20 years old? How many megapixels did cameras have in 1985?

How many megapixels did cameras have in 1985?

Silly Tom. Cameras didn't have megapixels then. A tiny pterodactyl looks through the lens and then uses its beak to etch the image onto a slab of stone.

1985?

Huh, it's older than that, I bought it in 1979 for college, I'd forgotten.

A tiny pterodactyl looks through the lens and then uses its beak to etch the image onto a slab of stone.

Actually . . . many, many years ago, a tiny bug crawled into the works of the camera body and died, leaving its body inside the mirror-viewfinder mechanism. When you look through the viewfinder, you see a bug corpse in the middle of the picture, but it doesn't show on the pictures. I love lending my camera to people who don't know about Buggie, because they always jump when they look through it.

I just watched Pitch Black again, and it's three suns. They talk a lot about the lighting and film color-correction based on which sun/s are in the sky at what angle. (Commentary track).

Today's fortune cookie:

Good health is a man's best wealth.

Thank you, Count Rugen.

I just watched Pitch Black again, and it's three suns.

For some reason I was thinking there was just two suns in that little model of the solar system. I must have misremembered.

I just went and checked IMDb to make sure my memory wasn't going (post first and ask later, that's my motto), and their blurb says "a planet that has three suns orbiting around it."

So my confidence is shot - if they don't know what orbits what, can they count?

shrift, at least it is moderately innocuous. Several years ago, I got one with the gist of people get the government they deserve.

Why yes, it was right around the time of some local elections.

So my DH had a cool day today. He and the ambassador met with the MIT guy who is doing underwater archaeological surveying here. It's the same team that photographed the Titanic and the Lusitania. Now they are using submersible cameras that are tether-free, which is a necessity as the Greeks don't have any gyroscopically-stabilzed ships. But anyway, this dude is a (the?) professor of Technology and History, what a great field! He unrolled the film, about 6' of photos, of a 4th C trireme that went down between Asia Minor and the Attic Peninsula, and my DH went all fanboy on him. DH's now one of the first 35 people to see this ship and its cargo in the last 2400 years.

Sophia! What excellent news! Too bad you can't take vacation for at least part of your notice.