I've put Ctein on temporary hiatus this week, even though he wrote a very nice column and submitted it on deadline as usual (he always does—Ctein is really one of the most professional people I know in terms of meeting his obligations. And here I mean "pro" in the most complimentary sense, meaning "efficient, businesslike, and dependable"). It's just that his topic happened to be tea and...well, I wanna keep talking about photography just now. Call me selfish.
We'll run the tea column next week. Those of you who love the elixir of the tea plant have something to look forward to.
Back to the topic o' the moment—
Mike the Ogreish Ed.
P.S. Reminds me of that amusing game of defining yourself via a random listing of your geeky enthusiasms and how you fall on various "hot" either-or choices. For instance, Ctein is Photography / physics / science fiction / astronomy and space travel / Mac etc., whereas I am Photography / stereos / books / cars / billiards / Mac etc. In this sense I am coffee / dog and Ctein is tea / psittacine. But that's not why I'd postpone a tea column, I promise—such differences amplify the interest of our off-topic topics, not the other way around.
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Somehow I don't anticipate he's going to write that orange pekoe is to tea as 50mm lenses are to photography, often derided, but...
Posted by: Jack Martin | Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 03:11 PM
I had to look up "psittacine".
Posted by: Pete F | Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 03:23 PM
Just to keep this off-topic non-post off topic, I very much enjoy a tea-like drink made from the guayusa plant. My current approach is two cups of good coffee in the morning, then two cups of guayusa in the early afternoon. Smells like marijuana when it brews too, for those who like that smell. It's supposed to be loaded with anti-oxidants, but these days it seems like everything short of a cup of bleach is advertised as loaded with anti-oxidants.
Posted by: John Krumm | Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 03:28 PM
I'm Photography / motorcycles / science fiction / dreadful puns / How things should be made / Mac
I'm more Real ale or bulk tea intake / cat.
Posted by: Roger Bradbury | Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 05:26 AM
Maybe you should sit down for a while, take a cup of tea and relax, and really think through your priorities so you can close some of those too many open windows.
Ctein could help with the tea selection.
Posted by: Ilkka | Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 04:47 PM
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Posted by: Richard Alan Fox | Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 05:11 PM
So we all went out and bought an IR filter lately and I tried it on my Canon T1i first - got results in the 2 - 3 minute exposure range. After about 100 shots of this I was exhausted. Stuck it on my Fuji HS10, turned it on and shock of shocks I could see my foot. Must not have an IR blocker over the sensor ? Now getting shots in a reasonable exposure time .3 seconds NP. Stuck it on my Nikon P7100 same foot ! And that camera is on the convertible list at LifePixel. Huh.
Posted by: Nathan | Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 03:05 PM