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I saw Sideways last night and really enjoyed it. It’s not the best film ever, but it was definitely worth my ten bucks, and it made up for Alexander Payne’s previous film – the abysmal About Schmidt.
I’m off to Seattle tomorrow for a week split between vacation and work, and although I’ve been traveling a lot lately, I’m looking forward to being back on the West Coast and in Seattle. And the frequent flyer miles don’t hurt, either.
I put up a little page describing my experiences with my old Rolleiflex camera – check it out here. I’ll put up more info as I have time and as I continue to fix up the camera. For something 70 years old, it works amazingly well and makes me happy every time I use it.
If you’re in need of any advice on repairing an old camera, Ken Ruth is your man. He spent almost half an hour with me on the phone helping me think through a fix for the Rolleiflex (essentially, I need to make a very small rivet to replace one that broke) in spite of the fact that me doing the repair means no money for him. And I was referred to Ken by another great repair-man, Harry Fleenor. I guess there are fewer and fewer folks who’ll do repairs on old cameras, but the ones who’re left seem damn good.
We got our first snow last night! After the 60° weather on Sunday, it dropped to just above freezing yesterday evening and snowed just a little bit. It’s definitely getting to be winter time – if only knitting and drinking hot cocoa gave the same health benefits as biking and playing ultimate frisbee twice a week.
The official, version 1.0 release of Firefox comes out today. Check it out for all your pop-up-free browsing needs.
So I posted some stuff up on Craigslist last night in the Free section, and was instantly innundated with about 75 emails in 10 minutes! The responses ranged from “Gimme everything!” to “My dying grandmother told me her last wish was for a junky old Mac laptop computer that only barely works, so please, even if you’ve promised it to someone else, can I have it?” From the 75, I found the first folks who replied in a reasonable fashion and have started getting rid of some stuff (old APS camera, junky laptop, SCSI scanner, etc.). So liberating!