Lowepro Photo Sport 200 AW

Here's the newest addition to my bag family. And yes, I'm addicted to bags. And this bag came in a pretty orange color. Score.


The photo from the left was borrowed from the Popular Photo website site. And here is the official Lowepro page.


I've been doing some moderate hiking lately. My current bag solutions do not account for a hydration system. I'm reminded of the near bad experience of my Subway hike and the lack of H2O. This bag has a compartment from a hydration system. Based on the videos I've seen, this bag seems to be pretty well designed for the outdoor enthusiast. There's even a place for trekking poles.


With an additional 15% discount, I couldn't resist.


This video on YouTube.com sold me on the bag.

Quasi Frankenstein-ing a new Photo PC

So, when I returned from my Bishop trip, I experienced some computer issues. BSOD - Blue screen of death computer issues (the not so good kind). Long story short, it turned out my ram modules went bad. However, for me to reach that final conclusion, I pretty much did a near complete tear down of my custom built PC. And in the course of tearing down the PC, I got to learn a lot about custom PC building. Wow. Obtaining all this knowledge was pretty fun but the process of trying to get the PC back in working order was pretty stressful. I had some deadlines and I need to push photos outs. But I don't all this information to go to waste/go moldy in my head.


What does that all entail. I'm going to build me a newish PC for myself. I'll take the existing hard drives and the Ram modules from my current PC and use them for the new build but I do want some new parts.


I want raid'ed SSDs as a boot drive, I want CrossFireX or SLI video cards (maybe - the cool factor is high but for CS5.5 - a Cuda video card might make more sense), and I might want a water cooled cooling system. And I'll probably switch off from an AMD chip and splurge on a Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge chip with a SATA-6 enabled motherboard or as the cool kids call them, a new mobo.


The Chinese-ness in me doesn't and won't allow me to go retail price on these goodies. So, seeing how I have a fully function PC to keep me occupied, I'll piece together a new piece as the there are specials for the respective parts.

Parts I've amassed so far.

I got a gaming tower.Rosewill GEAR X3 Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, Support up to 15.36" Video Card, with Three Fans-1x Front Blue LED 140mm Fan, 1x Top 120mm Fan, 1x Rear 120mm Fan, Option Fan-1x Top 120mm Fan, 2x Side 120mm Fan.

And I got a power source. KINGWIN Lazer LZ-850 850W Modular 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC W/ 3-Way LED Switch and Universal Modular Connector Power Supply.


Don't be jealous of my geek-dome. I'm cecy like that.

Mood: Geek-cexy

Music: Stereo Love (Extend Version)/Edward Maya feat Alicia

Location: Home Studio

Night with Annie Leibovitz

Close friend PK invited me to a Central Library function featuring Annie Leibovitz as the guest speaker. Annie was highlighting her new book "Pilgrimage". Buy it here.

This was a fun night. She spoke inside Central Library Mark Taper Auditorium. Cozy spot for an intimate monologue with Annie.


Here are some shots from the night. And she signed my book. How sweet is that?

Mood: Happy

Music: Jazz Lounge (Something)

Location: Home Studio