you want a camera or lens?

i'll get it for you.


('tis what i've been doing the last 2 months...i am gearhead man).

How the swearword did I get sucked into smiley land?

I used to be so anti-smiley, anti-exclamation. I wanted the words to say what they mean.

But now I read back what I'm writing to people, and I see smileys. I see exclamation marks where I'm not even meant to be shouting.

This has been caused by an excessive amount of internet communication these last few months. I am subliminally being forced to use these wretched means of inoffensiveness. I am submissing. I am surrendering to the masses.


At least I'm not using the wink one yet.

If I do, then I have well and truly conformed.


Hit me, really hard...now.