Here’s a yay-hoo chat session Kon and I were just having about the latest controversy on ITF:

Kon : Tom, Tom, has (name deleted to protect the guilty) counted the cost ?

Tom: Evidently not senor!!

Kon : Goodness, I’ve taken somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,052 pictures on my digicam. Guess how many I’ve developed. That’s right, I’ve developed pry less than 100 different pics of those. Not that they’re bad pics, it’s just that it’s not necessary. For on the go, my laptop is a virtual photo album containing thousands of pictures. For sending someone else, I just e-mail it. If they want a print, they can request it, or print it out themselves.

Kon : And how many pictures fit a frame perfectly. I’ve doctored them and printed them out EXACTLY the size and way I needed to fit the frame, do that with an analog?

Kon : No way.

Kon : If I’d have had an analog I would have had to buy enough rolls for 10,052 pictures.

Tom: No, you wouldn’t have taken those pics, and would be now short of voluminous memories

Kon : Then I would have had to develop each one of those 10,052 pictures…just to see if they were any good or not.

Kon : Si, Si Senor!!!

Tom: Oh, that’s true!

Kon : How much would’ve that cost me

Tom: a lot senor

Kon : Goodness sake, I’d be in the poorhouse, Senor!

Tom: Even more than you are now!

Kon : Si, Oh, Si Senor.

Kon : Goodness, do they not realize you are not constrained to print every last single pic?

Kon : Unlike an analog, by the way.

Kon : I can make my sister-in-law tear up from 2,004 miles away with my digicam. Can your analog do that?

Tom: I don’t have an analog

Kon : She watched her little niece crawling the other day, can your analog do that?

Tom: I don’t have one senor!

Tom: You’re preaching to the choir!!!!!!

Kon : Oh, Si, Senor, and I’m being rhetorical.

Tom: I know senor