'All hope abandon ye who enter here'

I'm pretty tired...just got finished setting up coffee & etc. for when I wake so I guess I'll go to sleep.

Dan, let me know how that child hostage situation turns out okay?

night to the rest of you....

Claire, just visit here a few times and you won't be grumpy today

Permagrin wrote in post #2260244
oh no.....how horrible!!!

Are the police chasing the car or has it just been reported?

I don't know any more than what I mentioned in the previous post...I have my cell phone programmed to receive any regional "Amber Alerts"...that was the extent of the info beyond the make of car and direction of last known travel.
I just hope this idiot realizes he has a baby in the car and does the right thing before it is too late.

Lightstream wrote in post #2260248

"I don't have a horse to feed, so I feed the 1D instead"

Plus CapEx and OpEx costs (Capital Expenditure - purchase price, etc. Operational Expenditure - running costs).... photography has low OpEx, horse has high OpEx..

My niece in Seattle is into show jumping with her horse....I would be scared to know how much my sister and BIL have spent on that nag and all the associated trappings that go with it...all for a few ribbons.


Nite Permie....sleep fast....hehehe

I've had a cake and a big cappuccino now. I should be getting a caffeine and sugar high within the next few minutes.

Claire wrote in post #2260260
I've had a cake and a big cappuccino now. I should be getting a caffeine and sugar high within the next few minutes.

Feeling better? Should we expect a flood of posts when the caffeine and sugar kick into high gear?

Woolburr wrote in post #2260259
My niece in Seattle is into show jumping with her horse....I would be scared to know how much my sister and BIL have spent on that nag and all the associated trappings that go with it...all for a few ribbons.


Nite Permie....sleep fast....hehehe

A lot

Interestingly I am reading something about DSLR history....

http://www.robgalbrait​h.com …_page.asp?cid=7​-6463-7191

"Among the features that the AP most desired were removable picture storage media, the minimum possible focal length conversion factor (and thus as big a sensor as possible), usable high ISO sensitivities, and a decent continuous framing rate and buffer size."

Sounds familiar? This is 1992.

Nothing has changed.....

Woolburr wrote in post #2260275
Feeling better? Should we expect a flood of posts when the caffeine and sugar kick into high gear?

hehe Maybe. I'm right now still trying to stay awake while putting together all the payment details for my journalists. Booooooring.

I want to start my own business, but no clue withn what. And if I ever do, I will hire somebody to do the damn paperwork! I hate paper work.

I also want to start an online community thing, bu not sure what to start. Feels like I want some projects on the side of regular work.

Lightstream wrote in post #2260287
A lot

I know it was over $35,000....because she admitted that it cost more than my Volvo S60....then there is the stable...food...practi​ce and trainer...yikes...

Wool, like I said, horses, ice hockey and golf are the most expensive sports. Hm, Vovlo S60. That'd cost 219 900 Kr (app. $27,487).

Claire wrote in post #2260305
hehe Maybe. I'm right now still trying to stay awake while putting together all the payment details for my journalists. Booooooring.

I want to start my own business, but no clue withn what. And if I ever do, I will hire somebody to do the damn paperwork! I hate paper work.

I also want to start an online community thing, bu not sure what to start. Feels like I want some projects on the side of regular work.

Paperwork is the bane of my existence...If there is one thing I have always disliked doing...............

BTW....contrary to what Ronnie says...you don't sound remotely like a telemarketer.

LMAO Jagwire said I don't, but then he listened again and said maybe I sounded Russian instead of Indian...

I recorded a message in Swedish and realised my Swedish voice sucks. Big time.

Read the 'history of digital' article! It's hilarious!

http://www.robgalbrait​h.com …_page.asp?cid=7​-6463-7191

It makes all the things we put up with on our DSLRs today seem like nothing. I was in compouting, not photography in those days, and it's amazing to see how we did so much with so little. Photoshop 3 - yes, I was there too!


As Bob Deutsch says, the camera's non-replaceable battery may have been its most painful feature of all. "It wouldn't last a whole ballgame," he says, still a bit aghast. "So sometime around the fourth or fifth inning of a baseball game your camera would die."

You couldn't put a fresh battery in, he continues, "and at $16,000 apiece you couldn't have four or five cameras lying around. So basically you could do five innings, and then you're screwed. We tried to run AC power to these things everywhere. It was a real pain, especially at the ballpark. Often our positions were out in right field or something, and there's just no power anywhere out there."

And today, the whiners **** that they need battery grips for the extra juice? WTF? (at 800+ shots on my 350D and 5D I ain't complaining!)

Claire wrote in post #2260310
Wool, like I said, horses, ice hockey and golf are the most expensive sports. Hm, Vovlo S60. That'd cost 219 900 Kr (app. $27,487).

The sticker on mine was like $36,200....I got the loaded model....didn't pay anywhere near sticker though...it was picked up in Sweden...at the factory in Göteborg....I couldn't make the trip...but I have a friend that has family in Malmo...so she took delivery for me...

Goodbye EF 50mm f/1.8... you have served well but you need to go to a new 5D owner. At least I know you will not come to a bad end in the bad, bad world....

I just talked someone into a 5D system, and seeing that he did some uber damage to the wallet with a 5D and 24-105 all at one go, he's going easy on the prime lens and it so happens my 50 is up on the chopping block to recycle funds.

If I ever need the 50 that much, I can always buy it again. I might end up doing a Permagrin

Lightstream wrote in post #2260323
Read the 'history of digital' article! It's hilarious!

When they first introduced the Canon mount Kodaks....I was sure I wanted one....I kept watching the price...but it didn't move down a whole lot in those days. I waited until the D30 was introduced....and snagged one of those...I was glad I waited.