There is now a razor that has four blades, and is battery operated. For lo, I present to you a razor far beyond mortal comprehension.
One day they’ll create a razor with so many blades—it will destroy us all.
They’ve even got a very swank infomercial parody website up. It’s a little over the top. Part of me wants to believe that it’s self referential humor, that they know how ridiculous this is. The other part knows better.
Some of you have heard of me talking about how news reporting will become personal responsibility.
Read Interdictor’s LiveJournal.
Minute to minute update of a guy keeping an ISP running down the street from the New Orleans Superdome.
What’s amazing are the comments of the hundreds of people reading his journal currently. They’re not just wishing him luck.
They’re feeding him information from around the world, giving him direct numbers to people that he needs to get in contact with to keep his network connection up, giving him tips on how to keep a diesel generator running, and mirroring the images that he’s been taking of the disaster.
In short, he’s calling on the internet to assist him, and it is responding.
I want a new camera.
I look at all the wonderful pictures that people have taken on Flickr and I recall all the good times that I had with my Canon AE-1. I remember apertures and shutter speeds and depth of field and film speeds. I remember capturing a two hundred fiftieth of a second in full clarity, a neighbor’s hair caught mid spin as I called her name in the hallway.
Then I look at my point and shoot. For its size, it is doing a fantastic job of capturing the moment when I need it to. It’s a fine standby camera. But it is not something I can use to catch a friend’s smile from across the room.
I find myself wanting to go outside and just take pictures that capture not only the moment, but something closer to the experience of that sliver of time.
I toy with the idea of going back to film every now and again, but with film and developing costs, I might as well just save up.
Update: Working it out, I have estimated that I would have to process and purchase about two thousand four hundred photos (one hundred rolls of film) in order to break even on a digital SLR. Might be time to break out the relic and get a cheap scanner.