The Mother Of Swing Sets [Timelapse Video]

My wife bought a new swing set for daycare and this thing was just insane to put together. According to the instructions they said it would take 2 people 8 hours to put together…dang! That means it would have taken me like 2 weeks to do it by myself.

So, she requested the help of some daycare parents and these guys in their awesomeness volunteered to put this together for their kids.

On the other hand I always wanted to make a timelapse video, but never really had the opportunity or the time to do it, so this was a perfect chance. I personally think I could do a much better timelapse than this, but since this was my first time I just wanted to keep it simple and see how it worked. So you are watching over 6 hours of video compressed down to a little over 4 minutes.

Ah!…Enjoy the music courtesy of http://freemusicarchive.org/

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Happy Memorial Day!

America: Love It Or Hate It

Americans are always wondering why other countries hate them. After living here for so many years I’ve learned to see why other countries feel the way they do. However it is unfair to judge a whole country because of the bad example of a few or the stupidity of its government…but still…we should do a better job at NOT doing the things expressed in these lists.

• The Real Top Eight Reasons Others Hate America
• Top 10 Excuses People Use To Hate America

Nice Summer Night For A Drug Deal

30-something african-american bro’ driving a small black 99′ saturn with a cocker spaniel riding on the back seat parks in front of my house. He is being followed by a +50 white guy with gray hair riding a bicycle holding in one hand a liquor bottle inside a brown paper bag. African-american bro’ looks both ways and pops the trunk open and gets out of the car while the cocker spaniel stays inside watching the zone. The white guy gets really excited when he sees the bro’ and a huge smiles appears in his face. African-american bro’ looks at me through my window, I freeze. After looking both ways he reaches inside the trunk and produces a clear sandwich-size ziploc bag with what appears to be "herbs" in it. He looks at me again, I’m still frozen. He rolls the bag while looking both ways and hands it over to the +50 white guy, who still has a big smile across his face and hasn’t realized I’m watching.

Thoughts start running through my head “what should I do?”, it’s like an bad car crash, it’s ugly but I can’t stop watching. “Will the police do something?” by the time I dial the number they will be gone. “Should I get up and get the car license?” Again, will the police do something?.

In the meantime, +50 white guy after quickly examining the contents of the bag, still smiling, hands the bro’ a small roll of what appears to be cash. Turns his bike around and rides away into the sunset. African-american bro’ takes one last look at me and hops into his black saturn and drives away. All I can think is “I should definitely tweet this and blog about it!”

Making Sense Out Of Randomness

IMG_2293-1, originally uploaded by campero.

I didn’t mean to take this picture at all. I was changing some settings in my camera to take a different picture and pressed the shutter by mistake and took this shot of the brick floor. Later on as I was tweaking all the other pictures this one came up and with a little tweak here and there this is the end result. Maybe is not a technically correct photo, maybe there is no sense of composition or else…maybe is just…too random and I think that’s what attracts me to it…it’s unintentional existence.
I would have never thought of taking a picture of the ground, I wouldn’t have know how to.

It makes me think of how many things are that were not meant to be, how many things exist unintentionally.

That’s How The Fight Started – Round 7

I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. ‘I’ll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.’

He said, ‘Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?’

‘Nah, she can order for herself.’ I replied.

And that’s when the fight started…