Teh Scanning Continues!

Heh, I really was uber kyoot as a baby:



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People say all babies are beautiful, but honestly, I've seen some ~pretty~ hideous looking babies out there. Both my sister, my brother and I all came out looking like happy little bubbly, blond cherubs when we were babies. Josh was the odd one out though, he was born as bald as a billiard cube and then when he did sprout hair it was blond like my sister's and mine, but it was ~uber~ curly...stayed that way a long time too.

My hair eventually turned light brown, although my beard and stash come out fiery red and blond for some strange reason. A regular "ginger beard" if you will. A trait that's also shared with my cousin Chad, but with no one else in the family that I'm aware of. According to my mom, apparently we have some pretty strong Irish roots, so that might be where it's from...a genetic atavism and all like that.

On the scanning progress, I've got around 450 pictures scanned so far...although scanning is actually the ~fairly~ easy part. It's the whole "clean up" process that's ~really~ time consuming, so that's going to go much slower.

Right now I'm primarily concerned with getting all of them scanned, partly so I can be rid of the originals and give them all back to my mom, to free up some "personal space" (I'm a bit of an uber minimalist) and of course, once scanned it will ensure that they'll be fully protected from any accidental destruction (ie a fire or something like that).

Of course I'm also keeping multiple backups of the scanned versions, two at my place, one at my brothers and one will eventually be on my server as well. I'm also going to build PAR2 sets for the images as well, to protect against any minor, bit level corruption that may occur over time.

Equivocation

LOL, I've always been fascinated with the human preoccupation for creating problems that don't actually exist, seemingly going out of your way to turn mole hills into mountains, screwing people over on a whim and doing unto others what you would ~never~ want done to yourself...yup, that's very much the central core of the deranged little human psyche. Personally I would describe myself as a "more evolved" (mentally) human being...however the last time I did that it generated quite a number of hate mails, with frothing little tantrums about how I ~apparently~ have "no right" to call myself a human being...LOL...as if *THAT* would really be a bad thing. ^__^

Anyway, it seems that here, suddenly, out of the blue, someone I ~thought~ I kind of knew has taken it upon themselves to arbitrarily try and screw me over...without any particular reasoning or goal in mind...other than to try and cut off their own nose to attempt to spite their face it would seem...either that or they're just plainly fucking stupid...I haven't quite decided which yet.

The question remains though...what to do, what to do...on the one hand simply exposing the truth about the situation and the particular company behind it would certainly inflict a rather enjoyable mass level of damage, a literal public relations nightmare for the originating franchise...especially if I actually take them to court over it.

On the ~other~ hand though, doing it that way would very much prevent me from using my...~usual~ methods of "equivocation" if you will, as taking such action would generally make me look like something of a hypocrite if I want to try and play out the truth, do nothing, and simply be a "helpless victim".

So I'm really a bit torn...I mean either way produces rather nth level amounts of fun and excitement all around (not to mention teh drama), but the later method ~would~ be *MUCH* more satisfying to me personally, especially since the person in question was someone I ~thought~ I could trust, someone whom I ~thought~ was at least semi-honorable. I mean if someone you know to be a fuckhead goes out of their way to try and screw you over it's not as if it's that big of a surprise, I mean you pretty much expect that sort of thing from them...but to be betrayed by someone you ~thought~ you could trust...yeah, that makes it personal, that makes the "crime" just that much more insidious and disrespectful.

I haven't decided as of yet which course I'll take, but I'm sure I will have to take one of them. If there's one thing I've learned about humans it's that they don't learn, even if you verbally bitch slap them right across their idiot faces with just how fucking stupid they're being, even if you expose them to the same level of damage they seek to inflict upon others...they *DON'T* learn.

I'll keep ya all updated with what I go ahead and decide to do though, and you can all be guaranteed a front row seat for the fun! ^__^