Posts from: September 17, 2011

Mulla Nasreddin

September 17, 2011

Found a quote today, and tried to track down it’s origins. Rather than the quote, I prefer this small anecdote I found from
The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness by Joel Ben Izzy.

The Secret of Happiness

Nasrudin is known as much for his wisdom as his foolishness, and many are those who have sought out his teaching.

One devotee tracked him down for many years before finding him in the marketplace sitting atop a pile of banana peels–no one knows why.

“Oh great sage, Nasrudin,” said the eager student. “I must ask you a very important question, the answer to which we all seek: What is the secret to attaining happiness?”

Nasrudin thought for a time, then responded. “The secret of happiness is good judgment.”

“Ah,” said the student. “But how do we attain good judgement?”

“From experience,” answered Nasrudin.

“Yes,” said the student. “But how do we attain experience?”

“Bad judgment.”

Reading about the Mulla was quite humorous as well.

Raising dead pixels on a Canon DSLR

September 15, 2011

Learned a super awesome trick today for Canon DSLRs that get a hot/dead/stuck pixel on the sensor. It’s not foolproof and might not fix the issue, but it turns out that it has fixed the problem for many people including a friend of mine today, so that’s good enough for me!

  1. Take off your lens, putting the lens cap on to protect it.
  2. Put your body cap on to cover your camera’s sensor.
  3. Turn your camera on, and go to the second “wrench” setting page on the menu.
  4. Scroll down to “Sensor Cleaning”, Select it.
  5. Select “Clean manually”
  6. Click “OK” when it tells you the mirror will open up.
  7. Let the mirror stay open for about 30-60 seconds, and then turn off the camera.
  8. Put the lens back on the camera, turn it back on, and take a few pictures
  9. If you’re lucky, you will have risen your pixel from the dead!

Should we call it an excerpt from the NecronomiCanon? ;)