I've been looking into buying a digital SLR for the last five or six years, but have never had the money or the real need for one until now. Since the semester started I decided that the time was finally right to scrounge up the dough for the next step from my old Toshiba PDR-M700 and my trusty 35mm Rebel. About a month ago a nice deal had popped up for the Digital Rebel XT, a steal at $400 for the body with a standard kit lens, but I had to buy those pesky textbooks and couldn't convince my parents that it was a viable "school supply."
Fast forward to this week where I've been reading up on all of the low level(low level meaning lower price points) digital SLR cameras and have been very pleased that it seems that no one is making a bad DSLR today. I read up on the Canon Rebels, dpreview.com said "Highly Recommend". I read up on the Nikon D40, same thing. The Pentax K100D? Of course! The Olympus EVOLT E-500? You bet. The Sony Alpha? Like you need to ask! It seems every camera in my price range is highly recommended. With this newfound knowledge, I decided to stick with the Canon system, since I've grown accustomed to it and already have a basic kit lens for it so I can save by buying just the body and put the extra money aside for a telephoto lens(I love the 10x Canon lens on my Toshiba and don't know how long I can go without EXTREME CLOSEUPS!!! Schwing!)
Today I wrapped up my two day clean out of my sister's garage-garage sale and finally ordered my Rebel XT! Now if it wasn't Labor Day weekend I'd probably have it by Thursday, but since everyone except for B&H is closed for the three day weekend, I'll have to wait for it to be shipped on Tuesday and may not get here until the week after that. Now I'm giddy with anticipation and need to prepare for the big arrival by spending more money on storage and maybe even that fancy lens I've been eyeballing...
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Hooked on Weeds
I don't know that most people would feel good about their recently widowed mother becoming a weed-selling mogul in a big white-flight community, but the kids in Showtime's Weeds seem to handle the situation just fine. Too fine if you ask me.
The eldest son, Silus, is so cool with his unemployed mom selling drugs that he steals her supply in order to use it as leverage to get into "the business." This goes horribly wrong and lands his mom, the foxy Mary-Louise Parker, into a six figure hole of debt to a very vicious drug dealer. This seems like it's going to be the premise for most of season 3, and I think it's going to be a great one.
I used to think Showtime was all Queer as Folk and The L Word and had never watched a show from the network, not because I don't have fancy premium cable, but because none of their stuff ever interested me. Weeds is great and is on the complete other side of the spectrum from those shows and this leads me to going out of my way to find a way to watch every episode of the show. Now in it's third season, I'd say it's on par as far as consistent quality as my other current favorite tv show, Entourage.
So go out and don't call your cable or satellite provider and find a way to watch Weeds. You'll be glad you did.
The eldest son, Silus, is so cool with his unemployed mom selling drugs that he steals her supply in order to use it as leverage to get into "the business." This goes horribly wrong and lands his mom, the foxy Mary-Louise Parker, into a six figure hole of debt to a very vicious drug dealer. This seems like it's going to be the premise for most of season 3, and I think it's going to be a great one.
I used to think Showtime was all Queer as Folk and The L Word and had never watched a show from the network, not because I don't have fancy premium cable, but because none of their stuff ever interested me. Weeds is great and is on the complete other side of the spectrum from those shows and this leads me to going out of my way to find a way to watch every episode of the show. Now in it's third season, I'd say it's on par as far as consistent quality as my other current favorite tv show, Entourage.
So go out and don't call your cable or satellite provider and find a way to watch Weeds. You'll be glad you did.
It's the end of the blog as I know it...
I went to a high school where every student was issued a laptop at the beginning of the year. This led to everyone thinking that they were God's gift to the internet and a ton of poorly created, and some very well created personal websites. This was my introduction to blogging. I quickly lost all hope for the format.
I've got accounts in BlogSpot, WordPress, Facebook, MySpace, Xanga, so
on, and so forth, but I tend to not use them. Most of the people I knew that posted regularly to blogs did so through either Xanga or LiveJournal and their pages were either the standard fare of a cookie-cutter layout, or terribly pasted together pieces of CSS and html code from websites that would give even the cartoonist for Pokemon seizures.
Only recently have I started giving blogs a second look, and this is greatly due not to news sites accrediting the format by hiring dedicated bloggers or paying their regular journalistic staff more money for a blog, but due to the accreditation that ESPN and sports in general have given to blogs in my mind by incorporating them into their site.
I still think that someone would have to be damn near God's gift to the internet in order for me to read their personal dedicated blog, let alone regularly visit MySpace or the ever-cluttering Facebook, but I do give more of a thought to professional blogs dedicated to a single subject matter rather than what they ate for lunch or why they're quibbling with their boyfriends.
I've got accounts in BlogSpot, WordPress, Facebook, MySpace, Xanga, so
on, and so forth, but I tend to not use them. Most of the people I knew that posted regularly to blogs did so through either Xanga or LiveJournal and their pages were either the standard fare of a cookie-cutter layout, or terribly pasted together pieces of CSS and html code from websites that would give even the cartoonist for Pokemon seizures.
Only recently have I started giving blogs a second look, and this is greatly due not to news sites accrediting the format by hiring dedicated bloggers or paying their regular journalistic staff more money for a blog, but due to the accreditation that ESPN and sports in general have given to blogs in my mind by incorporating them into their site.
I still think that someone would have to be damn near God's gift to the internet in order for me to read their personal dedicated blog, let alone regularly visit MySpace or the ever-cluttering Facebook, but I do give more of a thought to professional blogs dedicated to a single subject matter rather than what they ate for lunch or why they're quibbling with their boyfriends.
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