This camera is the boom! Still a point-and-shoot, Canon PowerShot S95 has a hell lot of awesome magic. The precision on auto zooming and focus was unheard of in my previous PowerShot SD800. Lightings were plenty even in low light indoor space. Look at those handsome Mango photos. The dog is the same, but looks better. It left me no room for touch up, even though I wanted to. This camera is rad!
Ok, this product review sucks. I’m just excited about my new camera.
I discovered this feature on iPhone’s Amazon.com. It’s an experimental featured utilize visual recognition. How does it work? You take a photo of an object, the photo get uploaded to your Amazon account. Minutes later, an email is sent to you with item Amazon recommends to you based on the photo you took.
I was skeptical about the feature, probably because my experience with features marked as experimental or beta normally resulting disappointment.
Using my iphone, I took 3 random pictures. The first one was a piggie illustration on my tote bag. Amazon recommended me what appears to be a children’s book Patches: Lost And Found
Second picture is a poster displaying many elaborate traditional architecture entrances in Jerusalem. The matched item for this one is a Jerusalem (West Jerusalem Walls) Art Poster Print – 11
The 3rd image was a screenshot of an email newsletter sent by an online arts & crafts store called Etsy. And the matching item was a book titled 101 Ways to Market Your Online Jewelry Shop: Free and Cheap Ways to Market, Promote, Advertise, and Increase Traffic to Your Online or Etsy Jewelry Shop and Sell Your Jewelry Now
Arrg!! With this endless moving and shuffling things around, freaking out weird weather (snow in April?? Hello??), and just general sense of uncertainty about the future, this has being a crappy-licious week so far.
Some cute Eastern crafty things I found on Hostess seemed to cheer me up a bit. Damn it, bring out the cute parade, Miss Smelly needs her happy pills.
Mini Felt Toy Party Favors from gifts define
What a bundle of cute and soft little creatures.
Egg Creatures from Martha Stewart
The piggies just melt my heart.
Spring Chickens from Bakerella
These cake pops are too cute to be eaten.
Back to work after the Mexico trip, I was greeted by 6 oversize bags of fortune cookies and a giant fortune. At first I thought those were tortilla chips. When I realized they were just flat fortune cookies. I started cracking up. I knew exactly why my desk was pimped by fortune cookies not tortillas.
2 days prior to my vacation, I went to a workshop in Portland, OR. Narisa, Gina, John and I took the train from Seattle to Portland. I bought a box of fortune cookies for everyone to snack on. But that night I started munch on the fortune cookies and finished most of them by myself. I confessed my terrible crime to my fellow train-mates. But who can resist the thrill of finding different fortunes inside each fortune cookie?
Thanks to that trip to Portland, now I have fortune cookies pouring out of my drawers, coffee mug, among my toys, even in my Kleenex box (I get a nice scent of fortune cookie when I blow my nose). The fortunes were just hilarious. Us designers repeatedly getting “Look for new outlets for your own creative abilities”, while our PMs were getting fortunes said “It would be wise to cut expectations in half.”
Living in the Seattle area, Smelly is a user experience designer by day, a running, cycling, gardening type of girl when she wasn't wearing the designer hat.
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