It’s getting close to a month. So. What have I learned?
Specifically, with my D70 I’ve learned a couple of things.
My filter tends to create green ghosts of light on the frame directly opposite the location of the light source. If I remove the filter for indoor shooting, the ghosts do not show up.
At 1600 ISO [...]
It sits there in my kitchen. Generally not full enough to run, but full enough that I should consider running it. I’ve used one consistently for the last six years and it’s the first time that I’ve really thought about it. I never really used the dishwasher until I got this place.
I had [...]
Saying that Bayonetta is “kind of ridiculous” is an understatement. It’s kind of like saying that I am kind of into video games or kind of not into racial profiling or kind of think that the TSA isn’t doing a good job. Understatements aside, I am going to point out that it is a game [...]
It builds, slowly. It could be anything. A stutter in framerate. A texture tear. Just the feeling that things could look better when I’m shooting Skaggs in the wilds of Pandora. (Yep. Still playing Borderlands.) So I think about my current setup, and I have to wonder if there’s anything else I can do, other [...]
I hear the telltale displacement of air, the sudden rush to fill a Lillith sized hole in the universe. That noise only means one thing. She’s phased, which means that she’s seen me first.
I’ve got about ten seconds.
I wonder what it’s going to be like when I see her.
Will the hairs all over my body [...]
Twas the night before Apple, and all ’round the net,
All the rumors were flying, but no real news yet.
Speculations were read, with the utmost of care,
With the hopes that the keynote, soon would be aired.
Apple faithful were restless, their iPhones held steady,
In hopes that Cupertino soon would be ready
To announce a new tablet, for which [...]
It stops, it starts. There is an unconscious, subliminal vehemence to the motion.
I think the metro transportation engineer hates people.
That’s the only explanation I can offer for the abrupt accelerations and decelerations, the jerky movements that disturb the cilia in my inner ear just so.
Another wave of nausea comes and goes, although it’s worse than [...]