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ya.. not much to say today.. nothing exciting's been going on lately.. unless you count freezing your hands and toes off trying to fix some stinking plumbing that froze in the recent cold snap exciting.. lol. ya, it's cold again.. about Zero plus the wind.. brr. it was somewhere close to -30 windchill tuesday when we were fixing the frozev pipes. so anyway.. not much else.. no more fires.. which is good, don't want fires when it's cold. oh well, talk to ya'll later,

~AKCamerGuy~

Word of The Day, March 27

Word of the Day for Sunday March 27, 2005

sapid \SAP-id\, adjective:
1. Having taste or flavor, especially having a strong pleasant
flavor.
2. Agreeable to the mind; to one's liking.

Chemistry can concentrate the sapid and odorous elements of
the peach and the bitter almond into a transparent fluid
--David William Cheever, "Tobacco," [1]The Atlantic, August
1860

I've raved about the elegant and earthy lobster-and-truffle
sausage, the sapid sea bass with coarse salt poached in
lobster oil, and the indescribably complex and delectable
ballottine of lamb stuffed with ground veal, sweet-breads
and truffles.
--James Villas, "Why Taillevent thrives," Town & Country,
March 1, 1998
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Sapid comes from Latin sapidus, "savory," from sapere, "to
taste."
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New computer!!

Hey ya'll, I'm a little late here, but here we go. I've got a new laptop!! Got it last thursday, the 24th, a PowerBook G4, 12in screen, 512mb ram, 1.33ghz, 55gb HD. CD read/write, DVD reader. A real sweet machine. Here, why don't I show you. :D


a beautiful machine, it truly is!

Three Days, Three Events..

Things usually happen in three's, right? If so, than today should be the last, right? lol, guess I should tell ya'll what's been happening. Well, thursday evening was fire class(every 2 weeks) and last time the class was on water rescue, mainly ice/water. So thursday, we went out to do live training. That was really fun, bunch of us rookies put on cold water suits(big red things) and we all went down to the river to find some open water. So that was event one. Live water rescue training. Second Event: approx 3 1/2 hours later, at 3:41 am friday, fire tones sounded, sending about a dozen firefighters scrambling out of bed to a fire in an autobody shop roof. 2 1/2 the fires out and we're all back at the station. 7:15 we're all headin' back home to finish sleeping. Event three: 8:28 am saturday, fire tones once again, sending firefighters scrambling for the second day in row. 8:33, I've finished my third half-mile morning run to station and I'm jumping on Medic 4 enroute to the fire. By 11, everyones gone home except the grunts washing hose(Zay, Me, Kyle, and Darren, the four rookie volunteers)
So anyway, we've had three events in three days, is that the end? or will the water rescue training not count and another fire is coming up? guess we'll find out if nothing happens in a few days. lol. Well, I gotta go for now, Talk to ya'll later,

~AKCamerGuy~

Word of The Day, March 25

Word of the Day for Friday March 25, 2005

pestiferous \pes-TIF-uh-ruhs\, adjective:
1. Bearing or bringing disease.
2. Infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease.
3. Morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious.
4. Bothersome; troublesome; annoying.

Equatorial climate and pestiferous conditions made
Guayaquil such an unattractive port in the past that it was
not until well into the twentieth century, when sanitary
conditions were established, that it became a modern city
handling extensive commerce with the rest of the world.
--Thomas E. Weil, Countries of the World

What is the most correct, the politest, the best
Way to get rid of this pestiferous unwanted 'guest'?
--James Michie, "Dear Mary," [1]The Spectator, September 28, 1996
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Word of The Day, March 24

Word of the Day for Thursday March 24, 2005

copacetic \koh-puh-SET-ik\, adjective:
Very satisfactory; fine.

Although all will seem copacetic on the CBS broadcast from
Madison Square Garden in New York, there will be a big
black cloud hanging over the glitzy proceedings.
--Patrick MacDonald, "Major labels struggling with huge
slump out of tune with listeners," [1]Seattle Times,
February 20, 2003

Everything seemed copacetic until a favorite store -- the
anchor of the street -- closed suddenly.
--Heidi Benson, "Yes, We Want No Banana," [2]San Francisco
Chronicle, September 30, 2001
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Jammin' in the lab..

