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Posted 14 years agoI'm in a sort of moral dilemma about uploading a new avatar.
The current one I've used since ages ago, and is ripped from a Martini commercial (The girl dancing on the left is Lisa Snowdon)
It's actually so old, that the new 50 kb rule doesn't apply (it's over 80 kb), so it's sort of unique, but I'm getting tired of looking at it....
Oh and I also uploaded a few tattoo ideas/logos.
The current one I've used since ages ago, and is ripped from a Martini commercial (The girl dancing on the left is Lisa Snowdon)
It's actually so old, that the new 50 kb rule doesn't apply (it's over 80 kb), so it's sort of unique, but I'm getting tired of looking at it....
Oh and I also uploaded a few tattoo ideas/logos.
New camera
Posted 17 years agoI'm now the happy owner of a Sony CyberShot T70
Had a bit of an odd experience when I bought it though... I walk into a camera shop (photo shop?) and this friendly looking salesman comes over and asks if he can assist me with anything. I say "Yeah, I'm looking for a small Sony camera around 400$, what do you have?"
And he's like "Ah well you don't want a Sony, look at this nice Pentax! We've just got them in!". I tried telling him that I didn't want a Pentax or a Samsung or Panasonic - I wanted a Sony, but noooo, he kept on yapping about the Pentax and I just said "Fine, if you don't want to sell me a Sony, I'll buy it somewhere else" and left. What the fuck is up with these people?
I looked up the Pentax when I got him and it's crap compared to the Sony, and besides, I love Sony's cameras.
I've owned 2 Sony Mavicas and they were both great cameras, but technology outpaced them, on one front in particular: Storage.
First one was a 1.3 MP that stored on floppy discs (yeah that's right) and the second one was a 5.0 MP that stored on 3" cd's. Sony is one of the few that have ventured past memory cards for digital camera memory. and you can't quite say it was a flop because the cameras received a lot of praise and they sold pretty well.
I still have the 5 MP one, and it's a fantastic camera especially considering that it's 5 years old. You don't need the extra megapixels that the newer ones have and this thing has a battery life of 210 minutes and Hologram laser assisted auto-focus (one of the few of those proprietary techs that actually works), but when you're limited to 256 MB storage on a small cd (or 2.88 MB on a floppy disk) and have to lug around a camera bigger than most professional SLR's just to accommodate a cd burner or floppy drive, it's gonna be outdated pretty fast.
I bought them back when memory cards were still on price level with diamonds, so it seemed like a good idea to use inexpensive memory which you could get anywhere and you could just pop it straight into your pc to transfer.
Aaaanyway, I'm rambling.
But yeah, new camera is smexy :)
8.1 megapixels, large 3" touch screen, Carl Zeiss 3x zoom lens (plus 10x smart zoom), Super SteadyShot (gyro stabilized lenses), Smile Shutter, Face Detection, in-camera photo and video editing and HD output.
And it's so easy to use! You just flip down the lens cover and 0.18 seconds later, you've taken and stored your first picture. Add 4.9 seconds more and you've taken 5. It's incredibly fast because of the Biontz image processor from Sony's high end DSLR cameras and it takes great pics :)
Had a bit of an odd experience when I bought it though... I walk into a camera shop (photo shop?) and this friendly looking salesman comes over and asks if he can assist me with anything. I say "Yeah, I'm looking for a small Sony camera around 400$, what do you have?"
And he's like "Ah well you don't want a Sony, look at this nice Pentax! We've just got them in!". I tried telling him that I didn't want a Pentax or a Samsung or Panasonic - I wanted a Sony, but noooo, he kept on yapping about the Pentax and I just said "Fine, if you don't want to sell me a Sony, I'll buy it somewhere else" and left. What the fuck is up with these people?
I looked up the Pentax when I got him and it's crap compared to the Sony, and besides, I love Sony's cameras.
I've owned 2 Sony Mavicas and they were both great cameras, but technology outpaced them, on one front in particular: Storage.
First one was a 1.3 MP that stored on floppy discs (yeah that's right) and the second one was a 5.0 MP that stored on 3" cd's. Sony is one of the few that have ventured past memory cards for digital camera memory. and you can't quite say it was a flop because the cameras received a lot of praise and they sold pretty well.
