FYI: As of 6:30 this evening, internet service at my apartment was turned back on. I’m still writing my feature in the paper, though.

Right about now I suppose Tuesday’s edition of the University Times is rolling off the presses and onto campus… with my first published article inside! It’s a Viewpoint article for the pro side of priority registration. Having spent every semester prior to this one registering like, a day before 2nd semester seniors (man, I miss the Park), it’s a topic that I felt I could speak on with some expertise.

So Creative Loafing has the honor of hosting my first published anything ever (a letter to the editor in response to an article) and the UT has my first real article. I know that this is an awfully late start for someone who claims to want to be a writer, but I’m just a late bloomer, that’s all.

So my camera and I had our first date tonight, and I must say that it went… okay. We have to get a little more comfortable with each other. I just keep comparing it to the Nikon… even though it’s been a year, I still can’t help thinking about it. Everything was just so easy with that Nikon and I. We hit it off immediately. It was like we were meant to be together. The way it just fit so perfectly ergonomically in my hand… but I have to move on. A credit card bill that I’m going to be paying off for the next six months reminds me that I’ve put a lot into this relationship… and it will work.

Now, I’m by no means a camera expert, but I can say that the A610 is a good little camera. It has a nasty habit of turning off too soon while taking a break and resetting your options (flash off, macro/closeup shot, etc.) but I think I can change that. The display is WAY too small, and I didn’t really use the 360 like I thought I would. The battery life is good. Having full manual control is awesome. The user interface is not as intuitive as I would like it to be. Even under imperfect lighting conditions and no tripod, working without the flash produced far less blurry pictures than the Nikon ever did. Overall, I give it 4/5 stars.

On the subject of Canon products, can someone tell me why my scanner and my computer just won’t get along anymore? Since everyone in studio has that same scanner, someone should mail me their installation CD (Graham) and maybe their USB cord (Candace). Please?

WHOOT! My new digital camera came in today. I don’t even know if excited is the word for how happy I am. Watch out facebook. It’s a Canon PowerShot A610 and so far it’s great. I’m more accustomed to Nikon controls, and I still really miss my little Coolpix 4300, but Nikon’s shitty customer service and refusal to fix a known product defect two weeks post warranty turned me off of them forever. I’ll take a bunch of pictures and offer a review… later.

yes, the 360° display is as pimp as it looks.

Apple has released video iPods. I told you so, bitches.

I knew that the iPod was just waiting to be one step more than what it already was. After the photo-capable ones appeared, I knew video was coming up next. So I held back, and my waiting was surely enough not in vain. Once these first gens get out of the way (you know they’re going to have bugs and battery issues) I can FINALLY feel economically justified getting an iPod. Shoot, I might just get one for Christmas anyway and dash consumer savvy by the wayside.

Power and battery(3)

Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery

Playback time (60GB model)

* Music playback time: Up to 20 hours when fully charged * Photo slideshow with music viewing time: Up to 4 hours when fully charged * Video playback time: Up to 3 hours when fully charged

Battery life on the 60g model looks really good, long enough to actually watch a movie under prime conditions. (of course I’m looking at the 60g… who do you think I am?) but the 30g model only gives you 2 hours of view time. If you’d actually be one to watch a ripped DVD on your ‘pod, that might not be enough time to view the whole flick. I still wish Apple would rethink the whole built-in battery thing, because I don’t feel good at all about having to replace a $600 device three years from now because I can’t get a full charge. Having dealt with this crappy Powerbook battery for what, four years now, I know how irritating that diminishing charge thing can be.

My dream was always to have the iPod that was also a cell phone, PDA, and digital camera, but knowing my knack for misplacing my stuff in safe places (my room, my couch, my grandparents’ house) it might not be such a good idea to have all my necessities wrapped up in one device. This is as close to perfect as it gets. Oy vey, and we give up scholarships like millionaires over here.

Search terms that have been bringing people here lately:

Tearria+Marie
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pretty+black+girls
John+Mayer
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If I were the seeker of any of these topics and ended up here, I’d be pissed. I’m starting to think that maybe blogs are taking up too much space on the internet, and clogging search results, especially Google results, with bs sites that nobody wants to read. I mean, it’s nice to hear an opinion once in a while, but do I really have anything germane to say about Tearria Marie? Does anyone?

And thanks to my endless ramblings about my breasts, I have a linkback from adultteensluts.com. Classic.