Well, here I am, 10 pm, at the college waiting for my dvd to finish burning, and what better way then to test out the new speakers we got for the multimedia lab. Seems like one of the best ways to me. Let's see.. country.. pop rock.. country... jazz... country... ya Martin, the speakers work, play all types of music quite well. I like 'em.. can I have 'em? lol. It's pretty cool, being up here all by yourself, got your music and working on computers. I just finished working on Matt's Musk Ox hunt, and so now it's burning onto a disk. It's not the first time I've been up here working away all by myself and my music after everyone's gone home. course, last time it was summer and I worked till past midnight, till I literally couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. By the time I stopped I had logged 16 hours in front of the G5 that day, editing video. Ahh.. that was fun. Got a feeling I'll probably be doing that again this summer, if I work for Shane again. Well, the dvd's almost done, so I better wrap this up, I'll talk to ya'll later, See ya at BTI!

~AKCameraGuy~

Word of The Day, March 22

Word of the Day for Tuesday March 22, 2005

stygian (also Stygian) \STIJ-ee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to the river Styx, the principal river of
the underworld in Greek mythology; hence, hellish; infernal.
2. Dark and dismal.

Although accounts vary, that vision, both sublime and
ominous, helped give birth to "Metropolis," a cinematic
landmark set in a teeming, towering city of the future, an
automated, urban sprawl where the wealthy live up in the
heavens and the laborers toil in the steaming, Stygian
depths.
--James Verniere, "Aye, robot," [1]Boston Herald, August
23, 2002

This month NASA has selected two proposals for a mission to
that tiny frozen world 3.5 billion miles away. There, the
Sun is just a small stab of light in the Stygian blackness.
--Ian Brown, "The race is on to reveal Pluto's secrets,"
[2]Independent, June 22, 2001
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Eye appointment

whooeee... eye appointment.. fun.. yup, that's right, I just got back from there. lol. read this. now read this. take off your glasses. now can you read this? Course not, I ain't got my glasses on! The worst part has gotta be when they dialate your eyes. 'ok, now we're going to put these drops in your eyes to dialate them so I can blind you by shining these bright lights into your eyes after your eyes get really sensitive to light. Oh, and you won't be able to focus on anything for a few hours.' Afterwards, you stumble out of the room, squinting, trying to focus, trying to keep the room lights from frying your retinas, and you hear 'thanks for coming in, you did great, it'll cost you an arm and a leg, btw. ya, it's a little bright, here's a darkened piece of flimsy plastic to shove behind your glasses to keep the sun from blinding you.' thanks. I'll try to keep them from blowing away as soon as I step out the door into the 30 mph north wind. fun fun. lol. well, that's all I've done today, except eat breakfast. I love breakfast. really do. best meal of the day. course, I like all the meals/snacks/sniches/all else during the day, but I would have to say that breakfast is the best. lol. Well, time to start the rest of the day's activities...

~AKCameraGuy~

PAGERS!!!

Yippee! Zay and I finally got our pagers today!! We've been volunteers firefighters for about 6 months now, and today we finally got our pagers! So far we've been to 3 fires and one vehicle accident. The first fire, we happened to have Matt's pager at the house, and it woke us all up at 4:30am. lol. The best part was that the truck wasn't working at the time and Zay and I had to run the 1/2 mile to the firestation. At 4:30am. 0⁰ F. lol. That was fun. Anyways, just about all exciting that happened today. See ya'll later!

~AKCameraGuy~

Word of the Day March 18

Word of the Day for Thursday March 18, 2005

   pecuniary \pih-KYOO-nee-air-ee\, adjective:
   1. Relating to money; monetary.
   2. Consisting of money.
   3. Requiring payment of money.

