Knuckledragger

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A friend of mine has the Fireface 400 in his recording studio. While he really likes the sound of it, especially the mic preamps. That said, he wishes he'd sprung for the 800. His main complaints with the 400 are: The wallwart, and how difficult it is to plug in to the back of the unit. The MIDI connector, which is crap (irrelevant to H-Cers, I know.) Lack of a front mounted power switch. Most of these issues are moot if one isn't rack mounting the unit, but my friend is and now kind of hates his 400 because of it.

I dunno about a pale "Nikon look." K-Rock turns the saturation of his Nikons up to 11 and goes for cartoon colors. The pro and prosumer Nikon bodies have quite a few saturation and color options buried in their labirinthine menu system. This part two of the gig I did last October (right before the epic snowstorm and 8 days without power.) DJ Frankie Bones was the headliner, and he arrived very late only to have about 20 minutes to play. As I said in my on the subject, Frankie negotiated a deal where he'd go back to the promoter's house and do an exclusive set in exchange for most of his fee. At the end of the night I listened to Frankie spin to about 25 people. It was amazing. He has been DJing for 25+ years now, and his set showed a profound understanding of the history of dance music. The only set I've heard that was better was when I saw Afrika Bambataa play in 2007. I like this silhouette of Katherine in this one. Liquid sky and glass gobos. Frankie, back in the promoter's studio. That widget in the middle is a hybrid DJ mixer and Traktor (DJ software) controller. It looks shiny, but I did not like using it. Give me a real analogue mixer any day. The above setup, available light. One more of Katherine. The above shots were all taken with my battered old 30D and mostly my 50mm F/1.4 and 17-50MM F/4. Click through for EXIF. I have still more images to post from the first few outings with my (second) S95. They're gonna have to wait for another post.

Man, I hope they didn't do that to a real vintage 300SL.

The best idea I saw WRT reaching an audience that doesn't already know about SOPA and PIPA was in a reddit comment a few days ago: the legion of porn tube sites should all go dark in a similar fashion to reddit and wikipedia. Take away people's porn and they take notice.

SOPA and/or PIPA would take out imgur (where I host 99% of the images I post) and minus (the other 1%), and severely cripple YouTube and Vimeo. This is to say nothing of the source sites (reddit, the LJ randompictures feed, etc.) That'd leave ...funny text stories from usenet? On a semi-related note, a Polish friend of mine informs me that "pipa" is a slang term for vagina.

Today is January 18th. Wikipedia, Reddit, and many other sites are going dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA. https://www.google.c...ing/takeaction/ If SOPA or PIPA pass, there won't be any more Slow Forum.

This thread keeps popping up like a turd that will not flush.