Re: Update: OT So much for the best job ever.

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com Subject: Update: OT So much for the best job ever. Sometimes i need to quote Ford Prefect and don't

Peso Bus for John S.

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
Taken June 2008. Please note this was taken just before i lost 35 pounds. This is old Laidlaw euipment. http://www.flickr.com/photos/djbrooks/2613123279/ I hear this is what the new company runs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/djbrooks/3329582380/ Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario.

Re: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/01/2010, John Celio n...@neovenator.com wrote: If any of you follow Scott Bourne on Twitter or elsewhere, I would like to suggest ignoring that egotistical jackass from now on. Who the hell is Scott Bourne? He

Re: finished my roll of film

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
Humm, i have 4 year old chemistry here, and 1 roll of exposed Tmax. Humm Dave On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:51 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Being the contrarian I am, I thought I'd pay homage to the film is dead thread by finishing the roll in my Leica. I processed it in

Re: PESOs: Film!

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:09 AM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: On Jan 23, 2010, at 11:57 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: Paul - the second one gave me a 404... but saw all the others -- and I love this one http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10557582size=lg I'm aguessin

Re: GESO -- A walk along the Hammonasset

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:38 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I went for a walk along the Hammonasset River this morning.  Took the K20 a couple of FA Zooms and the Kalamar 500mm Mirror.  I got these three shots I might have overdone the contrast enhancement on this one

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/20/2010 3:48 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 20/01/2010, Tom Ccaka...@gmail.com wrote: Our laws are only words written on paper. More importantly laws are not justice A working lawyer once explained it to me. We can't guarantee justice, the best we can guarantee is a fair

Re: GESO - At the Square

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
Really like the top two Frank. Dave On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:52 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: We had a little protest here in Toronto today.  About 10,000 showed up at Yonge-Dundas Square downtown to protest the Harper government's decision to prorogue parliament until

Re: they got back to me after all

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Sounds like fun. I've always thought about joining a camera club but never got around to it. My husband is having a bit of a giggle over this.  He's always said

Re: GESO -- A walk along the Hammonasset

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 3:30 AM, David J Brooks wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:38 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I went for a walk along the Hammonasset River this morning. Took the K20 a couple of FA Zooms and the Kalamar 500mm Mirror. I got these three shots I might have

Re: GESO - At the Square

2010-01-24 Thread Toine
I suppose you framed the advertisement in the top right corner intentionally ;) Great shot. Toine 2010/1/24 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: We had a little protest here in Toronto today.  About 10,000 showed up at Yonge-Dundas Square downtown to protest the Harper government's

Re: OT - how to guarantee you luggage won't be lost

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
It's banned by some homeowners associations, and some municipal governments in the US at least. I wouldn't live in a town that did that and I certainly wouldn't join any homeowners association regardless. On 1/20/2010 2:17 AM, David Mann wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:38 AM, P N Stenquist

Re: OT - how to guarantee you luggage won't be lost

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/20/2010 8:20 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: David Mann On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:38 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: Folks hang their laundry on clothes lines to dry. It strikes me as odd that someone would find that unusual. Dave Tell that to your Home Owners Association ... story from my own

Re: OT - how to guarantee you luggage won't be lost

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/20/2010 8:31 AM, paul stenquist wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:19 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: OT - how to guarantee you luggage won't be lost We're not even allowed to do it in my community. I guess some

Re: OT - how to guarantee you luggage won't be lost

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
You ask to much, life is. Humans are a lot more altruistic than could possibly be expected from the behavior of all other known life. On 1/20/2010 3:10 PM, Bob W wrote: In the US it is against most home owner's association bylaws to do so. Kerry was so disappointed to

Re: Semi OT: 64 bit Operating Systems and PhotoShop

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
The fact that you can't see the additional memory could be a Bios limitation, not an OS limitation. On 1/20/2010 3:12 PM, John Sessoms wrote: Took my laptop in this morning and had 4GB RAM installed (up from 2GB). Turns out Windows Vista Ultimate is only 32bit and limits the amount of RAM it

OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
I have in my garage a 1973 Raleigh ten speed bike, with the cool curled over handle bars and duel brake thingies, that has not been used for at least 20 plus years. The tires have just about rotten off, the cables are a bit ceased and dusty. Worth getting it tuned up?? I currently ride a 1990

Re: OT - how to guarantee you luggage won't be lost

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/21/2010 8:40 AM, David Savage wrote: 2010/1/21 William Robbwar...@gmail.com: - Original Message - From: David Mann Subject: Re: OT - how to guarantee you luggage won't be lost On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:20 AM, John Sessoms wrote: Tell that to your Home Owners

