Many things

[icepixie]

Arrrrrggghhh. Never use a program called Photo Site Time Saviour, 'cause it'll delete all your pictures if you're not uber-careful. I still have all my original, huge, non-cropped-and-pretty photos from this year, but the ones I worked on? Gone. Most of them are up at various spots online, which is a Good Thing, but the 200 from June I just completed have gone poof, and now I need to do them all again. ARGH. *headdesk*

*headdesks again, 'cause ARGH*

Given the issues with this, with two other put-in-photos-spit-out-an-HTML-page-for-lazy-people programs, and two install-thngs-on-your-server PHP programs (nothing works! Ever!), I quit. I saw the sign, and it opened up my mind and all that (and now that song is stuck in my head. Fantastic.), and I'm just gonna keep on using MyPhotoAlbum. It's kind of slow, and it's on someone else's server, but that's okay. At least it doesn't eat pictures or give me parse/mySQL/every other possible kind of error.

*hates computers at the moment*

Right. So, pictures from June coming in...July. Perhaps August. At least this happened over the summer and not during the school year...

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Now, more gleeee!ful news.

I got my first NetFlix DVDs! We joined for the summer, mostly so that I can watch stuff like Carnivale and Dead Like Me. (Well, I assume I'll like DLM, since it's basically Wonderfalls with a dead girl. The first disc of S1 should come as soon as I return one of the two I just got.)

In other TV squee, there's a chain reaction (does Skiffy still use this term?) of the entirety of BSG season one starting at 10 AM/9 Central on July 6th. Woo-hoo! That's marked all prominent on my calendar. And probably it should be on my VCR, too, as the odds of me sitting through thirteen hours of TV in one go are not good.

More to squee about: this camera. I apparently had rather a lot of birthday and Christmas money squirrelled away all over my room, and it all adds together to give me more than enough to buy a new digital camera. (My current one doesn't have anything wrong with it and takes lovely pictures in daylight, it's just that the only manual features on it are changing white balance and the digital equivalent of film speed. Useful, and yet it takes terrible shots in low light, which is mostly what I'll have next year, I imagine.) In second place is this Canon, which is nifty and has a megapixel more, but the Olympus is a nicer camera overall--the 10x optical zoom is just the beginning of the awesome features--even with the reduced resolution (which is still more than I have at the moment, so hey).

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Totally random stuff about being back in the US of A:

- It is SO NICE to not have to light the stove and oven with a match. So. Nice. I've never valued electricity more.

- Jones Soda Company's Black Cherry Sugar-Free Soda is a thing of beauty. Mmmmm.

- One good thing about never having a thunderstorm in Exeter was that I also never had to shut my computer down while said thunderstorm raged above. For normal people, this wouldn't be remarkable, but when you're an addict like me, well...

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[orangetango.livejournal.com]

there's a chain reaction (does Skiffy still use this term?) of the entirety of BSG season one starting at 10 AM/9 Central on July 6th.

What channel??? What channell???? Sci-fi? Oh man, oh man, oh man. I am officially stoked, and addicted. I need to know. Seriously, I'm gonna call off work that day . . . .

[icepixie]

It's Sci-Fi, yeah. ("Skiffy" is a derogatory-turned-almost-affectionate nickname that popped up when they cancelled Farscape.)

Seeing you so addicted to this show makes me giggle and warms my heart. Have you seen all of it, or will some of these be new to you?

[orangetango.livejournal.com]

Have you seen all of it, or will some of these be new to you?

Evan bootlegged me the entire season before he broke up with me. So I've seen them all, but I do want to watch them again.

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

More to squee about: this camera.

I thought that camera looked familiar. My camera is a C-750, so that one is the next step up. I look at the C-765 and I want to upgrade...

[icepixie]

How do you like the 750? It looks like it's basically the same camera as the 765, with maybe not quite as many manual features and a lowest ISO of 64 instead of 100. Olympus as a brand seems to give crisper pictures than most, which is one of the main things I like about it...

The one problem that the C-765 has the lack of battery power...there's a new rechargeable battery pack instead of rechargeable AAs, but it only lasts 2 hours at the most. (I'm used to getting about 6 off of just 2 AAs in my current camera, and the Canon I'm looking at gets 13 hours with 4 AAs if you keep the LCD screen turned off.) But hopefully that means it only takes a few minutes instead of 14 hours to charge the battery pack...

[icepixie]

lowest ISO of 64 instead of 100

Er, make that "lowest ISO of 100 instead of 64." Right.

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of the C-750. I don't use the extra features very often because my pictures usually turn out very nice at the standard settings. It has an excellent zoom, a nice interface, and it's simple enough that even my dad (who I don't think has actually owned his own camera since the days when you had to buy separate flash cubes) was able to take a lot of good pictures the one time I had him use it.

It uses batteries (4 AA) really efficiently. You know how many pictures I can take if I want to. Last year in California, I took pictures to a near-ScaperCon degree and while I recharged the batteries every day, I didn't need to. And that's with using the view screen. I don't know what the battery pack will be like, though.

I have a 256 MB xD card and I can get almost 300 pictures on there at the highest JPEG setting (2288 x 1712). And if I don't go crazy with the pictures, I have plenty of room for recording QT movies if I want.

And, personally, I swear by Olympus. Their cameras have served both me and Natalie well.

So if this is just a slight upgrade from the C-750, I'd be sold on it except for maybe the battery pack. I don't know enough about that to say anything.

[icepixie]

I don't know what the battery pack will be like, though.

My mother just informed me that her camera, which uses the 4 AAs but has an electronic viewfinder, which is what the C-765 has that draws power so badly, require battery changes all the time. Downside, but not a complete dealbreaker, as these battery packs are relatively cheap (there are some online for as low as $15). So it's not the style of battery that's the problem, but rather of viewfinder.

One of the best things about an Olympus is that they take the same cards as my Fuji. And as I have 3 256 MB cards, plus assorted ones of lower MB, well, yeah. To say that would be a plus would be understating things a bit.

And, personally, I swear by Olympus. Their cameras have served both me and Natalie well.

My mom had an Olympus digicam she really loved, and I remember us having quite a few of their film cameras in the house before we all switched to digital. I'm prepared to love this one. :)