Red Ring Tupperware Party, Uninterrupted (No Harms ducked in making this thread) #19

vipergts831 wrote in post #12471600
Seems like weather is holding out. My baseball game is still set for 7pm. Although playing baseball in 80 degrees with high humidity wont be fun!

Try 8C (46F) with a north wind off of the lake. Wind chill at 5C (41F). Wearing shorts and a thin t-shirt. Still had a great game. Lost but played well. Only got out on one bat and had some great hits otherwise. Got three people out in one inning. Got hit by two grounders that took a bounce

Belmondo wrote in post #12472315
I'm trying to get my mojo working by going back and doing some processing of old photos.

I really wish I had something different to work on, but no such luck.

Old photo, BTW. It's one of the few I ever took with my 500 f/4L during the brief time I owned it.

Another thing that identifies it as an old photo is the signal bridge above the train. It's been gone a couple years now.

lovely, chief...that heat haze...

as for the internet, I just told Verizon i was leaving them, that they sucked. They lowered my costs to keep me with them. As soon as the contract "ran out" to go rolling, I told them again I was leaving, and they lowered it again. That is all you have to do, to keep a good internet and tv package. Could be the accent too, though

gjl711 wrote in post #12472995
With FIOS, it's still gonna be dependent on what tier of service you want to pay for though, no? I thought residential is still throttled to 15 mbits down and 5 up.

last night:

I ran Speedtest a little earlier this evening, and I was only getting 8 megs download, and .96 upload. That's plenty fast for what I need, but faster is always better I suppose.

I just ran it again, and it's now almost 16 megs download, but still .96 up. It looks like the upload speed never fluctuates at all.

yeah, that is the same at work, totally throttled down, which is annoying!

Comcast has me limited to 20 down and 5 up. I have the cheapest plan though.

I just saw that they have the 6 month deal for $19.95. Time for a phone call tomorrow and do a little complaining.

gjl711 wrote in post #12473752
I just saw that they have the 6 month deal for $19.95. Time for a phone call tomorrow and do a little complaining.

call up a rival and see what they will offer you. Then when you call up comcast, tell them they are offering you x for $y too. 99% of the time they will match or better it.

Harm wrote in post #12473790
call up a rival and see what they will offer you. Then when you call up comcast, tell them they are offering you x for $y too. 99% of the time they will match or better it.

Don't need to do that. Way too much trouble.

I just call Comcast direct and say "Hey, I see you have a promo going. Why do new customers get such a great price and I don't" That's all it takes. I have the promo price without further argument. We have been doing this for years.

Okay.....one more.

I'm posting this because I am impressed with some of the old photos that I took years ago with 'inferior' equipment, and there's a story that goes along with this photo.

The shot was taken Feb. 9, 2002 (before many of you were born), in Reno, Nevada. This was at the east end of the yard, and I'm facing roughly northeast, not that it really matters. The train is the California Fun Train, a train that ran from Oakland to Reno on Friday evenings, laid over Saturday, then returned on Sunday. I rode it a couple times, and it was basically a rolling drunk tank, especially on the Friday leg. The Sunday trip was a little more sedate as the majority of passengers were severely hungover. In the photo, the UP engine is on the point, no doubt to help the two Amtrak Dash-8's get that big train up to the summit. It has already been turned, and is pointing westbound waiting for the next day's departure.

Anyway, we were in Reno on our own; we didn't go up on the train. An attorney/friend of mine was doing some 3D modeling of a Dash-9 locomotive for use in a railroad accident lawsuit, and had asked me to get some detail photos of the pilot. This was a perfect opportunity, and I was snapping away when the railroad police, the yardmaster, and the division superintendent all converged on me en masse. I had indeed trespassed beyond the 'No Trespassing' sign, an act I had performed countless times before. I was usually greeted with a friendly wave of any railroad employee I encountered, but this time was different. It was only 5 months after 9/11, and I guess they were skittish. They hassled me for a while, and made me promise never to go on their property again, yadda, yadda,yadda. The fence they built around the yard later that year made sure of it.

I pulled up the EXIF on this just to see what I was shooting, and it was taken with my old G2. This was before my first DSLR, and I can see now why I was so fond of that camera and why I've never been without a G-series camera since then.

gjl711 wrote in post #12473820
Don't need to do that. Way too much trouble.

I just call Comcast direct and say "Hey, I see you have a promo going. Why do new customers get such a great price and I don't" That's all it takes. I have the promo price without further argument. We have been doing this for years.

I recently used the "I'm switching to Verizon" line. I got the best price they have, and didn't have to commit to any contract. I can quite whenever I feel like it.

Chief! You've resurrected the magic bus!

Nice shot with the G2.

Woolburr wrote in post #12474045
Chief! You've resurrected the magic bus!

Nice shot with the G2.

Yeah, the bus has been gone too long.

The bus is one of the reasons I stuck around POTN....lots of great material there!