Knuckledragger

Srsly. As soon as Apple refreshes the grater, I am SO buying one. I have an .edu discount which will knock $300 or so off. It's still going to cost me enough to make even audiophiles blink (with monitor think KGBHSE levels.) Still, I am a photographer. Scanning film and editing photos on a (early 2008) Macbook is a unique form of hell.

Your Macbook luck does not appear to be as good as your phone, luck, boomana. You said the keyboard issue kept getting worse? The Genius Bar tech said that he thought it was a software issue, but I have my doubts. I can only fix it via a complete powercycle (off and back on) and not a reboot. One other issue I forgot to mention is that the camera on the lappy has random, but infrequent, issues at startup. Sometimes when I power up the lappy, the camera light comes on almost immediately, and the camera itself won't work with apps like Photo Booth. Since I never use the camera, it was a minor issue for me. The Genius guy said it might be a symptom of a larger problem. I'm supposed to get a call from an Apple repair tech in the next day or so. They're going to dell me what the (physical) damage is, and how long it will take to fix it. Hopefully it will cost me $0, as I have over a year of AppleCare left. In the interim, I'm stuck on this ca. 2001 Pentium IV Dell running XP. It is ...worse than I remembered. When you don't run a Windows box for a long time and power it up, there's approximately 847 things that want to update, and Windows is of course a complete nagging bitch about it. I love being forced to reboot six times before I can rung FFX to check my sodding email. I had to talk myself out of impulse buying a Mac Mini when I was in the Apple store and now I'm kind of wishing I did.

Organic split pea soup (no ham) and a cup of Bromley tea.

QFT.

Yet another flash diffuser. This one is much bigger and adjustable. It remind me of the top of a blender.

For Reks: This friend of a fried has an IR-modified D50: Mother's Day 2010 - Como Zoo, St. Paul, MN - a set on Flickr Image quality looks really good. Maybe these will help motivate you to modify your D70

I never saw the Eraser, so I had to google up the scene in question. Fortunately, this is the information age. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99srXCaqC7k

Also, life on a Windows XP machine blows.

I have AppleCare, so it should (key word there) cost me little or nothing.

Shorly, I'm powering down my trust Macintop and taking in to the Genius Bar, to have the following issues resolved: Firewire port does not work, plastic pins are missing Trackpad doesn't work, it won't "unclick" keyboard stops working randomly, often after laptop has been asleep cooling fan runs (nearly) constantly HDD has become noisy recently I imagine I'll be without it for over a week. That means I'll be stuck with crappy Dell running XP.

Those are the main three. Srs bsns photographers use larger diffusers that have a gel frame on the front surface, and then use whatever color and density gel they want (1/2 and 1/4 CTO gels are popular.) I considered going that route (and may end up doing it yet) but I don't really any anything that big, ungainly and fragile inside the chaotic environment of a nightclub. I've got a long-ish post about strobes I've been meaning to write in the Photography thread, but I haven't quite gotten around to it.

3x diffuser domes for my 580EX speedlite. I'm probably going to end up buying a few more + remote cord before the week is out. I also need a timer remote.

Welcome to Head-Case, beware of the FWIR. :basement::basement::basement::basement:

I like the view-through-the-columns shot, Salty. I might try it at -1/3 or -2/3 EV, however. The columns themselves wouldn't suffer from being darker, and you'd get more detail on the building behind. I went and saw a local 2-piece band last Thursday. The shots of them weren't very interesting, but afterward I took a few pix of my friend Alyssa outside the bar. 17-40L @ 23mm, F/4, 1/30th, ISO1250. 30D's white balance was set to fluorescent. No edits at all.