He said the Canon 5D Mark II was his favourite. It’s pretty pricey though. I found one site that was selling the body (i.e. no lens) for more than $3,000, and that was supposedly with a discount. Given that Michael Yon is an (excellent) independent war journalist, I think his recommendation would have to be pretty robust too.
I recently reflected on some tumblr discussion that said if you are not defined by your creativity, you are only defined by your tastes. I think that’s always been the sticking point for me. I have lots of ideas on everything from consumer electronics to how to decorate Christmas trees and unusual deserts that would be nice in top-quality restaurants, but have never really acted on them (though a lot of my ideas have eventually been thought of and acted on by other people, many of which seem to have been quite successful). Maybe a camera would be a good way to get started; I have some projects in mind, and I will have a lot of photos to take next year when I am overseas.
So what do you guys think? Is it worth it? Will the quality of the camera be wasted on me? Do you know if a new version will come out soon? Do you have any other advice?
chapfou: I don’t know.
anotherangle: exactly!!!
xntrek: Actually …
Agnosticism is about being comfortable to say I don’t know. Atheism is about being comfortable to say I don’t believe.
indefensible: I’m a strong atheist and I find agnostics almost belligerently tedious. It’s one thing to have faith. It’s another thing to have no faith. But to go through life saying “I don’t know and neither can you (because if youcould know then surely I could know) makes you entirely insufferable.
If you think of theists and atheists as two opposing sides in a game of soccer, then agnostics are streakers. They have nothing to add to the game but they want you to look at them for a while because, well, they’re not interested enough to choose a side, but just check out their bums!
Agnostics are the worst.
essdogg: I hadn’t thought of it in those terms until now but given this analogy I wouldn’t call agnostics streakers because that would imply that they try to make it all about them when in fact they’re the least self-referential group of the three. Agnostics are more like referees: the theists and atheists play their little game, each trying to score points on the other and the agnostics are there to blow the whistle when somebody gets kicked in the nuts.
So, yes, agnostics are the worst because too often they’re hardwired for objectivity. But without agnostics you don’t have sport — you have chaos.
Bullshit. Agnostics are honest. Atheists don’t know that there isn’t a God as much as Theists don’t know that there is. They might think there is/n’t, but they don’t know. At least agnostics know they don’t know, and stating as much doesn’t make them fence sitters.
If you’re not black, and you’re not white, it doesn’t make you irrelevant. There is such a thing as decisively grey. To say you have to be one or the other is introducing the either/or logical fallacy into the argument. I am a shade of grey, and I am a strong shade of grey. I generally explain it as follows: Agnostic with an atheistic suspicion. I’m not sure where it sits on the Pantone matching system, but it exists.
indefensible: Did you know that in WW2, they considered building ships from Pykrete — a mixture of ice and wood pulp?
Did you know that in WW2, they built the De Havilland Mosquito out of laminated plywood?
herseaoflove: Hello, my name is Sarah Vucurevich and I find myself hilarious.
Hello, my name is Luke and I find you adorable / cute / gorgeous.*
*…and I hope that’s not too up-front seeing as I don’t even know you.
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They thought about it. The pilot was cancelled in 2008.
PS: I disagree. The American Office is great. Maybe even better than the UK Office.
I understand the reasoning behind some shows. For instance, reality TV shows often take their base from their audience, so if Americans weren’t able to audition then an important part of the concept would be missing. Also, Da Ali G Show (in Da USA) wasn’t so much a remake as it was an expansion of the show into new territory, but what about the below titles?
They can do it quite well (many of the above titles are such examples), but what prompts the initial desire to do so? Are there a bunch of American TV executives out there that think Americans can’t handle Brits on their TVs? Are those executives right?
Also, when they do remake a good show, they run the risk of stuffing it up. A lot of remakes never make it past the pilot or the first few episodes.
But forget that. For me it just keeps coming back to the fact that obviously there is a crowd of people who think Americans will only laugh at, or enjoy the performances of, other Americans, and you know what? They’re probably backed up by a huge amount of market research. I think that’s crap.
One of the ironies of McChrystal’s directive is that the military’s ability to plan and execute precision strikes — with minimal loss of civilian life — has never been better. In fact, the Air Force has a set of tools and protocols so finely tuned that even Human Rights Watch praised its “very good record of minimizing harm to civilians” during the height of the 2008 bombing campaign. But under the new rules, air strikes became a tactic of last resort — no matter how methodically targeted. So planned assaults against fixed targets have become rare.
I wonder in which way he is going to break up in this episode. Didn’t I say something was up a while ago? I definitely said something was up a while ago. Didn’t I say so!?
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Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars
The Ecological and Economical Traffic Light Concept [relogik.com] by Damjan Stankovic is a Red Dot Design 2009 Award winner and consists of a simple yet, potentially highly practical visualization concept for everyday traffic lights that could reduce pollution and promote safer driving. There might already be quite some traffic light time counters around today, but few focus on informing the car drivers in a physically integrative and visually glanceable way like this proposed design concept.
Awesome. If it was visible enough, people could also slow down before they reach the intersection, allowing the lights to turn green and let traffic straight through. Quicker and less idling. I try to do that already, but it’s hard to judge sometimes.](http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kubojxmAns1qz4xx0o1_500.jpg)
Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars
The Ecological and Economical Traffic Light Concept [relogik.com] by Damjan Stankovic is a Red Dot Design 2009 Award winner and consists of a simple yet, potentially highly practical visualization concept for everyday traffic lights that could reduce pollution and promote safer driving. There might already be quite some traffic light time counters around today, but few focus on informing the car drivers in a physically integrative and visually glanceable way like this proposed design concept.
Awesome. If it was visible enough, people could also slow down before they reach the intersection, allowing the lights to turn green and let traffic straight through. Quicker and less idling. I try to do that already, but it’s hard to judge sometimes.
