It's like I'm living in the future now.

[foxgrrl]

Hey everyone! Look at me! I'm Blogging from the airport! Woo-hoo!

I didn't have time to mention this yet, but I went out and bought a black 2 GHz Intel Core Duo Apple MacBook on monday. (And an extra 2G of memory for it.) I'm typing this, on that, right now, in the Chicago Midway Airport. (I'd give the GPS coordinates for my exact location, but I packed my GPS in my checked luggage. I also bought a copy of Aperture.

So now I can blog live photos from wherever I go. Here's the payphone sitting in front of me:



And the lovely view out the window:




Here's a picture of the airplane wing I sat over on the way here, in Infrared and Ultraviolet. (I'll explain later...)






It's very noisy here right now, because about 100 young teenagers just showed up, all apparently going to Washington DC with me. I think they're all going camping or something, or in a cult. They're all wearing a badge around their necks that says "ET". Here.. I'll discretely take a picture of one...



There was also a huge group of Methodists, all wearing identical yellow shirts, with a bunch of stuff related to camping, and such, and a reference to a verse in Mathew 14, that I forget now. (Both a camping group and a cult.) On the plane that left this gate earlier, which I was waiting here, were some type of Buddhist or Hare Krishnah monks, which was cool. (Unfortunately, I'm not that familiar enough to recognize which religion exactly.) [That plane went to Laguardia.]

Comments

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it looks like they still have typos in the future. s/,/\./

[solarbird]

(Posted until foxgrrl gets a chance to correct her image tags: If you change the commas in the filenames to dots, the pictures load fine. ^_^ )

[foxgrrl]

Cut and Paste errors strike again! Curse you Cut and Paste! Curse You!

Yeah, I figured it out a few minutes ago and corrected that. I had to deal with airport stuff first. My flight is now delayed another two hours.

[solarbird]

Jeez - personally, between the two, I'd have let the 404s stay up for a while. @_@

( ^_^ )

ps: airlines suxx0rs

[foxgrrl]

There was no cause and effect relationship between the flight delay and the LJ correction. I had to check-in and stuff, and then there was enough time to do the corrections and stuff.

[solarbird]

I know. I was funnin' ya.

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

I want to hear about the IR and UV... :D

[foxgrrl]

That's going to be a long post, which I may actually have time to write in the next few days. Short version: I have a wratten 87a and an 88 or 89 (how could I forgot? Too tired to bother looking right now too) filter, which is a longwave bandpass filter, about 700nm-1100nm. And for UV, until I get an 18a filter, or a some shortwave bandpass bichromatic filters, I've been 'improvising' with a pair of crossed polarizers (The polaroid [gel] kind).

My D50 still has the UV,IR anti-alias filter over the sensor, so exposure time suxors. And I don't have anything like a 105mm Nikkor-Micro UV lens, or even any fluorite-glass lenses, so most of my glass – like the Nikon G series "ED" lenses I have – just will not focus UV and IR light onto a point at any focal length. My old 50mm f1.8 lens seems to do much better, especially with IR, but I think it only has like three lens elements in it (The G series lenses have like 13).

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

Neato. I'm wishing I'd kept my old Kodak 3c, which had no hot mirror.

I've seen some interesting things on the web about making a pinhole aperture and shooting digital with it; while it would not be all that great for image sharpness and exposure times, it would certainly pass any wavelength. Might be worth trying out.

Neat stuff! Thanks for sharing.

[foxgrrl]

Arrgh, Safari/LiveJournal ate my message.

What I think I said was: That I had thought about using a pinhole, and that I now have a steel plate with a 13/1000 of an inch, perfectly circular, hole in it. I haven't taken any photos with this pinhole yet, but if you hold it up to your eye and look through it, you can see the optical imperfections in your own eyeball.

[thehumangame.livejournal.com]

aw, macbook. i like the white ones though.

[foxgrrl]

Yeah the white ones are nice too, I was planning on getting one of those, until I found out about the black ones – which would go so well with the typical outfits that I wear.

There is apparently a company that will paint you Mac laptop(s) into any color you want. [The guy at the Apple store told me so.]

[ioerror.livejournal.com]

Where to?

[foxgrrl]

The Washington DC/Baltimore/Vienna/all-that-stuff-area, then oh Thursday I'm going up to Pittsburgh for the weekend. Then back to California next week.

P.S. I was going to say something about your break-up, but I haven't had time, and I didn't want to just say, "Me too".

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

If they offer you any koolaid.... Run!

[harlkyn.livejournal.com]

Woot! Macs rock! *snuggles!*

You totally need to send that payphone picture to 2600. :)

[foxgrrl]

Back when I was still phreaking, I tool alot of pictures of telco gear/facilities — but mostly payphones. So, I have a lot of RBOC and COCOT phone pictures from the mid-to-late-90's. A lot of the operating phone companies merged or went out of business, so these pictures may have some historical value, or something. (Teltrust, MPCWest, USP, Alltel, etc...) 2600 tends to only post pictures of foreign payphones, unless there is something really strange or unusual about it. [it == A domestic payphone]