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Archive for June, 2009

Kodachrome: pah

A certain amount of sentiment being expressed this morning (e.g. here and here) about the demise of Kodachrome.
My own collection of Pentaxes and their lenses started in 1968 and now fills several flightcases. I have been at it that long and I have to say I shan’t miss Kodachrome at all.
Kodachrome was awful. Quite apart [...]

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[Gilbert Shelton]
Since it would appear, from sundry disagreeable tokens, that we (the good guys) are now at war with the MSM (the bad guys), I am obliged to Fido the Dog for this:

Here at the Villa Underclass we do not subscribe to any dead-tree news publication; between those which are forced through our letterbox, despite [...]

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I like thighs. Do you like thighs?

[Peter Sellers, in What's new, pussycat?]
For some time now the government* has been collecting the URLs of every website visited by you and me.
Of course they justify this to their sheeplike** drones on the basis that everyone must be watched, all the time, by machinery that never sleeps and can miss nothing, just in case [...]

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Act II

I started off by having a week off to deal with the amateur dramatic society’s latest production, which required quite a lot of technical consulting. Prior to this I ended up in the hospital again, a string of two dentists, two doctors and a consultant having finally decided that what is wrong with me (in [...]

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