My new camera: 0 megapixels

I just received something I've been wanting for a long time -- a Camera Obscura:

Here is a sample "photo" from the camera obscura (it just displays an image of whatever you're pointing at, to make it easy to trace and draw -- that's how they did art back in the olden days; a lot of what you see in museums is the result of folks sitting in darkened rooms with more tracing paper than real talent):

You just "point and draw" -- that is, you just plop some tracing paper on the glass and make a sketch, no memory card required!  If you need to focus, the front end of the box with the "lens" slides in and out.  The effect you see on the screen is a ghostly full-color image with a weird sliced-up 3D effect (you can see several different flat focal planes, giving the impression of turning the world into a parallax side-scroller video game).

This, plus Laurel's loom (not to mention Dave's new as-yet-to-blog-about affinity for paper notebooks and fountain pens with real inkwells) -- are the Stewarts becoming a low-tech, luddite family?  Well, not really, I think we've just run out of electronics to buy.