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lightcastle) wrote2011-09-18 04:06 pm
lightcastle) wrote2011-09-18 04:06 pm
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Weekend follies, plus practical questions
Not feeling great right now, but worst seems to have passed.
Photoshoot went well, although it is clear that my improvised backdrops are too narrow. I am going to have to buy a second round and reposition the curtain rod (probably buy another) to stretch over the whole back wall.
I need to talk to Miche about casters for the couch so I can roll it more easily if I do this. In general, I think I need to throw a "put things away and on the walls and hammer" party. This is the kind of thing that can get done in an afternoon with help, but will just not get done if I'm alone. Bribing people with alcohol and food afterwards might work.
On the technology front, I want to pick up some sort of laptop-esque thing before work sends me to Florida in October. I really only want it to write and surf the net on, mostly, which is why I keep thinking netbook. There's not much point in me going bigger unless I am going to start bringing it to shoots and editing on it, and that seems like overkill right now. I'm not even sure I need a cutting edge dual-core netbook, since that may be overpowered. Some have recommended iPad and buying a keyboard, but that seems vastly less portable or useful. That said, I came across the Asus Transformer tablet/keyboard dock combination and it is tempting. I am unsure of how compatible Android is as an OS with anything else, though. I suspect it might be difficult to sync documents and things between that and a desktop if I choose to use it.
Photoshoot went well, although it is clear that my improvised backdrops are too narrow. I am going to have to buy a second round and reposition the curtain rod (probably buy another) to stretch over the whole back wall.
I need to talk to Miche about casters for the couch so I can roll it more easily if I do this. In general, I think I need to throw a "put things away and on the walls and hammer" party. This is the kind of thing that can get done in an afternoon with help, but will just not get done if I'm alone. Bribing people with alcohol and food afterwards might work.
On the technology front, I want to pick up some sort of laptop-esque thing before work sends me to Florida in October. I really only want it to write and surf the net on, mostly, which is why I keep thinking netbook. There's not much point in me going bigger unless I am going to start bringing it to shoots and editing on it, and that seems like overkill right now. I'm not even sure I need a cutting edge dual-core netbook, since that may be overpowered. Some have recommended iPad and buying a keyboard, but that seems vastly less portable or useful. That said, I came across the Asus Transformer tablet/keyboard dock combination and it is tempting. I am unsure of how compatible Android is as an OS with anything else, though. I suspect it might be difficult to sync documents and things between that and a desktop if I choose to use it.