RE: Trafalgar Square Photographer's Demo

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Mitchell
From: Bob W Subject: RE: Trafalgar Square Photographer's Demo From: Cotty So Bob (and Chris?) how'd it go? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8476318.stm I'd forgotten about that, but now this makes more sense. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8476238.stm Now that Chris

Re: K-7 at KEH

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
It's only about a hundred dollars more than that at BH with free shipping On 1/20/2010 7:48 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I was just over there a little while ago looking for something else and decided for once to click on Pentax Digital Camera Outfits ... Lo Behold, they've got a K7 kit

RE: GESO - At the Square

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Mitchell
From: frank theriault Subject: GESO - At the Square We had a little protest here in Toronto today. About 10,000 showed up at Yonge-Dundas Square downtown to protest the Harper government's decision to prorogue parliament until after the Vancouver Olympics. There were similar

Re: PDML Book update after two weeks

2010-01-24 Thread eckinator
2010/1/24 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca: 110V over IP is quite possibly the most looked forward to protocol of Tech Support Reps everywhere. That is why we have 230 in good ole Europe... MUAAAHAHAHA but I think the protocol will be ToIP - Taser over IP ]=) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Semi OT: 64 bit Operating Systems and PhotoShop

2010-01-24 Thread Leon Altoff
Hi John, I used to run Vista Business with PS CS3 and now run Win 7 64 Professional with no problems for CS3. I get all 4 gig showing as available now. Get rid of Vista as soon as you can. Win 7 is much improved, though you may have problems finding drivers for some of your printers, scanners

RE: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
On 24/01/2010, John Celio n...@neovenator.com wrote: If any of you follow Scott Bourne on Twitter or elsewhere, I would like to suggest ignoring that egotistical jackass from now on. Who the hell is Scott Bourne? He can block me too if that helps with his therapy! Anyone who wants to

RE: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
I have in my garage a 1973 Raleigh ten speed bike, with the cool curled over handle bars and duel brake thingies, that has not been used for at least 20 plus years. The tires have just about rotten off, the cables are a bit ceased and dusty. Worth getting it tuned up?? I currently

RE: Trafalgar Square Photographer's Demo

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
[...] Ha ha. There were certainly several hundred people there at its height. Some pictures here (nothing stunning, just a record) http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/notaterrorist/ They're excellent - much better than just a record. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread John Celio
If any of you follow Scott Bourne on Twitter or elsewhere, I would like to suggest ignoring that egotistical jackass from now on. Who the hell is Scott Bourne? He can block me too if that helps with his therapy! Sorry, should have explained. He's a pro photographer, runs photofocus.com and

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread mike wilson
William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Christine Aguila Subject: Re: PESO: Film is Dead Bill, I just emailed you off list. Cheers, Christine And I just replied, equally offlist. And I just went and had another shower - purely due to the photoporn, I assure you. --

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: I have in my garage a 1973 Raleigh ten speed bike, with the cool curled over handle bars and duel brake thingies, that has not been used for at least 20 plus years. The tires have just about rotten off, the cables are a bit

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term used.  :-) Might just as well not mention my box of 78's then Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:47 AM, John Celio n...@neovenator.com wrote:  Had I known what a pretentious dick he is, however, I never would have bothered with him. Sorta like KR with out the humour.?? Dave Anyway, sorry to have baffled anyone. John -- http://www.neovenator.com

Re: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: John Celio Subject: Scott Bourne's Ego If any of you follow Scott Bourne on Twitter or elsewhere, Who the hell is Scoot Bourne and why the hell should I care? For that matter, what the hell is Twitter? William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: they got back to me after all

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Roberts
paul stenquist wrote: Sounds like fun. I've always thought about joining a camera club From last year's quotations list: I believe in clubs for photographers, but only if every other form of persuasion fails. — Bruce Walker -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: John Celio Subject: Re: Scott Bourne's Ego Sorry, should have explained. He's a pro photographer, runs photofocus.com and writes a lot of photography technique-related stuff on the web. Ah, that explains much. Pro photographers generally don't write a

Re: SDM Failure

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: SDM Failure I don't know that I'm lucky. Perhaps. But it seems that those who have failures seem to experience them in droves, while others have no problems whatsoever. Don't know why, but there seem to be patterns here. The

Re: SDM Failure

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: SDM Failure I don't know if the SDM lenses benefit from regular use or not. I just know mine are excellent. I have noticed that some people appear to have far more problems than others. Perhaps it's climate. I don't know.

