It was fairly clear last night so I took my trusty Nikon D4 outside to try and capture a photo of Mars. #nikonD4

Keeping in mind I don’t have a telescope to do this with, I relied on a Nikkor 70-200mm F2.8G to do this for me, coupled with a Manfroto tripod for good measure.

Here’s Mars fully blown up…. and yes, it is red to the naked eye of you haven’t seen it in the night sky.

Here’s the full size image in medium 1500 pixel size.. click for larger of course. Mars is the bright dot near the center, off to the left a little.

The full size image can be downloaded here. It’s 3.5 megs in size, 4928 x 3280.

Yes, I am having fun with the camera.

If you like comic book movies in the least, get ready for the heat. This trailer for the Avengers was released this morning.

download the 1280 x 720 version here. (42 megs) If you’d like to see the 1920 x 1080 HD version.. click the youtube logo.. then when on youtube, click the gear icon to change size, then go full screen, then geekgasm.

A few screen grabs from the trailer.. click for 1920 x 1080

(yes, the Hulk plucked Iron Man out of the sky and is now sliding down a skyscraper to save him. happens every day. duh)

Guys? I’m bringing the party to you…

This movie is going to be intense. I can’t wait for May 4th!

It was a long road getting here, but my first book, Over Exposed, is now available for sale in the Amazon store for anyone wanting it.

Click here to go check it out.

This book is currently only available for Kindle but it will be live for other formats shortly.

If you don’t own a Kindle, you can still buy this and read it on your PC if you want. Amazon offers Kindle software for both Mac and PC for free. It turns your computer, laptop or tablet into a Kindle basically.

Kindle for OS-X above (click the pic)

Kindle for PC above (click the pic)

Hope this helps if you want to read it or other books from Amazon.

I have a dream car, same as anyone out there. I want it, but it doesn’t make sense to own it. It’s fast on a level that places it in the same category as a Bugatti Veyron, yet it is 1/15th the price. Alas, I most likely will not buy one. I say most likely because I still have the … hmmmmm in me that thinks maybe, under the right circumstances… maaaaaaybe….

Yes kids, the Nissan GT-R is the sex I speak of.

So that said, what are you looking for when you’re pondering a car? Right now I don’t drive a sports car, but there is this new car coming here shortly… in North America it’ll be called a Scion.. in Japan, it’s the Toyota GT86. Check the size diff from this car to other cars. Try and tell me this car wouldn’t be a blast to drive.

The car I speak of is behind the Miata. Small.. 200 hp, light… it’s like a sandal compared to a shoe. (the Mustang)

me likey.

So as you’ll read below or in Kara’s official blog.. she is very excited to be part of the Bella network. We’re thrilled too!

I wrote my blog, and then it occurred to me that I maybe should have checked with her before saying the things I’d said, in case I was saying too much. I am a veyr up front kind of guy.. but others aren’t sometimes so i wanted to be sure. So I direct messaged her in twitter.

Kara responds…

Yeah.. try and tell me this lady isn’t jacked. I dares ya.