Marcus McCurdy's Blog

This Plinky prompt was about songs to put on a road trip mix tape. These were pretty much the first songs that came to my mind.

Let me preface this post with an explanation. I’m trying out a new service called Plinky. Daily, Plinky will give you a prompt that you can answer and then post that answer to your blog, Facebook, or other social networking site. I figured I would give it a try because I usually have a hard time deciding on what to write about, but once I have a topic the actual writing isn’t a problem. This prompt asked whether one changes cloths when they get home for the day and the following is my answer.

I guess I just like to get right into whatever it is I'm going to do when I get home so I don't bother taking the time to change. I also have to take my dogs to go outside when I first get home and a few times during the remainder of the day so that could be another reason.

Wow it has been a really long time since I wrote a post here. I’ve been pretty busy lately with the holiday season and I’ve been traveling almost twice monthly for work, but still that isn’t really a good excuse since I can bring my computer with me. I’ve been posting quite often on Twitter though and I’m going to add my Twitter feed into the sidebar right after I’m done writing this post.

I recently got a brand new Canon EOS Xsi camera and I’m enjoying taking a multitude of pictures with it sometimes to the irritation of those around me. I did have a kind of perplexing problem with it though. The Xsi (also called a 450D) is rated to burst up to 53 pictures in the continous shooting mode depending on what quality you are set to. However, I could only get it to shoot 2 continous pictures in all the modes except for sports. I was able to find out after doing some research online that you have to disable high iso noise reduction in order to take advantage of the cameras 3.5 FPS. I don’t know why the HINR slows down the camera even if you aren’t set to a high iso, but disabling it enabled me to take rapid shots in program auto exposure, Av, and Tv modes as I expected.