Obama pics

If you like taking photos or looking at photos and somehow and still not following the Whitehouse flickr page, do it now. 

The series is one best teacher of events photography. You cannot ask POTUS to pose all the time or angle his face to a softbox or umbrella. Rarely would we have the chance to arrange the best possible light for each picture that we take. But in this case, the photographer is a real expert in mastering available light and getting his camera in to take the shot given the chance. In the process, he shares a glimpse of the daily grind of the president. 

In this picture, see how Obama is a master speechwriter himself. After blowing up the picture, we can see how he understands the cadence and rhythm of the spoken words against the written.  

This photographer, Pete Souza, is fantastic. I wonder how he blends in the room  unobtrusively. And then how he is ushered out in a top secret meeting after taking hi shots.

Now, one funny result from Obama being this open to everyone (to have a flick page at that, which is updated almost daily) is this:

Just to check if this is exaggerated or not, I tried these pictures: 

into...

from... 

into...

Could the most powerful man on Earth have planned this during college? If no, has he discovered this funy complication by now? If I can change my signature, I'll devise something similar.

:-)

Gutsy Carlos

These remarks don't come from a church people should be going and giving money to:

Catholic bishops have criticized President Benigno Aquino III for saying that his administration will promote both natural and artificial methods of family planning. At least one bishop said Aquino could be excommunicated.

Carlos's placard saying Damaso! must have hit them where it truly hurts. They're playing Noli indeed with these threats. These worthless priests, who now cant deliver a decent homily, has no contribution any more to society except to make people sleep in their droning masses.

You da man Carlos! Mabuhay ka!


And then there's this stupid cop...

Andres [the apprehending police] said Celdran was wearing a “Charlie Chaplin costume.” 

Watdapak? 

Steve Jobs's Adjectives

I was watching the podcast of Steve Jobs's last keynote introduced iPhone 4, and decided to list down the adjectives as I pick them up. So here they are: 

Worked super hard to put this together

Incredible

Really changing the way we’re experiencing...

Stunning

Fantastic

Tremendous

Gorgeous

awesome,

I don’t think anybody’s going to come close to this

Revolutionary

Amazing engineering
Cool

Im very pleased with it

Strong

Really cool

We’re really happy

Great

but that’s not all!

Much more than that

Really amazing

The most advanced in the world

In the planet

Good

Best in the industry

Tons of new things

Works beautifully

Super fast

Deeper

Thrilled

Even better

Kinda cool

No one comes close to this

Done really, really well

Beautiful

Pretty cool, huh?

Efficient

Pretty exciting

A delight

Lot more than what people thought

It’s great

We’re really happy with it

This is one of those moments that reminds us why we do what we do

We’re really proud of it

More to it than meets the eye

So much more than another new product

Gonna change the way we communicate forever

Incredibly strong

Really surprising innovation

Incredibly strong but also remarkably precise

Gonna change everything all over again

Crossroads of technology and liberal arts

Fantastic human thesaurus of fantastical words! 

The three other fantabulous things in the keynote that struck me were: 

An SVP named Karthik Bala--a nerd acting like a guitar jock, but inadvertently appearing to be scratching his stomach instead: 

This quote that proves that even though Steve Jobs is a control freak, he still can recognize humor: 

And of course the product that was launched itself and this feature: 

When they have updated iPod Touch 64 GB, I know Ive waited long enough. It's time that I pass along my trusty 30 GB 5Gen iPod Video by that time. Should happen within this year. Jobs will announce it Q4. I know it. I know it. Im going to get me that iPod Touch 4. And also a PS3. Life aint perfect, but when you grab the chance to enjoy the little things... it's good. 

One of the gods is dead

Morning. I was waiting for the elevator when I saw the ticker from the tv/announcement-casters in the bldg lobby: "J.D. Salinger, reclusive writer, dies, 91." It woke me up. 

So not all office workers are phonies. Some of them are literate enough to pick-up the news from the bunch of headlines and Kris Aquino. 

R.I.P., J. D. Thanks for Holden. 

We still "can't erase even half the fuck you's in the world."

Heeess baack!

(screencap mula sa keynote)

Sobrang payat nya na pero may dala-dala siyang mga bagong iPod. may video na raw ang iPod Nano.

Dramatik ang enrada nya sa Keynote.

May eksena pa na nagkakamot sya nang tinahing pinagtransplantan nang bagong atay. (mula raw sa isang beinte anyos na nabangga at namatay).