Yeh, I'm back...I'm thinking for good though im likely going to dump out the 10,005 deviations on my watch list..or at least skim them out very quickly and consider removing people from my watch list [Since i think i watch too many people]

Anyways I got a new toy, a Canon EF-S 15-85 f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, Fantastic all-around walkaround lens, Much better than the Tamron 28-75 I had before it [I know I'm going to get screams from people about how dare I go backwards and get a f/3.5-5.6 lens to replace a f/2.8 one...But sod it, IS is more useful to me as is having working autofocus..]

So who here still cares about me D:

Memo to everyone, I hate this environmentalist charade that seems to be popular with everyone right now

In case you didnt pay attention today, Apple withdrew from the Chamber of Commerce over their stance on global warming, namely because they feel the Chamber of Commerce isnt doing enough about it, Now Greenpeace praised them, and now Green people everywhere are bitching, screaming, yelling or praising about it

One perspective? Apple makes things in China, China =/= good for the environment, And this is true, Hell go look at some pictures of their big cities, you cant see a foot in front of you because of the smog, people wear masks there for a reason, The air is -not- pleasant...Any clean images you find are most likely manufactured propaganda, Remember, China is not a free country, They control the media

Then you start getting into the bitching war about global warming, blah blah blah, yeh yeh, we know, you drank Al Gore's kool aid and now you think you know everything, Shove it, Humans around the world contribute 13% to total greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 controls are thus pretty much useless because they'll make little difference, Methane is worse for the enviroment, and Methane is produced by every living creature as a product of biological decomposition [its also in fecal matter and farts for the record]

So you wanna be green? DONT DIE, Fart, or crap ever again [Although i will state many sewage treatment stations actually take and trap the methane gas and utilize it to power themselves, They can actually almost self-sustain this way and use very little outside power...Thats actually quite "green"]

Then of course someone brings the mortgage crisis, banks, Ford, GM, Obama, and Bush into things, No clue what any of it really has to do with any of this discussion about the environment..

Which is my main complaint, Being environmental thinking is one thing, Then theres being a Communist Brainwashed Californian Environmental Douchebag, Eventually when you bring up environmentalism, someone starts preaching about "DE GUBBERMENTS IS DEWINS IT" or how its all the problem of "BIG CORPORATE GREED" [Which maybe while partially true, is also partially bullshit because a lot of these environmentalists praise companies like Toyota who are equally corporately corrupt..] then complain about money money money and how "its wrong to think of money" when the truth is, its easy to not think of how much something costs when you're likely an upper-middle-class dipshit with more than six figures in the bank, Because you don't live in the real world where people don't make 6 digit incomes, where people don't have the money to blow on some impractical $40,000 car and where you're constantly worried your job might not be there tomarrow

And then Michael Moore or Al Gore will get introduced..And then the monkeys start throwing shit at each other...

And this is why i just stay the fuck out of the discussion...Because in the end, it always gets sidetracked and someone starts preaching Communism..or something else..And it just gets stupid

BTW if this is a little disjointed, I've been ill for the last few weeks, My head isnt entirely there when it comes to writing..so forgive me

But im just uploading all the photography from the last month i was working on from before Amaterasu crashed ^^

I went on a trip to the Corning Museum of Glass, thus theres a lot of shots, Some a bit less artsy than others..

I got her back, shes running fine now..I think..I havnt done much on her so far but she seems to be mostly "together" again and not fried..

But I digress I am still worried, She still at times feels a bit..off...

Ah well, I've told myself ill just backup a lot and run her till she really dies

Its a shame this Alienware i saw was really tempting me too

Say that like Red vs Blue..

We had a bad lightning storm a few days ago, Well almost a week at this point i guess, so I decided that since it looked really bad out id shutdown and unplug Amaterasu to be safe, Give her a break after running for 2-3 months straight [Whenever it was i upgraded her]

Storm passes and its the next day, I plug her in and go to fire her up...And what do i find? One of the essential windows system files went corrupt on me and i cant boot into windows anymore...

A little investigating using a command prompt and some DOS commands reveals all my important files on my primary drive array were fine, So i went to best buy and took some money out of my camera fund and bought myself a 1TB external with the intention of installing a spare internal drive, installing windows temporarily and copying my files off the RAID array

Few issues with my spare internal drives, but besides that all went well, i recovered my data from my C: drive and went to reinstall windows, hit a few more random problems that resolved themselves and finally got windows back on the other night and started to restore shit..

Now im still having more random problems, The most annoying of the bunch being I cannot get itunes to install [There are 2 people who i will accept some advice about this on, They know who they are ] the installer is just packing up and not doing anything at a certain point for a reason i've yet to determine...

and the second problem being every once in a while i completely lose my -wired- network connection and have to swap to my other ethernet port...for no apparent reason, No its not just the internet connection, its the network connection...

On top of that, my Amaterasu aint runnin like she used to, She feels a lot slower and more sluggish, and this is on a completely fresh install of windows...Windows picture viewer [Which i use when looking through my extensive archive of non-photography pictures] is VERY sluggish for some reason, it actually has to -load- now which it never had to do before...

Somethings wrong with her and i dunno what right now...