Knuckledragger

Testing out posting a YT video with the new software. Nice montage, too.

Ooh. Good eye, Salty. Other deals: 16-35mm F/2on sale for $1400. Wacky fun EF-S 15-85mm is also on sale for $717. It's less-interesting cousin, the EF-S 55-250mm is $210. 300mm F/4L is $100 off. 70-200mm DO IS is $100 off as well. BIG DEAL NO ONE BUYS THAT THING DON'T YOU GET IT, CANON? EF 75-300mm is $138. Don't buy this unless you enjoy the challenge of extracting good shots from terrible lenses. Even then, you should probably pass. There's a couple others on sale as well, including the 15mm fishee.

Odd. The emoticon isn't working in original messages, but it's working in quotes. Also odd. (second one has spaces)

New OS is fast, but the forum is still slow

In short, wahoo! Smileys work.

Sadly, I couldn't get a decent framerate with Amnesia on my laptop, so I'm playing it's spiritual ancestor, Penumbra: Overture. The first "level" takes place in the northern tip of Greenland, and the first task is "don't freeze to death." Couldn't be more apt.

Bill and Ted's Exterminating Adventure

The 85L only stops down to F/16, and hits its maximum sharpness well before that. I took a few shots with it at F/8, and was floored by the sharpness. Original size, so you can pixel peep your heart out. Generally speaking, any good prime is going to have better optical performance than a good or even great zoom. The 85L is one of the best SLR prime lenses, period. In skilled (and/or patient) hands, it can deliver a great picture of nearly anything that's holding still. If the subject is moving, you'd best look elsewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RLucBPZsbw Holy crapballs, this is the most stream of consciousness version of Bill's Charlie Hodge routine I have ever heard. I think I had a 64kbit mp3 of this back in '99 or so, but I've never seen the video before. Obviously it's NSFW, because it's Bill Fucking Hicks.

This kid doesn't know how good he has it. Conventions are boring and full of nerds. I hope I never end up at one.