Bluetooth headsets are no longer cool.

Especially when you start yapping to answer a call as if you’rw talking to one of your several personalities. It makes you look like a douche.

The only place a bluetooth headseat should be used is when driving a car.

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I’m not really satisfied with the way third-party RAW converters handle NEF files. Yes, I could easily just spend more time to make the output better…but like I always say…life is too short for that. So I broke down and bought Capture NX 2 Upgrade even though I loathe the Capture NX workflow…or lack of.

Right now, I’m just installing the thing on my Snow Leopard. Upon double-clicking on the installer, OS X prompted me to install Rosetta Stone…

…OMGWTFBBQ!

Nikon, your installer is still written for PowerPC? Is it that difficult to re-compile that thing in Universal Binary?

I have the feeling this is just part one of the endless list of crap that I will have to go through with this software.

All in the name of better NEF conversion.

Update 1: OK, here we go.  Apparently, Version 2.2.2 does NOT work with Snow Leopard.  Worse, there is no ETA from Nikon and/or Nik Software on when it would be fixed!  Whoever wrote this piece of crap at Nik Software, you better not identify yourselves in the “About Capture NX” dialog box because you will get lots of hate mail…maybe even death threats.

Here is my first conversion with Capture NX2.  It’s almost…ALMOST…worthwhile to endure the software’s crappiness.

One advise, Nikon: just create a plugin for Aperture or Lightroom…ditch this UI.

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I think it’s safe for me to say that a huge part of the US population is made up of morons.

Obama has made a welcome speech for those students going back to school today. The guy basically just said “Stay in school if you want to succeed,” and these morons think that it’s some political agenda that’s un-American. One Republican Party Chairman went as far as saying Obama’s speech is trying to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Holy crap, indeed.

The world doesn’t need this narrow-mindedness. It’s one thing to disagree with somebody, but this? The moronic population of these United States has definitely set a new low here; Obama has nothing but pure intentions with his speech, encouraging kids to stay in school…and it’s mind-numbing to witness that some people view it as a socialist agenda. If you are one of these people, please die already.

On a lighter note, flickr has FINALLY released an official iPhone app. It’s about damn time.

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