Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Someone loves the rails to trails:
If you are interested, tonight’s Fresh Air is featuring a story about Puppies Behind Bars. I figure the reason there is no Kitties Behind Bars is because the cats would teach them how to escape.
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Also, via Redkitten/Krista’s Facebook page from an hour ago:
“Is at hospital. water broken. induction tommorow if nothing tonight.”
Via <A HREF=http://wonkette.com/410461/>Wonkette</A> :
“I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”
I know it’s a small thing, but this teabagger ripping up a poster of Rosa Parks seems particularly fucked up to me (via Oliver Willis).
Or Frost Family 2: The Frostening. Take your pick.
According to reliable sources, frequent commenter Redkitten’s (aka Krista) water broke, so presumably she is in labor as we speak. Due to the horrible delays and long lines associated with the Canadian system of socialized medicine, she was required to wait almost nine months for this procedure, so let’s hope everything works out ok.
Keep her in your thoughts.
Barack Obama stripped millions of Americans of their right to not have a black President.
The E-P1 is freaking awesome. But. Like everyone already said the casual user will have a hard time ‘trading up’ to a camera without a viewfinder or a flash. High-end photographers will sniff at the cheapo-cam focus speed, the weird failure to support external flash features like focus-assist and wireless TTL, and they’ll probably miss a viewfinder more than beginners will.
So who is this camera for? Well, if you’re used to manual focus then slow by modern standards still feels pretty darn good. Let’s say that you sorely miss taking great-looking photos with Velvia or T-Max 100 film in a relatively inexpensive and portable body. In that case the compromises you make with an E-P1 are pretty close to compromises that you already made with your old camera. To be happy with an E-P1 you need to care quite a lot more about portability and image quality than you do about ease of use and a full feature set.
The portability is great, although I wouldn’t go overboard about it. On the one hand the camera fits into bags that a DSLR won’t (e.g., most purses). I could fit the camera with kit zoom into the lower pocket on some cargo shorts, even if it made walking around rather awkward and it looked like I stole something. The images, however, seem easily as good as I’d heard.
Who did Olympus mean to use the E-P1? Pros who want something to complement their full-featured DSLR, plus wealthy early adopters, already bought out practically every vendor other than Amazon. I guess that’s great. On the other hand, the number who will prefer the E-P1 as their only camera seems like it should be pretty small. Fortunately that includes me.
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A closer look at the fly. Scale is 1:1 for pixel peeping.