     "He lacked the finer element of conscience which looks upon
     Art  as  a  sacred calling," she remembered, and because of
     "pecuniary  necessities"  he  "scattered his forces in many
     different and unworthy directions."
     --James F. O'Gorman, Accomplished in All Departments of Art

     The  young  man  of the house was absorbed in his vegetable
     garden  and  the possibilities for pecuniary profit that it
     held.
     --Samuel Chamberlain, [1]Clementine in the Kitchen

     He  sees  the  great  pecuniary  rewards  and  how they are
     gained,  and naturally is moved by an impulse to obtain the
     same for himself.
     --David  J.  Brewer,  "The  Ideal Lawyer," [2]The Atlantic,
     November 1906

Word of the Day March 17

Word of the Day for Wednesday March 17, 2005

   cabal \kuh-BAHL; kuh-BAL\, noun:
   1.   A  secret,  conspiratorial  association  of  plotters  or
   intriguers whose purpose is usually to bring about an overturn
   especially in public affairs.
   2. The schemes or plots of such an association.

   intransitive verb:
   To form a cabal; to conspire; to intrigue; to plot.

     If  you constantly disagreed with Winters, he wrote you out
     of   his   cabal,   his   conspiracy   against  the  poetry
     establishment.
     --Richard Elman, [1]Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs

     My  father  always  had  been  a  collector. There were the
     stamps,  National  Geographics,  scrapbooks filled with his
     favorite  political  cartoons,  and booklets justifying his
     belief  that  the  world  was under the control of a global
     cabal  of  elites  unified  by  such  organizations  as the
     Trilateral  Commission,  the  Council on Foreign Relations,
     and the Freemasons.
     --Frederick Kempe, [2]Father/Land

St.Patrick's Day!!

Happy St.Patrick's Day ya'll! The day when ya'll gotta wear green or else. :D I like this day. I don't have any trouble finding something to wear. :D lol. Helps that green is my favorite color. lol. Anyway, class is about to start, I'll talk to ya'll later,

~AKCameraGuy~

Word of the Day March 16

Word of the Day for Wednesday March 16, 2005

fugacious \fyoo-GAY-shuhs\, adjective:
Lasting but a short time; fleeting.

The fugacious nature of life and time.
--Harriet Martineau, Autobiography

Tastes, smells... being, in comparison, fugacious.
--John Stuart Mill, Examination of Sir W. Hamilton's
Philosophy

When he proposed the tax in May, Altman thought it would
follow the fugacious nature of some flowers: bloom quickly
and die just as fast.
--Will Rodgers, "Parks proposal falls on 3-2 vote,"
[1]Tampa Tribune, June 27, 2001
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Kitchen table

Wednesday morning.. I'm sitting here at the kitchen table with Ernie. Teaching him to love country music. lol. And all you asking how my family would let me do that to the kid.. Zay's in his room, and mom's in the shower, so.. lol. Me an' Ernie just having a fun time together, just sittin round the table, munchin' on some bread and peanut butter, chillin' like two big boys. :D Anyway, today looks like it might get a little busy later, I got some work I gotta get done with some pictures, and then I gotta work on the video of Matt and Pat's Musk Ox hunt. That's some pretty interesting video. They got 'em with bows, so they got pretty close... Matt got a little too close, lol. He almost got stomped! I'll be bringing a copy of it all down south with me to show ya'll in LESS THEN 2 MONTHS!! I tell ya'll I'm getting really excited about BTI, just can't wait. I leave thursday, May 12, and will be gone for over a month! Well, I gotta go get started on my day, See ya'll 'round!

~AKCameraGuy~

Word of the Day March 15

Word of the Day for Tuesday March 15, 2005

   quotidian \kwoh-TID-ee-uhn\, adjective:
   1. Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
   2. Of an everyday character; ordinary; commonplace.

     Erasmus  thought More's career as a lawyer was a waste of a
     fine  mind,  but  it  was precisely the human insights More
     derived  from his life in the quotidian world that gave him
     a moral depth Erasmus lacked.
     --"More man than saint," [1]Irish Times, April 4, 1998

     She  also  had  a  sense  of fun that was often drummed out
     under the dull, quotidian beats of suburban life.
     --Meg Wolitzer, [2]Surrender, Dorothy
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   Quotidian  is  from Latin quotidianus, from quotidie, "daily,"
   from quotus, "how many, as many, so many" + dies, "day."

