{"id":837,"date":"2004-05-19T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/05\/19\/837\/"},"modified":"2004-05-19T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T21:00:59","slug":"837","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/05\/19\/837\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done a lot of work today, but I&#8217;ve also spent hours geeking out over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0000C8VEK\/ref=pd_sbs_p_1\/104-2724270-8727123?v=glance&#038;s=photo\" title=\"The &quot;why don't we show the price&quot; thing is annoying as fuck.  It's $900.\">my camera<\/a> that I don&#8217;t actually own yet and can&#8217;t afford.  This is silly, because I have no serious photography equipment or experience, and even if I did I&#8217;ll already be putting myself into debt this fall to buy or build a new computer.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I&#8217;ve been looking at it for a year with absolutely undiminished hunger (so long the price dropped).  There are two things I can think of on which I&#8217;ve geeked out this long and this hard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The trip to Comic Con this summer.\n<\/li>\n<li>A good camera with which to take pictures on that trip.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former is rapidly becoming a reality, as I paid for the train tickets a couple of days ago.  I hope the latter can too.<\/p>\n<p>Once, the thought of a new computer would have filled me with butterflies.  Now it&#8217;s more a hassle than anything&#8211;I can&#8217;t afford one, but I have to get one, because my current box is no longer capable of doing the work I need to do in grad school.  The Digital Rebel has taken its place, I think.  It&#8217;s a specialized technical hobby; it&#8217;s highly modular; the value of my investment drops very quickly; and it&#8217;s going to take me years to get any good at it, by which time I&#8217;ll cringe at the things I inflict on you when I&#8217;m starting out.  Man, I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done a lot of work today, but I&#8217;ve also spent hours geeking out over my camera that I don&#8217;t actually own yet and can&#8217;t afford. This is silly, because I have no serious photography equipment or experience, and even if I did I&#8217;ll already be putting myself into debt this fall to buy or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,13,93,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad-school","category-obsessions","category-programming","category-travel-and-acronyms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}