Overheard at work

"Miss Selfridge has some really nice stuff but it's so expensive!" The mind boggles. Geotagging is just not happening right. The N95 should be able to pick up the GPS data and add it to the photo, but it only works if i upload the image straight to Flickr, rather than taking it off the memorycard and uploading it from the computer. Odd. Eventually, after installing Nokia's Location tagger along with ShoZu, I can pretty much get it to work. Lovely haar. It took me twenty minutes to walk from Newbattle Terrace to Morningside Park last night because I had to experiment with photos.

I hereby conclude that a)Photos of mist and such do not work well on cameraphones and b)HDR imaging does not work well with images from cameraphones.

We had visitors this weekend. Lloyd (who has appalling taste in DS games, other than loving Ouendan and its family) came to Edinburgh for the weekend which gave Jimbob an excuse to visit Stephen and Joe. There was some brief pubbing followed by a lot of NAPs, which I found odd. Lloyd ended up going to see Sweeney Todd because of the other three NAPping so hard. Well done him!

As you can see from his expression, Jimbob had a fabulous time in Edina.

Ollie, Stephen, Camhoillilieoiolilie and I went to Favorit last week, and I spent some time Paparazzi-ing the lady. In the midst of this Ollie made her do a Sally. Lovely.

Slack? Me??

I know I know, but sometimes I just can't face having to TYPE things. We now have the full set of Series one Buffy figures. They're very silly. I had a mad urge to make a stop motion animation with them, getting Ollie and Helen to orchestrate it etc. but mercifully it passed. In the meantime, Ollie's camera started being WEIRD. It's a wonderful effect but not really useful for normal photographic purposes. So there goes my experimentation with HDR...

Oh well. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a touch controversial. I had read some VERY mixed reviews of the film, with a bias against it overall (especially as there is a gradual Tim Burton backlash due to him being a little formulaic/repetitive/always casting JD & HBC) and so was delighted when it turned out to be rather enjoyable. Sure, the characters a all thoroughly unlovable and the cast aren't exactly singers but the musical really could have been written for Tim Burton to film. Although HBC can't possibly compare to Angela Lansbury's original performance:

So now I can alternate between a jolly happy chubby feelgood musical about how if you just TRY HARD then you can make the world a better place, and a miserable, misanthropic, bleak and bloodthirsty musical which tells us that everyone is shit and we all deserve to die and BTW whatever you do you'll be betrayed and end up being the cause of your own downfall. Hurrah.