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blog.anthonyburns.co.uk: April Fools Day – Geek Style
blog.anthonyburns.co.uk: April Fools Day – Geek Style
I’m a little late writing this up, but meh.
The plan was to catch my wife out on April Fool’s Day, geek style. We were booked to fly to NYC for 5 nights on the 5th of April, so making her think the trip might be cancelled was an obvious candidate for the joke. We were flying with British Airways…
An expensive wee!
Here’s a math problem for you: If you take the entire volume of urine found in the average 11-yar-old’s bladder and pour it over a school computer cart, how many MacBooks will it ruin? Answer? $36,000
What does your camera say about you?
What does your camera say about you?
What does your camera say about you?
With no intention to start any photog brawls, here’s a funny article by photographer/comedian Gordon Lewis about what your camera may or may not say about you (originally spotted this on Gizmodo):
Just as the clothes you choose to wear, the food you like to eat, and the people you associate with say something about you, so does the camera system you buy into. The following observations are based on close association with the various groups of camera owners and from having belonged to each group at one time or another. Those who belong to the “lacking any sense of humor” or “offended at the drop of a hat” groups are strongly advised to read no further.
Canon owners
You appreciate the benefits of owning a camera system that leads in cutting-edge digital imaging technology and that offers a wealth of body, lens, and accessory options for every level of photographer, from lowly consumer to top professional. You will switch to Nikon.
Nikon owners
You appreciate the benefits of owning a camera system that leads in cutting-edge digital imaging technology and that offers a wealth of body, lens, and accessory options for every level of photographer, from lowly consumer to top professional. You will switch to Canon.
Sony owners
You believe that Sony’s innovations in consumer electronics and video technology, its leadership in digital imaging chip production, its in-body image stabilization, and its use of Zeiss optics results in a unique design synergy and products of exceptional value—because that’s what it says in the product literature. You also believe in astrology, UFOs and the Easter Bunny.
Pentax owners
You’re the sort of person who would buy a $1500 DSLR body so your stash of thread-mount, K-mount and M-mount lenses from decades ago (collectively worth $75.00 at a flea market or yard sale) won’t go to waste; either that, or you’ve never heard of a Spotmatic, Pentax LX or Takumar, you just think you look cool sporting a day-glo red camera that takes real pictures. You think people are laughing with you, not at you.
Olympus owners
You’re the sort of person who buys North Korean beer, Peruvian underwear, and French cars, not because you actually like them but because no one else does. When people question your choice of camera system you respond that Olympus images have a certain “soul” and that photographs are what matter, not the camera. You have no friends.
Leica owners
You know that no other camera other than a Hasselblad gains as much instant respect among the cognoscenti as a Leica. Although this relieves the pressure of demonstrating actual photographic prowess, it increases the need to be familiar with the subtle differences in visual signature between an Elmar, Elmarit, Summitar, Summicron, and Summilux. You are either stinking rich, living in your mother’s basement, or one lens purchase away from a divorce.
Panasonic, Fuji, Samsung, Minolta, Yashica owners and et cetera should be relieved rather than offended that they were not included.
How things have changed #NEFollower
How things have changed #NEFollower
When I first joined twitter back in 2007 I did what most people do, follow my friend, follow some of his friends then sit back and try and work out what the hell this crazy thing called twitter is.
After a few weeks of getting my head round it and realising that celebrity’s were a waste of my time (Due to them living on a different planet) I started looking for people that lived local to me. There was no Geotagging of tweets, no search.twitter.com so it was old school method of searching for peoples Bio locations.
I searched “Newcastle”, “Gateshead”, “Sunderland”, “North East”, “Toon” and I remember struggling to find that many people that lived on my door step.
When I seen the #NEFollower tag today I was amazed as to how things have changed. An almost endless stream of people that are embarrassing twitter to help promote everything from charity’s to Allotments and all living in the north east.
Well done North East tweeters, you are all over this shit!
iPhone HD
A tweet from @t7fu8 confirms it. The new iPhone will be the iPhone HD.
