Digital vs. Analog

Finally got round to developing the pictures I took with my Olympus.

Given the amount of photos I took with digital - vs analog, and given the amount of them that came out good - analog feels like it still has the edge for me.

That said - out with the old, in with the digital!!!

Day at the Zoo

I spent a good part of the day at the Pretoria (now Tshwane) Zoo - the goal was to take photos.



Along with my ineptitude at taking photos, and the bad light... I didn't take any photos I can say I'm impressed with.



Part of it was to just make the day go faster. (problems)



Still - despite it all - the Pretoria Zoo sure is an impressive place. The biggest Zoo I've ever been in.


Took along an old old old SLR - still have to develop the photos.

Tswaing / Soutpan / Impact Crater

Went to Tswaing on Saturday. It's one of the best preserved meteor craters in the world. About 200 000 years old.

Presumably, it has been used as a source for salt for whatever indigenous people were there at the time. There is certainly evidence of recent iron age usage. More recently, in the 1930's it was the focus of an industrialized salt extraction process. Luckily - whatever damage caused by salt mining is not visible within the crater - the African bush is quick to remove the marks of man.



50km north of Pretoria. You drive past Soshanguve, head up into a small nature reserve, take a small hike - and BAM. There it is. You really don't see what it is, until you walk up onto the rim.

Where to fly a kite

Flew my kite - FINALLY!



At the ultimate kite flying location; S 25.97285 ; E 28.17670 (Just mind the rc gliders!!!)



We did try the park again - but it just didn't gel.

Communication - much arch enemy

I don't just strugle to communicate with other humans on a day to day basis using my mouth speaking device - I strugle with all manner of communication.

1) Vocal mouth speaking thing - I make the sounds, people don't understand
2) Cellphone a) "can you repeat that please, you're breaking up" b) my voice mail doesn't work - I can't get it to work - no matter what I do - the network refuses my commands
3) Broadband - a mysterous error that happens to only ONE iburst subscriber. Me. Only me. I went to UUNET HQ - and it started working again. This sucks!

Association, Aggregation and Composition

It's too much for me little brain!!!