My personal opinion, don't bother with a car. You have snow where you are? Get yourself a late 80's to early 90's Toyota pickup with the 22RE motor. Wish I could get back into one myself, but I need room for 2 kids with one of them in a car seat still.
Why this vehicle? Change the oil and it will run like new forever. Don't bother with being religious about changing the oil and it will run great forever. Change the front brakes every 50k miles, you could set your watch to that. Change the rear brakes every 150k. Put a new clutch in it every 150k, simple to do yourself and save $1200 in shop fees by purchasing the parts for $100 and a weekend of time. Put a brick on the throttle and run around screaming in first gear at 7500 RPM all day long. Beat the piss out of it in the woods. Have an absolute blast in the snow (I recommend Goodyear Wrangler 30x9.50 on aluminum wheels, cuts through the snow fantastically.) Just plain old beat the living crap out of it and as long as you don't wreck it and winter salted roads doesn't eat it up, you could practically keep it forever.
I've never had a vehicle that I was as happy with as I was with my 89 Toyota pickup. Wish I still had it. 139,000 miles and it ran better than any vehicle I've owned or driven including anything I've owned brand new. (I wrecked it if you were wondering why I don't have it any more.)
Why this vehicle? Change the oil and it will run like new forever. Don't bother with being religious about changing the oil and it will run great forever. Change the front brakes every 50k miles, you could set your watch to that. Change the rear brakes every 150k. Put a new clutch in it every 150k, simple to do yourself and save $1200 in shop fees by purchasing the parts for $100 and a weekend of time. Put a brick on the throttle and run around screaming in first gear at 7500 RPM all day long. Beat the piss out of it in the woods. Have an absolute blast in the snow (I recommend Goodyear Wrangler 30x9.50 on aluminum wheels, cuts through the snow fantastically.) Just plain old beat the living crap out of it and as long as you don't wreck it and winter salted roads doesn't eat it up, you could practically keep it forever.
I've never had a vehicle that I was as happy with as I was with my 89 Toyota pickup. Wish I still had it. 139,000 miles and it ran better than any vehicle I've owned or driven including anything I've owned brand new. (I wrecked it if you were wondering why I don't have it any more.)
Problem #1, it's a Chevy.
Problem #2, it's a Cavalier.
Problem #3, it's a highly modified Chevy Cavalier.
Problem #4, could you pay for insurance on such a highly modified car.
Problem #5, if you could insure it, would you trust someone else modifying a car like that.
If you'd made it past #1, then see #2. If you make it past #2, then there's no hope for you.
Why did the guy put a new motor in it at 65k miles? See #1, if not see #2.
Why did the guy put a new transmission in it? See #1, if not see #2.
I'm not even going to mention the automatic transmission.
As for the snow, yes, my mother had a Cavalier when I started to drive. They go fantastic in the snow because they are a beastly heavy car for how physically small they are. My girlfriend also had a Pontiac Sunfire (same thing) and I drove it often in the winters. They go great in the snow, but I seriously doubt with a supercharged motor in it.
Problem #2, it's a Cavalier.
Problem #3, it's a highly modified Chevy Cavalier.
Problem #4, could you pay for insurance on such a highly modified car.
Problem #5, if you could insure it, would you trust someone else modifying a car like that.
If you'd made it past #1, then see #2. If you make it past #2, then there's no hope for you.
Why did the guy put a new motor in it at 65k miles? See #1, if not see #2.
Why did the guy put a new transmission in it? See #1, if not see #2.
I'm not even going to mention the automatic transmission.
As for the snow, yes, my mother had a Cavalier when I started to drive. They go fantastic in the snow because they are a beastly heavy car for how physically small they are. My girlfriend also had a Pontiac Sunfire (same thing) and I drove it often in the winters. They go great in the snow, but I seriously doubt with a supercharged motor in it.
Not a real photographer then. A real photographer has no respect for others and would state, "It's my right to take and display photos of anyone I care to..."
.hmmm.... I'm busy eating steaks, DWB. Or actually tonight it was chicken breast with some Quaker Steak and Lube sauce (awesome sauces! I recommend you google it <actually, I already did and linked...> and order some Louisiana Lickers sauce. You won't be disappointed with Louisiana Lickers for chicken breast, wings, whatever, I guarantee 
)
Now I'm on the laptop instead of the blurry home CRT or dark POS work CRT. I thought these recent postings looked sharp at work on the CRT, they look amazing on the laptop LCD. I do see I am doing a bit too much sharpening on mine now.
Have to scroll up and look at some more of the recent stuff.....
)Now I'm on the laptop instead of the blurry home CRT or dark POS work CRT. I thought these recent postings looked sharp at work on the CRT, they look amazing on the laptop LCD. I do see I am doing a bit too much sharpening on mine now.
