John's Musings

7/25/2008

Video

Filed under: On the Road,Technology — John @ 4:40 pm

As you may or may not know I will be travelling with Boundin Main to germany In just under two weeks. My job on the trip will be to video performances, and other silly moments, as well as to take stills of the trip. To do this I had acquired a video camera and was all ready to go. Last Friday I tried to use the camera and found it no longer worked. The person who gave it to me had warned me this ocassionally occurred and gave me a solution that worked for them. Sadly it didn’t work for me. Being a geek I disnantled the camera and hoped to find the problem. Well I found the effect but not the cause. Strangly when I reassembled it the camera began working fine again.
This is an important trip and I do not want to be sitting in Germany with a broken camera. So I am now the proud owner of a new canon hv30 and a few accessories for it. Wow what I’ve seen so far is great!

Upselling

Filed under: General,On the Road — John @ 8:16 am

I really dislike the concept of upwelling. For example, I just went through the drive-thru at mcdonalds. I placed a very specific order. The response came back asking me if I wanted to add hashbrowns and make my order a meal. No. Frankly the choice I made is already enough of a meal for me. I’ve actually had to argue this with people before. “bit sir the meal is two cents cheaper”. “yes perhaps but I do not want the hashbrowns.” “you can always throw them away sir “. “or you could just ring up the order I actually placed….”

I don’t know why the practice really bugs me, but it does.

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