I haven't been taking nearly enough pictures lately, mostly because my Canon 10D is too heavy and unwieldy to take everywhere. So I broke down and bought the ultra compact Canon S410. I got a sweet deal. I only paid 280 bucks including a 1GB Compact Flash card from some guy on eBay. It's brand new. It's tiny. I can take with me everywhere. I promise lots of new pictures.

I figured it was time to stop watching DVDs on my laptop, so I picked up my first DVD player (damn, I'm late getting in the game), a Philips DVP642. The thing is sleek and light and silver and plays DVDs on my TV, which is great. But because my TV is so damn old, I bought when I was living in LA back in 1998, it doesn't have AV inputs, so I had to buy an RF Modulator to make the connection. The picture is not super clear and there are visible lines running across the screen if you look closely. I don't know if this is the TV, the Modulator or the DVD player. I doubt it's the latter. One of the cool features of this DVD player, and the main reason I chose it over the thousands of other players out there is that it supposedly plays compressed Divx movies, which I happen to have a ton of. I was planning on chucking them out (deleting them actually), but if I can play them on my TV, then, fuck, I might just keep them around. And they do play, only with no sound, which sort of diminishes the whole movie watching experience. Hopefully it's just a minor glitch that I can fix with a call to Philips CS. I'll keep you posted.