I hit a couple of thrift stores in San Diego today looking for cheap cameras. I found a Polaroid Square Shooter 2 in a nice leather case for $3.00 which I was pretty sure I could still get film for. After getting it home and putting some new batteries (AA not those hard to find, weird 3.5v ones with the 9v connectors), I was dismayed to discover the “electric eye” doesn’t seem to be working and the shutter isn’t opening: bummer. There were 2 other square shooters I spotted but I didn’t bother with them since I had already found one. Maybe I will go back and check those out before we leave.

Went to Death Valley on Sunday. it was snowing at the rim on the way in, it was drizzling and the temp was somewhere in the low 60’s at the visitors center (150ft below sea level), not very deathy…It was still pretty amazing, just not in a grim reaper kind of way.

According to this reuters article:

South Korean firm LG Electronics is poised to start marketing an air conditioner with a filter made using an enzyme from the pungent national dish kimchi that is aimed at protecting against the bird flu virus.

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