Canon EOS-M is a dead product line. Canon hasn’t released a new EF-M mount lens in years and any lens that has been released has come from Sigma or one of the lower tier third parties (TTArtisans, Viltrox et al). They’re not BAD cameras, they’re just not all that different from the current Digital Rebel DSLRs.

Canon EOS-M is a dead product line. Canon hasn’t released a new EF-M mount lens in years and any lens that has been…

Bad Santa has been a holiday tradition for my family since we saw it together in the theater in 2003. We actually watch it around Thanksgiving, but that doesn’t make it any less an important moment our family time. Since I’m childfree, I’ve passed the Wooden Pickle that is a Thanksgiving viewing of Bad Santa on to my…

IIRC it’s still in Warren Beatty’s hands and he’s still trying to get it done. It’s a property with almost no cultural relevance outside boomers and what’s left of the silent generation, and his magic watch and association between disfiguration and low morality might not play so well with younger audiences, so I can…

When I realized that the singular dramatic moment of that episode was watching a marching band from outer space form up, and someone blowing a brass instrument had more depth and tension than MULTIPLE ENTIRE TRILOGIES of Star Wars films, Andor crossed a line into something I have to evangelize. 

I’m dead serious that a cheeseburger from 5 Guys is easily in the top 3 of worst meals I’ve been served in a restaurant, and the other two both wound up giving me food poisoning. Salt. Oil. Both of the sandwiches I received were so greasy they were dripping. The only good thing about a 5 Guys is the conveniently…

When I had a crop sensor camera, I was definitely frustrated by how far I had to dip in to ultrawide lenses to get a decent option for close-up video work. You also lose a stop of exposure to the smaller sensor, which is an extra pain point just to get a smaller camera.

I can’t remember the fries as tasting any different from the burger. Salt and cooking oil. The fucking pickles probably also taste like that.

I don’t understand the love for Five Guys. Like not even a tiny bit. I’ve had better burgers out of a vending machine in a hospital while I was watching my grandmother die. You could pour warm cooking oil over a spoonful of salt and reasonably approximate the Five Guys experience. The first time I had it, I was so…

I’m sorry but advertisements and third party scripts on the web are a persistent malware vector and should be treated as hostile on all platforms. I hope you don’t starve but the safety of devices and information under my care is more important than whether or not the advertising-supported internet continues to…

Honestly, with the exception of the birders and other wildlife sorts, most people are probably better off with a contemporary mirrorless camera like the Canon R6 or Sony A7r4. Battery life and sensor blackout are more or less solved problems on new bodies and the simple fact that new cameras have subject detecting…

I might be the only one not down with the atmosphere present in the previews so far but the music was an absolute turn off. This doesn’t feel to me like it’s going to be any better than the Jeremy Irons movie from 20 years ago. D&D has been part of my life since the end of the 70s. I’m not looking for Lord of the…

There is a tool called AddOns Detector that I put on every Android device. It is absurdly useful because it can disambiguate the relationships between notifications and their source and which applications are talking to which ad networks. While I have a defined set of software on my own devices, it’s extremely likely…

The thing is that Bumblebee was an actual decent movie that I have watched more than once, on purpose. And it had a promising storyline that wasn’t connected to the rest of the garbage that is this franchise.

I’m an ETVU and apparently one of the top .2% of Hans Zimmer listeners. Also, a “Bittersweet Passionate Sad Boi” at night.

I think I pay $4/month for Curiosity Stream + Nebula. I keep my Netflix sub almost entirely because I was one of its first subscribers, all the way back in 1998, but I haven’t streamed anything from it in a couple years. Likewise, I have Amazon because I have Prime.

My folks are both hearing impaired to some degree. For the first fifty years of their marriage, they accused one another of ignoring the buzzers on their laundry machines. Several years ago, they bought a fancy Samsung washer and dryer set, the kind that just happen to be Zigbee-enabled SmartThings. Everyone jokes…

Anything using Powered by the Apocalypse is a pretty good time. I like that it’s a more narrative experience, and one where the game master doesn’t roll any dice at all during place. The players are responsible for their own destiny in pretty much all cases. I’ve played Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians and…

We are talking about a godlike entity that can only be roused to intervene in some tiny minority of matters. He’ll stop a bank robbery but won’t do anything about a father beating his kid to death or someone choosing to destroy a biome in Africa? He is just as aware of anything that might happen. Even if he places…

Superman is, at least in terms of the planet Earth of his reality, nigh omnipotent and omniscient. He is capable of feats that would mark him as an actual savior of humanity, but he spends more time chasing Lois Lane than, say, distributing mosquito nets in Africa or sharing clean energy technologies that Kryptonians…

Superman is a demigod who is capable in most depictions of at least hearing all the suffering in at least the city if not the world around him (comic depictions will occasionally remind us that he is capable of distinguishing Bruce Wayne’s heartbeat out of all the heartbeats on Earth). He chooses to ignore nearly all…