I already posted the pic of Lily and the iPad a few days back, no need to repost it, right?

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So far last week I've learned that the Hatemonger and I have become a little estranged - I'm no longer used to the calibrate, focus, take picture routine, and so mistakes happen, like the other day at Burton and a little later on in the week when I found that the white balance on a bunch of pictures was profoundly messed up. Need to kinda spend a little time relearning the camera, how to accommodate light levels, etc etc.

meantime I've taken two shots for this week with Sikudhani and I've pretty much decided that it sucks for still photos. So. Much. Grain. I swear, the camera on my old sony ericcson phone was a crapton better. Between that and the price point, I'm certainly thinking twice about the whole iphone thing. Any insights on any android smartphone camera quality, internet?

Contrary to the icon used this post has nothing to do with porn, except tangentially by way of making it easier to obtain it. Theoretically, anyway.

I have this tendency to order shit online for myself and then clean forget I did so. This is only bad if I fail to budget for said purchase, but if all's well on the money front (in this case the purchase in question only cost me $5 in shipping) having the UPS guy knock on the door is a total shock followed by the "ooh, what did I order again?" excitement. Which sometimes is compounded by the box contents being orders of magnitude smaller than the box.

Anyway, Squee's new 2GB RAM chip showed up today (size of box: 11"x8"x4.5". size of item shipped: 3"x1.75"x0.25". *facepalm*), and after probably the fastest chip swap I have ever done in my life (seriously, that was it? it took all of a minute and a half!) Squee seems to be doing much better with double the RAM. Not ludicrous speed by any means, but at least he can now play youtube vids without hiccuping (testing this by drooling at the men in red heels again - that vid never gets old).

So. Epeen's happy, Squee is happy, The Preciousssss's retirement is in sight so its happy, and provided the cat doesn't kill my iPad trying to dig virtual mice out of it (yes, we found an app or three designed for cats last night and ridiculous cute and hilarity ensued), I would say that barring major disaster I'm pretty all set on the tech front for a while.

ETA: oh yeah - have a dumb cat video. I have a feeling with the iPad my youtube channel is going to very quickly fill up with Lily being a doof and Lil'beast arguing with people.