Word of the Day, March 14

Word of the Day for Monday March 14, 2005

   nimiety \nih-MY-uh-tee\, noun:
   The state of being too much; excess.

     What  a  nimiety  of ... riches have we here! I am quite
     undone.
     --James   J.   Kilpatrick,   "Buckley:   The  Right  Word,"
     [1]National Review, December 23, 1996

     Just  as  daily  life contains all the comforts of what one
     owns,  there is also a natural shedding or forgetting and a
     natural  dulling,  otherwise  one  becomes  burdened with a
     sense  of  nimiety, a sense (as Kenneth Clark put it in his
     autobiography) of the "too-muchness" of life.
     --Nicholas  Poburko,  "Poetry,  Past  And  Present:  F.  T.
     Prince's  Walks  in  Rome," Renascence: Essays on Values in
     Literature, January 1, 1999
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End of march 13

Well, it's now 1:30am monday morning. Soon as I write this, I'm going to sleep. This day was pretty interesting, main thing being Matt coming home from his Musk ox hunt. He and Pat flew out to Nunivak Island friday, Now they're back, each with their kill. And more importantly to me, the short video of the hunt. I'll be working on that tomorrow. Anyway, it sounding really exciting, they almost drove off a 100 ft cliff in the snowstorm, and Matt almost got stomped by a musk ox. Anyway, that sounded exciting.
Well, that about ends the day, 59 more till I leave, it's now under two months and I'm really starting to get excited!! see ya 'round!

~AKCameraGuy~

Word of the Day

This is gonna be the first 'word of the Day' post. Each day, a new word will be posted, something to keep it all interesting if I can't think of anything to write. :P Ok, here goes...

Word of the Day for Sunday March 13, 2005

parse \PAHRS\, transitive verb:
1. To resolve (as a sentence) into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
2. To describe grammatically by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence.
3. To examine closely or analyze critically, especially by breaking up into components.
4. To make sense of; to comprehend.
5. (Computer Science) To analyze or separate (input, for example) into more easily processed components.

intransitive verb: To admit of being parsed.


We must learn to parse sentences and to analyse the grammar of our text, for, as Roman Jakobson has taught us, there is no access to the grammar of poetry, to the nerve and sinew of the poem, if one is blind to the poetry of grammar. --George Steiner, [1]No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1995
There are too many spots where the rhythm goes momentarily awry; where words are used with murk, sloppiness or phonetic imprecision; where sentences are so twisted around that they become hard to parse; even times where it's hard to be sure just who or what is being referred to. --Douglas Hofstadter, "What's Gained in Translation," [2]New York Times, December 8, 1996
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The Call

An interesting title. I just finished with my first meeting with Kyle Burke, my project partner in our digital video class. We've finally decided what we're gonna do for our video project. Teacher said it has to be at least 7 min. So anyway, we've decided to do a screenplay that he wrote the script to some time ago titled 'The Call.' Kyle's a pretty good writer, something I've never known about him before, though I've known him somewhat ever since we were little imps. Well, ever since I was a little imp, he was always bigger than me, which isn't all that hard, I guess. Anyway, Kyle's got good ideas for stories, something I've always have a hard time coming up with. I lean more towards the documentary, where the story is already there, I just bring it out. I look forward to this, Kyle and I are both experienced video editors, but we've never really worked with someone else during editing before, so this should be interesting...

~AKCameraGuy~

Happy Birthday, Jenna!!

Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you!! Happy Birthday, dear Jenna!! Happy birthday to you!!!!!
Hey girl, Happy 19th Birthday!
For those who don't know, Jenna is a dear friend of mine, one of the best. She lives down in WI and, as I'm sure you've gathered, turned 19 today! So, happy birthday Jenna, hope you have another great year!

First AudioBlog

Ok, I'm not quite sure how it happened.. but I lost my first audioblog.. :( oh well, there'll be more.

My First Post on this blog

Hey ya'll! This be my first post on this blog, the first of many which are sure to follow. This blog will be a running dialogue on life. lol.
Alrighty, I better get busy, see ya around.

~AKCameraGuy~