Digital Photography

I can’t wait to get a new digital camera. The one I will be getting is the Canon EOS300D. Why? ‘Cos it’s a great camera and will compliment my existing EOS50E very nicely. Trouble is, it’s about £600 worth, so I need to find the cash from somewhere. As and when I get it, I’ll be adding a “photoblog” section to this site. Much like Adam Polselli who often has some great photos on his site.

Outsourced Santa

I found this particularly amuse. What with my brother being a dirty corporate sellout whore working in Bangalore, added to the fact that he’ll be spending this Christmas on some beach in the Maldives, the sentiment of this reflects the ever expanding grasp of global commercialism.

In other words, sod ‘em.

(found lurking on Diggers Realm)

David Blunkett and all that.

Does anyone really care that he used his position to speed up the visa application of his girlfriend’s nanny? I don’t.

What is more disturbing in the Budd report is the time it takes to process applications. Apparently this figure is at an alarming 172 days on average.

Seriously. How long does it take to say NO? Surely they have a big red stamp, a big red inkpad, and all they do is repeatedly stamp FUCK OFF on the applications. Easy.

All I want for Christmas…

Bonus material.

How is it bonus material when you have to pay for it? My housemate is really into the bonus crap you get on special/limited edition DVDs. He’s a full-on Back to the Future geek, and was really excited to see my brother had given me the Region 1 trilogy boxset, because it had different bonus material to the Region 2 boxset he already had. (And proceeded to spend however many hours it was watching it all about how they turned that DeLorean into a time machine.)

I, personally, couldn’t give a flying toss. I was reminded the other day how good Predator was. (And before anyone mentions it, yes Predator 2 was a big load of old pants, as was Predator vs. Alien. Not that I’ve seen it. But if it’s anything like the last few Alien films, Freddy vs Jason, or any other sci-fi sequel then it’s gotta to be a load of shite.) So I did the usual lookup on the Play.com website to see how much it was. And I can get the limited, special, super, magic edition for £16.99, or a normal, regular, bog-standard edition, which has Predator 1 & 2 for 11.99. OK, highly contradictory given the bracketed editor’s note above, but still.) 2 films for 11.99 or 1 film and a load of boring guff for 16.99. Is it really a contest?

Big case in a massive point. The Matrix. The Matrix (1) was awesome, no question, everyone loves it, it should be standard issue with a new DVD player. The Matrix (2) and The Matrix (3), the Revoloadedlutions or whatever they were called, were utter tosh. (That’s gonna piss some people off.) I’ve got all three, admittedly, but only in the name of posterity, not because I think 2 or 3 are a valuable addition to my collection. But now, you can buy the super, ultra, hyper, nothing like it at all ever again, all-out, full-on, “this is the daddy”, you must own this, Matrix Collection. An astonishing 10 DVDs worth. 10. I repeat TEN DVDs on the making-of, the making-of the making-of (I expect), the making-of the making-of the making-of (and so on ad infinitum), and then a load of other nonsense. You would apparently be silly to miss this offer because you cannot buy anything like it. Except that is, for the ultra, limited, very special, super, this really is the one, ultimate edition, which is exactly the same, but has some crappy little figurine with it. And these things cost £100 or so. Seriously.

I can’t wait for whatever it is that replaces DVDs gets introduced (at a guess I’d say hard drive players) mainstream. So all the people who wasted their cash on the super-special limited editions can feel very very silly at the utter waste of money. Or try and sit there smugly looking at their crappy figure of Neo sat proudly on top of their out of date DVD player. Who knows.

Sick joke.

What’s the best thing about sleeping with 28 year-olds?
There’s 20 of them.

(yes it works better said, not written…).

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