A sight to fill people with terror...

[hirez]

... The scruffy lot from next door staggering away from their car with a pile of boxes from Richer Sounds.

I may have had a slight shopping accident.

(Canon G9 or Nikon P5100? Or other compact that does aperture priority.)

There's a reasonably pristine two-door Rangie at the end of the road. I was coveting admiring the thing when the owner came out of his house to start work on the gearbox of his 110. Apparently the thing's only done 56k. On an old B plate. The paintjob's not original, but it didn't look too horrible for all that. I am studiously not looking at any of the online trade-it rags or ebay.

I wonder which Glossy Mag. Fash. Ed. finally snapped and lobbed a Molotov alcopop into Camden market? It was only a matter of time until that Darwinian fashion experiment became too much for the forces of fabric fundamentalism. The fallout will plunge the area into a post-nuclear Wintour.

Comments

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

The fallout will plunge the area into a post-nuclear Wintour.

I love you.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Thank you. One tries.

[despina.livejournal.com]

That was, exactly, word for word, including HTML tags, what I was going to say.

[thegreatgonzo.livejournal.com]

Thinks about pointing out that LJ is XHML country...
Debates starting a <i> v <em> v <cite> discussion...
Decides to go and have a drink.

[despina.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be able to contribute much to a discussion on those topics.

I used the <i> - it is all I know. And I had to ask someone how to make the angle brackets show up just then ;)

I am an English Literature graduate.

I don't know the difference between HTML and XHML.

I cannot even do tables.

Please do not stone me.

[thegreatgonzo.livejournal.com]

Hey, It was all in fun, hence the last line. At least you graduated ;-)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Debates starting a <i> v <em> v <cite> discussion...
If you can even ask, "<i> vs. <em>", then you didn't understand the question.

Doing it on LJ with <br><br> instead of <br> would be farcical. This is Usenet territory.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It's <cite> or <blockquote> surely?

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Well those are debatable, and you're also into that huge tar-pit of whether you need it to work right on IE. <i> / <em> though is clear-cut and non-problematic for implementation.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Thank you, too.

[edwards.livejournal.com]

Nikon 5100.

Just because.

[spride.livejournal.com]

G9

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was just someone who finds middle-aged goffs pretending to be adolescents daft.... er.... I was 200 miles away officer, honest.

G9. Even has RAW again, which disappeared on models after the G5.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... Because no on in the fashion industry has ever failed to dress their age.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Because no on in the fashion industry has ever failed to dress their age.
Giggle.

[aca.livejournal.com]

I've just got a G9. It seems to be in all ways superior to the Nikon which I had a good play with in a couple of shops.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Ta for the good recommendation - I've been thinking of getting one as a compact, and also recommending it to L to upgrade her current camera. From reading about it, it sounds like my EOS-400D's innards in a compact casing with a different sensor - but with IS and face-detection built in instead.