2010 August « The annotated life

New camera!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 1:00 am | Posted in shopping | Leave a comment

My camera was getting a bit old, so I decided to get a new one before going on a one-month trip. I thought about getting a basic DSLR, but after a lot of thought, I came to the conclusion that, even though I wish I knew how to take nice pictures, I’m no photographer, not even an amateur one. So I got the camera below, a Canon Powershot SX210 IS.

Basically, I wanted a simple digital camera that could be easily taken everywhere and performed as good as possible in low light and at night. Oh, and good colour rendition was another concern. After a lot of reasearch online and checking it in the shop, I was convinced that this was the best for me; as simple as it is, it does enable me to control shutter speed and aperture, and it has some other nice features. Already tested it and, so far, so good!

Inception-mania

Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm | Posted in culture tidbits | Leave a comment
Tags: movies

So I watched Inception a week ago and now I’m a little bit obsessed.

Just a tiny little bit. But, then, who can blame me? Anyway, here are some goods for others like me…

#A nice featurette:

#Prequel comic written by one of the producers:

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/inception-comic.html

#Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page talk about the movie (two different interviews):

# Behind the scenes footage:

Reading companion

Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 12:30 am | Posted in cool items, geekiness | Leave a comment
Tags: bookmarks

As I dearly love reading, bookmarks are objects that I definitely pay attention to. My favourite ones, so far, have been the most basic, plain ones, made out of cardboard and with some interesting drawing or pattern printed on it. But while souvenir-hunting in Paris a few weeks ago, I came across this adorable little quotation mark (maybe a comma?) at Pylones and couldn’t resist buying it. In fact, I bought one more to send to my mother, and she loved it, too!

As lovely as it is, it does squash the pages a little bit, but if it is a problem for somebody other than me, you might easily use it as any other bookmark, as it is not too thick. That’s just what I’ve been doing and I have no complaints so far.