I have had so much fun with these 2 cameras over the years. The D50 was of course my very first dSLR.
The sad part was that I had dropped and broke them both myself. I am usually pretty good, or so I have always thought.
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As part of the whole “cutting the chord” philosophy, I am always intrigued by the idea of a new way of getting services I am used to getting in the old traditional method.
Though I have subscriptions for Netflix, HULU and HBO, I still continue to have
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Watched a really, really late show last nite. It ended at 11:50ish.
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Been watching Chuck on Amazon lately. Earlier this morning was watching Ep 1 of Season 2.
We don’t always see the good that happens to us and only see the most obvious / visible.
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I took this picture almost 10 years ago – October 2008. This has always been an “Austin Marker” in my mind, but somehow never thought of finding out more about it. Recently they have been talking about it on the radio and that’s how I found out that this is “Buford Tower”.
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As I was writing the previous post, Forgive Me, I realized what was really bothering me was the fact that we tend to make too many generalization.
We were having dinner with a few friends and 2 separate statements were made by 2 of my friends:
Let’s take the second one first, since I did protest right away. I was arguing that kids have always found a way to “waste time”, a “tremendous amount of time”. Yes, in the past there were not smart electronic devices available so they were not able to waste time on those, but waste time they did. My friend counter argued, no “we did not waste time as much as kids today do”. Which, I am sure, is absolutely true. But “we” is an extremely small sample size.
Now going back to the first – this actually has root in the basic idea that somehow “things were better back in our days”. Somehow generations before “our’s” was not enlightened enough and generations since are simply “lazy”.
I am sure that I too am responsible of making the same generalization in other situations but since I make them I don’t realize / notice them 😦
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Like a lot of requests we tend to make very generic request for forgiveness, which to me seems worse than NOT asking for forgiveness.
Yesterday was the first day of Ramadan and some of my friends have been posting (and sending DMs) asking for forgiveness if they have unintentionally hurt anyone. Which leads me to think – if my friends intentionally or un-intentionally hurts me should I not confront them directly about it? Isn’t that what friends are supposed to do?
Which leads me to my next question – if the person who has hurt me, intentionally or otherwise, is not a close enough friend who I can confront, should I really be offended / hurt by their words or actions?
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