I'm Not Dead Yet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not quite dead. I am in fact, merely very tired. I just got back from a field trip and didn't have 'Net access. I can post from my cell phone, but I haven't actually set that up yet.

Anyway, I have 520 or so pictures to sort through and a presentation and a quiz tomorrow, so I can't write anything significant tonight.

It's a Sweatdrop

It was during the prep work for today’s blog post that I realized my laptop is not a multimedia workhorse. It’s great for browsing the ‘Net, checking email, writing reports, and other fairly business-y things, but Lightroom and Photoshop both bring it completely to its knees. The panorama of the bike racks took it almost five minutes to perform. Granted, it was a 300MB file when all was said and done, but still.

Exporting today’s photo set from Lightroom (which consists of resizing and recompressing a set of photos I’ve already picked out) took it about three minutes. This doesn’t sound like much, but then you realize that that’s for 16 pictures. Oh, 17 with the addition of this picture at the right. [Edit: And now I’m at 18 because of the lunchbox picture.]

Now, I’m not complaining. In fact, given that thing’s got a 1.3Ghz Celeron M, I’m surprised it boots, and these figures are not that much slower than my 3500+ desktop machine doing similar work, which means the bottleneck could be at the memory or scratch file…

What’s this blog about?

Oh, right.