Knuckledragger

IAWTC. I am dyslexic, and those ergo-whatzit keyboards drive me absolutely batshit. They trigger all kinds of left/right brain crossover issues that I don't normally have. I can barely type on the sodding things.

Spent more hours today than I can to mention cross referencing prints from my film camera with jpegs from my digital SLR trying to figure out when I took various shots last week. Then I spent even longer comparing the field of view between my 35mm and 50mm, to identify which lens I used in various shots. This is a lot harder than one would imagine. Fortunately, I shot an entire roll with just my 50mm, so it served as a good baseline reference. Of course, I also switched between 135mm and 200mm primes on one roll, and it's all but impossible to tell which lens I used. Both lenses are manual focus, so they don't leave any EXIF data, even on my dSLR. After some careful research (and mining my foggy memory) I've mostly sorted it out. From now on, I'm carrying a journal (or a PDA) and writing down the time, date, lens and F-stop/aperture setting on every fricken shot I take with film. Isn't this was serious photographers did back in the 20th century? Then I found out Tim Russert died, and I was shocked. The rest of this political season won't be the same without him. Oh, yeah. Then I went and got the mail, and had a box with balanced DT-880s waiting for me. I've got them on right now. Sadly, they are driven in single-ended mode. They'll be that way until I get a balanced amp, duh. Capsule review: they definitely have a deeper bass extension than the 2K3 model, but will never be mistaken for HD-650s any time soon. They are just as comfortable as their predecessors, and have that same gorgeous floaty decay. They're also really easy on the eyes. Much better looking than the flat-sided 2003s.

In spite of the fact that I tended to shout "Ahh, Timmeh!" at the television when I saw him, I was greatly shocked and saddened when I found out about Russert's passing this afternoon. My heart goes out to his wife and children, who were still in Italy when he died. I'm afraid his shoes will not be easily filled.

Thanks, I stumbled upon it shortly after posting that, found it after carefully searching for it. ... I am sad about the lack of strikeout. Its absence ruins my self-deprecating humor.

I, for one, welcome the new vBulletin software. In the last few weeks, the simple machines forum was making Fahrfox unhappy. I'd get random lockups and the "a script is making FFX run slow, stop the script?" popup dialog boxes. It also cuased FFX to chew through a gig of RAM at times. 0_o Currently, I'm not seeing any smilies, nor any bold/underline/italics etc. functions.

Lost power 3 times last night. My computer is already on a (much bigger) APC UPS, but my networking hardware is not. It was a PITA bringing up the network each time.

It's pretty, but... the headphone jack(s) are on the back, and the mini one is below the USB port? Yuck.

Trader Joe's veggie burrito, with Texas Pete's hot sauce and TJ's Greek-style yogurt. Washing it down with a Steaz green tea soda, orange flavor. Life could be worse.

I went to town to drop off 3 rolls of film to be developed, and I ended up coming home with a sexy 18-year-old http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3040/2564521811_5709372e82.jpg[/img ...bottle of Scotch, that is. I asked about Ardbeg, but the only bottle he had in stock was the 10-year and not Uigeadail (the shopkeep looked at me like I was nuts when I asked for "Ardbeg Oogie.") He did have this 18 year old bottle of Talisker on markdown (making it only a few bucks more than the 10-year) so I sprang for that instead. As good as it looks (and right now, that's pretty fricken good), I'm going to wait to open it. I have a large-ish gig doing lights for a Whole Foods party tonight, and no time to drink. Furthermore, my best friend is in the hospital, dealing with what is a very painful condition. When she emerges, and makes her way back here, this will be my get well present to her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5PnWcNtRk

Lego vs. real life.

Rubiks Cubism.

I disagree with this premise. Horses are beautiful, noble animals. SJP is a vile harpie. ... Greetings from the Edgartown Public Library!