Google Talk

Is this another attempt by Google for world domination? Whatever it is, it seems sort of neat. Plus everything Google makes is cool.

Like most things Google makes, this is still beta.

>> Google Talk beta

New Canon full-frame d-SLR!

The Canon 5D. 12.8MP

Wow. Full frame d-SLRs are coming at a much lower price. It’s not up to the level of the 1D-mkII but still.

I wonder if the APS sized sensor or the full frame sensor will eventually endure. The effect of FF size is certainly what we’ve all come to expect in traditional photography and FF for the masses (almost) will certainly help maintain it. With the flooding of point and click cams all over the place with their tiny sensors, everyone is wondering where all the limited depth of field went. So perhaps the digicam era with it’s small cameras and small sensors will eventually squeeze out the FF and it’s utter bigness. Who knows, maybe FF will become something like medium format or large format is to 35mm.

>> Canon 5D at dpreview.com

Stupid games are fun

This stupid game is something Brian found. 20 minutes later I am victorious.

>> Penguin Game

Greetings from Toronto.

Happy Birthday Angeline!

The twilight zone.

It wasn’t just any haircut. I was talking about getting a haircut one day and my classmate said her mother owned a salon. Two weeks later, I decided to see what it was all about.

While the hair stylist and I were engaged in small talk, she mentioned some local festival. It was appropriately named Sterlingfest since we were in Sterling Heights. Hmm. Thirty minutes later Geline and I were waiting in line to hop on a shuttle from a local church parking lot, but not till after being the victim of an extremely obese white woman’s road rage. Here, I bought my first cup of lemonade from a real stand operated by 10-year olds. Half-way to the festival, we actually began wondering how we ended up where we were. We were told it had food and we were hungry.

The place looked like your average smorgasbord of festivities and rides. However, it was a freakish carnival on one end, with straw on the ground, odd people lurking around, and scary carnival game operators asking us what our nationality was. On the other end, there was an art fair sort of thing with your jewelry stand here, a kettle corn stand there, and one stand selling squirrel houses that looked really similar to bird houses. At another stand the sight of a magical dish lured us into a purchase.

As we wandered deeper, the sights and sounds began to blend and melt together into a hypnotizing and unescapeable kaleidoscope. On stage, there was even a group of people shaking and dancing and singing as if they were 30 years younger called the Contours. We got trapped in the parking lot after deciding to leave. While we sat wondering what to do, a man with a huge smile released the caution tape that was blocking our escape.

We finally returned to the real world where someone somewhere lives with four of my very first stitches in her abdomen. The haircut? It was good.