Archive for October, 2010
More awesomeness at the It Gets Better Project
Aperture’s pretty handy at managing a bunch of photos into projects etc… I just merged a few projects into a new überproject with sub-albums, and thought I’d broken something. For a minute, I was afraid all of the photo metadata was gone:
GAH! Version N… Oh NOES!
Turns out, I’d just cranked the thumbnail size way down, and the labelling code kind of barfs on that, displaying the first few characters of the redundant “Version Name:” label before each actual version name. Here’s the same view with embiggened thumbnails:
Better. The metadata’s safe. But it would make more sense for the thumbnail sizing code to better handle shortening the labels beneath each image thumbnail – seeing the first few characters of the label prefix isn’t useful, and caused a bit of confusion and worry.
The iPhone camera is good, and especially so in the latest iPhone4 incarnation.
But, the software shutter button sucks. A lot. It works well enough when you’re staring into the LCD, but many of the shots I take are without looking at the screen. Meaning it’s difficult to hit the shutter button without messing up composition.
In a perfect world, I’d be able to use one of the hardware buttons as a shutter release. Failing that, a larger click target would be nice. I regularly accidentally flip into video mode, or switch to the front camera, or open the photo library, when fumbling to hit the button. The handy (and free) GorillaCam app handles this nicely (and offers some other great features, too), but the native camera app should be a bit more friendly to actually taking pictures in the field.
the morning train, just after pulling out of the station at the end of the line.
I had to get Evan out of the house this afternoon, while his Mom finished up Thanksgiving day turkey stuff. Skateboarding is a little difficult with a layer of rotting leaves on the pathway…
I usually practice with a pretty clean setting on the amp, but sometimes it’s just fun to flip it over to Insane and crank it up a bit. Evan picked up the ukulele and started jamming with me, too.
two of our good friends got married today, in a beautiful outdoor ceremony – in calgary, in october. absolutely spectacular, in all ways.
I mentioned on Twitter that I still suck pretty badly at playing my guitar. Scott suggested that I only need to know 2 chords. 2? hah! I know 4! So, Alan pointed out that all you NEED is 4 chords.
If the 4 chords I know are the right 4 chords, I may be ready to start touring. Except for the rest of the whole I-still-suck-at-playing thing. But at least I’m having fun 
Evan and his buddy hang out on the balcony of the restaurant during the rehearsal dinner for our friends’ wedding.