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Used to be that proroguing parliament was an extraordinary measure. With his third one, second in less than a year, it's hardly extraordinary any more... And for the second government in a row, if the GG would

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: P. J. Alling Subject: Re: Today's Outing I never actually called Canada a pretend country. I actually like Canada as a concept, the execution seems to leave something to be desired, sometimes. . Actually, we gave up on execution as a bad idea in

Re: Semi OT: 64 bit Operating Systems and PhotoShop

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Leon Altoff leon.alt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, I used to run Vista Business with PS CS3 and now run Win 7 64 Professional with no problems for CS3.  I get all 4 gig showing as available now. Get rid of Vista as soon as you can.  Win 7 is much improved,

Re: GESO - At the Square

2010-01-24 Thread Jack Davis
Enjoyed all, but the second down from the top is absolutely iconic. Cropping is perfect! Jack --- On Sat, 1/23/10, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: GESO - At the Square To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Date:

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Used to be that proroguing parliament was an extraordinary measure. With his third one, second in less than a year, it's hardly

Re: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Roberts
Funny. I've heard of John Celio. But I've never heard of Scott Bourne. I think I know who I'll pay attention to :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Adam Maas Subject: Re: Today's Outing Her bloody job is to look pretty on Camera, the GG's an almost purely ceremonial position and has been so since the 1930's. She certainly does that part well. And if she pulled the plug on Harper, we'd either

Re: they got back to me after all

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Roberts
Christine Aguila wrote: From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Sounds like fun. I've always thought about joining a camera club but never got around to it. My husband is having a bit of a giggle over this. He's always said I'm not much of a club joiner, but I aim to give it a try.

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread Drew
David J Brooks wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: I have in my garage a 1973 Raleigh ten speed bike, with the cool curled over handle bars and duel brake thingies, that has not been used for at least 20 plus years. The tires have just about rotten off,

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: And if she pulled the plug on Harper, we'd either get the current Minority or a Tory Majority. Either way, he wins and until the Liberals turn back into an actual political party with actual leadership, that ain't gonna

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Drew d...@rileyelf.free-online.co.uk wrote: David J Brooks wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: I have in my garage a 1973 Raleigh ten speed bike, with the cool curled over handle bars and duel brake thingies, that has

Re: SDM Failure

2010-01-24 Thread paul stenquist
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:06 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: SDM Failure I don't know if the SDM lenses benefit from regular use or not. I just know mine are excellent. I have noticed that some people appear to have far more

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread paul stenquist
On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:28 AM, David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term used. :-) Might just as well not mention my box of

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread David Savage
2010/1/24 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: And if she pulled the plug on Harper, we'd either get the current Minority or a Tory Majority. Either way, he wins and until the Liberals turn back into an actual political party with

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread mike wilson
David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term used. :-) Might just as well not mention my box of 78's then Pffft. Cylinders

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread David Savage
2010/1/24 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christine  Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote:  and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term used.  :-) Might just as well

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread frank theriault
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: snip Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on Toronto's City Council off of it. Now if only we could

Re: they got back to me after all

2010-01-24 Thread mike wilson
Mark Roberts wrote: Christine Aguila wrote: From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Sounds like fun. I've always thought about joining a camera club but never got around to it. My husband is having a bit of a giggle over this. He's always said I'm not much of a club joiner, but I

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:13:45AM -0500, frank theriault scripsit: Used to be that proroguing parliament was an extraordinary measure. With his third one, second in less than a year, it's hardly extraordinary any more... Nothing extraordinary about in in the sense that it's what you did as a

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:10:06AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: - Original Message - From: frank theriault Subject: Re: Today's Outing Used to be that proroguing parliament was an extraordinary measure. With his third one, second in less than a year, it's hardly extraordinary any

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread mike wilson
David Savage wrote: 2010/1/24 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term used. :-)

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on Toronto's City Council off of it. Now if only we could get Rob Ford

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Tom C
P.J. Alling wrote: I actually like Canada as a concept, the execution seems to leave something to be desired, sometimes. MARK! On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:44 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/23/2010 10:17 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: frank

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread frank theriault
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:26 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: How hard is it to change a bike tire. I have never done this my self. I'm the lowest common denominator, Dave. I can do it - anyone can... ;-) Seriously, it's easy. I should pop up your way maybe in weekend or two,

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread Doug Brewer
David J Brooks wrote: I have in my garage a 1973 Raleigh ten speed bike, with the cool curled over handle bars and duel brake thingies, that has not been used for at least 20 plus years. The tires have just about rotten off, the cables are a bit ceased and dusty. Worth getting it tuned up?? I

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: Duceppe can't add either, he's much more of a Socialist than most of the NDP is, being an actual ex-Communist. Huge chunks of the US far, far right are

