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So you are trying to rent out your place, want to show off how you live or just keep memories – usually, the pictures won’t turn out the way you imagined.

Here are some tips:

1. Get/rent a wide-angle lens (alternatively, put your camera on the zoomed out setting you got),
2. clean up anything that is small, laying around or distracting; straighten out your furniture,
3. go in the corner of the room, back to the wall/window/door to get as much as possible in there,
4. do not tilt your camera (focal plane) and keep it parallel to the wall, make sure all lines that go up are straight,
5. move up and down until it looks good and you’ve got a reasonable relation between floor and ceiling. Most of the time, the middle of the room’s height is pretty good.

When there is a bright window, you can try to put down the shades a little. That way you will keep it that from being overly white and darking out the rest of the interior. Also, you will probably have to overexpose a little bit when the room has white walls.

If your photo is distorted, I can recommend PTLens.
In Photoshop, you can adjust your colors and make them warmer or colder.

1. Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.
2. Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five  minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game  before helping around the house.
3. Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be  on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing g usually end in  fine.
4. Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don’t Do It!
5. Loud Sigh: This is not actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is  wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer  back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)
6. That’s Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That’s  okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you  will pay for your mistake.
7. Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you’re welcome.  (I want to add in a clause here - This is true, unless she says ‘Thanks a  lot’ - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT  say  “you’re welcome”; that will bring on a “whatever”):
8. Whatever: Is a woman’s way of saying SCREW YOU!
9. Don’t worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in  a man asking ‘What’s wrong?’ For the woman’s response refer to #3.

It seems to me that some people don’t really understand the concept of a library very well. There are only a few acceptable uses of a library and they are as follows:

1. Reading/Research.  There are books there for a reason - you can pick one up, take it to a table/desk and read it there, or you can check it out and read it wherever you want.
2. Studying.  Libraries are quiet places, so they are generally very conducive to most people’s study methods. The library is a great place because it’s a fairly boring place, so you’re not going to be very distracted by a lot of stuff going on.
3. Homework.  This sort of falls under ‘studying’ but it’s different enough that it warrants its own point.  Again, libraries are quiet places with few distractions. Hop on a computer, bring your laptop, get some work done.

That’s it. That’s all.  Now, the list for unacceptable uses of a library is much longer:

1. Socializing.  Isn’t a coffee shop a much better place to hang out with your friends than a library?
2. Holding a loud conversation. Look at number two on the acceptable list, the key word there is *quiet*. If you’re talking, it’s not quiet. If it’s not quiet, people can’t focus. If people can’t focus, it kind of ruins the whole point of numbers two and three.
3. Talking on your cell phone.  Sometimes your phone rings, that’s understandable. But then you answer it?!  Then you talk for five minutes, raising your voice at times because the reception sucks.
4. Making out. You know the corner with all the chairs and the little sidetable and the lamps? That’s not a cozy make out spot for you and boy/girlfriend. Again, wouldn’t it be much better to go somewhere a little more romantic to do that kind of thing?

I could go on. But I won’t. If you can’t tell, I’m a bit upset. I was in a great work-mode, getting a lot of stuff done when all of a sudden the library began to erupt with people and noise. Please, please, please, don’t go to the library to socialize with your friends - go to the cafe or sit on El Prado. If your phone rings, fine, but don’t answer it and be sure to put it on vibrate - or if it’s really important take it outside. I realize that people have study group sessions in the library - that’s fine! But keep your voices down. You don’t need to yell at the person who is sitting less than three feet away from you. And for the love of God, if you’re making out in a library, something is wrong with you.

1. “I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me Superman.”

2. “Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.”

3. “Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.”

4. “if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way”

5. “When I look at the smiles on all the children’s faces, I just know they’re about to jab me with something.”

6. “I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.”

7. “All my life I’ve had one dream, to achieve my many goals.”

8. “But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.”

9. “I’m in no condition to drive…wait! I shouldn’t listen to myself, I’m drunk!”

10. “Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”

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1. Approve of yourself.

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

2. Your limitations may just be in your mind.

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

3. Lighten up and have some fun.

“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

4. Let go of anger.

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

5. Release yourself from entitlement.

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

6. If you’re taking a different path, prepare for reactions.

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

7. Keep your focus steadily on what you want.

“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”

8. Don’t focus so much on making yourself feel good.

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

9. Do what you want to do.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

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