Strap On Strap Off
I had to say goodbye to an old friend today. I didn't think it was going to be tough, but I actually had to think about it for a while.
I got a new strap for my camera this week. I was pretty excited because my old strap was pretty worn out. The old strap had two sides, one with cotton and the other with a rubber type substance. And I used each side depending on what I was wearing. Just any normal shirt I'd put the cotton side against my shoulder so I could easily move the strap. But if I had a jacket of some sort on, I'd put the rubber side against my shoulder to prevent it from sliding off the jacket.
I went to make the switch today and had to stop and think if I really wanted to get rid of my old strap. I mean, it's just so comfortable... like an old pair of shoes or an old hat that might look like hell, but is just too much a part of you to get rid of. But I finally made the switch, but not without thinking about what me and the old strap have been through.
(Que sappy music)
-Two Major Hurricanes
-Katrina
-Rita
-One Tropical Storm
-Cindy
-Two full seasons of home Saints games, including...
-One NFL divisional playoff game between the Saints and Eagles
-Two Monday night football games (including the first game back at the Dome after Katrina)
-About a 10 LSU regular season games (don't feel like looking up exactly how many)
-6 college bowl games
-Houston Bowl
-Two New Orleans Bowls
-Two Sugar Bowls
-BCS National Championship
-One KSU football victory over Texas where I rushed the field and tore down the goal posts
-One KSU football victory over Colorado (Kelly Glasscock used it for this game)
-A workshop in Portland Ore.
-A trip to New York City
-5 (I think) Trips to Manhattan Kansas
-It's been swimming with me at the water park
-It spent a week with me at girl scout camp in June of 2006
-Its been a part of one state basketball championship
-and three state runner up basketball teams
-Two state soccer championships
-Its kept me company at countless meetings, speeches and award ceremonies
-Its been placed on levees throughout Terrebonne parish
-It's been hung on hooks on the inside of bathroom stall doors
-I've taken it inside houses and buildings that have recently caught fire
-It took a week to get the smoke smell out of the strap after going inside the World of Wings after that fire.
-I've used it to dry my hands
-It's seen...
-Green Day
-Gov. Bobby Jindal
-Jimmy Buffett
-Spike Lee
-Bon Jovi
-Bono and U2
-Stewart Scott
-Jimmy Johnson
-countless NFL stars
-plenty of college football stars
-George Bush the dad
-and I'm sure others I can't think of
-It's seen the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico
-It's been to Jazz Fest in New Orleans
-It's been up and down Bourbon Street
And you know what... those are just the bigger things this strap has been through. I'm not even going to mention how many high school football, volleyball, basketball, baseball or softball games this thing as watched. Don't forget track, cross country, tennis and soccer.
or how many community theater practices it's sat through
or how many kids playing basketball or skate boarding in the streets it's seen
or how many road races its watched the start and finish of
or how many self portraits of me its seen
And I can't even begin to think how many times the strap saved my camera from having to spend weeks in the shop. I know I drop my camera quite a bit, but I always hold the strap in such a way that if I do drop it... no worries.
I think you get the point. And I'm sure there are plenty of other stories out there that this strap could tell.
And I welcome any stories some of you might have about my camera strap.
R.I.P Canon EOS camera strap. And may the new strap, with its little joint things to prevent the strap from getting twisted, experience and help the way the original strap did.
I got a new strap for my camera this week. I was pretty excited because my old strap was pretty worn out. The old strap had two sides, one with cotton and the other with a rubber type substance. And I used each side depending on what I was wearing. Just any normal shirt I'd put the cotton side against my shoulder so I could easily move the strap. But if I had a jacket of some sort on, I'd put the rubber side against my shoulder to prevent it from sliding off the jacket.
I went to make the switch today and had to stop and think if I really wanted to get rid of my old strap. I mean, it's just so comfortable... like an old pair of shoes or an old hat that might look like hell, but is just too much a part of you to get rid of. But I finally made the switch, but not without thinking about what me and the old strap have been through.
(Que sappy music)
-Two Major Hurricanes
-Katrina
-Rita
-One Tropical Storm
-Cindy
-Two full seasons of home Saints games, including...
-One NFL divisional playoff game between the Saints and Eagles
-Two Monday night football games (including the first game back at the Dome after Katrina)
-About a 10 LSU regular season games (don't feel like looking up exactly how many)
-6 college bowl games
-Houston Bowl
-Two New Orleans Bowls
-Two Sugar Bowls
-BCS National Championship
-One KSU football victory over Texas where I rushed the field and tore down the goal posts
-One KSU football victory over Colorado (Kelly Glasscock used it for this game)
-A workshop in Portland Ore.
-A trip to New York City
-5 (I think) Trips to Manhattan Kansas
-It's been swimming with me at the water park
-It spent a week with me at girl scout camp in June of 2006
-Its been a part of one state basketball championship
-and three state runner up basketball teams
-Two state soccer championships
-Its kept me company at countless meetings, speeches and award ceremonies
-Its been placed on levees throughout Terrebonne parish
-It's been hung on hooks on the inside of bathroom stall doors
-I've taken it inside houses and buildings that have recently caught fire
-It took a week to get the smoke smell out of the strap after going inside the World of Wings after that fire.
-I've used it to dry my hands
-It's seen...
-Green Day
-Gov. Bobby Jindal
-Jimmy Buffett
-Spike Lee
-Bon Jovi
-Bono and U2
-Stewart Scott
-Jimmy Johnson
-countless NFL stars
-plenty of college football stars
-George Bush the dad
-and I'm sure others I can't think of
-It's seen the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico
-It's been to Jazz Fest in New Orleans
-It's been up and down Bourbon Street
And you know what... those are just the bigger things this strap has been through. I'm not even going to mention how many high school football, volleyball, basketball, baseball or softball games this thing as watched. Don't forget track, cross country, tennis and soccer.
or how many community theater practices it's sat through
or how many kids playing basketball or skate boarding in the streets it's seen
or how many road races its watched the start and finish of
or how many self portraits of me its seen
And I can't even begin to think how many times the strap saved my camera from having to spend weeks in the shop. I know I drop my camera quite a bit, but I always hold the strap in such a way that if I do drop it... no worries.
