest person at Zoic. It's kind of strange. I'm not sure why, but it just seems weird to me. It's not like I haven't been the youngest person at a company before (hello Su Casa), but to be one in such a large place that's all about technology is strange.

A little link

For your reading pleasure. I don't really want to turn this thing into a link depository, but I felt this was good enough to share.

An open letter to parents who bring their children to horror movies.

Update?!

I'm avoiding working... so I thought I'd give a little update.

I'm working on an ASPCA commercial that was giving me hell. It isn't anymore. Cause I'm the man like that.

Today was supposed to be my last day. Our deadline got pushed back by 2 weeks, so I'm here until the 29th.

Umm. My cube-mate is very funny. He runs a website. www.fatguysonly.com It's very sparse right now, but it'll get there.

And that's about all I've got for now.