Jul23
This is one of those times when two weeks have gone by, almost identical, day-by-day and every day, I think, "I'll post something in the morning..." and every day, well... you know. Now it's gotten so long that I'm afraid to post because it'll take SO LONG.
Well, not this time. I'm just here to say hi, to tell you to enjoy your weekend and to warn you that I might even post a picture or two soon. I shot two people over the past two days for BRANDED. Yay me. I've redone the site a little, too, and developed a logo that'll have to stick, at least for the time being.
I'll be back. Happy Friday, though.
Jul07
So by now, you've probably read that Prince thinks that the internet "is over". Thanks, genius. Whatever.
But today I saw a piece on Techdirt pointing out that Time Magazine is publishing only excerpts of its articles online anymore. Maybe Prince called them and explained to them that the internet was over? I dunno. But the idea of getting Time articles only on an iPad or in print is pretty fucking stupid. I'm especially sad because I grew up with Time Magazine in the house and it's one of those things that I wish I could continue to like and use in my adult life. But if Time thinks that I'm going to continue to support deforestation, poisoning the environment through ink bleed and related detritus, truck shipping of trees, pulp, materials and finished magazines, it's not the kind of magazine that I want to be a part of. That's to say nothing about the support for Jobs' absurdist self-fellating power trip.
So Time Magazine goes with Chevy in the pile of stuff I grew up with and would dearly love to continue to support, but who fucked up badly enough to push someone who wanted to support them away. I can only imagine if you're only neutral (or, god forbid, a Ford/Newsweek guy) how unappealing this move is to you.
Anyway, rant over. I wonder if they're going to recind the Computer's Man of the Year award now. Or the time they awarded it to bloggers (2006?). Fucking Time.
Jul07
 The other day, I made the comments shortlist on Wine.Woot.
I know that this is pretty much just a "most recent decent comments" section, but still - I'd like to crow about it anyway.
Of course, I bought the wine and I've been to the vineyard more than the rest of the wooters combined (maybe), so it's not that impressive, but still, I like that I made it on there. The wine was on a great special - $20/bottle for a bottle that they usually charge $45 for, so that's nice. And it'll be good to have some excellent pinot to drink on hand.
 In other big news, I bought the new Canon T2i - the first SLR that really made me want to replace my aging XTi. So far, the biggest difference (and I've only shot test shots), is the low-light performance. It's amazing what a difference ISO6400 makes when you're used to shooting at a max of ISO1600. Couple that with the fact that I'm soon going to get a lens that I'm buying specifically because it's going to give me similar results to the lens on Dad's Yashica, and you end up with a happy Matt.
Once I've taken my first real set of pictures, I'll post some up here, of course, but they'll have to be shrunken some, because 18MP is a shitload of megapixels.
Additionally, the T2i shoots FullHD video, so this is going to be the camera for my brownie projects in the forseeable future, which is awesome. I've been through too many tape-based minicams that all suck ass and break after no time at all, so it's time to upgrade to something in a product family I trust (I still love my XTi and am keeping it to shoot random crap with). I can't wait to have my first FullHD brownie project to post. Fun times.
Okay, the full (huge) wine.woot thing is after the break.
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Jul03
So Woot got bought by Amazon.
What's the business end of this deal? I've read the Blog Post, I've seen the video, and I'm still a little confused, or at least in the dark, about how something like this works. Like, who gets what? Presumably, Amazon paid something for Woot. They weren't a public company, so it didn't happen by stock purchses, right? No. So they just put up a certain amount of money and, boom, they now get the profits? Everyone gets the same salary and job description as before, just the ownership changed hands?
I guess, if I owned Woot and Amazon came along and gave me, in cash, the value of the profit I expected to make over the next three years (ten years?) and let me stay on as CEO with the same salary, etc., then I might do it, too. Especially if I had another idea that I wanted to exploit. Hmm.
Anyway, anyone who has a real clue about how this sort of thing goes down, I'd be interested in your take.
Jun25
So a year ago today (in a few hours) I was loading out my gear from the MJ show at Staples. That's the show that was probably going to take me to the O2 Arena. One year and one day later, I'll be loading out at the O2 for real, having finished Bon Jovi's run here in London.
It's interesting where your life goes - how it gets shaped. Who would be on the Bon Jovi show? Would we be prompting it? Doubtful, but you never know.
Anyway, I'm surprisingly daunted by the prospect of hunting down potential places to taste wine. Something about going alone makes it all seem lame. Ah well. I'm also considering going back to Mt. Ste Michelle... we'll see.
Jun23
 This is what it looks like from under the stage when I lift the little black fabric that covers the gap between the stage and the slightly-higher drum/guitar/bass riser under which I sit.
I wandered around London for a couple of hours today, crossing every bridge as I came to it (Tower, London, Southwark, Millennium), and also walked along the riverwalk quite a ways, too. Fun times.
Bigger version of this cameraphone pic after the break, per usual.
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