Day 170: Slice of Nature

I titled this "Slice of Nature" because this was taken in a narrow section of trees wedged in between the train tracks and some apartment buildings. If I turned to the right, you'd see apartments behind fence and barbed wire. To the left (and over a little hill thing) and you have rails, busted up concrete that I think used to be parking, with litter scattered around, and more apartment buildings. It's nice to have this little break from the bricks, trash, satellite TV dishes, and paranoia.

Day 169: Crooked Clock

Why is it crooked? 'Cause it's a dirty rotten liar. This photo was taken at 7:56, not 11:20. Fortunately, no one uses this clock. I don't actually know why it's still plugged in.

Day 168: Kaleidoscopic III: Return of the Lazy

 I like nifty patterns.

Day 167: Claw

Item number NUS-005. Alien claw recovered from crater in Arizona.

The translucent green skin and electronic implants match those found on previous subjects.

Recommend hooking up to system #64 for analysis.

Day 166: Branches

Day 165: Kaleidoscopic II: Revenge of the Late Post

Day 164: DOG!

DOG!

I like this shirt. Though it's a little faded now. Designed by one Sir Grishny the Orc Mage.

Day 163: Random Napkin

My photos are weird. This is a light through a napkin. There was something about the texture I really liked. I dunno.

Day 162: Chocolate Glazed

Hmm. Makes me think. What's the subject of the photo? The donut or the hole?

I wonder what Homer Simpson would say.

Day 161: Arceus

And on the 4947th day, Arceus created the lands of Kanto and Johto.

Again.

And it was shiny.

 I haven't been playing Pokemon as much as before, but I'm still on the great Pokedex completion mission. Last I checked, I was in the 320s or so out of 493. Darn good, I think.

Anyway, this is a figurine of Arceus, The Original One. Apparently the creator of the entire Pokemon universe, which I find a little odd. If you're lucky enough, and I'm not, you were able to get Arceus for your in-game collection from some sort of Toys'R'Us promo. Which is basically like keeping God in a ball in your pocket. (Which reminds me of summon materia. But that's a completely different game.)

Ugh. I dunno. I hate that Nintendo/GameFreak puts things like this in the games and (usually) makes you attend events, miles and miles away, just to complete one of the game's major goals. And in some cases, these event pokemon don't get released outside Japan. The least they could do is release them over wi-fi, without any limit on dates available, but no, I guess they're not in the business of making paying customers happy.

Erm.

Okay, besides all that, the game is still fun. If Arceus and the other event pokemon hadn't existed in the first place, the game would essentially be exactly the same for those of us who aren't insane enough to drive for hours just for that scrap of data. I just wish they'd be a little more fair about it.

(Incidentally, if anyone reading this wants to lend me some event pokemon over wi-fi, leave a comment with an email address, and we can exchange friend codes and whatever. Even if this post is months old by the time you read it. I'll probably have something worthwhile to offer.)

Day 160: Zabra Hexx

ZABRA HEXX WANTS YOU

TO COME GET DAH VOODOO

So, I don't actually know who Zabra Hexx is, or how he fits into the Warcraft universe, but dang if this isn't a cool figurine.

Day 159: Roary DS

"Wait, how I get in here? Ooh, put Pokemon in! I wanna learn Hyperbeam! Pyew, pyew, CRASSSHHH! Rar!"

Day 158: Outside

Hmm. Well, I'm not especially happy with this, but it's better than cheating again. And, I dunno, I'm always sorta fascinated by light and shapes warped through glass. But I really gotta get out more...

Day 157: BOO!

Teehee. Silly road. I totally scared you!

Yeah, I did! I saw you flinch. Don't lie.

Day 156: Green Light

Day 155: Ball

On my walk today, there was a randomly discarded basketball sitting just off the sidewalk. I don't know why I find it so interesting. I think it evokes something in my head, but I couldn't tell you what it is. But nothin' wrong with a sudden blob of orange. It's... summer-y.

Day 154: Shades of Grey

Day 153: mmmmmmmmmm

nom nom nom nom nom nom

Day 152: Young and Golden, Grey and Olden

One from yesterday. Today's attempts didn't come out so great. Meh.

On the way home from my walk yesterday, I noticed these boards nailed to parts of this decaying fence to hold it together, and it was very striking (more so than in the photo) the difference in the amount of color between the new and old wood. It made the new stuff look a bright golden yellow, and I had to get pictures. Yes, the fence really is leaning that far in. I took this shot with the DS as level as I could possibly make it by hand.

Day 151: Sticks and Stones

We used to have like 20 more of those stones, in a circle around this tree. But you don't keep heavy stones that are fun to throw at the tree around children for very long without them being thrown at the tree and left in disarray and eventually disappearing. Though I couldn't tell you where the heck they actually went. Maybe a squirrel took 'em.

Day 150: Loopy Loop

Random randomness again. I saw this loop in a hanging wire and thought it was cute in an odd way. Curly and small and loopy. I dunno. I like it.

Day 149: Constellation

Some of the brightest stars in the night sky.
I think this constellation had something to do with two Greek gods halting their chariots for no reason. *shrug* I dunno. I don't see it.

Day 148: Spacetime

Tears in the fabric of space really kill a house's resale value. But do you know how much it costs to repair this? You may as well build a new universe. For now, it's duct tape to the rescue.

Day 147: High Contrast Nanners

Day 146: Colorful Candy

I think these are marshmallow bunnies leftover from Easter or something. I dunno. I'm not eatin' 'em. But the wrappers sure are shiny and colorful. Ooooooh.

Day 145: Coconut Birdies

And this would be the coconut souvenir from the marble post. I love how the birdies' attentions are so firmly focused on the Golden Shiny Wire of Hope*. I wonder what's so fascinating about it.

*Random Final Fantasy VII reference! Whee!

Day 144: Kaleidoscopic

The kaleidoscope "lens" on the DSi can be nifty.

(It's my 3D glasses.)

Day 143: Marble of Memories

Thoroughly uninspired today, and eventually forcing myself to look for anything half photo-worthy, I take a look around my room as if there was anything new in it. Then I looked up and saw something I often forget I have. It's a souvenir coconut thing from someone's trip to Hawaii, hanging from the hook in the corner of my ceiling. It's carved to look like a cute pair of birdies with little red beaks. I've had it so long that I'm actually not sure when I got it or who gave it to me, but it must have been hanging there for some 10-ish years straight.

So as I take it down to find a place I can give it more light, it makes a funny sound, and I realize there's a marble inside it. That had been there for 10 years. The whole thing was just dustastic. As well as nostalgic and spooky, because it reminded me of when I used to collect marbles and also triggered the memory of when I put that marble there in the first place. The day I put it there was the day I was getting rid of my marbles. I decided to keep just one and hide it up there because I knew I'd forget about it and discover it years later, like a time capsule or something. Boy, do I know me.

So I cleaned the thing off as best as I felt like and got about a dozen photos of the magic marble sitting inside the time-travelling coconut, and this one was my favorite.

Heh. After losing my marbles, I seem to have found one again.

Day 142: Marshmallows

Old photo. Way too much infrared photo. But fire rules.

Day 141: Sneaky

My sneakers tried to sneak out under cover of darkness.

I probably should have expected it.