Totally obvious post title, duh. Ever since a friend got me into DSLRs with a loaner Nikon D40, I’ve been geeking out on some Nikon shit. After trawling the bay for a used rig, I finally just broke down and bought a D90 with select and choice accoutrement from everybody’s favorite how-in-the-shit-is-this-shit-still-200-under-retail online bookstore. It’s a fucking blast.

BUT! Not as much of a blast as this Nikon ‘D200′. It sports a working trigger and some sort of extra controls for the shutter and stuff. I have to admit: I’ve seen items like it before, but it’s still pretty cool. For a while or whatever, at least, maybe. Or something.

So clearly, that caught my eye. For about a minute. BUT THEN!!! I lost no less than 15 minutes of my life reading the douchebag Slashdot comments. Boy. What must it be like to know everything and be able to both mentally (and presumably physically) dominate everything and everyone you’ve ever or will ever encounter everywhere all the time? Ask a slashnerd. Some highlights:

Jab:

At least 4 or 5 cameramen in recent years in middle eastern police actions (wars) have been shot due to large shoulder stabilized videocams looking threatening.

to Fierce:

I have long wondered why more public officials are not assassinated using a pistol mounted in a video camera.

Sonic Boom:

Pistols have a short effective range and, oddballs aside, aren’t powerful enough to guarantee a kill in one shot.

to Tiger Uppercut:

… some years ago, I was talking to one of those New York model types. She kept referring to ‘head shots’. So I told her that the odds were better aiming for the center of mass.

More—of course!!—if you wanna go there.