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The Worst Player in the NBA Reader Luke S. sent me a link to an article I enjoyed a lot. Here it is: "The Worst NBA Player Is Way Better Than You." I liked what veteran NBA journeyman Brian Scalabrine told an amateur challenger: "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me." It was interesting to read the comments of the WNBA professional player Devereaux Peters, too. I've heard the same thing about golfers—that a lot of guys with a USGA handicap of one or two or three think they're just a few strokes away from pro caliber—meaning they could get there if they just buckled down and worked for ...

The Least Attractive Lens (Or, the Happy Dude) One of the fun things about this hobby is having an interest in equipment we might get.  And when I come across things in which I have utterly no interest, I always tell myself, well, there's someone out there who's into this. I'm carefully watching the prices of the Olympus E-M1 Mark II*, since I still have a complete complement of Micro 4/3 lenses. But one new lens crossed my virtual desktop recently in which my interest is about as close to zero as it gets (EMMV**). It's the new-but-not-exactly Canon RF 600mm ƒ/4L IS. Canon attached a perma...

AirDrop I really like AirDrop in iOS. It's an efficient, fast, secure method of transferring a photo from the iPhone to the Mac. With the phone near the computer, select the picture, tap the share icon, designate the destination from the choices list, and send. It shows up immediately in the Downloads folder. Do all computers and phones do that? Since I use the iPhone for blog illustrations (which are only 800 pixels wide) and things like eBay sale illustrations, it's convenient and easy. Can people do this with a "real" camera? Are there any cameras that allow you to use AirDrop or something...

[ "Open Mike" is the anything-goes Opinion page of TOP, in which Yr. Hmbl. Ed. blows steam off the top of his head. It normally appears on Wednesdays.] - It's snowing and below freezing here right now. Making me anxious about the health of the delicate blooming plants hereabouts. This is the view through my kitchen window about 80 seconds ago, snapped with the phone and AirDrop'd on to the computer. Monkeys I have a sensitivity to a thing I call "American Irony." The examples just pelt me like there's a monkey nearby enthusiastically flinging his dung about, occasionally smiting me on the che...

Sunday Support Group: Impulse, or Compulsion? Every time I sell stuff on eBay I end up...buying stuff. I bought another film camera a few days ago. Geez. This marks what, five months since I swore up and down to myself that I would never, ever, under It was a I now own twelve, which might be a lifetime high number (I don't actually keep track), which I think you'll agree is very appropriate in light of the impressive amount of film I shoot every year, namely, nada, also expressible as "zilch." So I need all these cameras, obviously. I had a girlfriend once who had such a thing for shoes ...