Chibi's and a tripod

Mozam and I now share an office. It's the only office in the company with two inhabitants, and it's not particularly large. As such, it's become the object of much interest and gawking. There's a steady stream of people who stop by to observe as if we were a display case in the American Museum of Natural History's "Peoples of the Dot-Com Era" exhibit hall. But mostly the voiced comments are of pleasant surprise and admiration, ranging from "I didn't think it could be done" to "This is a pretty sweet setup." If we could consolidate the file cabinets we could probably fit in a small couch and a mini-bar. I still have several bottles of sake in my fridge that I could contribute.

Anyway, I wanted to get a picture to document my spectacular collapse at Chibi's a few weeks ago and it was also free mushroom dumpling night. I didn't need any more reasons to go.

While chilling out listening to some combination of French, Japanese, and Slavic-esque jazz croonings, I thought I'd experiment with the pocket tripod that I recently purchased from the Alkit store near Union Square. Fully extended, it is only about one foot long, but these sorts of tripods are not meant for heavy duty work. It folds down small enough to fit into the same backpack pocket that holds my camera.

I've started taking more pictures with the camera in "manual" mode -- though it is to a true manual camera as tiptronic is to stick shift. The problem with manual mode is that my hands shake quite a bit, making low-light pictures an exercise in blurry frustration. The tripod lets me take shots like this:

There are more, but they're waiting to be processed.