Western Arab

It is great to be back in Florida. I had a great time in California and it is now one of my favorite states.

Here are some wallpapers of some photos I took while in California and Nevada. 1920×1080

San Diego Beach

San Diego Beach Variation

Nevada Crescent

Los Angeles Night

I found another wetlands that is very close to my house as well. The first one I went to was the Wakodahatchee Wetlands and this new one is a single main road further and is much bigger. This was the Green Cay Wetlands. The Green Cay Wetlands has a board walk with 2 paths. One path is one mile long while the other is half a mile. I walked the one mile and then did the half mile as well, the half mile actually loops back through part of the one mile path. I like this wetlands more, because of it’s size.

So here are some shots I took today in 1920×1080 size to be used for wallpapers.

A little Stroll

A little too much to drink

Close-up of a bird

Last Drop

Look at my Teeth

Look at my Teeth 2

Watchmen

I watched Watchmen finally with iTunes. I like watching movies in HD but I don’t have a high definition television. I don’t watch TV much, rather I use the computer a lot and watch dvds, movies, tv shows all on the computer, like ABC’s LOST in HD. ABC has done an outstanding job with their HD program online. So I tried out iTunes with some hesitation as their HD movies are 720 instead of 1080 which is understandable for the file size. After downloading Watchmen, I was pleased with the quality at 720, it is not a huge noticeable difference.

V for Vendetta

Watchmen was an interesting movie. I enjoyed the dark and weird film. I had wanted to see the movie early this year when it was at IMAX but ended up missing it. It is not a movie for everyone, but I thought Jackie Haley who I never heard of before did an awesome job as Walter Kovacs aka Rorschach. Continuing the dark films I went ahead and also purchased V for Vendetta on iTunes and watched that as well and enjoyed it. This movie was even weirder than Watchmen. Natalie Portman played her part well. So it looks like iTunes will be my online movie rental / movie store for now anyway. It will be nice when movies are in full HD resolution which looks great on my 24″ monitor .

I bought both of these movies rather than rent. Watchmen because it isn’t available to rent yet, and V for Vendetta’s rental price was $3 while to buy it was $10. Being so close in price I bought it, which is worth it in some cases. Watchmen was $15. At these prices it is the price of going to the movie theater to watch them but I can re-watch when and if I want to. iTunes is not a replacement for “going to the movies” but rather a movie viewing option.

My HD Wallpaper folder

I have been going a little crazy with high definition desktop wallpaper. I started by downloading a few and decided to use Mac OS X’s change wallpaper every one hour feature. I later dropped this to every 30 minutes. But having this feature meant I must have more and so it went, I downloaded more and more. I now have 363 hd wallpapers in this folder all set to rotate randomly every 30 minutes.

These are mainly gorgeous nature scenes and city scenes. But I also have some from movies, cartoons and of course a few of Megan Fox and one of Keeley Hazell. I like to get them in 1080 size which is 1920×1080, but when that size isn’t available I get the 1920×1200 size. My desktop monitor resolution is 1920×1080 running with macbook docked.

And so it continues, I will probably find more and download them.