Knuckledragger

Good lucks, Yikes. If you can't land a high end audio job, maybe there's employment for you in THIS sector:

^ Best dog evar. The 2011 Senate.

x2. This thread has been a fascinating read for me, and I'm an utter neophyte when it comes to the Dark Arts of Soldering.

My Miele was $400 11 years ago. Mum's WTF-fancy vaccum was $1200 5-6 years ago.

I just found out my friends Josh and Gina now have a baby girl, Ella Rebecca Moulton Born 1/3/11 at 11:58 am 7 pounds 1.5 ounces, 20 inches long. Little brat stole my birthday!

A few thoughts: Color print film is fun, but a bit of a gamble. Frame for frame, it's not going to consistently best a modern digital camera. If you're serious about color film photography, you'll end up shooting slide film and having it processed by professionals. Proper scanning of side or print film is just as important as the developing. In the past, I encountered rolls where the prints looked great and the scans were awful. The answer is to buy a scanner and do it yourself. Professional labs will do competent scans of slide film, but not cheaply. Black and white print film is a totally different universe. There is an awful lot of latitude in exposure, and a lifetime of creative control in the print. I think it was Ansel Adams who said "The exposure is the score, the print is the performance" but it might have been someone else (Knuckles has not had his coffee yet.) Lastly, if prints from scans look the same as from negatives, than the guy doing it is a hack.

Slower Forum!

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I had a fairly sedate one, especially compared to last year. I've now entered the age of the Wu Tang: 36 chambers (which came out 18 years ago this year. Lawn. Off.)

Wow. End of an era. I dislike the new name.

Was visited by some friends from Boston, who took me out to dinner. Bought a bottle of Scotch. Hung out with said friends, drinking said whiskey copious amounts of smack. Now sobering up a bit so I can go pick up [wah wah guitar]