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well, i joined flickr and uploaded a few pics and submitted some to the DCF group…
looking through their collection, i found some rather cool ones…
flickr offers a nice slideshow format to look through them…

this one is WAY at the top of my list, the colors are absolutely breathtaking… nm is gorgeous…

i can’t get enough balloons, but, this one is particularly unique…
and speaking of striking colors… this one is by the same guy as the last… be sure to look at that tram pic there, too… i still have never done the tram 🙁
downtown abq at night, abq from the sandias, snow on the mountains…
and one of the most fantastic sunset shots i have ever seen…

and i have barely even glanced at the albuqerque flicker and the balloon fiesta flickr… but, i will get to them…

yup, i finally bought it…
jesusfreakgeek.com

i just couldn’t stand it anymore, it was too catchy, i’ve thought about it long enough, and domain names are cheap…
it will point here and all email sent to it will forward to my regular account…

it will be a couple days until that link works, btw – these things take time…

and people will no doubt rejoice that i finally have a website address that EVERYONE can actually spell 😛

so, all this week i have been doing this awful reset project at the coors/i-40 location and have been increasingly annoyed with how hard it is to get around in that area because of the road work being done… it’s not worth it to go for lunch anywhere outside the home depot/wal-mart complex because of the traffic, so, i have been sticking close and happened to have my camera with me yesterday… a couple mornings have had some great balloon close encounters, so, yesterday i brought the cam, but, of course, no balloons…
but, when i went to lunch (venti coffee frap, caramel affagato style), there was a bit of excitement and i had my cam…

see, this water truck made a bad move…

they brought in a bulldozer to keep it from slipping further and a crane so they could pull it…

i took a few pics of the whole ordeal (see this month’s pics #s 542 through 576), but here is a 20 second video showing the final solution (quicktime, right click > save as, i can’t seem to set up streaming correctly)…

just give it back… no questions asked, simple as that…

the security screen had my website address, so, there is a chance you are reading this… the screen also has my cell number, so, call me and arrange a meeting, a drop place, tell me what you did with it, whatever…
i have years of info, email, notes, and more on that device and i need it back… it is worth nothing to you, it is a very old device, no one uses them anymore, you cannot pawn it, no one will buy it, if you want a pda there are many out there that will do what you want, you don’t want my outdated machine that they stopped making in the mid-90s…

it is valueless to you and priceless to me…

you left the contents of my wallet; photographs, notes, id, maybe because you understand and sympathize with the value of them, and i appreciate that… but, what is on that handheld computer is worth far more than the contents you left behind…

so, just call me and let’s work this out, seriously, no questions asked, i just need it back…

Duke City Fix » WANTED: Your Albuquerque pix

where would i even start?

how would i ever stop?

how many pics of clouds and balloons do you figure they’d accept before they told me to come up with something else to shoot?

why oh why didn’t i have my dad make a back up of all the pics in the last webspace before “The Great Disaster”?

so many questions…

ok, so, i wanted to sort through them more thoroughly and prepare them in nice albums and such, but, here it is nearly 1am and even at this hour i have at least five people calling me, wanting to see them, so, i am just uploading the batch as is…
click on photos over there on the right and look for the folder… you probably won’t be able to view the vids unless you right click and save them to your computer, btw…

anyway, enjoy…

and, to ALL who read this (this means YOU and YOU know who YOU are!), my chatterbox is working again, so, let me know you stopped by… it is on the right, scroll down, below the webcams, just scribble in your name and a comment, you can skip the url box, hit the post button, and, poof, you did as i asked and are immortalized on my homepage 😛

search results for “God helps those who help themselves” from Bartleby’s quotations…
seems you can find similar statements made even before Franklin said it… none come from the Bible…

and i went to RefDesk.com to find a quotes search…

and i promise to put that list up soon that i spoke of earlier…

Beam your craigslist ad into space

WHAT: craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster won an eBay auction for the first private communication transmission light years into deep space, with the idea of offering this opportunity to craigslist users.

HOW: The friendly folks at Deep Space Communications Network (DSCN) will beam the postings trillions of miles into space using redundant klystron transmitters and a satellite dish.

HOW MUCH: The winning bid was $1225, but craigslist is negotiating with DSCN for extra capacity to accomodate the anticipated volume of craigslist postings to be transmitted – 10,000 ads were designated by users for transmission during the first 24 hours!

WHEN: The transmission is currently scheduled for May 15th, 2005, directly following the launch of the space shuttle Discovery.

WHERE: Cape Canaveral, FL

WHY: It seemed fitting for craigslist users to be the first to beam internet postings and classified ads into deep space.

yeah yeah, someday maybe i’ll start posting again… until then, this page serves the main purpose, which is having my contact info… additionally, it has plenty of links i feel are worth sharing with the world and gives me a place to direct people to to get the pics i take and such… the pics continue to get uploaded, but, i am too lazy to name them descriptively these days (or make posts about them), so, you have to REALLY want to see something to go digging in there…

anyway, i just started a new route/schedule at work, so, maybe i’ll have more time to actually make posts…
or maybe not…
we’ll see…

(of course, you can always check out my old blog from back when i posted stuff all the time…)

http://christophercornelius.com

i have not yet decided whether i will redirect insidiousplots.com to the new site or leave it pointing here… i AM leaving the site intact and am NOT importing all my old posts over…
it is a new beginning…

btw, i will be redirecting all insidiousplots.com email to my new domain name… no need to update your address book, it should work seamlessly…