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Ok, now that we've established that I am a geek, let me give you a little background as to why this blog exists.  

Some things you have to jump into head first, other things happen because you started doing something, which led to something else, which led to something else... you get the idear.  A few years ago, my friends got me to sign up on a social networking site- something I thought I'd never do.  Once there, I thought "Oh, I'll never use this blog thingy."  Lo and behold, I used it.  However, due to the limited scope of the readers of that blog (all of maybe 5 people could actually see it), I decided to make a full-blown, honest to goodness blog (or 'blag', if your course runs to xkcd). 

I imagine that the popularity of blogs is due in some part to the basic human need to be understood and also the need that some people have to 'be heard.'  'Course, I imagine that there are others that do it to be (part of the) 'herd.'  If a psychologist were to analyze me, he'd probably say that I'm drawn to posting this blog because I have relatively few opportunities to be understood in real life.  You know, if he wants to say that, fine by me- just as long as he doesn't charge me for it.  

Inspired by a co-worker who is something of a design nut, I've started to look at the world in a different way.  Some of this critique-minded attitude probably comes from being a photographer who's obsessed with perfection.  I look at my pictures and see what's wrong with them, so then I start looking at everything else around me with that same critical eye.  I just hope I don't start judging people like this...

So that's what this blog is:  a bunch of reviews of all sorts of things, from hamburgers to cameras to computers.  There's no rhyme or reason to it.  For photographic related reviews, I'll probably post a bunch here but I'll also post them on my photo website- which for now is parked at lt.seejay.googlepages.com - so if you're looking for photo advice/reviews you don't have to wade through the randomness here.  Yes, I have a bias.  I'm human- if you want unbiassed, clean-room, totally-irrelevant-to-real-life reviews, you've come to the wrong place.