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.
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.
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!)
The windows flip out so that you can leave them open when it’s raining. There has to be crazy high winds to get any water inside, and even then, we don’t care too much, everything is concrete.
If you bring your account to a $0 balance, they close it! Plus they take three business days to transfer your money! So you if you transfer 100% of your balance to a different account you get this great rush when you notice that the transfer still hasn’t gone through, let me check Capital One…woah, I don’t have an account here anymore. HOLY SHIT THEY STOLE MY MONEYS
I’m nervous, but my iMac has been shady lately. iTunes will crash hard every few days. My instance of Safari uses all the CPU cycles when Stephanie is logged in, lots of general weirdness and unhappiness.
I’ve been trying everything I can think of to diagnose the problem: i’ve stopped all unnecessary apps from running in the background, I read crash logs throughly, no idea what was causing all the seize ups. Finally, last week I decided it was time to reinstall Leopard.
This shit made me nervous as hell. In addition to something going wrong and losing data, my biggest concern is actually about my iTunes library. My entire iTunes existence is based around ratings. My phone contains only songs with a top rating. All my smart playlists exclude songs with low ratings. I’ve got best of playlists for the big three genres (Jazz, Rock, Electronic).
Turns out reinstalling Leopard is easy as pie.
Step 1: Use Time Machine to back up your machine. I switched the backup location from my usual 750GB hard drive to a different one, so I now have three copies of my iMac.
Step 3: When the computer finishes restarting choose “Restore from Backup” from the menu bar. Pick a source and a destination.
That’s it! The entire process took about 6 hours for a 500 GB hard drive. When I logged in for the first time after the reinstall, everything was exactly as I had left it, except, oddly enough, the background reset to the default Leopard Aurora background. Other then that, everything is working exactly the same as before, minus all the shit going wrong.
Only thing I haven’t checked is if Leopard still refuses to restart while my MyBook firewire drive is plugged in.
