Politics 2

There were a lot of cool comments on my previous post on politics (from like 3 people hahahaha) But really though there were little who considered my post as something worth addressing, I really appreciated their input.

Because I’m gonna level with you guys, I’m not really that “up-to-date” with politics. In fact I’m right on the edge of being ignorant. When something happens, I don’t bother reading up on it, I simply ask around what’s happening and what people think about it. All this is not because I don’t have the capacity to be analytical, but simply because I’ve lost faith in the system. I think whatever bitching and whining anyone does (myself included) is an utter waste of time.

But why do I still take the time to “rant?” Simple: Because it’s fun! hahahaha.

Below is a revised version if what I had posted in the past (as a random thought, so people might’ve missed it)… my take on politics in general. The points raised were never meant to challenge people to acton, but simply explaining why I don’t take the system seriously anymore.

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OSX default screenshot tweaks

The two Terminal commands that can change the image format and save location for OSX’s default screen capture are:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder

image_format can be the following as of of my knowledge

  • bmp (Windows Bitmap)
  • gif (Graphic Interchange Format)
  • jp2 (JPEG-2000)
  • jpg (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
  • pdf (Portable Document Format)
  • pict (PICT)
  • png (Portable Network Graphic)
  • psd (Photoshop)
  • sgi (Silicon Graphics Image file format)
  • tga (Targa image file format)
  • tiff (Taggged Image File Format)

To avoid logging out for the changes to take effect, you can enter the command.

killall SystemUIServer

There’s also a preference pane that can do this automatically, but it’s shareware.

What really counts?

I don’t know why, but I’ve heard this phrase a lot in photography… it literally is a mantra nowadays.

It isn’t the equipment but the photographer that counts.

Now this is an uncontested fact. But It kinda irked me a bit today when I read a thread in a forum of a newbie asking an earnest question:

Which is the better camera model?

While I believe in the mantra, I don’t think using it as an answer to what I conceive as unrelated questions helps at all. Why do I think it’s unrelated?

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I got myself a… whatever

I got myself a Desiccant Cabinet, also known as a Dehumidifier Cabinet, Desiccator, Humidity Chamber, Constant Humidity Storage Chamber, Environmental Chamber, Dry Cabinet or Dry Box.

A fairly simple device but hard to find here. I don’t know if it’s because there aren’t that much retailers here, or simply because people don’t know what to call it. When you’ve got descriptors like the above mentioned, you can’t blame the regular hardware store people to know what you’re talking about.

I finally found them in Handyman Galleria. There were 3 sizes in stock: one small-ish, 2-level cabinet for 4K+, a “medium-sized,” 3-level model for 8.4k+ and one large version 5 levels I think, about as tall as a chair (you literally had to set it on the floor) for 13k+.

I got the middle one. And I was lucky, they marked up the price already, but I was sold the model with the “pre-markup” price (about 7k+).

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