Neography 2.o  -

The other day I was out riding and I came across the most beautiful cloud formation I've seen in a long time. Here they are. Sorry there's so many, but most of them are simply stunning on their own. Perhaps you get numb by the end, but I was just gobsmacked. Here's a couple of my faves:
Clouds!
Clouds!
Clouds!

Also a couple of new shots I snapped with the phone recently:
Some cicada shells under a leaf
A sunset outside a sushi shop

Why does Canon hate me? My beloved and uber-capable Powershot G3 developed a really strange issue with horizontal lines in dark shots, so we called Canon. "Sounds like a problem with the CCD!" they said. (There's More!)

Someone recently asked me to modify their US Sega Saturn with one of my switchless mods and last night I did it. Since my camera's in the shop, I had to use my celphone to take pics. It did a fairly decent job. Here's the pics of the job:

Closeup view of jumpers
Jumpers with jumpers removed, wires attached
Reset switch that changes region
Location of unused capacitor, handy power for the 74157 chip
Overview of finished mod

My phone makes a loud chime sound whenever I take a picture, as part of an anti-upskirt measure all Japanese cellphone makers adopted. I'm not particularly against this, tho it'd have been nicer if I could choose my own sound...

Recently we were taking care of a kitten, a very cute photogenic kitten, and I was taking pictures of it with my phone - but the chime woke him up.

So I made a speaker killswitch. Now I can take silent pictures!

This was a bit of a chore to install, (There's More!)