Knuckledragger

So apparently my ISP has been screwing me for AGES by charging me an extra $12 a month and charging me for the 30Mbps rate while giving me 15Mbps. I just got off the phone with them and now my connection looks like this:

Contains completely NSFW language.

How are Nikon bodies with AF beams? My ancient 30D (and even more ancient 5D) hunt horribly in bad lighting, but I use my 580EX speedlite's AF-assist beam virtually all the time. In Canon-speak that means turning on the flash but disabling it from firing. I'm sure there's a similar arrangement for a Nikon. Of course this entails buying a speedlite, but eventually every photographer needs one of them anyway.

Bizzarro super-widescreen monitor, and ...and RSA amp?

No, I've never been to California. I have a number of friends who live out there, but they've all but given up on getting me to visit them.

An entire Chinese keyboard with over 2000 symbols. WAT.

HC Killing Floor players take note, the Community Weapons Pack is on sale for another 5 hours and 4 minutes from the time of this post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upbBJADAWk4 This is some crazy shit. A Strip Club in downtown Springfield MA blew up taking out a bunch of buildings around it.

I haven't posted any of my own photos in this thread in bloody ages. I've mentioned on several occasions that I bought and IR-modified 5D. Last week I finally took it out and took some landscape shots. EF 50mm F/1.4 @ F/2, 1/100, ISO 100. EF 17-40L @ 36 mm, 1/60, F/5.6, ISO 100. EF 17-40L @ 26 mm 1/60, F/5.6, ISO 100. EF 17-40L @ 17 mm, 1/100, F/6.3, ISO 100. In late september I worked a party where there was a fire spinning troupe. I spend 2 hours taking photos of them ...and while I was doing that, someone stole my DJ headphones out of my bag. 35mm F/2 @ F/18, 0.8 seconds, ISO 100. EF 35mm @ F/11, 2.5 sec, ISO 100. EF 35mm @ F/10, 3.2 sec, ISO 100. EF 35mm @ F/11, 3.2 sec, ISO 100. EF 35mm @ F/10, 2 sec, ISO 100. EF 35mm @ F/10, 3.2 sec, ISO 100. EF 35mm @ F/13, 3.2 sec, ISO 100. Click through for extended EXIF and all that.

This is most likely a Reapy McReapOast, but it still gives me a chuckle:

That's her ELBOW, you sickos!

AMZN has the Sony MDR V6 for $50. The V6/7506 are lacking in sex appeal, but they are my favorite in-the-field working can, period. I've used them for DJing, field recording, film production, etc etc.

“Where we’re going, we don’t need… roads.”