This post is about the aftermarket GGS Glass LCD Screen Protector, and about the store I bought mine from. First about the protector itself...

Nikon cameras come with a cheap thick plastic LCD screen protector that easily scratches, scuffs, and just looks ugly. When it scuffs enough, it becomes cloudy and makes it worse than nothing. So a couple of years ago, I bought a GGS brand glass protector for my Nikon D200, and loved it. Along with a Katz Eye focus screen, they're the two must-have aftermarket changes to a new camera body.

When I got a D700, I [...]

As I mentioned the other day in "A Couple of Striking Photos", we went bowling the other day with Zak and his kids.

The 24mm prime wasn't really appropriate for the bowling alley, so I mostly used the Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5. It came in handy when Zak's kids, Gen and Zoe, were playing. (They fight so little that I think they don't realize that they're siblings....)

Gen, 22 months younger than Anthony, eventually started picking up some good form himself...

... though my inability to get even remotely close focus remained.

This is a long post. The executive summary is:

The verb "to scale" in computer science refers to a solution's ability to handle dramatically increasing demands. Filtering spam by personally inspecting each message, for example, works fine if you get only a few each day, but reaches its limits when you get hundreds a day, and becomes totally unworkable if you got thousands. Personal inspection just doesn't scale to those kinds of numbers, which is why in real life we need a totally different approach, such as automatic filtering as a first line of defense.

When I first started writing [...]

Keeping mostly off the computer for a week has been good for the arm pain I suddenly got at the beginning of the month, so I'll hazard a short post.

Today we visited Gen, and all went bowling. Was fun. I bowled a 137, which was good for me. (Once long ago I dated a girl whose folks both bowled 300, and with their pointers was able to bowl a 172, a personal record unlikely to ever be broken.)

I totally missed focus and exposure on the shot above (though the version seen here is after trying to overcome the [...]

Having some arm pain since 21-hour trip back last week, so I'm mostly staying off the computer for a few days, so no posts or email for a while.