old years last days photo fragments

2009-01-01T15:28:00

My new years resolution is to take more photographs this year. Here are a few from the last days of the old year...

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trouble in paradise?

2008-02-21T13:07:00

At work yesterday, I got into this drawn out argument with my boss about an API that I had designed (and implemented). It was a respectful argument and in the end I think we came to a compromise that we were both mildly happy with. It is a funny thing because this one little function call seemed pretty uncontroversial when I wrote it, but it has somehow managed to draw the most criticism (Gordon suggested a change which didn’t get made weeks ago).

I hate arguing with people because whenever I look back on arguments I see how I was either too zealous in arguing my point, or give in too easily. On Friday I was arguing with Kim about macro lenses. Short version is that I made an assertion that, while true if explained correctly, I didn’t feel like arguing the point. That feels like every argument (read: every conversation) that I have with her, as she is totally unable to see my perspective, as a result I sort of intensely dislike her.

Yesterday was also Russian and I was going to bring my computer with me so that I could go to Potts Point after class instead of home (Potts Point is closer). Only when I left work I realised my computer wasn’t in my backpack and I panicked. I remembered closing the lid to my computer so that it would go to sleep, but I couldn’t remember if I had actually put it in my backpack. The only time I hadn’t had my backpack with me was when I left it at work briefly to go to the bathroom and if it had been stolen that would have meant it would have been someone at work. I was relieved when I got home and it was sitting in its place, asleep, but unmoved. I felt weird that I could have thought that someone at work could have taken it, because it is a smal company and everyone knows everyone (not that people don’t steel in those situations, but it is somehow worse when they do?).

I usually make it a rule not to get to close to my co-workers. I was hoping this might be an exception, but days like yesterday remind me that there are reasons that I have those rules. Nothing really terrible happened (in the end), but events leave me vaguely uneasy.

New Jersey 5/6

2006-11-24T09:30:00

ruinous texture 6/6

2006-11-11T09:30:00

From the “Red-and-red make red Hudson Valley” series

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2006-11-10T09:30:00

From the “Evergreen Hudson Valley” series

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2006-11-09T09:30:00

From the “Hudson Valley porcelain scratching post” series

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2006-11-08T09:30:00

From the “Close up borders of the Hudson Valley” series

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2006-11-07T09:30:00

From the “Door hinges of the Hudson Valley” series

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2006-11-06T09:30:00

from the “Memories of the Hudson Valley” series

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2005-12-24T02:34:00

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The Twilight Report

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