I still have the 5 MP one, and it's a fantastic camera especially considering that it's 5 years old. You don't need the extra megapixels that the newer ones have and this thing has a battery life of 210 minutes and Hologram laser assisted auto-focus (one of the few of those proprietary techs that actually works), but when you're limited to 256 MB storage on a small cd (or 2.88 MB on a floppy disk) and have to lug around a camera bigger than most professional SLR's just to accommodate a cd burner or floppy drive, it's gonna be outdated pretty fast.
I bought them back when memory cards were still on price level with diamonds, so it seemed like a good idea to use inexpensive memory which you could get anywhere and you could just pop it straight into your pc to transfer.
Aaaanyway, I'm rambling.
But yeah, new camera is smexy :)
8.1 megapixels, large 3" touch screen, Carl Zeiss 3x zoom lens (plus 10x smart zoom), Super SteadyShot (gyro stabilized lenses), Smile Shutter, Face Detection, in-camera photo and video editing and HD output.
And it's so easy to use! You just flip down the lens cover and 0.18 seconds later, you've taken and stored your first picture. Add 4.9 seconds more and you've taken 5. It's incredibly fast because of the Biontz image processor from Sony's high end DSLR cameras and it takes great pics :)
America the Prison
Posted 18 years agoAmerica had 2.24 million people in prison at the start of this year.
Percentage wise, that's 6 times more than China, 9 times more than France and 3½ times more than Iran and Libya. The highest in the world.
This figure has increased 500% since the mid-70's and it doesn't show signs of stopping.
The statistics also show that black men are 6 times more likely to end up in prison than white men and that 8% of all black males between 30-34 are in prison at the time of the survey.
Percentage wise, that's 6 times more than China, 9 times more than France and 3½ times more than Iran and Libya. The highest in the world.
This figure has increased 500% since the mid-70's and it doesn't show signs of stopping.
The statistics also show that black men are 6 times more likely to end up in prison than white men and that 8% of all black males between 30-34 are in prison at the time of the survey.
What a fucking morning...
Posted 18 years agoI get off work, already in a bad mood because of an inexperienced new boss (someone needs to save him from himself) and a wide assortment of imbeciles (customers).
So I get home, drop off some things and head out for a dentists appointment. Realize that I forgot my keys and cell inside (I'm usually paranoid about these things) and manage to hit my head in a desperate attempt to reach the front door before it close behind me (to no avail).
Fuuuuuck...
Get down to the dentist and get a cavity filled and then he says the dreaded words: "While we're at it, we'll yank out that wisdom tooth of yours" and continues to shoot me up 3 times with lidocaine directly into my palate!!!
Holy mother of all things big and small, that HURT!
I think he injected me 5 different places and it still hurt like razors on nipples!
Because unlike what you might think (if you haven't had a tooth pulled before) they don't just yank it straight out. No no no, he stuck a thin icepick-like thing between two teeth and pushed inwards, pulling it out horizontally.
Sweet Stalin, these people are CRUEL!
However my dentist is kinda hot and he was kinda grinding his (large) package against my neck... I suspect it's a trick they teach these bastards at dental school. Divert the attention away from the pain.
The assistants do the same thing with their boobs but that doesn't work on me (HA!)
Anyway, I finally escaped, with half my face drooping because of all the lidocaine and went home(-ish). Stopped by a 7-Eleven to borrow a phone book and a phone to call for a locksmith. Third try I find a guy who shows up 20 minutes later luckily.
I manage to find a neighbor who is home and he buzzes us through the front door and we walk up to my door, where the second set of dreaded words are uttered: "Uh oh... One of them new Ruko locks"
Fuuuuuuck...
He spends 5 minutes trying to unlock it but fails. Luckily he's a true handyman so we manage to find a ladde, he climbs up to the window and pulls out a huge DeWalt drill and drills a hole through the frame, unlocking the lock.
100$ poorer I can finally enter my apartment albeit through the window. Oh well I'll fill it up with some gum or something.
And I'm still bleeding profusely from my mouth. The locksmith looked kinda weird when I sneezed and blood came out...
(originally posted on my journal Dec. 4th)
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