Have to scroll up and look at some more of the recent stuff.....
Haven't been doing much with the camera. But it was Father's Day the other day and the kids got dear ole Dad a new grill. Haven't had a grill for quite a few years, so we were finally able to cook up some good steaks!
Many more nights of good eating to come. Gonna try my hand at slow smoking some ribs, some rotisserie chicken, maybe breakfast on the weekends with the kids if I can get around to picking up a griddle.
Happy eating!
** Nasty part is, when I wasn't looking, the wife swiped my nice and red medium steak and left me with her medium well to well done steak
It was still very enjoyable though.
That was Friday's dinner above. On Saturday it was just me and the girls and it was hamburgers. "We hate hamburgers!" is the normal dinner conversation when they are on the menu. They were in the other room with their dinner and I bit mine and it was a bit undercooked (fine for me). So I went to check on their burgers and in the 3 minutes it took me to serve them theirs, walk out into the kitchen and bite into mine, then walk back to them, the burgers were no where to be found. Just some crumbs left on the plates.
Many more nights of good eating to come. Gonna try my hand at slow smoking some ribs, some rotisserie chicken, maybe breakfast on the weekends with the kids if I can get around to picking up a griddle.
Happy eating!
** Nasty part is, when I wasn't looking, the wife swiped my nice and red medium steak and left me with her medium well to well done steak
It was still very enjoyable though.That was Friday's dinner above. On Saturday it was just me and the girls and it was hamburgers. "We hate hamburgers!" is the normal dinner conversation when they are on the menu. They were in the other room with their dinner and I bit mine and it was a bit undercooked (fine for me). So I went to check on their burgers and in the 3 minutes it took me to serve them theirs, walk out into the kitchen and bite into mine, then walk back to them, the burgers were no where to be found. Just some crumbs left on the plates.
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Sorry bout that. I just assume everyone would understand as everyone I know personally and everyone on every forum I have been a part of from every country around the world seems to have seen every episode of Seinfeld repeatedly.
My apologies. These guys must be right. I'm not your normal "american" who doesn't understand sarcasm as these guys gripe all the time about. I should have put that in [sarcasm][/sarcasm]tags. It wasn't a dig at you, it was a dig at these guys always comparing 70s and 80s V8 with 21 century 4 cylinders....
Ever think that it's the overall economy that is the reason the American car market is in such a state? The roads are filled to the brim with newish and not quite that old American cars up until the past year or so. All of a sudden, no one has jobs, no one has money, and it is still expected for the auto manufacturers to be selling cars like crazy?
Could someone please tell me all these "big V8 cars" that are out there from the current and recent past market. Chevy Impala, nope, not a V8. Chevy Cobalt, nope, not a V8. Ford Focus, Fusion, Escape, nope, none of those are V8. I guess we have the Chrysler products such as the Neon, PT Cruiser, Sebring, Dodge Avenger, Calibur, they must all be V8 cars. No, not those either. So where are all these V8 cars? Perhaps they are in the not so common "sports cars" and other specialty groups, none of which you see millions of out on the roads. Not even Mustang, the majority of them are not V8. Camaros and Firebirds of yesteryear are majority not V8. That leaves us with the Corvette and the Viper of V8 or bigger status. Hmm, not like you won't go 8, 10 months, few years without seeing one of those on the road.
If you want to talk horsepower of the "sock a ton of money into a 4 cylinder", then we should be talking on an even level. Sock the same amount of money into the V8 that you guys are discussing and you are talking 800, 1000, 1200 horsepower.
The ridiculousness of comparing the "superiority" of 4 cylinder to a V8 just needs to stop. If you aren't comparing the same thing right off the bat, nor talking anything that you have any knowledge of, then the discussion is at an end period.
That is where licensing is all wrong, IMO. If I buy a hammer, it is my hammer. If I hand that hammer to George to pound in a nail, no one can say anything about George using my hammer, it is mine. It's not like we both can be using that hammer at the same time (well, it would be difficult and make slow work of hammering in that nail....)
Similarly, if I buy a software license, sure it can be installed only on my computer, but anyone using that computer should be allowed to use that software. If I purchase a license for LFS and install it on my computer, George should be able to play LFS any time. We both can not be using it at the same time, thus it's not like he is getting a copy of his own. He is just using mine, same as if he was using my hammer.
My friend needs to write a resume. He calls me and asks if he could use my computer as he doesn't have one of his own. Sure, he can use my computer, but he has to purchase his own copy of Microsoft Word?
Actually, I am the one who purchased my computer including the copy of Windows. So, that means that my neither my wife nor my kids can use the computer because they would have to purchase their own license to be able to use Windows....
I know this isn't exactly how it is, but I am just using the software names as examples of how screwed up it is.
