Today’s soundtrack: fellas, things done got too far gone
Today at 12:32pm: having a keyboard snack while the mouse cools off


My camera is fucking falling apart. I cleaned the lens pretty thoroughly with some solution I bought at the camera store, but those spots keep showing up on my photos; even worse, the auto-focus now appears to be crapping out, the LCD occasionally clicks off and goes totally black, and my pictures come out blurry unless the light is sharp and dramatic.

The spots appearing on my photos would be fine if I was shooting leopards, people with measles or Kwame, but now I find myself seeking out shots with enough shadow to hide the lens blemishes. Sucks, man, this used to be a great camera. Maybe taking pictures of the sun for forty-five minutes wasn’t such a good idea.

Got my money’s worth out of it, though. I carried it in my right front pocket through most of Europe, as well as a train trip across the ‘States and a week of urban hiking through Tokyo. Storing the camera near your hot, sweaty crotch with all its attendant humidity and friction is probably not what Canon’s engineers had in mind, but I didn’t expect it to ass-out in under three years. I spent good money on this thing, you know?

Since it’s been a few years, I figured the price would have come down on this model dramatically. But during my lunch break at The Corporation today, I looked it up online and found they don’t even make the shit anymore! It’s an SD-10, and now they make something called the SD-30. I guess at some point there was an SD-20 I missed.

The SD-30 is expensive, fancy-looking with frivolous colors and has five megapixels. But I don’t want or need five megapixels, or the stupid colors; I want a small, simple rectangle that focuses when I tell it to. Who the hell wants a bright red camera? What am I, showing the thing off at my bridge club?

Nevertheless I will have to get a new camera, and I’ve got an idea to try to pay for it using what I shot with the old camera. I don’t know if it will work but it can’t hurt to try. The plan is this: To sell desktop photos for people’s computers. I’ll put an assload of thumbnails up, and if anybody wants the high-res version to use as their desktop, it’ll be 99 cents through PayPal. What do you think?