Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Sunday, May 16, 2004 Google: It's like Rear Window meets The Bad News Bears! After a very long time without, I have a digital camera again. We have a digital camera, actually, as Edi purchased it to use for work reasons, can write it off for tax purposes, and I'm the monkey guy who gets to run around with it snapping blurry photos with my thumb. I've missed it so.It's a 4 megapixel camera which means, um, that they're huge. I guess that makes sense, right? Well, downloading the pictures from the camera was a breeze but emailing just a select few to Edi took a a while. And the photos of her look great, but I look like a cock-eyed sunburned Frankenstein. Sadly, this is no fault of the camera--it's how I look that's the problem. I don't need a 4 megapixel camera--I need a .2 megapixel camera, one that makes my eyes look less squinty and changes my forehead's sweaty patina into a gentle glow. I may request that Edi takes all pictures of me in Angel mode. Yes, our camera really has an Angel mode which according to the instruction book "is intended for shots of children and women, since it gives particularly beautiful skin tones and also gives priority to the shutter response so that you can capture fleeting laughter or smiles." (Reading that really drove home that we had bought a Japanese camera.) The camera also takes movies and records sound for those of us who also hate the sound of our own voices and may still cling to the foolish belief that we look better in motion than we do standing still. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if another ten years we have cameras that can capture our auras so people like me can shake our heads in silent horror at how befouled is the actuality of the personal nimbus. Sigh. Okay, that's a nice and depressing take on what was actually a really lovely little moment: Edi and I taking pictures of each other and laughing and marveling at how well the stuffed bunny on the computer looked. Unsurprisingly, he's a natural in front of a camera and doesn't seem bothered by how he comes off in photos at all. posted by Jeff Lester | 7:51 PM | |
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