Friday, November 10, 2006

Olden Days!
I'm bewildered that the older generation think the good ole days were better than they are today. Really, I am.

So, somehow, standing for half an hour, perfectly still, while you waited for the shutter of an old photographic device to shut, thus taking the picture so desired, was better than snap-bang digital photography? What if you wanted to photograph a waving flag? Would you glue it in place in a flutter position, just to get that shot?

I have to laugh at my School's oldest school photos, which have the students standing next to Zorg the alien, only to find that Zorg the alien is actually a blurr which used to be a student. The student, explained in the class list accompanying the photo, simply moved.

Doing a little digging, I found out that in latter years, moving could mean anything from sneezing, to trying to do that devil horn thing to your mate with the "peace-fingers," to simply having had enough of standing perfectly still from sunrise to sunset, and walking off. Earlier machines were nastier. If you but blinked, you were turned into Zorg the alien. Zorg might take offence at being compared to an erroneous blur. My apologies to Zorg.

I bet you the grannies of that era, had they not all died from diptheria, would have cawed for the good ole days of class paintings. These involed a longer wait, but, unless the phot..painte...artist was a total buffoon., there was little to no chance of "Zorgification." Again, my apologies to Zorg. Most evil of all evil alien things. Even more evil than that Ridley Scott thing with two mouths. I bet you have three, don't you, Zorg?

I'll take my snap-bang photography, flash memory sticks, computers, blue screens of death, memory read errors, time-out ping on upload, distorted pixels resulting in "Zorgification"....

Wait a minute....
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