Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Oh, and I also picked up The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It’s a short story collection that includes one of the earliest Jeeves stories, and honestly Jeeves just plays a bit part. It feels so different than the rest of the Jeeves stories I’ve encountered so far [...]

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I just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. All I can think of is that he’s the modern equivalent of Ernest Hemingway, that cheerful soul. There were a couple things I thought were odd about the book and I won’t be reading any more McCarthy. First, the characters’ names are “The Man” and “The Boy” [...]

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I have a perfectly good car, my camera is in great condition, my lens
collection is already too big, and yet, while I wait on installers to
finish locking up my computers at work, I’ve been looking at the new
BMWs, the new D3, the lenses that are better than mine, and so on.
What’s wrong with us humans [...]

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One day I should do a D2x love and hate list. Remind me about that.

Today can be that day. I love a lot of things about my Nikon D2x, but there are a couple things I could wish were different. And just to be different, I’m going to set about it in Con-Pro order, because [...]

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The lens is back, and it’s good as new.
First of all, this is why I bought a Nikon camera and lens instead of a Sony or other “consumer grade” plastic shell camera. When I had originally bought a Sony DSC-D700 at its original abominable price, it was a wonder. It was fun! But it was [...]

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I was posting pictures of my mom coming for vacation and had a couple pictures that were looking quite flat. I know a few things about color management and I’ve been slowly giving up on Safari, switching in Firefox for most of its duties. Well, I saw the red flowers from the Schulz Museum and [...]

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