Salt Peanuts

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Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love

Reminiscent of Ergo cans and Jecklins, too.

Congrats on the baby, Ryan!

I like the overall look a lot. If I were to nitpick, I think allen head screws would've looked nicer than phillips head screws to fasten the grill. I also don't care for the "R" and "L" marker smack dab in the middle of the grills.

Eric Clapton - Unplugged

Ogon aluminum wallet

Ry Cooder and Manuel Galb

Elvis Costello - Rock And Roll Music

Have a great one!

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session

Woot-off today.

They Might Be Giants - Flood

A tank of gas. It appears the gas price is going up by 10 cents per gallon every time I fill up my tank.

Bathed our cats. The process went as planned, which is to say painfully.

Not an exciting picture, but trying out the Nikon Series E 75-150mm lens I picked up recently. The lens is bit heavier than I'm used to and I realize that I'm horrendous at handholding.

Came back to work after having most of the last week (4 out of the 5 days). Predictably, there were ridiculous amount of work waiting for me. At least there were no surprises.

Happy Birthday!

Warren Zevon - Learning To Flinch

Somewhat stale nacho flavored tortilla chips. I hate when I forget to bring my lunch to work.

You put a piece of electrical tape on the length of the barrel where the push-pull ring moves, giving extra resistance for the ring. With black tape on the underside of the lens, it's hardly noticeable. I'm sure there are more elegant solutions for fixing the zoom creep, but it only takes a minute or so and virtually free, provided you already have an electrical tape. I'd just need to remember to change the tape periodically so that it doesn't get nasty as electrical tape tends to do.

Anyone else having the word wrapping problem again?

This. Acquired couple of groove joint pliers as my old one appears to have fallen victim to the black hole that is my basement. I should have bought myself another toolbox as well since the current one is quite full.

I wish there was a way to look for HD streaming titles as well. In regards to video quality, after some issues initially (back in November of '09), we've been getting consistently good to excellent video quality regardless whether the streamed media is regular-def or high-def (except when we're having connection problem - which is a problem with Comcast and not Netflix). FWIW, my PS3's output is upscaled via Denon AVR4308 (though original aspect ratio is kept).

The push-pull zoom is rather loose, but I gave up looking for one that isn't loose after number of sellers told me their copy was loose. I may try the electrical tape trick to make it bit tighter. I found one that was/is supposedly not loose - claimed as near NOS - but wasn't willing to pay the asking price. There are also some dusts in there, but I guess that's to be expected. Predictably, I haven't been able to use it yet since the adapter I bought has yet to arrive.