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A coworker sent me this one this morning. Thought I would share

A farmer had a wife who nagged him unmercifully. From morning till night (and sometimes later), she was always complaining about something.

The only time he got any relief was when he was out plowing with his old mule. He tried to plow a lot.

One day, when he was out plowing, his wife brought him lunch in the field. He drove the old mule into the shade, sat down on a stump, and began to eat his lunch. Immediately, his wife began haranguing him again. Complain, nag, nag; it just went on and on.

All of a sudden, the old mule lashed out with both hind feet; caught her smack in the back of the head. Killed her dead on the spot.

At the funeral several days later, the minister noticed something rather odd. When a woman mourner would approach the old farmer, he would listen for a minute, then nod his head in agreement; but when a man mourner approached him, he would listen for a minute, then shake his head in disagreement. This was so consistent, the minister decided to ask the farmer about it.

After the funeral, the minister spoke to the farmer, and asked him why he nodded his head and agreed with the women, but always shook his head and disagreed with all the men.

The farmer said: ‘Well, the women would come up and say something about how nice my wife looked, or how pretty her dress was, so I’d nod my head in agreement.’

‘And what about the men?’ the minister asked.

‘They wanted to know if the mule was for sale.’

Well, as some of you who are close to me know, I had a nasty drop of the camera which resulted in my external flash unit’s base being destroyed.  Yayy!!  I figured I would take some shots in the studio of the damage since I was bored.   And then once that was done, to find some random things around the house to bring under the macro microscope.   Pretty interesting stuff.

Well, here’s the damage to the base of the flash.  At this point, it won’t stay connected to the camera and the camera itself, due to the incident, thinks that there’s a external flash constantly connected.  I guess it had to happen sometime.

Well, here are some various other macro’s that I did out of sheer boredom

Posted some new shots of the kitty using my new 24-70 lens.  Enjoy!!

Full gallery can be found here

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This post has been edited to remove any offensive language.

Found out yesterday that two of my sites that were basically just sitting there were hacked.  To give you an idea of just how seldom I use them, I wasn’t aware until Godaddy.com sent me a nasty e-mail threatening to shut off my account because of mass spam coming from my domain.  So to my surprise, when I went to racismonline.com, I was greeted by a picture of a Linux penguin with a penis.

Yea…. real mature… idiotic script kiddies!

I’m pretty sure that they had used an exploit in Jooma that has been recently patched in the latest release.  So, I’ve requested the server logs from my ISP so that I can track down the originating I.P. address and cause hell for these individuals by contacting their ISP.  And if I really want to be evil, I might bring the issue of my time up in small claims court and nail these idiots to the wall.   As if yet, I don’t know if it was the password exploit, or a php or sql code injection attack, but I should be able to figure it out as soon as I see the logs.

Of course, it didn’t  help that smugmug had changed their configuration around the same time, causing www.kingphotosonline.com to come down a crashing hault as well.  So at first, I thought someone had broken into my godaddy.com account. Nice!

The good thing that has come from this is that I’ve re-installed the content management software using a method that allows for easy updating of the files and I’ve also made Korrupted.Net, marcellusking.com and a few of my other domains a bit more secure.   Of course, I needed to get on the ball and start getting Marcellusking.com built anyway, so hopefully, I’ll be able to be done with that in around a month if I can find the time to complete it.    I figure it’s about time I start picking things up in the business anyway.

Figured I would go ahead and post a few pictures of the Kansas City airshow from this weekend.   I had gone last year and took plenty of pictures, so I was a bit more relaxed with the camera this year. 

Good thing too, because for a short while, my camera shutter button became briefly inactive following a sonic boom.  Thank goodness for having a backup camera body.   You never know when those will come in handy.   Fortunately, the problem was with the contacts not getting a clean connection on the shutter mechanism.   If it becomes more of problem, I’ll be sure to send it in for some quick service. 

But anyway, without further ado, here are some of the pictures from the air show.  Mostly consisting of the thunderbirds.

Spent the late morning and early afternoon at Powell Gardens to get some good shots of the butterfly festival.  Now, normally,  a man wouldn’t be so enthusiastic about seeing butterflies, but when it comes to photography, well, there’s a lot to see and to shoot.   So yea, I was like a kid in a candy store.

The only thing that bugged me though is that there seemed to be quite a few people there with cameras who acted like complete snobs as soon as they saw my camera.  And just about all of them were 50+ year old white guys with entry level SLR’s with kit lenses, or high end point and shoots.   Same move every time, they look at me, look at the camera, and throw some snobbish look at me and move on.  My “hi’s” and “How are you doing’s” were frequently met with silence and grumbles.   Out of the whole day, I only remember striking up a photography related convo with three people.   Two guys who had questions about what my ring flash was and how to get better close up shots, and another one who was an actual pro photographer in which I actually had a long and extended convo about lighting, new equipment on the photography scene, techniques, etc…   Thank god I was there to shoot flowers and butterflies and not socialize.  People who don’t even thank you when you keep the door open for them after you go through so it doesn’t slam in their face.   Here’s a tip people!  When people keep the door open for you, you ONLY walk through if you’re a woman.  Otherwise, you take hold of the door and say thanks.  Don’t walk through without even trying to grab the door or saying thanks for the consideration.   That’s how you catch a butt whipping by a black guy.   Fortunately, I’m not a hooligan.  But I wouldn’t mind being one for a day.  My theory was that these a-holes were from the rural areas where blacks aren’t too common.

Next time I go to that area, I’ll wear a shirt with a black power fist on the front.

Anyway, enough with the rant.  Other than that, it was a pretty fun experience.  The staff that worked there were very pleasant and informative and I popped off plenty of shots.   Here’s a sample of some of the ones I shot

My apologies in advance to those of you who are not on a broadband connection.  Then again, what am I saying?  Hurry up and upgrade you cheap hippies.  Unless your out in the middle of nowwhere, in which case, there’s nothing you can do about your crappy connection. Read the rest of this entry »

Sorry for the lack of updates.  Just been pretty busy and got a LOT on my mind concerning some recent events.  Hopefully, I’ll get those thoughts down on the blog before the end of the week.   But without further ado, here are some shots from Denver over the July 4th weekend while visiting my brother.  Mostly macro shots at the moment.  I’ll post the family pictures in the near future.  Sorry, didn’t get a chance to hit the mountains and do much scenery on this visit.