My PowerBook is only getting around an hour of battery life. I am not pleased.
I leave for San Francisco tomorrow. 98% of my laundry is already done, but I have yet to pack. I'm really trying to minimize my load on this trip. To that end, I'll grudgingly bring only my Yashica T4 Super D point-and-shoot camera and maybe my Canon Digital Elph S100. I recently inherited my grandfather's 25 year old Canon F1, but after putting a test roll of TMAX ISO 400 through it (which I just sent off to have developed yesterday), I'm hesitant to use it without professional cleaning and calibration. I think my roll of film may be about the eleventh or sixteenth roll of film ever put through the camera, it's that almost-brand-new.
With the exception of a certain group of people, I find that I communicate very poorly. I chalk this up to actually thinking and investigating things that interest me, as well as current events, rather than merely parroting back soundbytes which subscribe to one or more fashionable biases. Related to this is my tendency to delve into too much detail surrounding any one given issue, which I do because I wish to understand systems, whereas most people just want quick answers and a general idea if you fall in the US or THEM category for any issue they take mildly seriously.
One thing I have been noticing lately is how true it is that the average group of Americans, when talking amongst themselves, prefer to try to talk over the other guy, rather than talk with the other guy. In conversations that try to maintain civility, there's a lot of verbal overhead spent in resolving speaking conflicts (someone interrupts and the speaker tries to calmly protest and remain in control: "please, just let me finish"). I notice this in myself too, but less when I was in Canada and Ireland. Perhaps I just run into more where I am now.
I leave for San Francisco tomorrow. 98% of my laundry is already done, but I have yet to pack. I'm really trying to minimize my load on this trip. To that end, I'll grudgingly bring only my Yashica T4 Super D point-and-shoot camera and maybe my Canon Digital Elph S100. I recently inherited my grandfather's 25 year old Canon F1, but after putting a test roll of TMAX ISO 400 through it (which I just sent off to have developed yesterday), I'm hesitant to use it without professional cleaning and calibration. I think my roll of film may be about the eleventh or sixteenth roll of film ever put through the camera, it's that almost-brand-new.
With the exception of a certain group of people, I find that I communicate very poorly. I chalk this up to actually thinking and investigating things that interest me, as well as current events, rather than merely parroting back soundbytes which subscribe to one or more fashionable biases. Related to this is my tendency to delve into too much detail surrounding any one given issue, which I do because I wish to understand systems, whereas most people just want quick answers and a general idea if you fall in the US or THEM category for any issue they take mildly seriously.
One thing I have been noticing lately is how true it is that the average group of Americans, when talking amongst themselves, prefer to try to talk over the other guy, rather than talk with the other guy. In conversations that try to maintain civility, there's a lot of verbal overhead spent in resolving speaking conflicts (someone interrupts and the speaker tries to calmly protest and remain in control: "please, just let me finish"). I notice this in myself too, but less when I was in Canada and Ireland. Perhaps I just run into more where I am now.
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