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread Drew
Adam Maas wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Drew d...@rileyelf.free-online.co.uk wrote: David J Brooks wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: I have in my garage a 1973 Raleigh ten speed bike, with the cool curled over handle bars and

Re: they got back to me after all

2010-01-24 Thread Bob Sullivan
Sometimes it's wiser to be a member than the leader. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Christine  Aguila wrote: From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Sounds like fun. I've always thought about joining a camera club but never

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread Mat Maessen
On 1/24/10, Drew d...@rileyelf.free-online.co.uk wrote: In that case you could always try the old technique... use two or three table spoon handles (the old rounded style) as tyre levers. My mum used to half kill me when I 'borrowed' her spoons to change the tyres on my Grifter. I used to

Re: Trafalgar Square Photographer's Demo

2010-01-24 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: Bob W p...@web-options.com To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 4:22 AM Subject: RE: Trafalgar Square Photographer's Demo [...] Ha ha. There were certainly several hundred people there at its height. Some pictures

Re: Semi OT: 64 bit Operating Systems and PhotoShop

2010-01-24 Thread John Mullan
One big difference in Windows 7 is the better use of memory. Instead of Vista grabbing all the memory and reluctantly letting you use a little bit of it, Windows 7 requires far less and leaves more for your applications. jm -- From: Adam Maas

GESO - The March

2010-01-24 Thread frank theriault
After yesterday's anti-prorogue rally there was a march through the streets. It was all set up with the cops ahead of time and everything went nice and smoothly: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/01/march.html Comments welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.

Re: they got back to me after all

2010-01-24 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 8:27 AM Subject: Re: they got back to me after all Mark Roberts wrote: Christine Aguila wrote: From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net

RE: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on Toronto's City Council off of it. Now if only we could get Rob Ford to go into Federal Politics... I couldn't care

Re: Semi OT: 64 bit Operating Systems and PhotoShop

2010-01-24 Thread Adam Maas
Actually, Win7 and Vista manage memory just about identically on high memory systems, Win7 simply switches to a different management algorithm on low-memory systems for improved performance while Vista (which predates the netbook's popularity) takes a serious hit due to its aversion to hitting

RE: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term used. :-) Might just as well not mention my box of 78's then I have a couple of hundred 78s, including a few in the old Edison format, and a crank-up phonograph to play them

RE: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
used for at least 20 plus years. The tires have just about rotten off, the cables are a bit ceased and dusty. Worth getting it tuned up?? I currently ride a 1990 Norco 21 speed mountain bike Probably worth doing it up yourself rather than paying someone else to do it. Bob

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread P N Stenquist
On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Bob W wrote: and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term used. :-) Might just as well not mention my box of 78's then I have a couple of hundred 78s, including a few in the old Edison format, and a

Re: SDM Failure

2010-01-24 Thread eckinator
2010/1/24 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I don't know if the SDM lenses benefit from regular use or not. I just know mine are excellent. I have noticed that some people appear to have far more problems than others. Perhaps it's climate. I don't know. HAH! NOW THERE'S CLIMATE CHANGE

Re: GESO - The March

2010-01-24 Thread P N Stenquist
Some excellent shots here. You really framed them nicely to communicate a sense of what was happening. Good work. Paul On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:20 AM, frank theriault wrote: After yesterday's anti-prorogue rally there was a march through the streets. It was all set up with the cops ahead of

OT: Good bicycle panniers recommendations...

2010-01-24 Thread Subash
hi, since there are quite a few (more) experienced (than me) cyclists here, i thought i would pick your brains. i am putting together the kit for my july ride in the himalayas. i am roughly planning to do about 1000 km over 20 days. i am looking to get a (pair of) rear bicycle panniers for the

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 7:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Bob Wp...@web-options.com wrote: I have in my garage a 1973 Raleigh ten speed bike, with the cool curled over handle bars and duel brake thingies, that has not been used for at least 20 plus years. The tires have

Re: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
Haven;t a clue about Scott Bourne but wouldn't twitter be the sound of twits? On 1/24/2010 8:00 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: John Celio Subject: Scott Bourne's Ego If any of you follow Scott Bourne on Twitter or elsewhere, Who the hell is Scoot Bourne and

Re: OT: Good bicycle panniers recommendations...

