small thoughtssmall thoughts - LiveJournal.comDigital K1000 at last (modulo one zero ...)- May 25, 2006 More AA Powered Goodness! Not news to anyone who reads dpreview more frequently than I do, but Pentax has come out with the first digital SLR I'm interested in, called the K100 (and its stupider cousin, the K110, also covered by same link -- the K110D omits image stabilization) and I hope it's just the start of a long trend. Lots of photographers have incredible stories about the durability and reliability of their K1000s; I'm not a photographer except for fun, but I found the same. The K1000..http://tlord.livejournal.com/51062.html bad couch, no handle!- May 20, 2006 Asynchronous entry, since it's about something that happened a few weeks back. Two Tuesdays ago, John (one of my classmates at Temple) helped a fellow classmate move a couple of couches out of an apartment in Delaware. Why (oh, why!) don't the designers of ordinary furniture include carrying handles, or at least attachment points, and furniture break down as far as pratical to save weight and bulk in carrying What looked like removable cushions on the loveseat were in fact permanently attached..http://tlord.livejournal.com/50729.html MacBooks- May 20, 2006 The new MacBooks look really nice. The cheapest version costs somewhat less than the equivalent iBooks my mom, sister and I bought the same month 5 or 6 years ago (whenever the white iBooks came out ... 500 quick quick G3 Megahertz), even without taking inflation into account. Those machines are all still working, though mine has taken a drastic southward turn of late (the hard drive is making some very loud noises). Still, more than half a decade is a very decent record for a machine that I've.http://tlord.livejournal.com/50626.html back in the Ubuntu saddle, semi-happily- May 8, 2006 Not unhappy to be using Ubuntu again, but unhappy circumstancces, namely that my eMachines computer went south ... AGAIN. I was hoping it was the optical drive, the memory, various other things which I have tweaked, replaced, swapped with other machines', but I think it's just haunted. Since the machine's been flaky before, and has been especially flaky in the last few days, I did at least a better than usual job of backing up to external disks, but I'm not sure I trust those disks completely...http://tlord.livejournal.com/50298.html |