On 2013-06-10 11:18:39 -0700, PhotoPhartz said:
Savageduck wrote in
news:2013061008114243042-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom:
SI Furnitu http://www.pbase.com/shootin/furniture
‘Duck comments:
PhotoPhartz:
Furniture-01:
Shelving is furniture. An interesting combination, Zappa albums,
violin (I guess Zappa did some work with Jean Luc Ponty), and Swift.
Nice work. Furniture-02:
Yep, I think JL Ponty did do a stint in Zappa's band. Thanks.
On top of working with Zappa, J-L Ponty also did his own interpretation
of "King Kong". His versions of "King Kong", "How Would You Like to
Have a Head Like That?" and "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget
Orchestra" are simply amazing.
Well you don'€™t see too many console radios around these days. I'd
have guessed that this was an archive shot which solidly dates you.
However, I see it was shot with your SX500 in May. That raises the
question; who has this living room museum piece to photograph?
I'm a long time tenant in a very old friend's house and this relic is right
downstairs in the family room. It's been here longer than I have but I
expect it was deposited by my housemate's father who's been quite a
scavenger/collector during his advancing years.
Furniture-03:
I love your workstation! It is wonderfully cluttered, and most
importantly, I see you favor the thumb controlled trackball. That is
my preferred input device, currently the defunct MS Trackball Optical
+ a spare.
Hehe, thanks. Just this week the ol' Logitech trackman was retired. It
was old enough (at least 10~12 years?)to still be plugged in to a PS2 port
but its scroll wheel was losing it. Replaced by a Kensington Expert
trackball that is really the stuff. Great big, heavy, smooth ball. Easy
to use scroll ring around the ball. Four programmable buttons giving you
six different commands under the finger tips. Lusted after one for years
but the Marble just kept working.
I also have an old Logitech trackman which had to use an Apple Data Bus
(ADB) adaptor to hook up to my old Mac (No USB back then). I had one of
the Kensington Trackball Pros which connected via ADB, but I am far
more comfortable using my thumb rather than my finger tips on the big
ball.
The discontinued MS Trackball Optical also has four programmable
buttons and I bought two at the same time, which was a good thing as I
see they are selling used for over $100 now. When I saw that, I did
some shopping and picked up a Logitech Trackman II Wheel as a third
spare.
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Regards,
Savageduck