Grammar peeve

There are two adjectives, and they do not mean the same thing.

There's adverse:

1. Acting or serving to oppose; antagonistic: adverse criticism.
   
2. Contrary to one's interests or welfare; harmful or unfavorable: adverse circumstances.
   
3. Moving in an opposite or opposing direction: adverse currents.
   
4. Archaic. Placed opposite.

[Middle English, from Old French advers, from Latin adversus, past participle of advertere, to turn toward: ad-, ad- + vertere, to turn.]

And there's averse:
Having a feeling of opposition, distaste, or aversion; strongly disinclined: investors who are averse to taking risks.
[Latin versus, past participle of vertere, to turn away.]

Related, yes, definitely. But looking at the first definitions for each, adverse has to do with acting towards another, while averse has to do with one's own feelings. Which are not things that can be used interchangeably.


OK, and totally non-ranty: songs used in commercials: adverses.

Frustration is...

...picking up a roll of film to find that there's nothing there. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

No, they didn't lose the roll. Nothing was on the film, except a slight haze on one or two exposures.

It looks like I'm in the market for a new (or new-to-me, as long as it works) SLR camera. No, I haven't had the old camera checked out yet, but everyone I've talked to has said that maintainence on a camera is frequently as expensive as a new one. Even if it's 'just' the shutter, there's still the question of parts, since it's half a century old, after all.

So. Any ideas or suggestions about (fully manual capable, film) cameras? Particular features you like or aren't worth having? Particular models or manufacturers that are good/suck?

And so I don't have my homework done for class tonight (playing with panning). And it's raining. Which makes it harder to motivate myself to leave the house. Phooey.

Boston Organics delivery

I switched to getting a larger box, still 67% veggies, every other week.

• a bag of three baby bok choy (biggish for babies, more like toddler size :-)
  
• two bunches of collards
  
• a pint of cherry tomatoes
  
• a head of red leaf lettuce
  
• two stalks of broccoli
  
• four bananas
  
• a three-pound bag of onions (eight medium)
  
• a small bag of sunchokes (a pound? a pound and a half?)
  
• a grapefruit
  
• three pink lady apples
  
• four navel oranges
  
• a mango
  
• a green pepper (Treacle_Well, I can bring it to work tomorrow if you'd like it)

I think the oranges mean there's cranberry relish in my future :-). Not sure yet about anything else.

Oh, and there was an interesting note in this week's newsletter. Most produce has a four-digit number identifier, but organic produce has five-digit numbers that begin with 9. Produce with a five-digit number beginning with 8 means it's genetically modified.