CourtneyP

yup, the Treo is kaput. To get it repaired, there is a $19.99 fee for the consultation call, plus $150+ to fix it. Not worth it, unfortunately.

The upside? I got a new phone. It’s a Sony Ericsson T306 with spiffy color screen, polyphonic ringtones, and I even get a camera for it free with rebate… MoBlogging, here I come!

*runs off to download the Super Mario Bros. ringtone*

so by now, most of you in the know have heard the news.

yup, as expected, Apple has a new music service. It is, as advertised, “Downloads Done Right”. I am all for it, since I am mostly against music pirates. Don’t get me wrong, I love mix CD’s and finding new music like everyone else, but I ain’t for stealing music. I am glad that there is a service where we can selectively choose our songs individually and not have to shell out the price of a new CD. I dig that. Kinda like I dig eMusic, which I’ve been a subscriber of for about 4 years now.

I’m a bit curious about the new AAC format, which is the format that the music files will be provided in. It is supposedly “virtually indistinguishable from the original uncompressed audio source”.

And damn them for coming out with the cool new iPod a mere few months after I got mine. Rrrg.

I guess I need to get a little up close and personal to improve my Ti’s Wi-Fi performance… This thread on arstechnica tells us to massage the battery compartment.

Should I take it out to dinner first?

(via boingboing)

I can’t describe how excited I am about the experimental photography class I am taking this quarter. It’s the bomb-schniggety.

It’s more of an “Alternative Processes” class, or more specifically, “Historical Processes”. It’s just that the school and its catalog calls it “experimental”. Bah, words, they just confuse you.

Anyways, to clarify, we are learning photographic processes that were popular in photography’s birth and growth, when there was experimentation with different light sources, chemicals and materials to get a photographic image. Keep in mind that the term “photographic image” does not necessarily mean a capture of a scene that the photographer saw with his/her eyes, but an image created with light. The word “Photography” comes from the Greek word “phos” which means “light”, and “graphein” which is the Greek word for “write”.

Er, that’s enough teaching for now. ^_^;;

My point being, I am looking forward to making works of art that aren’t just straight photographs (snapshots?). Ya dig?

Anyhoo, I checked out the book Alternative Photographic Processes from the library the other day. It includes a lot of processes that we are to cover in class, like enlarged negatives, solarizing, toning, cyanotypes, Van Dyke prints & Kallitypes, and gum bichromate prints. We’re also going to be working with Liquid Light during the course, which looks to be a lot of fun. Unfortunately, this is only a quarter-length class, so we cannot cover the many other processes. I would like to try my hand at daguerreotypes someday…

so moby says he’s a scrabble geek.

he says that he’s “ven printed out the list of acceptable two-letter words”. I can say that I had that entire list memorized at one point. S’true. I am geekier than moby. The day is mine!

But I seriously need to refresh my memory… I haven’t played in an awful long time. I am way beneath these guys though. Gotta keep up geek appearances, ya know.

I haven’t read moby’s blog before, save a few quotes here and there, but he seems like a thoughtful bloke.