It turned into a ballroom blitz
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, April 15-28, 2025
My dreams are getting so strange
I'd like to tell you everything I see
Oh, I see a man at the back
As a matter of fact, his eyes are as red as a sun
And the girl in the corner, let no one ignore her
'Cause she thinks she's the passionate one
Oh, yeah, it was like lightning
Everybody was frightening
And the music was soothing
And they all started grooving
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And the man at the back said, "Everyone, attack"
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said, "Boy, I wanna warn ya
It'll turn into a ballroom blitz"
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Pentax 17 wins Germany’s Red Dot Design Award 2025
Pentax's half-frame film camera racks up another design award
By cjfeola in Pentax Announcements on Apr 29, 2025
The Pentax 17 is this year’s Red Dot Design Award in Germany, Ricoh Imaging announced Monday, April 28, in Tokyo. The annual Red Dot Design Award, sponsored by Nordrhein Westfalen Design Center in Germany, judges products by nine criteria, including degree of innovation, functionality, ergonomics, durability and ecological compatibility.
It's the third major design award Ricoh has won with the Pentax 17, launched last summer. Pentax's half-frame film camera claimed the 2025 German Design Award for Excellent Product Design - Computer and Communication category at the beginning of the year. In March, Ricoh won this year’s iF DESIGN AWARD 2025 for PENTAX 17 in the “Product” category. Hannover-based iF International Forum Design GmbH, the world’s oldest independent design organization, has organized the annual iF DESIGN AWARD since 1954. And Gear Patrol named the Pentax 17 to the Tech category for its list of “The 100 Most Important Products of 2024.”
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My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.
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Thursday May 1st - The PE Vlog: We’ve found a way to build Virtual Newsroom, a set of low and no-cost tools that can fertilize the flowering of thousands of new newsrooms. We want to make it viable for individual journalists and small teams to successfully cover, say, a small town or school district with nothing more than a cheap laptop and an internet connection. In Part II we’re going to take the techniques discussed in Part I by doing a little journalism and walking through this in depth at the same time. We’re going to feed budgets into AIs using these prompt techniques and see how this nascent Virtual Newsroom performs.
Friday May 2nd - Foto.Feola.Friday
Sunday, May 4th — About that time I went to the nerd prom White House Correspondents Dinner; President Bill Clinton was there, and Ray Romano at the height of his Everybody Loves Raymond fame, and…Feola, who spent the evening answering politely bored questions this new thing called the World Wide Web, the way party goers would quiz a quantum physicist without really understanding or caring about the answers.