Loving you is strange.

[reddragdiva]

• The triffid is actually a fungus.

• Your $4000 camera does not make you Ansel Adams. Start with a crappycam and work your way up.

• Part of the joy of not sharing a house any more is reading stories like this.

• New News of the News: Internet memeticists find Bigfoot: "Ya rly"; Prince 'must prove anti-GM claim'

The house is almost presentable and the spare room almost has enough space for the new folding bed. (So where are these teenagers?) Freda has been the little terror one would expect from genetics; she is currently waving two bits of sparkly organza around (one pink, one black) and stamping up and down with a look of great concentration and occasional grunts of exertion. arkady has finally finished the damn doll dress. redcountess is upstairs cackling at the George Dyson video.

I am getting down the Pembury some time after six. damned_colonial will be there 6:30pm (assuming the train is on time) and would like to see people. Send more geeks!

Comments

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd shared houses with some nutjobs in my time, but that really takes the cake!

[baralier.livejournal.com]

The share house story? That just makes me scared that people like that are let out into the community much less the possiblity of sharing a house with one.

Bloody hell

[jauncourt.livejournal.com]

I can't even figure out what was supposed to be going on with that Sarah person, but I think I'd be kicking people out after coming home to find sex going on in a public space without prior arrangements and appropriate courtesies. Costumes? Meh. Crazy religions? I'm from California, which is actually made of strange cults and powered by peculiar dietary/sexual/fashion/political choices. Meh. Being an inconsiderate twat? Repeatedly? GTFO.

Cameras:
I love cheap cameras. Even the worst digicams can give you fantastic photos (though nothing like as nice as a cheap film camera, even a wretched cartridge or disc model), and cheap film cameras are often the greatest of abre-bones tools. I still have an awful cheap tourist camera I inherited from my grandfather that has a special (optional) exposure frame in it (and a reset advance wheel) that takes twice as many photos per roll, because it frames them at half the regular size. It's fun. it has a tiny lens and the basic set of aperture and exposure controls. It always gets me odd looks when I bother to take film in to get it developed, and at least five times the tech has begged me to sell it to them.

We have a fancy camera now - for us - it's a Cybershot. I mostly like it for taking videos of the kids, landscape photos and still shots of my work. It's superior to my older cheaper snapshot cameras mainly in that I get more control, so we've basically paid extra to get a digicam with about as much control as a decent low-end film camera (this seems to be an "extra feature") and a big, pretty lens.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

My Ansel Adams iz pastede on yay.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I was going to make some glib comment about how children make the worst housemates ever, but on reading some of that link I have decided to re-appraise my comment.

I think it's absolutely hilarious the person writing those stories is a furryporn/hentai "artist".

Maybe there is a Law of Crazy Attraction.

[octalbunny.livejournal.com]

In that Sarah story, the existing housemates contact the bosses of 17 people before even meeting them. I'm calling that they were nutjobs even before they met Sarah.

[richgoth.livejournal.com]

hahah that is the best share house drama EVER!
sounds like the landlord is some kind of later day Jack Parsons and Sarah was playing the part of L Ron Hubbard ;-)