Pictures!

[mindstalk]

A few days ago I finally bought a digital camera. Impulse decision, as I passed Radio Shack. Consumer Reports has had the Canon Powershot A5-- line as Best Buys, and the current $170 camera was the A550. Might have been smarter to get an older model on eBay; oh well. I unpacked it on the Megabus to Indy, and got the 2GB SmartDisk out of its blister pack while armed only with a key. Woot! Then I took lots of photos, mostly of clouds and a girl passenger. Later some photos of my apartment, and me, and some campus ones I haven't downloaded.

http://mindstalk.net/2007June3gall/

Gallery includes a picture of me (mefaire_small) at Ren Faire, taken by lyceum's friend gothicsquish

seemybooksHUGE is pretty big, but is detailed enough to let you read spine titles. Also, that's about a third of my books. Maybe fewer, considering the case packed with paperbacks.

busgirl_thumbs, at full size (not online), lets me read some writing on the back of her left hand. Looks like FRIDGE. No idea why. I suspect that's better than 20/20 vision, i.e. even if I wore my glasses I wouldn't have read that myself.

The credit card computers got alarmed at my card trying to buy $200 of electronics in Chicago. I'm pleased, frankly; it's good to know they can catch that.

Comments

"busgirl"

[(Anonymous)]

So who is she? I thought your b/w photo of her was very nice! :)

~Petite Américaine

Re: "busgirl"

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Just a fellow passenger. I talked to her enough to learn where she lived, and that she was helping her sister-and-boyfriend move to New Orleans. Move to, not move back. And I got permission to take pictures, as I visibly unpacked and played with my new toy, thus the posed thumbs one -- her idea, and the first photo; I snuck others later, though that B&W one was the only one not blurred by autofocus and a moving background, or something. But while she was friendly, she didn't return questions, so I didn't pursue things, like her name.

Oh, she'd had a National Geographic, recovered from a recycling bin; my first words had been "Can I look at that briefly?" 2000 issue.

Re: "busgirl"

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

BTW, anonymous comments are screened on my LJ, for anti-spam, so you won't show up till I approve you. FYI. Thanks for dropping by!

[schenker28.livejournal.com]

Those pics look great! I like the b/w bus girl photo. Nice clear picture of the Indy mall artsgarden thing too.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Danke!

Two votes for the B&W -- well, the cute girl in general, one for the Indy thingy, one for sepia clouds.

No new photos from today's busride.

My ride today said you've borrowed a nice VW. :)

[schenker28.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a car that actually works! It's pretty nice for a change. Do you know Toshi? (it's his car) He's in Computer Science and interested in NLP stuff.