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Things I approve of: Adobe's updater. First, it doesn't get all grabby about focus when it wants my input. A bubble pops up from the system tray that says, all politely, "Adobe Updater needs your attention." Awww.
Second, when it's in the middle of updating, and I decide to run Photoshop, it doesn't make a fuss, just tells me that the Photoshop update couldn't install, would I like it to try again?
Yes, yes I would.
Photoshop still gives me a hive in a range of ways, but I'll give it points for that.
So, because it's new and shiny, during a patch of okayish weather, I popped outside with my DSLR. Took some random photos, took somewhat purposeful photos of our broken TV antenna, and then took Today's Photo in the back garden.
It's not much of a garden, but it did come with this:
( Image cut, because I'm polite like that. )
Digital cameras are awesome. I have already taken more shots with my DSLR than with my film SLRs that I've had for most of a decade, because OH HEY I don't have to pay for film and processing thereof. I can has CAMERA FUN.
(ETA for camera nerds: My Gallery pages conveniently display all the camera information if you want it, including aperture/exposure/etc information. Because modern technology is FREAKING AWESOME, and that stuff happens automatically.)
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Conversation, edited lightly for clarity:
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) borg: [The Anglican/Episcopalian Church] becoming liberal = in the US it feels to me like we're acting like 15 year old going against their parent, and we want to make our own choice NOW whether or not this is good. But we're young and as a culture we're like that
sami: This is just like the political independence of the US and Australia.
USA: REBELLION OMG
Australia: Yeah, we're just going to do our own thing over here, 'kay?
(Britain: But, we want you to do this! Australia: We will if we feel like it, if we don't, we won't.)
borg: Pretty much. And y'all got what you wanted
sami: Yes. In a much less high-strung way. And we remain less high-strung.
borg: we could have had that but there was tea and wank!
sami: On some level, I think, Australia's attitude to the US is a bit like a younger sibling to an older, rebellious sibling. A mixture of admiration and some envy, with some resentment and an element of "you realise if you just CALMED THE FUCK DOWN you could totally still have that, but without all the fighting, right?"
I think it's highly significant that one Australian colloquialism for "that problem is fixable" is "No dramas."
borg: But see, you got all the benefit of us being the hell child.
sami: Pfft, as if. We suddenly got extra convicts getting dumped on us apace.
And we got dragged into extra wars.
borg: True.
sami: We just didn't feel the NEED for a revolution, we just Federated.
borg: But they left you the fuck alone! All those convict kept them from spanking you!
sami: No they didn't! The only reason they weren't grabbing so many non-human resources from us was that we didn't HAVE any.
borg: Point.
So we did have the better bedroom.
sami: You totally got the best bedroom. Ours is mostly desert.
borg: Well, there is SOME desert. And glaciers.
sami: Yeah, yours is prettier too.
You were getting convicts too. You didn't HAVE to get spanked. Hell, if you didn't want to be taxed on TEA you could have just NOT DRUNK TEA.
Why couldn't you just say, "Yeah, okay, Dad, whatever you want" and then gone and ignored Britain?
That's what we did.
borg: Because that would be UNFAIR
sami: Dude. You say what they want to hear, you ignore them when they're unreasonable, and it's just more trouble than it's worth for them to argue.
borg: but but but UNFAIR!!!
sami: When we decided we were sick of convicts, we just said we weren't taking them any more and Britain said "oh dammit FINE"
borg: ;_;
sami: And THEN, when we were deciding whether we wanted to keep the monarchy or not, we talked about it, and threw a vote. And Britain was all DAMMIT DON'T LEAVE OH YOU DIDN'T YAY
borg: DAD LOVED YOU MORE
sami: Oh, bitch, don't even GO THERE
You STILL get all the attention
borg: ;_;
sami: We never left, we've fought in EVERY DAMN ONE of Dad's stupid wars, and WHO is Britain STILL always pandering to? YOU.
borg: We can't help being bigger and taller and having more nukes!
sami: The only country who pays ANY real attention to us is NEW ZEALAND. Who we pretend isn't THERE most of the time because New Zealand is the CREEPY COUSIN WHO SMELLS KIND OF ODD.
And, these days, is all HEY CHECK IT OUT LOOK AT ALL MY COOL NEW LORD OF THE RINGS TOYS.
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This afternoon, I decided that what I really needed was some fresh air and a nice walk, so I went to the Zoo to play with my new camera. I arrived about 40 minutes before they closed, but that's fine, because I'm a Zoo Friend so I get in free.
More photos are uploaded to the Animals section of my photo gallery, but here's one:
( It's a lion, get in the - )
Funny story: I was walking past the lion enclosure and didn't realise it, because I was on the other side of a screen of bamboo from the lions' habitat. Suddenly, from just a few feet away, I heard a lion roar, then growl. Another lion growled back. Then two lions seemed to be having a vocal argument.
I can say with confidence that a lion's roar, heard up close and unexpectedly, is freaking scary.
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