Under a Gibbous Moon

Damn smelly hippies

Give up?

It’s supposed to be a deep dish pizza. Went to the local Pizza Hut with my wife tonight and instead of a large deep dish pizza we got a large hand tossed pizza. When we asked the waiter about the pizza he went back to check on it. When he came back we had what was probably one of the most awkward conversations he’d had as a server.

Apparently, they were out of large deep dish pizza dough and so, instead of saying anything, they just made a different pizza and hoped that we wouldn’t notice.

Yup, sounds like a plan to me. What makes this hilarious, is that this must be standard Pizza Hut policy because this happened to me better than a decade ago. I forget exactly what I ordered but the toppings were wrong. When asked about it, they said that they were out of the one (sausage if I remember correctly) so we just used this instead (pepperoni if I remember correctly).

Now Pizza Hut, shit happens, I understand that. You run out, things don’t go right, it happens to all of us, but please just be up front. This whole, hope we don’t notice thing turns small problem into a big mistake.

This says to me, “Road trip!”

I’ve been playing with a camera lately. Not just any camera but the one on my cell phone. With enough effort, I think that it takes some really good pictures.

I’m very pleased with how this one turned out. Taking pictures of small children is a lot like wildlife photography, you take a lot of pictures and just hope to get lucky. I got really lucky with this one.

Another lucky shot. The one I took right before this is nothing but a blur as she turned her head but then I managed to catch her right as she was focusing on something.

Nothing particularly special about this one, though I do like the framing, mostly I was going for a “arty” look and I like the way it came out.

While I don’t think that cell phones will ever replace those $12,000 behemoths, I do think that they have come a long way. A good cell phone camera can take some very crisp pictures with varying depths of field (though I have yet to see one with true manual focus). Maybe in another five years or so, there won’t even be a need for any of the mid range digital cameras.

Howard Taylor is the author of the amazingly good Schlock Mercenary. One of the most entertaining aspects of it are the nuggets of wisdom that can be gleaned from the fictional 7 Habits of Highly Effective Pirates (the complete list to date is here).

Anyone who has been in, or even in close proximity to the military will find most of them appropriate and down right hilarious. In a recent comic, Mr. Taylor has hit in on the head again. Even though it is not technically one of the rules, it should at least be made into a greeting card or something.