That’s right folks, winter break is officially a wrap!  Tomorrow by this time I will be back in State College, PA.  Break was a BLAST!  It was as I hoped it would be: filled with family, friends, and relaxation.  I received for Christmas a new Canon DSLR.  The New Year’s Pictures were taken with it, so look out for that stunning image clarity from now on!

Back to the real world, as they say.  Respect the grind.

From Break:

Wow!  2010?!?!

Here’s to a healthy, prosperous, and loving new year.

I brought in 2010 at my buddy D-Bo’s house in Manayunk.  We rang in the new year in style with 6 or 7 $5.99 bottles of Champagne.  Throughout the night I managed to lose my water bottle, my camera’s lens cap (found), my phone, and my desire to imbibe adult beverages ever again.

And now, the debauchery:

Another year’s end brings with it another year’s top tens.  Enjoy.

The Top 10 of Everything by TIME Magazine

For Once, Then Something

By Robert Frost

I don’t know about you, but for me, if you can play a sweet banjo, there ain’t much that can bring ya down.

House of the Rising Son? Yes.

A belly full
and no gifts left to unwrap
A black and white movie
and a good long nap

After dinner,
cards around the table
cookies and drinks
for the boy from the stable

-Downloading HUGE torrents
-Noodling on guitar
-Loving the snow
-Relaxing.

This Semester I:

1. Downloaded an inordinate amount of music
2. Did laundry 4 times
3. Changed my sheets 0 times
4. Visited Wikipedia 1×10^10 times
5. Facebook stalked just about everyone I know
6. Became level 15 in Farmville
7. Listened to every No Agenda podcast
8. Finished out a journal
9. Started a new journal
10. Watched 2 seasons of Entouage and a season of the X-Files
11. Made about 20 iTunes playlists
12. Made a Wordpress blog (This one)
13. Oh yea, went to class too

Sucessful Semester, I’d Say.

Just brought up some old photos and tossed ‘em in photoshop, got some cool results.

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Caroline, pretty vibrant–The original of this is one of my favorite photos I’ve taken.  It’s even in the header, bottom row second from the right.

This one might be my favorite of the bunch:

Another Photoshop Job.

Two of my favorite things.  The Steal Your Face design is pretty cool because it can act as a fame, within which you can put almost anything.  Ba-Da-Bing, Ba-Da-Boom, you have a Grateful Dead/(Insert Noun Here) Design.

I chose the Phillies logo, but I could, and have, seen this idea used for many different things.

If you notice the Phillies logo is a little off center.  Also, the blacks have a lot of off-blacks and greys in them.  It doesn’t quite look right paired with the Phillies logo which contains solid reds and solid blues.  Oh well, I’ll take care of that in a later post, I guess.