Entire Internet Disappoints...News at 11:00

Yeah, I was looking for major distractions tonight, and dey waddin't nuddin! Does that mean that I will have to regale my readership with stories about how I managed not to fall asleep at work today? Because I have had far more compelling pimple breakouts.

So let's talk about disappointment. When I started college in 1994, CCD cameras were just coming to within the price range of the physics department (where I was an astronomy lab assistant). If I remember correctly, the camera that we had was a fairly unwieldly box, and you had to clamp off the telescope pretty tightly to keep it from tipping back. Fast forward to the present day (lingering only on adult situations and nudity) and these little cameras are ubiquitous. Yay! Every man a photographer!

I started watching birdies a few years ago, something that I still do from time to time, and because I have a hard time recognizing birds, when I saw a new one, I wanted to take a picture of it so I could identify it later. And that's when Jesus himself invented the binoculars with a CCD camera mounted on it. I mean, sweet mother of fuck! All the other birders will be envious! I thought, and it won't help that I will taunt them mercilessly!

So, the birthday comes around and all I want is this pair of binoculars. And my family comes through for me. Yay! I take them out, put in the batteries, flip open the little screen and take a picture. It is at that point that I learn that the image that the camera snaps is not magnified, the memory holds about 2 images, if you are lucky, and I don't have a memory stick anyway.

HJ