Links to remember for upcoming Photo article…. To Blur or Not? Depth of Field

It seems Paulo is getting rid of the blog? Its a scary command that, "rm -rf www/brownpau".

A Week in the City by the Bay We arrived in San Francisco last Thursday, tired and somewhat exhilarated. After a brief wait for Sarah hugs and greeting ensued. Sarah, far prettier than her photos let on, hung out with us that evening, and as she mentioned on her blog, ate dinner with us. The weather in SF was mild, a cool 75 degrees and sunny, though warm by Bay Area standards. Those poor people back home were suffering under 100+ degree heat. All I can say is, thank you Pacific Ocean. On Friday, we headed downtown and had our…

My friend Jeremy S. is currently serving in Iraq and is counting down the hours till he gets home. He requested I put up a counter for him, so we all can anticipate the day he gets back. Stay Safe Jeremy! Days till Jeremy Gets Home: Days: or Hours: or Minutes:

YAAAWWWNNN Contagious isn’t it…

The Gender Genie thinks I write like a girl. Try it for yourself…

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In just three days I’ll be relaxing in the City by the Bay, sweet San Francisco.

After a year and a half of blogging, never before have I succumed to the cheaper antics of meme’s… But there’s a first time for everything right? How much time do you spend online each day? It depends. Recently I’ve spent a lot less time, but usually I spend on average of 5-6 hours online in some form or another. Blogs, blogging, paying bills, researching this or that, making reservations, shopping… I’ve done almost anything you can do online once… What is your browser homepage set to? The hotmail login page Do you use any instant messaging programs? If so,…

You can’t help but feel a sense of courage and hope when listening to the strains of John Williams themes. It encourages me. I could tell you life has been hectic recently, but I find that kind of post misleading and as tired sounding as I feel. It almost inevitably signals the doom of a project or hobby. Instead I am going to tell you taht many plans are in the works, all of which affect me deeply in some way or another. I don’t know how these plans are going to work out, and unfortunately have found myself unwilling…

Art As A Language What has always confused me about art culture throughout most of my life was this idea that art was a universal language, and if you didn’t get it then you simply weren’t smart enough. An idea that may or may not be propogated intentionally. I was thinking this morning though that art is very much like any other language, if you don’t know the grammer or the vocabulary the other people are using, the message is libel to be gibberish. Anyone can view a piece of art work and derive an opinion of the asthetic of…

Its only got one side… No really… It does.

Nickel Creek In Town My favorite band is in town August 10th at Mississippi Nights in the Landing. I’m going, just after church. Anyone want to join me?

Prints Now Available! Yes, that’s right! You may now purchase prints of selected photos from walljm.com. Just click on the Buy Prints! link at the top. All prints are printed by ofoto.com of Kodak DuraLife paper. As time goes on, I will be making more prints available. If a photo you like is not listed, email me and I’ll look into it for you. Thanks,

Its heart wrenching to watch people struggle, and even more so to watch a group of people you know and love slowly let unresolved issues escalate to divisive problems. Its frustrating. So what does this have to do with semantics, you ask? Because the problems that cause division are simple and revolve around some terms that are often misunderstood and misapplied. What is love, and how does it work? Why is pride so closely related to the love’s antithesis? What are those common misconceptions that allow wickedly dangerous attitudes to creep up on us, long unnoticed for what they truly…

I Wonder as I Wander Walljm.com has been boring lately. Yes, I know it’s true. I’ve lost interest you see. It hasn’t been much of a priority, and I’ve lost my focus. Posting on blogs, blogging, technology, religion, politics, and such becomes boring after a while. Those “Oh so wonderful” autumn type posts that linger on the golden hues of sunset seem out of place in the midst of summer. I think that perhaps when certain things settle, and I’ve transitioned from what I am to what I plan to be I will write more often on a more focused…

Marketing Genius I have to blog this. Sarah from www.creativeslips.net has won a site design award from www.client-success.com. Aparently this company gives these website awards away to well designed sites. From the looks of it, they’ve been doing it for several years. Personally, I find this practice a stroke of pure marketing genius. What better way to introduce yourself to progressive online web people than to offer them an award. You stroke their ego, you stand a reasonably high chance of getting a link back to your own website, and you let them know who you are. Your google rank…

The last few weeks have been busy to say the least. Preparing for a VBS club I’m helping with, and managing a few other things has been taxing. I’ve not been posting here enough, as evidenced by the fact that there are only two posts on here today, which means that i’ve only posted twice in fifteen days. Bad. It should be interesting to see how the VBS goes. Today is my day to teach and lead in the crafts and what not. I’ve been experiencing a rather unusually large amount of spiritual warfare leading up to this too. I’d…

I’m not sure if we ever announced the launch of Marzhill Studios’ website. So here it is, www.marzhillstudios.com. Please let me know your thoughts and what not and feel free to pass the address to all your friends and reletives… distant cousins… old associates… you know… people… *grin*

“Ok… take a deep breath”, I think and slowly fill my lungs with oxygen. Stress floats away for a few moments as my mind is preoccupied with the expansion of my lungs and then settles back into the muscles in my neck and shoulders as I remember all the things that are currently going on. I pause for a moment to engage in wishfull thinking and my mind starts coming up with weasly little reasons why I shouldn’t be the one to have to do these things. I start thinking who I can unload it on and the catch myself.…