I have no response to that.

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That is all.

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This was the best I could do before threatening to trade my camera for a guitar that stays in tune. (I also threaten to trade my guitar for a speedlite every time it goes out of tune.)

Seriously. If you want to get as sad as possible as quickly as possible, you can’t beat this picture, or the product pictured. It’s right up there with bluegrass covers of Modest Mouse songs. High octane sadness fuel, I shit thee not. I can’t even go into all the reasons right now, because I have to go drink a glass of sand.

This is the part where I say that I’ll have to write more in the future about how store-brand knockoff products always make me feel a little odd (trips to Aldi were dangerous, to say the least), but I probably will never get around to it.

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This is also one of those times when my camera’s crop factor works in my favor. I have to stand further away when using the 50mm. And since I am a “big galoot” whose every movement sends Woody running away, that extra distance means I (probably) won’t startle her with my oafishness.

The downside of accepting this challenge: I had to boost ISO and exposure compensation in all these pics, and that gave me a nice stuck pixel to shoop out of every pic.

• Copy what it says in the “Date Time” field over to “Date Time Original” and “Date Time Digitized” (which are almost always blank). This magically makes the rest of the data appear.
• Delete anything in the “Image Description” field, because wordpress likes to make the attachment page’s url based on whatever’s in there (usually something useless like “exif_jpeg_t422″ or “SAMSUNG”).
• MAYBE SOMEDAY: change the “Camera Model” field from something cryptic (“HERO200″, “GT-I9000″) to the human-readable name of whatever phone actually took that pic.
• OH GOD, NO: try to restore all the EXIF data that Vignette strips out. (I’m shit out of luck with Retro Camera, because it doesn’t save an original/unaltered copy.)
• HAHA, YEAH RIGHT: stop being so OCD about stupid crap no one cares about.

Since that’s a whole lot of work for some crappy phone pics, I’ve been sitting on them for a while. Too bad, because I have, like, OVER SIX HUNDRED new cat pics. I am not even exaggerating.

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