So, I've rather been jonesing for a DSLR for awhile now, when my father reminded me that the lenses for our old Konica Minolta 35 mm (the camera body of which I dropped in the swimming pool in high school - oops!) will work with Sony DSLRs since the whole Minolta outfit was sold to Sony and they made the Sony cameras to fit the legacy Minolta ( Read more... )

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Did anyone else play way too much Oregon Trail as a kid? I remember several versions even, from the green and black graphics on the Apple II-E through the full color on a Windows 95 machine. To me, the most telling detail in the trailer is the gravestone reading "Here lies Poop Head" - my best friend would always name all of her family members ( Read more... )

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Is it September yet?

And seriously, I am totally ready to take the week off. I am going to go hiking, read, and generally sit around and do absolutely nothing. I love Mammoth at 4th of July!

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AT-AT day afternoon from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.

After 2.5 years of consistent untroubled operation, my iPhone chose today to completely loose it's sh*t. Clearly, it knows that the new iPhone comes out tomorrow (and that I totally wanted one) and has decided to become passive aggressive about the whole situation. First it would hang and not quit any application, and now it simply won't do ( Read more... )

Like, before you send a cease and desist letter, you might want to verify the product actually exists.

But I still don't like you. I'll admit to being snotty about typography (yes, I give my mother grief when she uses ComicSans - it's always frakking ComicSans - for invitations), but I do have a sense of humor about myself, and this is really funnyMy favorite bit ( Read more... )