Oh another amazing beautiful Saturday in Seattle, and I am working on my side project. I really need to get this done. So I can enjoy the rest of the summer… oh wait … I got to work on my school project too… yikes!!! More to come.
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So this is super fast… 7 days after ordering online… I got my glasses in the mail. What do you think? It is very snug, but it is nice. Slight distortion on the top of the glasses… this might be because of the size of the lens. This may not be a good pool glasses. Still in search of a better pair for playing pool. I love the sides on this frame and the gray and orange coloring. After everything it was 99 dollars. Sweet deal huh? yes it does include 1.61 reflection index lens with all the coatings ( anti scratch/ UV/ anti glare)
So … As I stated before … I got my CCD cleaned this week … so here is a comparison for everyone on how much difference it made on my pictures. So look in the sky on the first picture and you will see all the black dust spots. Then look again on the new picture … and it is dust free!!! With out dust… (yeah!) So I think I will take my camera for a good cleaning one a year now. Go to Camera Clinic in Shoreline, WA!!! Camera Clinic They are awesome!!!
So Yesterday I drop my camera off to this small camera repair shop in Shoreline WA. I been getting alot of little dust spots on my pictures. and since the weather is so nice it is really annoying to take pictures and then spend 30+ minutes on the computer trying to fix all the dust spots. So I decided to drop the camera off and get it cleaned. It is pretty amazing little place. They have been fixing cameras for 30 years. So today I brought my old Nikon camera over there for them to take a look. And it was amazing… the guy immediately told me everything about the camera and said that it was a pretty good camera for its time. Oh… I’ve got to tell Dad that, but I am sure my dad knows. It really got me thinking. The Nikomat FT3 was manufactured from 1977 – 1979. I was born on 1976. I think my dad bought the camera to take pictures of me and this camera is still good enough to take pictures today and even produce good pictures. I wonder in 30 years will my Canon 30D still be good enough to be appreciated by my kids? Probably not. I guess that shows how things are today. Thing are being built today to be instant satifaction and to be disposable and that is the world of 2009. This past weekend was pretty good and relaxing. Of course after the break in incident. Well, of course after Saturday morning of running around getting my window replaced and oh and I got my wind shield replaced as well. Yeah, I guess, after I moved to Seattle, I have done alot of work on my car. front bummer replaced because of a hit and run. From grill replaced because of stupid idiots stealing my grill logo. dent in the right rear panel fixed because of stupid people at the apt keying my car. passenger rear and passenger front window replaced because of breakings. Front wind shield replaced because of rock chips. Gosh… yes… alot of work done. Anyways, this weekend, I had a chance to go out take some pictures enjoy the great NW with friends. It was good food and great times. Gosh I really do not want to come back to work. I will try to work on the pictures and get them posted. So it was a great afternoon, a beautiful day and a wonderful afternoon. I had an oppertunity to go and watch an exciting 12 inning Mariners game. Yes and the Mariners won. After the walk back to the car after a wonderful evening… I discovered my car was broken into AGAIN!!!! Yes second time this year!!!! What is wrong with you guys? Why do you keep on breaking into my car??? and why did the person take this time? a 80 dollars handsfree bluetooth device. Yeah… very very nice. sigh… Well.. the police was called and they don’t want to come and see me unless it is over 1500 dollars. So everything is done over the phone. Well… I am ok… that’s the important thing. Tomorrow… I will go and fix my glass. DAMN those idiots! Oh… around summer of 1991, I attended Space Academy (aka older kids Space Camp) in Huntsville, Alabama. Now almost 20 years (ok 18 years) later, I revisited the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville to watch the new Star Trek movie. It brought back so many memories. What amazes me was that after 18 years not much have changed in the space center. Still the similar displays, still the same posters at the gift shops. What have changed was the amount of commercialism. There are also some plans for the future of space… that have changed greatly. It is truly amazing how majority of most of the space travel was done in the 60′s, 70′s, and early 80′s. Well… it is also amazing that so many years after the first Star Trek episode, the reboot movie is out. It was actually a pretty good reboot movie. I was very impressed. however, I don’t think I would go to an IMAX theater to watch this movie again. It was too stretched and also you can’t see anything when there’s motion. I guess I will just have to watch it when it comes out on netflix. So it is so interesting. While I was waiting to go through security today at SEATAC. I saw a Chinese priest. I ask where is Father going today. He said San Francisco all the sudden I realized that he is my uncle (my father’s cousin, the Archbishop from Taiwan!!!) Oh my gosh… I can’t believe it. I can’t believe I ran in to him at the security check in in SEATAC. This must be something special!!!!
So you know, we got one sea snail yesterday from the clam dig. Well, everything else was eaten last night except for the sea snail. It was a pretty cute and big sea snail. So since no body knows how to cooked, it created a small dilemma for me. It was pretty cute and pretty fat little sea snail. So the dilemma is that, do you kill it first by pulling it’s meat out or cook it first and then pull its meat out. wow it sounded pretty cruel. Maybe I should just let it go. But there is really no good place to put it? Make be I should just let it live out the remaining life in the little bucket, but that is also just as awful as torture. So I was going through this mental struggle. What should I do with the sea snail. Finally, I came to a conclusion. The moment we decides to keep it, there was only one road for the little sea snail and the only human way to reach the end of that road is for me to eat it. Why? because if I consume it then it’s death is not without cause. The cause is to feed my hungry stomach. I reasoned that any other way is pretty sad and suffering end for the little sea snail. So with that decision made, I drop the little sea snail into my wonderful Salmon and Sea Snail Soup. … yumm yumm yumm Oh… what does it (sea snail) taste like? humm a little bit tough.. very much like eating a old rubber band.
This year’s is one of the very few mother’s day that I did not spend with my mom. The reason is my little sister and my mom are in Taiwan. So since last weekend, after only finding one clam with my dad I been really thinking about going back for some clams. Razor clam was also open this weekend, however, it takes 3 hours of driving to get to a razor clam location and low tide for that area is around 8:50. Yikes… I almost gave up on clamming this past weekend until I talked to a new friend who told me that she was going to somewhere near Gig Harbor, so after doing some research I found this site. http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/shelfish/beachreg/b280710.shtml We left around 8:30 and stop for license purchase at Federal way and got there right at low tide around 12pm. It was super awesome. We dug up so many Manila Clams it was amazing!!! We even got a sea snail. Way cool!!!! This weekend my dad came over from Alabama to visit. I has been a long time since I had some one on one time with my father, but it was great! We were able to go see the tulips in Skagit Valley and attempt to dig for some clams up near the canadian boarder in Birch Bay. Well, the flowers were great, however, we only found one clam in Birch Bay, I guess we just don’t have the right tools. |
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Oh and yeah.. I cook the sea snail whole, the meat actually came right out after cooking. And my dilemma was solved!!!
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