2010-01-24 Thread eckinator
Hi Subash Myself and many of my friends have only good to report about the Ortlieb line of bike bags made of waterproof, ultrasonic welded truck tarp like material and equally waterproof roll n snap buckle lids. There are also light editions with thinner, equally waterproof but inevitably less

Re: SDM Failure

2010-01-24 Thread P N Stenquist
On Jan 24, 2010, at 12:21 PM, eckinator wrote: 2010/1/24 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I don't know if the SDM lenses benefit from regular use or not. I just know mine are excellent. I have noticed that some people appear to have far more problems than others. Perhaps it's

Re: OT: Good bicycle panniers recommendations...

2010-01-24 Thread eckinator
Oh yeah I forget, there are bigger bags too but they're not available as edition models; just search for ortlieb - there's all kinds of stuff. They even have pad insert for camera for the ultimate handlebar bags models 2 thru 5. If not listed, I could get that by special order, wiat is usually 1-2

Re: SDM Failure

2010-01-24 Thread eckinator
2010/1/24 P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: HAH! NOW THERE'S CLIMATE CHANGE FOR YOU BUSTER! ]=) That's lens change, not climate change:-). lol... not bad -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: SDM Failure

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
I would tend to take all of this with a grain of salt. Two paraphrase Shakespeare making up words for Marc Antony, The good men do is interred with them the evil is endlessly repeated. The fact is you hear a lot about the horror stories, but if the majority of user experiences reflected

RE: Good bicycle panniers recommendations...

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
hi, since there are quite a few (more) experienced (than me) cyclists here, i thought i would pick your brains. i am putting together the kit for my july ride in the himalayas. i am roughly planning to do about 1000 km over 20 days. i am looking to get a (pair of) rear bicycle

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 8:11 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling Subject: Re: Today's Outing I never actually called Canada a pretend country. I actually like Canada as a concept, the execution seems to leave something to be desired, sometimes. . Actually,

Re: OT: I REALLY hate squirrels

2010-01-24 Thread eckinator
2010/1/24 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Frank I'm not sure where you're coming from, but if we don't have commerce we will have war.  Even with commerce we may have war.  I'd say the chance of China having a war with India or Russia in the next 10 years will approach 100% if

Re: Semi OT: 64 bit Operating Systems and PhotoShop

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 8:12 AM, Adam Maas wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Leon Altoffleon.alt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, I used to run Vista Business with PS CS3 and now run Win 7 64 Professional with no problems for CS3. I get all 4 gig showing as available now. Get rid of Vista as

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 8:54 AM, paul stenquist wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:28 AM, David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 9:04 AM, David Savage wrote: 2010/1/24 Adam Maasa...@mawz.ca: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, William Robbwar...@gmail.com wrote: And if she pulled the plug on Harper, we'd either get the current Minority or a Tory Majority. Either way, he wins and until the Liberals

Re: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 9:21 AM, frank theriault wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM, David Savageozsav...@gmail.com wrote: snip Well, it could be worse. Jack Layton could be Prime Minister. Only good thing about his heading up the federal NDP is that it got 2 of the three biggest idiots on

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread eckinator
2010/1/24 P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: My records aren't vinyl, they're some kind of ceramic. They break if you look at them the wrong way. you mean shellac? cheers ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 12:00 PM, P N Stenquist wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Bob W wrote: and I used the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to define the term used. :-) Might just as well not mention my box of 78's then I have a couple of hundred 78s,

Re: Scott Bourne's Ego

2010-01-24 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:00:40AM -0600, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: John Celio Subject: Scott Bourne's Ego If any of you follow Scott Bourne on Twitter or elsewhere, Who the hell is Scoot Bourne and why the hell should I care? For that matter, what the hell

RE: Today's Outing

2010-01-24 Thread Bob W
I never actually called Canada a pretend country. I actually like Canada as a concept, the execution seems to leave something to be desired, sometimes. . Actually, we gave up on execution as a bad idea in the 70s. William Robb Perhaps if you executed a few of your MPs the

Re: OT A ??? for the bike crowd

2010-01-24 Thread Rick Womer
My =only= two-wheeled ride is a 1974 Raleigh Super Course. It is heavy by modern standards (28 lb/13 kg), but has performed nobly through many years of urban commuting and recreational riding, and rides and handles very nicely. The only parts that aren't original are tires (of course), brake

Re: Good bicycle panniers recommendations...

2010-01-24 Thread Stan Halpin
On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Bob W wrote: ... Whatever you choose, make sure you do a decent shakedown ride before your big trip... I'd recommend that you be utterly ruthless about what you take, reducing it to the absolute minimum... Bob I can strongly endorse the above two

Re: PESO: Film is Dead

2010-01-24 Thread eckinator
2010/1/24 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: On 1/24/2010 8:54 AM, paul stenquist wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:28 AM, David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christine  Aguila wrote: and I usedthe expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to

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