4 posts tagged “qotd”
What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it?
The Super Mario Bros theme song. Because someday I will be sitting next to Shigeru Miyamoto on the bus, my phone will ring, and he will wink at me.
What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's see it!
Great question. Here's the one from the oldest group I can find on my hard drive:
This is a photo of Michael Sippey taken on June 27, 1998 at a bar where a bunch of us were hanging out after attending the Web98 conference in San Francisco. This Q actually dovetails nicely into the previous QotD because this was the first time I met a bunch of people I knew online for the first time and, wow, was that ever an overwhelming and pleasant experience.
But back to the photo. I'm not usually a gadget early adopter type of person, but I was the first person I knew with a digital camera. I have photos on a hard drive or Jaz disk somewhere from even earlier than the above photo (I think I bought the camera in 3/98). The camera was a Nikon CoolPix 300 which cost $650, had 4Mb of internal memory, could record sound, had a stylus for taking notes (no grafitti or anything like that, just straight up scribbling), used a touch screen for menu navigation, took the world's crappiest 640x480 photos, and was generally a big pain in the ass to use. My current telephone takes better photos than that thing did. The whole ordeal put me off both early adoption and hybrid devices for quite a long time.
myheritage.com tells me I look most like Geena Davis. And after that, Pete Sampras and Ernest Hemingway. I think that fecking thing is busted.
Either 50,000 fried pork dumplings from Dumpling House in Chinatown or this 61" Plasma HDTV and 2500 fried pork dumplings from Dumpling House.