I don't get your point. Why wouldn't you compare an 80s V8 to 4 cylinder technology that is 30 years newer?
Have one, but it's completely useless. No reception anywhere for cell phones around me.
I despise cell phones. People call me all the time on a cell phone and I can't understand a word they are saying.
Wifey has my old pay-as-you-go phone for emergency use when she's going to work, but again, it's useless. She'd have to climb a building or something if she wanted to use it. If she calls on her way home from work, I just try to pick out if there are any emergency words coming from her.
These ones are seriously sharp, wow. I need a new browser because these cut my browser to pieces.
Ads on free stuff is perfectly fine. It's the ads on stuff you pay for that I hate. I pay to go see a movie, I am forced a bunch of ads before the movie plays. I pay for a DVD, I am forced a bunch of ads before the movie plays, forced because some DVDs you can not skip past the ads. I pay for my TV reception with satellite TV. I am forced to watch ads.
Satellite TV is the one that kills me. I pay to view it, the satellite/cable company pays for the right to broadcast the channels, everyone gets their money, yet I have to watch ads on TV. With satellite radio (if I had it), I would not be forced to listen to ads, there aren't any. So why am I forced to watch ads on satellite TV of which I pay a fee to watch?
Satellite TV is the one that kills me. I pay to view it, the satellite/cable company pays for the right to broadcast the channels, everyone gets their money, yet I have to watch ads on TV. With satellite radio (if I had it), I would not be forced to listen to ads, there aren't any. So why am I forced to watch ads on satellite TV of which I pay a fee to watch?
I get an email every time someone posts to "The Camera Showoff" thread. I get an email from LFS on my birthday and would get emails from people PMing me on my birthday. This past April, no one PMed me on my birthday! What's up with that????
I have 4 new emails. One from the camera thread which I just deleted, though I already read the new replies in the thread, an email about tomorrow's trial I am running, one yet again about the IT outage scheduled over our 2 week summer shutdown. No internet at work? Looks like I'm taking the day off, LOL. The 4th email is a daily tool change schedule on our production equipment that I get every day and delete without reading every day.
That's it.
I have 4 new emails. One from the camera thread which I just deleted, though I already read the new replies in the thread, an email about tomorrow's trial I am running, one yet again about the IT outage scheduled over our 2 week summer shutdown. No internet at work? Looks like I'm taking the day off, LOL. The 4th email is a daily tool change schedule on our production equipment that I get every day and delete without reading every day.
That's it.
You guys don't have DVRs over there? I haven't watched a commercial in years. People ask all the time at work, "Have you seen the xxxxx commercial?" Nope, I buzz right through them. I almost have it down to a science how many times to hit the "30 second FF" button depending on what I'm watching. Speed TV, 4 hits of the button. Hockey, 3 hits. There are some channels where you will get at least 8 minutes worth of commercials .
.That is so awesome! We had one of these....
.... and I can't tell you how many times we were able to get into a spot, but then couldn't get back out with the load because there wasn't room to swing it.
Something good such as beating Pittsburgh last year for the Stanley Cup? They were the reining Champions from last year, you know...
When you have 2 amazing teams like Detroit and Pittsburgh battling, the star players aren't the story. The story moves to your roll players and of course the goaltender. Datsyuk I have a feeling was definitely not at 100%. He didn't play until game 5 (or was it 6?)
Last year, the Pens were starstruck. They were very young with hardly any experience and Detroit walked all over them. Both teams have amazing stars, but when your stars are all not even at the legal age to drink alcohol, the experience makes a difference. This year, those same young players were now had Stanley Cup contender experience.
Both Detroit and Pittsburgh had a single crappy game, games 4 and 5. Other than those, it was an amazing series. Either team could have been hoisting the Cup on Friday night. I don't think the series could have been any better matched than this one compounded with the fact that it was a repeat from last year with the two teams.
Marian Hossa was the definite only fail of this series. Had it not been under the circumstances that it was with him, he would have simply been a non-factor. Other than Hossa, it just came down to who made that one mistake allowing the other team to capitalize. Detroit made many mistakes, but so did Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh capitalized on those mistakes, but so did Detroit. This is why it came down to a final game 7. Goaltending wins Stanley Cups and Detroit threw a fleury at Fleury and he stopped it. I could easily have been Detroits Cup again from the 3rd period. They gave it their all.
Purchased in 1892 for $48.67US. Since 1907, every team player/member that has won the cup has had his name engraved on it. When all 5 rings are filled up, they retire the top ring to the Hockey Hall of Fame where the original cup is encased and a new ring is added. I think the names sit on the cup for 64 years before it will move to the Hall of Fame.
