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Hey y’all

Today I want to show you all the work of Elizabeth Ashley, she’s a flickr user I have followed since I first joined Flickr after getting my Cannon 450DSLR, she uses a camera that is similar to mine, although its a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS. But thats enough about that, this is a photo blog not a Camera pissing contest. She does a lot of Self photography, but she also mixes it up with a bunch of great photos from what is around her. Here is an example of her work.

I started following Elizabeth’s work after finding her on twitter, but an interesting fact that I found out about her was that she used to do a lot of work on Youtube.com her username was SupaDupaFlyGirl and she was a Youtube Partner, which means she got paid x amount of ad revenue from youtube depending on her total video views. Anyway, you should check her out, here’s a few of her links.

www.flickr.com/photos/supadupaflygirl

www.youtube.com/supadupaflygirl

www.twitter.com/flytographer

(After I started I realized Tuesdays are actually my Video Blog Days but hey, Who cares about a timetable)

The Article from The Saturday examiner

Todays blog is inspired by idiots that are allowed to legally drive a car, but lets not forget the idiots that also decide to drive with out a license. The thought for todays blog came to me on the drive home from work last night, I was going around the round-a-bout just off the highway, looked in my rear-view mirror and what do I see? A white car with its headlights on high beam right up my ass. At first I speed up to get more of a distance between me and the other car, but then my mind clicked and I slowed down.

Why did I slow down when this car was going right up my ass? Well for one, if he ran into me, it would be his problem. Two, I know just how much it would have pissed the other driver off, so in a 60 zone I slowed down to 40 and the idiot just didn’t get the message as he decided to continually stay up my ass for a few more minutes until he slowed backed off. Maybe that wasn’t the right thing to do, but it made me happy so I dont really give a shit.

You may be sitting there thinking, well thats all well and good but why the friggin hell are you blogging about it?

OOH so your questioning my reasons to blog now Huh!? Well STUFF YOU!

Sorry slight mental moment there.

In the Saturdays Examiner (Local Newspaper in Launceston) there was a two page spread about Drink driving / Dangerous driving. Due to the fact that this year the Tasmanian Road’s Death Toll is way up on previous years. What I would like to show you all though is some of the Excuses that Tasmanian police have been hearing from those caught Drink Driving, Talking on the Phone, Speeding and a few other bad things.

Drink-Driver

“You have cost me my job, my house, my livelihood, and my son’s 21st birthday.”

This driver obviously knew the risk he was taking, so why blame others for him doing the wrong thing.

Drink-Driver

“I thought I would’ve been right…. I only had eight beers”

Yes because that isn’t much at all when the legal driving limit is 0.05 … hmm

Drink-Driver

Driver was asked when he started drinking “I started 30 years ago and I haven’t stopped since”

A common thing I’m seeing here is that the drink drivers know they are in the wrong but they have decided to do it anyway.

Speeding

“I’m speeding because my little boy spat cordial on the cruise control button and it got stuck”

Anyone else want to call bullshit on this smart mouthed bitch?

Talking on Mobile

“You have just ruined my chances of adopting a Taiwanese child. It may just be a minor matter here, but over in Taiwan, it’ll be viewed as a crime!”

And Talking on your phone while driving is a crime here so shut the fuck up

Failing to Carry License

“I’ve just done a funeral and my license is in the hearse”

Okay so now that comment is just funny.

Driving through a Red Light

“I didn’t see the red light because I was talking on my Phone wasn’t I?”

Another case of smart mouthed people. Police should just taser them.

Failing to Dip Lights

“I work for child services and, as part of my job I have to locate missing children at night… so I need good lighting!”

Okay so that comment is funny as well but also full of people being a smart ass.

I don’t know why, but do some of these people think that if they come up with some creative reason the cop’s will just let them off? Or laugh the matter aside. “Oh really, no thats fine, go right ahead, be careful of the corner up there its a bit windy so don’t go to fast”

How ever I will admit that I myself have back chatted a copper once, it was new years eve a couple of years ago and I was driving home from work, and came across a random breath testing station, when I stopped the police officer came up to my window and goes. “Have you had anything to drink tonight?” I’m sitting there in my work uniform and with out thinking I just go. “Yeah… because I always down a carton at work” Probably not the best thing to say, the police officer just stared at me then tested me, I was fine and they sent me on my merry way.

So yeah, the road is full of idiots, and maybe while we all think we aren’t like them. We probably are in a small way, wether its bad driving or snaky remarks.

I found this Photo on Flickr this morning as I searched through all the fantastic photographers that use the same Cannon DSLR camera as me and this photographer’s work just stood out to me, all of her images are fantastic. She has great composition and understanding of how to create a good photograph, not only that but she manages to fit herself into almost all of her images. Click here to visit the photographers Flickr account!

I also found a lot of her captions for her images to be interesting, here is her caption for this image.

“In life, there is no pause button, no rewind, and definitely no replay”

“I would really love an Undo button though…”

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
With 1,000′s of new questions, you’ll never run out of answers. Stunning graphics and rich sound effects immerse you in the game. Feeling nostalgic? Play a round in Classic Mode. In the mood for something new? Choose your path to success in Pursuit Mode. Answer fun and challenging questions correctly to get your piece of the pie!!!

MY REVIEW

Before I start, I would like to point it out that I have and probably always will be completely useless at Trivial Pursuit unless they bring out a Trivial Pursuit for Geeks, in which case I will probably still fail! Because that is my kind of thing… I prefer mindless entertainment, really speaking myself up here aren’t I?

After downloading and playing this game, I hate to say that in my opinion it isn’t really worth the $5.99 price tag, maybe $1 or $2 but $5 is something a bit hefty for someone like me who isn’t really a general facts / history buff. The game itself is relatively easy to play, with a shake of the iPhone the dice roll’s its way around and you get to select which piece you want to jump onto, I will admit that I played the game on easy, because I know Medium or Hard I would have given up on in about 2 minutes. Although I almost found Easy to be too easy, to the point in which I got about 20 questions right in a row and had already earned 3 Pie pieces before the AI opponent even had a roll of the dice.

But let me tell you, Once I failed that Sport and Leisure question I was screwed with a big old pile of bad luck and dumbness on my part and for about 15 minutes after that I didn’t get a question right and I put the iPhone down on the charger to write this little old review.

In my opinion if you want a game to pass the time, Crash Bandicoot Racing or iCopter might be a better bet for some small entertainment factor, unless testing your knowledge is your forte I really don’t think this app is worth much, I do how ever highly rate the game app with its like-ness of the real board game, the creators have managed to successfully capture the essence of the Trivial Pursuit Board game extremely well and the AI, Single player adaption is great for those who want to test their knowledge in solitude.

Over all I rate this app 4/10 with it’s most redeeming factor being its likeness to the real game.