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[phosfate]

Hello. Stuff happens, but not so good with make typey typey. Is brain wear.

Got a digital camera last night. So far I have learned how to put in the batteries, insert the memory card (Wow! It's like paying $30 for a postage stamp!), and turn it on and off. Oh, and sort of take pictures, albeit orange ones, but they disappear when the camera turns off. So that's the next thing to work on. It has a swell close-up macro thing, so I can photograph tiny toys. And apparently, video. Also it was on sale.

The last one I used was much easier, because I took a picture, gave the camera back to Sharon, and she did everything else.

Sewing stuff for the goddamn doll. Nothing much to show yet -- stuff's finished, but we're kind of low on coordinates. I'm very pissed, because she can get better sneakers than I can, for much less money. The black faux-Converse knee-high boots are fantastic. Yesterday I sent off for a pair of brown and gold brocade hi-tops. For her. Little bitch.

On the other hand, her pre-made clothing costs a good deal more than mine, whereas a half-yard of silk on the remnant table can be had for a buck, so...sewing.

Brisco County, Jr. remains the awesomest thing that ever awed. Bowler's assertion in the last episode that they'll be back after a brief hiatus still hurts, dammit. I still remember a phone conversation with Charlene:

"I didn't get to see it. I think we taped it."
"I hope you did. It had Pirates. And quicksand. And a whipping."
"Quicksand? Oh, my God!"
"Quicksand! Swear to God. When's the last time you saw a show with quicksand?"
"Pirates? Really? Pirates?"
"Pirates! It was like every show from when we were little squoze down into an hour."
"Quicksand..."
"Yeah. Really, all it needed was a tarantula going up somebody's arm."
And then, I swear, I can hear the expression on her face get that little devious grin thing it used to get. "And a gorilla," she said.
"Oh God, yes!"

If Lost had been made in 1969, there would be so...much...quicksand. The Black Rock would be full of pirates. And the polar bear would fight a gorilla. In quicksand.

Comments

[tacohime.livejournal.com]

PACKAGE! I gots your package! It is packtastic, Ann! Thanks!

I'll send that FDQ your way shortly, free o' charge.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

YOU--! Oh, thank you!

Is the wig any good for anybody?

[dorothy1901]

So what did happen to quicksand? Was it just a 50s-60s thing? I remember lots of quicksand on TV and in comic books, and even in some movies. Batman and Robin were champions at getting into and out of quicksand.

I've read thousands of fan fiction stories, and I can think of one, just one, that had quicksand.

Where did all the quicksand go? Has it been destroyed by global warming?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I figure Warner Bros got rid of the last of the world's supply when they tore down the backlot. It's in a landfill somewhere with the remains of Laramie Street.

Everyone's into the peat bogs now. Damn kids.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

That sounds cracktastic. I sense a pimping session in our future. :)

(I saw Briscoe County Jr. on a list of gothic media once-- eyecatcher, that.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I could force myself to watch some, if y'all are interested...

*ponder the Gothiness of Brisco*

Oh! "Bad Luck Betty" qualifies as Goth, what with all the funereal tropes, star chamber, Poe-style murders, rising dead, and being shot at the Psycho house. By all rights, it should've been an awesome episode, but it was the last one before the big-ass two-part finale, and I think everybody was really, really tired.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely interested. If Vali's not we'll just tie her to a chair in another room and give her some paste and construction paper. (It does sound like Vali's thing, though.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Now, that's the nice thing about my house -- you're allowed to eat your paste in front of the TV.

[dragonelf-2002.livejournal.com]

If your new digital camera is like anyother digital cameras I have seen then it should have an auto-setting and setting makes things whole lot easier. When you have got used to the auto-setting then you can start experimenting.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It does. It just didn't really care much for taking close-ups of tiny objects in yellow bedroom light at 11:00 p.m. Weird. ;)

[dragonelf-2002.livejournal.com]

Did you have the flash function turned on? You can also test the super-macro function if your camera has it.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. But the flash function made everything blindy white. I just have to work on this whole custom setting thing, is all.

[dragonelf-2002.livejournal.com]

You could also try the Night setting however then you have to be very still when taking a photo.

[ramalama.livejournal.com]

Good to know about digicams: It's primarily the use of the video screen that sucks up batteries. I don't use it on mine. I use the old-fashioned viewfinder.

There was quicksand in my Lost episode dream...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's a viewfinder, Jim. At least not as we know it.

Did you fight a gorilla in it?

[ramalama.livejournal.com]

I did notice they making them without viewfinders nowadays. Damn kids.

No, I was not in the quicksand, nor any gorilla, but as I recall Kate and Joe were in a jam for a while.

Going digital

[cannellfan.livejournal.com]

You've gone digital, too? Nifty! I just used tax return and birthday $$ to get my first digital camera in July, myself. Sadly, between myself and Becky, we've already shot over 100 pics with it. Toys, toys, toys!

Whadja get? Brand? Megapixels? Zoom? All that geeky stuff...

Scott

Re: Going digital

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It says here it's a Nikon Coolpix L3, with 5.1 megapixels. It has a zoom -- it also makes a zooming sound at certain moments -- and several dozen cunning little onscreen icons that probably mean something important. It came with cables that apparently attach to something, and a CD that I assume is software and not "Freeze Frame" by the J. Giels Band. I also got it a handsome little pouch, a cleaning cloth, a tripod (apparently), and a chip that is supposed to give it even more megapixels. It's a bewildering little object.

Oooo, it says here it's made in Viet Nam! I feel like Martin Sheen.

I hope one day to take a picture of the Giant Bank Eagle, because nobody ever believes how scary it is. Oooo, I can also go capture the Giant Fez! This could be keen.

Re: Going digital

[cannellfan.livejournal.com]

Walked out of the front door of the library at lunchtime on my way to the annual ritual pig sacrifice Ribfest and ran smack into a dude standing in the way of everyone else on the sidewalk while he took a picture of...the Giant Bank Eagle. With his...digital camera.

I thought of you. ;-)

P.S.: Giant Fez? Me=clueless

Re: Going digital

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I still remember when somebody wrapped a Cabbage Patch Kid in a dishtowel, and dangled it from the eagle's claw. Best thing ever.

There's a giant fez over by Cornhusker Highway, in front of the Shriner's...Lodge? Club? Den?