The winning team keeps the cup through the summer, then it returns to the Hall of Fame awaiting the next champions. It's been stolen, left behind along the road, pissed in, dropped kicked into the frozen Rideau Canal and left there thinking it was submerged, sat on the stage at a stripclub, and a baby was baptized in it.
It now has a 24 hr a day guard who travels everywhere the cup goes. I want that job!
I don't normally like the "Fail" pictures that are all over the net Dustin, but......
NHL Stanley Cup Finals
Here we are, game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals was last night. I was glued to the TV in 1991 and 1992 and I was glued to the TV last night.
Sydney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins have won the Stanley Cup!
And I am smiling like a butcher's dog!
Marian Hossa after Pittsburgh loses to the Detroit Redwings in the 2008 Stanley cup finals gives up a pile of money to go to the Redwings because "I want to hold the cup and I think going to Detriot will give me the best chance." It was very nice seeing Hossa sitting at the bench dejected as Pittsburgh piled onto Fleury in celebration after winning game 7 of this year's Cup final.
The following Wheaties and Frosted Flakes are 18 years old still unopened and full of cereal. I am going to need a bigger shelf. Gotta find me a team poster from this year.
Whoohoo! First time ever an NFL football team and NHL hockey team brought home the championship for the same city!
Sydney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins have won the Stanley Cup!
And I am smiling like a butcher's dog!
Marian Hossa after Pittsburgh loses to the Detroit Redwings in the 2008 Stanley cup finals gives up a pile of money to go to the Redwings because "I want to hold the cup and I think going to Detriot will give me the best chance." It was very nice seeing Hossa sitting at the bench dejected as Pittsburgh piled onto Fleury in celebration after winning game 7 of this year's Cup final.
The following Wheaties and Frosted Flakes are 18 years old still unopened and full of cereal. I am going to need a bigger shelf. Gotta find me a team poster from this year.
Whoohoo! First time ever an NFL football team and NHL hockey team brought home the championship for the same city!
Congrats!
You can now officially say you are "doing a MILF!"
I've been doing a MILF for 8 years now. It's great!
You can now officially say you are "doing a MILF!"
I've been doing a MILF for 8 years now. It's great!
I don't know Sam, looks like quite a bit of workspace to me, hehehe.
Reminds me very much of my workbench in the garage.
That is one very old mug, or are you still buying "World's Greatest Daddy" stuff for Father's Day in your 40's?
Reminds me very much of my workbench in the garage.
That is one very old mug, or are you still buying "World's Greatest Daddy" stuff for Father's Day in your 40's?
Full agreement with you here. I don't understand when you can buy a set of 4 AA rechargeable batteries for $5 available everywhere, why one would want to go $20-40 for proprietary batteries. Having a backup set of batteries available just in case every 50 feet when you are in town is a huge plus as well.
I love AA NiMH batteries. It's the one downside to the majority of dSLRs on the market as well as many P&S, the proprietary battery.
Friend at work has a problem with his camera (P&S). He is thinking it is a battery problem. It's fairly new and he'd rather not buy a new camera as he likes this one. His only option is to buy a new camera, or buy a $40 battery to see if that is the problem. With AA, he would be able to steal them from the TV remote just for a test if he wanted to.
AA NiMH batteries ROCK!
New, the Nikon D40 is the cheapest of readily available that I know of, at least over here. I'm not up on the Sony, Olympus, or DWB's gushing love of Pentax though
. Don't know what would be easily obtainable on those.Nikon D40 with kit lens is available just about everywhere you look around here for $450 US.
If someone held a gun to my head and said, "where would I find a Sony or Pentax dSLR or I will shoot you," I'd have to tell him to shoot me because I would have no idea where to buy anything other than Canon or Nikon other than scouring the net, of which you can't hold in your hands beforehand which is the most important part of choosing IMO.
I'm at work and can't look at his Exif. Did you see the camera model in the Exif? Is it the Fuji S5700?
Wein, if it's the Fuji S5700 you have, it's the same camera I have. If you need any pointers such as never go above ISO400 and try not to go above ISO200, let me know. I've been using the Fuji for about a year and a half since I started learning all the ISO, shutter, aperture stuff.
I set my exposure to -2/3 on exposure compensation or just on my settings reading the meter display when in manual. I find it does better when exposing at -2/3.
Manual focus is a joke.
It's quite a nice camera for very little money. I've far outgrown it, but I learned a lot using it in the manual modes. I have quite a few images spread out throughout this thread taken with the S5700. I need to do some more, I've been mostly snapshooting the kids and the dog lately. Thursday afternoon/evenings are practice at the local dirt bike track. Now that the kids are out of school, I hope to make it to the track to play with the camera soon. Also, the RC airshow is coming up in a few weeks. I'll have some shots from there coming.
Any questions specific to the Fuji S5700, just shout out. I'll give whatever I can give about it.
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