nothing2fancy

i took a crap-ton of pictures today

Hopefully I’ll post them soon.

I want this camera

And to be honest, my desire for this camera is motivated in no small part by nostalgia. When I first started taking pictures I used my Dad’s 1960’s era Canon FT (I think), which came with a two-piece leather case. There was the leather base-plate that stayed on the camera at all times and the leather cover that snapped over the body during storage and transportation.

I need to talk to him and find out what he’s done with that camera. I loved that thing.

On a more rational level, the high-ISO performance is reputed to be much better with this new model. Low light performance for my baby was abysmal. Just utter shit. Everything else was so good, but dim the lights (turn on some Allman Brothers) and this camera looks shittier than your cellphone camera.

This is why I love Obama

We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.  The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don’t tell me we can’t uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals.  I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination.  Passions fly on immigration, but I don’t know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers.  This too is part of America’s promise – the promise of a democracy where we can find the strength and grace to bridge divides and unite in common effort.

I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk.  They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values.  And that’s to be expected. Because if you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters.  If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.

You make a big election about small things.

Absolutely beautiful.

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17 Simple Rules For Going To The Cinema With Me. …

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My Text Back and Forth with Obama at 3AM Last Night…

(1 of 1)-2

writing a strongly worded letter: lit only by two Speedlight…

TUAW delivers two old Weekend Update-themed jokes today

Just something I noticed.

#1 Steve Jobs Still Not Dead – Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

#2 Erica, you ignorant slut – Jane, you ignorant slut

New Pictures Posted

I just posted a bunch of new crap at http://nothing2fancy.com/pictures/.

On a side note, I also bought another flash this week, so expect some thrilling mediocre pictures soon.

Here’s one shot I took last night:

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Mac 101: Pressing F5 in a text field

Twins, etc.

Preparing for the Biggest Organized Event of Them All: The Olympics

Preparing for the Biggest Organized Event of Them All: The Olympics

I shared this mostly because this dude has the biggest collection of gear porn I’ve ever seen, including a dual XServe Raid (over 20 TB of storage, BALLS!)

Check out this crap:

Dori Videos

Three videos of little Doris in West Virginia last weekend. This probably won’t be interesting to anyone, but screw you all, I’m posting anyway.

… in which Dori jumps on a bed from Jim Kubicek on Vimeo.

Dori is NOT dirty from Jim Kubicek on Vimeo.

Dori’s First Swing from Jim Kubicek on Vimeo.

Create HTML link from Safari Tab

My second script has been completed, this one actually works.

tell application "Safari"
	set currentTab to current tab of window 1
	set tabName to name of currentTab
	set tabURL to URL of currentTab
	set the clipboard to ("<a href=" & tabURL as text) & ">" & tabName & ""
end tell

There are message boards that I post on that don’t autoformat URLs as links, so I’ve always had to manually add the “<a href=” tags. This scrip just pulls in the title and URL of the current tab and copies the HTML link to the clipboard. I set the badboy up as a hotkey in Quicksilver and BOOM, I have done it.