Premier junky supplies

I’ve been looking at this juxtaposition of ads at St.James Park for a couple of seasons now and wondering why nobody at Amerex Steel is complaining about it.

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Would you carry your life’s work in your car boot?

Deseret News | Thieves are targeting cameras

Apparently Salt Lake City is experiencing a rash of camera equipment thefts. Now all sympathies to the victims but presumably they’re mostly pros and have the appropriate insurance cover.

Except Heidi Walker. Who not only shoots weddings without insuring her gear she also keeps her only copies of every single photograph she ever shot on her laptop: “You can’t grasp the concept it can be gone,” she says. Not the only concept she seems to have a problem with.

Further, her friend who saw someone following him with malicious intent hadn’t the wit to pick up his camera and shoot his follower.

Let’s hope Kate has a better idea of horizontal than Scott…
 

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Canon identifies problem with EOS 7D -Shock!

Canon identifies problem with EOS 7D

What’s that you say? Canon selling a broken camera? Never, their testing track record is impeccable.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0905/09051501canonservicenotice1dsmarkiii.asp

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0904/09042802canonservicenoticeg10.asp

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0710/07103002eos1dm3recall.asp

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0710/07100801a650service.asp

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0701/07010301aseriessafetynotice.asp

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05100602canon_ccdproblem.asp

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05071801canon_batterygrip.asp

and many more that I can’t be arsed to search for

Lovely and lovelier

Went to see Parrworld at Baltic yesterday totally expecting to hate it. Surprise! It’s fantastic. Best exhibition I’ve seen there since Domain Field.
Then went clothes shopping with Lovely Girlfriend totally expecting to hate it. Surprise! LGF brings out my inner Gok Wan.
Later, I’m sat in LGF’s kitchen and she says, “Have a look at this, I’ve had it for years and don’t know how to work it.” Then she reaches into a cabinet and pulls out an absolutely mint OM-1n.
Perfect day. Worth every one of the 100 minutes it took me to get home from her house to mine.

PMG

The cupholders in the Savvomobile are not big enough to hold a jar of the Damson Queen’s jam. Consequently I had to go fishing for it (jam, not car) under the seats.

Imagine my surprise to find the four CF cards that I lost some six months ago and have searched the car and house for fruitlessly, several times.

Now I wonder what’s on them?

A la recherche du temps perdus

More of my past just emerged from the detritus that follows me around.
It’s Xmas 1985, PoD and me are going to Lubeck for three days with my sister and brother-in-law. Doesn’t she look happy? Why shouldn’t she, she just got engaged to the man of her dreams.
It’s amazing how, twenty years ago, coming across this picture would have brought me great pain and heartache yet today it’s just a snapshot of my past from a generation ago.

Panasonic unveils DMC-GF1 Micro four-thirds camera

Panasonic unveils DMC-GF1 Micro four-thirds camera

Promising? Perhaps.

If it’s the same price as the Olympus I’ll keep lusting after the latter. But alongside Canon dropping nearly 5Mpixels off the G11 maybe the camera market is getting sensible.

Places to live

Sunday morning. Blah. Mild depression from two drinks last night; maybe it’s time to give up alcohol? My week has not been improved by the intake thereof.

Listening to The Archers Omnibus and casually scanning Google Earth for inspiration to take the camera somewhere today when I noticed that the Street View team has hit Tyneside big time. Everywhere I’ve ever lived is there in full glory, from the house I was born and lived in for 22 years to the flat with the thieving neighbours that I spent the nineties in (but Google Maps seems reluctant to show that one.)

They haven’t been out west yet so the last five years of my life don’t exist.

Leeds

I went to Leeds yesterday. Noticed a few things.

• Fifteen years on from when I lived there, Leeds is no cleaner and just as scary.
• I should never do things on emotional impulse particularly after drinking the night before and getting only two hours sleep. Sorry, R.
• Casual racism really shocks me. I parked in a multi-storey after some ‘interesting’ driving from one guy who wasn’t prepared to wait for anyone else to get out of his way. As I got out of my car the thirty-something, professional-looking woman who had been in the car behind me said, “Did you see that coloured bloke back there? What a dick!” I was , of course, too slow in thinking up the reply, “He may have been a dick, but I don’t think his colour had anything to do with it.” I haven’t encountered such Daily Mailery since I lived in Solihull six years ago. Maybe I need to get out more?
• As I drove down Roundhay Road I experienced the worst driving I’ve ever seen in the UK. It’s like Athens down there, cars from all directions and nobody aware of the concept of “give way.”

Pants

I just found this picture of me (no laughing at the back) from 1994. The noteworthy thing is that I still have the jeans that I was wearing but whereas the 31-year-old me was filling them amply they’re now rather too large for my svelte frame.

Thank you Dr.Nissen and your wonderful fundoplication.

The evil squint has gone as well but maybe I should grow back the Monkees hair?

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