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Saturday, July 23, 2005
THIS JUST IN  It took me far too long to finally buy a digital camera, but I waited just long enough: this Canon PowerShot SD400 is pretty much everything I ever wanted in a digital camera. It takes large, beautiful It took a few days to straighten this all out — after, of course, I had already bought the camera. Likewise, it took me a few days to straighten out my other — less-expensive and longer-delayed — purchase this week, a PlayStation 2. On Thursday I picked up a used one from CD/Game Exchange as well as the double-pack of GTA III and Vice City. The games wouldn't play, though CDs and DVDs would. I took the games back, they exchanged them for other discs, and those wouldn't play either. The following afternoon I decided to pick up a new PS2, which is less than a third of the size and cost about $40 more than used. Turns out the games worked. I went to return the old console, and suggested they could sell it as a CD/DVD player. The guy behind the counter insisted it played the "blue discs" and so penalized me a trivial amount for their having sold me a defective machine — he "graciously" refunded my money, minus two dollars. In other news, some friends and I took an all-day trip out to Shenandoah National Park, where I took a number of pictures from the mountaintop lookouts and along the hiking trails, and — as I'll get around to explaining — had one a contentious encounter with one of the less-agreeable, more-noisome local inhabitants. Stay tuned, more after this extended sleeping break... |
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