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So my Ricoh broke down, in a different way than Martin’s. I don’t wear tight pants, but imagine, a camera in pocket, maybe it zoomed while it was in pocket, which only makes me look good (I think), but the bad thing, is if there’s no space for something to zoom, what happens to it. It gets squashed. I’m guessing that’s how the servo motor burnt out, trying to zoom, but can’t. I read about this online, and that leads me to recommending everyone to have a case for it. I guess the idea for this camera is a quick access, but I think that’s how mine broke down.
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So my Ricoh broke down, in a different way than Martin's. I don't wear tight pants, but imagine, a camera in pocket, maybe it zoomed while it was in pocket, which only makes me look good (I think), but the bad thing, is if there's no space for something to zoom, what happens to it. It gets squashed. I'm guessing that's how the servo motor burnt out, trying to zoom, but can't. I read about this...
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My girlfriend’s parents came to town this past weekend and her father is really into good food. We ate so much, I had two days of food hangover. Everyplace we went to was incredibly good but it was a bit much for me, eventhough I love a good meal. We started Friday at the famous Peter Luger’s Steakhouse in Brooklyn. I had a Rib-eye steak that must have been the size of my 12″ Mac notebook. I should have started slow. Saturday night we went to Degustation which is a tasting tapas style joint.You sit at a bar and they prepare these small but incredibly tasty dishes right in front of you. Here are a few…New interpretation of Cheesesteak. Basically a fine carpaccio with a cheese sauce. Tasty. Lamb Belly with hasbrowns and a quail egg to top it off. The red is a beet sauce, not blood.Suckling pig. Crispy skin and super tender meat. This was by far my favorite of the weekend. We also went to La Esquina or The Coner in SOHO which was more of an experience then than a culinary experience. It looks like a small taco joint with standing room only but on the side there’s a door with a guy and a clipboard. Once it’s decided you’re allowed in, you go through a door down some stairs, through the kitchen and through another door into this really cool looking underground space. The ceilings are vaulted in brick and it’s really dark so it’s hard to tell if it’s really nice or not. Interesting experience.Overall the food tour was a rare opportunity to a lot of nice food in a really short amount of time. I should probably only drink water and eat fruit for the rest of the week so my body can get back to normal.
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For the past week I’ve been coming home to see people standing around this cardboard box at the base of this tree about ten feet past the front door. Since I come from behind it, all I could see was that there was this Brillo box and people sitting around it, putting their hands in it, then stepping away. I imagined a cat or some weird animal was living in there and these people were feeding it. Since ther were always people around I never went around front to see what it was. Then one day last week no one was around so I snuck up to take a look.Taped to the tree was this picture. Turns out it was a little rememberance shrine. I guess he died recently and this was probably his spot.The Brillo box was filled with candles and a can of Old Milwakee beer. I guess he liked Old Milwakee. It’s interesting how similar this shrine is to the ones I see in peoples homes in China and HK. It’s cool to see rituals like this still exist and survive in this country.
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1) the new battery : the cord actually comes out from a different part of the battery, so it makes it so the new battery can’t fit back into the space where it should. So I had to modify by cutting a bit of the plastic that holds it in place to make it fit.2) No torques head screwdriver is included but it says one’s included in the instruction sheet. I supposed you don’t need one, and you can bend the heck out of the circuit board (someone is going to break their iPod this way and you can easily damage the thin wires on the battery).3) The instruction sheet is printed with too large a dot screen, it’s pretty useless for the detail photos.4) The two tools to open the iPod work, and it doesn’t take too much effort to get it open, but the instructions could include 1 more line in there that would solve a lot of problems for many. The actual tool doesn’t go straight in, it needs to point down. That’s the harddrive, it’s padded and nice. Pulling out the old battery isn’t that easy. Unplugging it can be hard, you’ll have to work at it, and I can see someone breaking something from tugging too hard. Underneath the battery are some weird little mini circuit boards. Although I know they can be smaller, this is pretty small. Overall, it’s a simple operation. But it’s not a smooth one, there are problems and like I mentioned, someone is going to break their iPod if they’re not careful.
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