happy day!

I’ve never gotten a cake like this before!

Canonet page is up

I’ve finished the first draft of my Canon Canonet QL 17 GII page, available here.

Rangefinder musings

I realized last night that my seventies-era Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder weighs more (and is larger) than my 80’s Canon AE-1 Program, and both are about 8 ounces heavier than my Rebel 2000. There’s something about the feel of a rangefinder, though - the classic style and the quiet shutter make it a great [...]

Time to migrate to a database-driven blog?

I hate CSS… trying to get my blogger template, gallery template and static HTML in sync is going to take some time. It would be nice to do HTML for a living and have the time/skills to make this all right, but I’ll have to limp along for the time being.
When I first started [...]

Yashica repair

I’m either getting better or luckier at camera repair. I took apart my Yashica Electro 35 GSN last night to clean the viewfinder and I got the camera back together without any missing parts - probably a first for me. Stupidly, I did try to pry off the window covering the viewfinder window to [...]

Is radio passe?
Driving in to work this morning, I listened to the song “Mexican Radio” by Wall of Voodoo. it made me think of times in my childhood spent listening to faraway voices on a shortwave radio. With a shortwave you could hear news from Europe and Asia, offering a different point of view [...]

Poindexter is:
Poindexter is frighteningly smart and very unscrupulous.
Poindexter is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
Poindexter is both a brainy junior scientist and a maladroit student.
Poindexter is more than just the smartest kid in the cosmos.
Poindexter is active in the Baltimore community and serves on several boards.
Poindexter is somebody who this [...]