Thursday, April 15, 2010

Grange Hermitage or Printer Ink?


I bought a new magenta ink cartridge for my printer the other day. This time I read the packet.
It contains a mere 13ml of magenta ink. That works out to $2.15 per milliliter. At that rate, magenta ink is far more expensive than Penfolds Grange Hermitage & the ink is not even vintage!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Obsolete Photo Gear #1

Obsolete photo gear cluttering up my bottom drawer. -

#1 Kodak Monochrome Viewing Filter

Kodak monochrome viewing filter Kodak monochrome viewing filter

This filter is used to visually approximate the relative tones of gray produced in black-and-white prints by different colors under daylight illumination. It is very dark with only 10% luminous transmittance.

Monday, July 03, 2006

Coffee

Why is it so difficult to get a good coffee at a fancy-pants coffee franchise?
I like my coffee. I take it white, or sometimes black.

I asked for a flat white at a coffee place last week, and I was asked for my name.
I want to drink the coffee, not get introduced to it!

But, apparently one cannot make a coffee until a name is entered into the computer system.