I think you get the point. And I'm sure there are plenty of other stories out there that this strap could tell.
And I welcome any stories some of you might have about my camera strap.
R.I.P Canon EOS camera strap. And may the new strap, with its little joint things to prevent the strap from getting twisted, experience and help the way the original strap did.
posted by stamey at 12:22 AM
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probably the best strap on blog posting I've ever read
Cutting the (Video) Cord: The Shift to Online Video Continues
Back in the mid- and even late 1990s, I was engaged in a lot of dreadfully boring telecom policy debates in which the proponents of regulation flatly refused to accept the argument that the hegemony of wireline communications systems would ever be seriously challenged by wireless networks. Well, we all know how that story is playing out today. People are increasingly “cutting the cord” and opting to live a wireless-only existence. For example, this recent Nielsen Mobile study on wireless substitution reports that, although only 4.2% of homes were wireless-only at the end of 2003…
At the end of 2007, 16.4 percent of U.S. households had abandoned their landline phone for their wireless phone, but by the end of June 2008, just 6 months later, that number had increased to 17.1 percent. Overall, this percentage has grown by 3-4 percentage points per year, and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing. In fact, a Q4 2007 study by Nielsen Mobile showed that an additional 5 percent of households indicated that they were “likely” to disconnect their landline service in the next 12 months, potentially increasing the overall percentage of wireless-only households to nearly 1 in 5 by year’s end.
And one wonders about how many homes are like mine — we just keep the landline for emergency purposes or to redirect phone spam to that number instead of giving out our mobile numbers. Beyond that, my wife and I are pretty much wireless-only people and I’m sure there’s a lot of others like us out there.
Anyway, I’ve been having a strange feeling of deva vu lately as I’ve been engaging in policy debates about the future of the video marketplace. Like those old telecom debates of the last decade, we are now witnessing a similar debate — and set of denials — playing out in the video arena. Many lawmakers and regulatory advocates (and even some industry folks) are acting as if the old ways of doing business are the only ways that still count. In reality, things are changing rapidly as video content continues to migrate online.
I was reminded of that again this weekend when I was reading Nick Wingfield’s brilliant piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Turn On, Tune Out, Click Here.“ It is must-reading for anyone following development in this field. As Wingfield notes:
In the past two years, nearly every major network show and many of the biggest cable programs have become available on the Internet. The virtual library of content includes everything from “Desperate Housewives” and “CSI” to “The Colbert Report” and “Mad Men.”
Some of the biggest hits online are memorable TV moments. More than half of the people who saw recent “Saturday Night Live” skits featuring comedian Tina Fey as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin watched the skits over the Internet, according to a survey of 500 viewers on Monday by Solutions Research Group. Nearly a quarter saw them on YouTube and 21% saw them on NBC.com or Hulu.com.
Many shows can be viewed for free and are accompanied by a dollop of ads that’s small when compared with the number of commercial breaks on television. As a result, some cost-conscious consumers are ditching their cable subscriptions altogether.
And the migration of video online is really picking up speed as a result. According to Wingfield, “Complete episodes of about 90% of prime-time network television shows and roughly 20% of cable shows are now available online, according to Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey.” However, Wingfield points out that “the number of people watching all of their programs online is still small; some estimates put the number at just 1% of the total television audience. In part, that’s because watching online isn’t as easy as channel surfing on the couch, TV remote in hand. Viewers must either watch shows on their personal computers, or use a device like Apple TV, which allows them to download shows from the Internet onto their television sets.” That being said, he goes on to note that:
Within the next several years, however, media and technology executives say that a host of new technologies will make television access to online video a mainstream phenomenon. Vudu Inc. already sells a $299 set-top box with a remote control that allows users to download television shows for $1.99 per episode. Microsoft and Sony both sell television shows that users of their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 videogame consoles can download over the Internet for viewing on television sets. Netflix subscribers can buy a $99 set-top box from Roku Inc. that streams videos on their television sets. The service is included at no extra charge in the monthly Netflix fee for renting DVDs.
And that’s just what’s happening today. There will be a lot more options coming online soon. Remember, most of these changes have all taken place in just the past couple of years. If you look at the FCC’s last “Annual Video Competition Report” from two years ago, you won’t find much discussion of these new developments. But, if the FCC ever gets around to releasing another annual report, the regulators won’t be able to ignore these trends and developments any longer.
OK, so the point is clear: The video marketplace is changing rapidly. Meanwhile, however, back in the surreal regulatory la-la land of Washington, DC, it remains business as usual. As Brian Anderson and I point out in our new book, A Manifesto for Media Freedom, policymakers are still trying applying a host of unique regulations to “old media” providers, including: various censorship rules, educational programming mandates, special campaign finance advertising laws, must carry regs, media ownership caps, broadcast “localism” requirements and various other “public interest” obligations, and much more.
At what point does this charade end? When do we realize that substitution is occuring and giving people alternative places to camp their eyeballs? Or doesn’t that make any difference? Should we just continue to regulate the old platforms and players the same was as always? Or, worse yet, should we “level the playing field” by regulating the Internet and online video providers the same way? I hope most people would understand what a disaster that would be in practice. The Internet and digital video delivery is offerning society an unprecedented abundance of media riches. They last thing we need to do is screw it up by laying on reams of regulation.
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