I look forward to the holidays in part to one man: Alek Komarnitsky. He’s the mad genius behind the controllable Halloween decorations to raise money for Celiac Disease (I secretly think he likes to torture his neighbors as well). Not only is he a fellow Canon 40D shooter, but he’s surpassed a level of geekery by doing this that you can’t help but salute him.
So stop by, impress your kids with how you can remote control this guy’s decorations and donate some money to Celiac research.
1) Have a Nick Hawkins convention – a mass gathering of Nick Hawkins’ throughout the world, whereby we meet up, drink and go ransack a town.
2) Keep a track of the most obscure country from which someone visits my blog, and go there. Bonus points for if they let me sleep on their couch. Since October 1, it was Azerbaijan. In the last 30 days, Moldova, Bosnia and Iran have all made it to my list.
3) Get residency permits for Gibraltar.
4) Ask my congressman for money to travel to be a “Goodwill Ambassador.” Better yet, a Diplomatic passport. What can go wrong?
5) Spend a night at an airport. Since I’m in them all the freakin’ time, I’m curious what goes on after dark and the terminal is empty. Might be worthy of a blog post.
6) The next celebrity I meet/see, I’ll be sure to go “Hey, I loved you in…” whatever their most obscure/stupidest role was. Hilarity will ensue.
7) Get named as a character in a book, and then have that character killed in a funny way, such as zombies and robots – in a Victorian-era suspense novel.
The biggest hit would be felt by Chicago Card and Chicago Card Plus customers, who according to a CTA analysis live in more affluent ZIP codes than riders who pay cash fares or use regular transit cards.
“Our Chicago Card customers are more elastic in their ability to absorb fare increases,” said CTA President Ron Huberman.
Thanks Ron!
Since I’ve blogged, that is.
1) I didn’t upload my LA photos – yet. I feel like I have to tag the houses I went to on the “homes of the stars” tours, but I geotagged them and remember a few of them. More later.
2) I bought a Canon Powershot G10 and used it this weekend. I love it. I know that I’ll get grainy photos with high ISO, but allows me to have grownup controls over a toy camera. Plus it’s all black, which makes it look slick.
3) I went on the Section 8 road trip to Kansas City to support the Chicago Fire. They’re a good bunch of people and I’m glad I went. Very good bonding experience.
4) The downside of the Powershot G10 is that Adobe’s RAW software can’t support it yet, so I’m left with Canon’s software, which makes handling photos awkward.
Toronto is in less than two weeks and HK is in less than 3. Awesome.
I was in LA this past weekend. More on that later, along with pics.
The White Sox and the Cubs both made the playoffs for the first time since… a while. I’m pretty sure that if they advance further, a fissure will open up and swallow the city whole. But in all seriousness, it’s exciting. My loyalty is towards the Men in Black, but I’ll begrudgingly root for the Cubs. However, the Cubs being the Cubs, will probably suffer another Bartmanesque incident which has no bearing on the game and yet the Cubs will collapse.
Exciting times, indeed.