A new trailer for the Internet’s favorite movie. EVAR. So what if it hasn’t been released yet?
A new trailer for the Internet’s favorite movie. EVAR. So what if it hasn’t been released yet?
As a nice surprise, Nikon sent back my D70 yesterday. The blinky green light of death is gone, and the CCD has been cleaned. So, considering the pristine condition the camera was in when I bought it secondhand, I consider myself to have a brand new camera.
I’ve shot point and shoot for so long now that it feels good to go back to adjusting filmspeed, aperture and shutterspeed. Of course, the camera can do a lot of that for me, but at least I can manipulate those variables on this camera. My Canon AE-1 was not so forgiving and I had many a roll developed that was not viable. Of course, the beauty of shooting digital is that I can change ISO from shot to shot.
Thank the maker for EXIF data. So beats writing down the focal length, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO in a spiral notebook so long ago.
So now, my photographic education begins anew. I’ve already ordered a 50mm prime, since I wanted something closer to what the human eye sees for composition. Thankfully, I was able to find one just over a hundred dollars which is a relief to me, considering the going rate for any accessories for this “hobby.”
Nice rain we’re having, yes?
Watched Spamalot last night at the National Theatre.
Theater.
Whatever.
I had a fantastic time, it makes the transition over to musical format well intact. The humor is, well it’s Monty Python, so there’s a lot of repetition—but I like Monty Python. To try and describe some of the best scenes would obviously be spoiler material, not to mention futile, since a lot of it was cunning linguistics and timing.
It’s quite a bit naughty, and while it’s different from the movie, it does contain the good “bits.” The Lady of the Lake is now a principal character and the actress that played her last night was fantastic. Some of the newer jokes are over the top, I felt like scanning the playbill for Mel Brooks several times during the show.
The fourth wall did not survive intact.
One of the interesting things I saw that night was grown men, in suits, banging coconuts together and cantering about while their families looked embarrassed. Coconuts were ten dollars.
The other interesting thing? Cans of SPAM masquerading as theater memorabilia. SPAM was eight dollars.
So right now, I’m shopping for an apple laptop. I do know it’s going to be an Apple laptop, but I don’t know which one. I’m starting to feel the processor pinch on my PowerBook G4. The machine is stable, and it checks the email and posting of blog entries just fine. Movie editing up to five minutes is doable.
It really is time, though. I’ve had this PowerBook for a bit. I’m thinking that I’ll reassign it to travel duty. It’s small, dependable, and with the new battery (the only part that flaked out on me in three years) it’s got a decent run time. There is however, one dead pixel, that I really had to look for after I remembered I had one.
Of course, the hard part is deciding on a make and model.
The MacBook Pro is of course the right decision. Dedicated graphics card means I basically own two laptops with boot camp.
On the other hand, that BlackBook is just so damn alluring. Too bad about the integrated graphics card.
To be fair, either one is a good upgrade. I’ll have more options, and with external storage, I’ll be able to do a little more editing than I’ve been doing lately. Not that I’ve posted anything since Chinatown.
Of course, on the other hand, I could just up the ram in my PowerBook to 1GB and hope that improves performance enough for me to get past the technolust.
Finally finished Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
The game is entirely too entertaining than any Lawyer Adventure game should be. A lot of that has to do with the script, which does a good job with character development and plot.
It’s not perfect as an adventure game. As I’ve come to expect with most adventure games, there are sometimes solutions that are sometimes not intuitive. Phoenix Wright did not have any “put banana in the salt shaker” moments, but sometimes you had to present the “correct” piece of evidence. Which can be difficult, considering at one point I had over twenty pieces of evidence to pore over during my final trial. This can be somewhat frustrating—even when you believe that another piece would lead to the same conclusion, the game will not allow you to progress until you’ve presented the one that it wants you to.
Overall, a fun title, you play from the viewpoint of Phoenix most of the time, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence from crime scenes and cross examing witnesses in the court room. All that may sound not so intruiging, but the story and characters kept pulling me back to the DS.
Of course, that may have had something to do with me being a fan of Perry Mason when I was younger.