Or Frost Family 2: The Frostening. Take your pick.
Open Thread- Baby Edition
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.
Open Thread
Barack Obama stripped millions of Americans of their right to not have a black President.
Camera Update: Self Control FAIL
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.
***Update***
A closer look at the fly. Scale is 1:1 for pixel peeping.
Poor little Rich boy
Zachary Roth finds some good stuff in the US Attorney documents:
In a January 2007 email, White House political director Sara Taylor wrote:
Prior is going after Griffin. He’s made this his cause…. We need to find some folks to defend Tim and his credentials, not to mention our policy.
Your thoughts? Rich Lowry offered to help Tim
The best part? Taylor went on to ask: “Anyone better?”
I don’t know whether to laugh at Lowry or call for a blogger ethics panel.
Open Thread
I’m so glad we got that peak wingnut thing over with.
Toilet paper rationing
If loving winger craziness is wrong, I don’t want to be right (from Specter’s town hall):
I know that years down the road, I don’t want my children coming to me and asking me, ‘Mom, why didn’t you do anything? Why do we have to wait in line for, I don’t know, toilet paper or anything?’ I don’t want to have to tell them I didn’t do anything. As a normal citizen, the most I feel like I can do is come to this town hall meeting.
Spanking rights, toilet paper shortages…oh, never mind.