Thursday, September 28, 2006

Super mega angry

So my notification of flashy flashy came. My vehicle was allegedly travelling 56 mph in a 45 zone.

The problem I have with this is that 45 was the speed limit on an interstate highway. I was trying to find the part of the DC laws that explains where an interstate freeway can have a speed limit of 45 miles per hour.

DC's code website is, however, not searchable, apparently.

Security through obscurity - challenge not the state, comrade! Its will is divinely blest.

Yeah, done spending money in DC.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Now that's fast!

bass fingers

This is what happens when you invest too much time in one creative hobby.

And yes, it WAS challenging to take a picture of my right hand with an SLR.

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Why I'm not taking as many pictures:

This is the sort of thing I have to deal with now when I'm at work - not the employee, but the Professor she talks about:

So apparently I jinxed myself with [name removed] When I went to retrieve, she was busy with a student but I noticed she pretty much took off the back of the wireless keyboard and dumped all the batteries out. I didn't question it and just put everything back but as she's leaving, she goes, "By the way, the wireless keyboard didn't work. Next time, you are not to leave until everything is up and running." and she pretty much walked out the door without giving me a chance to respond.

The part I'm leaving out of the quote is the part where [name removed] decided to go ahead and dismiss our tech (after already wasting ten minutes of her life with inane tasks like "tie the network cable around this table leg so I don't trip on it")without first evaluating everything the tech had set up for her.

Yeah. So um, now that we've got instructors abusing our employees, I have to deal with it. And if my coworker doesn't talk to her, and I have to, it won't be pretty and I'll probably lose my job.

Woo!

Pentax released a new road map yesterday:
Roadmap!

I like the idea of a D FA 300mm. I like that cause it would work on film. And it'll have the onboard aperture ring. If, in fact, it's a 35mm format lens, anyway - not 645.

Also, the new zooms are encouraging; depending on price, that DA* 60-250 f4 would be enticing, but not if the planned 300 would be an f4.5 rehash of the old FA* lens. I'd gladly save the weight and space by going straight for the prime. Then my kit could be complete.

Here's the news about the DA* zooms. Even the 16-50 f2.8 is tempting, but I wouldn't get that as an addition to my current gear; it would have to replace my 16-45, and I'm not sure I want to do that.