Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Doug Franklin do...@nutdriver.org wrote: On 2014-02-21 19:35, Ken Waller wrote: Sticker price as equipped $2400 including optional heater AM radio. Seems remarkably low. In '67 my dad bought a brand new Plymouth Barracuda Fastback for about $3,500. My

Re: PESO: Roof

2014-02-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Looks very Brave New Worldish to me - yet the roofing material looks old style. Are the tiles terra-cotta? Nicely done, but I prefer your bucolic work. ann On 2/21/2014 16:42, Attila Boros wrote: Another photo on my way from home after working late. Taken with the little Sony.

OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Warning,no photography content :-) http://annsan.smugmug.com/Graphic-Design/Anns-design-work/3346046_7HfWvF/1/3087138555_gPWTQ8H/Medium see also http://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff.1262911217 ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: PESO: Roof

2014-02-22 Thread Attila Boros
Thanks, Ann. It is indeed terra-cotta, the roof of a big store which sells it among other building materials. It's not common in my city, the older buildings are art nouveau (jugendstil) or secession style, and the newer condos usually have no roof. Few new houses of the elite have such roofs,

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Sorenson
Arrgghhh! 1963 - UW-Madison Engineering Dept - IBM 1620 - 50K magnetic memory in two boxes each the size of a kitchen table Write code Scan for errors Punch cards Run program Program not accepted Re-scan code for syntax errors Punch cards etc, etc, etc... -p On 2/22/2014 8:04 AM, Ann

Re: OT: Shche ne vmerla Ukraina (Ukraine Has Not Yet Died)

2014-02-22 Thread mike wilson
On 20/02/2014, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: There are a bunch of them. I didn't see any that get into what's going on in the Ukraine. It's a generic point about defending your homeland against aggression, whether external or internal. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Matyolans

2014-02-22 Thread Christine Aguila
On Feb 20, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Following Dan's history of his ancestors I thought people might be interested to see (again) some of the pictures I took when I visited Romania a few years ago. This small set includes several that I took during a walk in

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread mike wilson
On 21/02/2014, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Men's. Women's. Canada vs. USA. 'Nuff said... This doesn't count as politics? -- 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

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
and as for me, Univrsity of Maine, Orono... working from 1961 to late 1962 or early 1963 for the head of the newly developed Computer center.. running diagnostics for the profs, key-punching, wiring boards, sorting and being a girl friday while my then husband studied forestry. I resisted

Pesos x 2

2014-02-22 Thread David J Brooks
They're calling: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17691385 H H Goode and Son part II: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=176913856 Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML

Boris PESO 2014 #04 - Sakura

2014-02-22 Thread Boris Liberman
Well, We're having quite a weather here. Today it climbed up all the way to +30C here. We drove to Jerusalem and had very good time in the Botanical Gardens where the only kind of Japanese Cherry that agrees to grow here is blooming. Here is a shot:

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
Ouch! Bad memories As an engineering student at University of Illinois in 1966 I had to run punch-card programs for a statics and dynamics class. Couldn’t relate even a little bit. Dropped out, worked in a race car engine building shop where there was some real engineering taking place for a

Re: Pesos x 2

2014-02-22 Thread David J Brooks
second link was wrong, its fixed below. Dave On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:34 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: They're calling: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17691385 H H Goode and Son part II: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17691386 Dave -- Documenting

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Perhaps this won't be a good seller for me :-) ann On 2/22/2014 10:59, Paul Stenquist wrote: Ouch! Bad memories As an engineering student at University of Illinois in 1966 I had to run punch-card programs for a statics and dynamics class. Couldn’t relate even a little bit. Dropped out,

Re: GESO Pool Night Low Light Pics

2014-02-22 Thread John
Looks like it handles high contrast fairly well. 17689333 17690856 where you have the table light in the frame, the light is, of course, all the way to white, but there doesn't appear to be any bloom from the light(if bloom is the word I'm looking for). On 2/21/2014 7:43 PM, Paul Stenquist

Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread John
It *was* remarkably low. That's why I remember it for so long. It was about the same price as the plain vanilla Chevy 4-dr sedan my father had bought the year before and I found that amazing. On 2/21/2014 7:35 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Sticker price as equipped $2400 including optional heater AM

Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread John
On 2/22/2014 2:16 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 21/2/14, Doug Franklin, discombobulated, unleashed: OK, Cotty, here's your chance! A real, honest-to-God Daytona Superbird with an actual racing history, and a 429, is for sale. No price listed. :)

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Steffen Zahn
that is already the luxury version of punch cards, with text printed at the top. Cards from basic punch card machines would only have the holes. But people handling that every day could read the holes without the text after a while. Steffen Zahn Am 22.02.2014 um 15:04 schrieb Ann Sanfedele

Re: Matyolans

2014-02-22 Thread Bob W-PDML
Thanks Christine, much appreciated. B On 22 Feb 2014, at 14:46, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: On Feb 20, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Following Dan's history of his ancestors I thought people might be interested to see (again) some of the

Re: OT: Shche ne vmerla Ukraina (Ukraine Has Not Yet Died)

2014-02-22 Thread John
On 2/22/2014 9:44 AM, mike wilson wrote: On 20/02/2014, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: There are a bunch of them. I didn't see any that get into what's going on in the Ukraine. It's a generic point about defending your homeland against aggression, whether external or internal. I

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
and I could. I considered making it without the type (I tried to make it look as much as what I remember the font to be when punching the holes in photoshop). ann On 2/22/2014 12:47, Steffen Zahn wrote: that is already the luxury version of punch cards, with text printed at the top.

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Christine Aguila
Congrats to Canada for their wins. Cheers, Christine On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:48 PM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Men's. Women's. Canada vs. USA. 'Nuff said... :-) Cheers, frank “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

PESO: Releasing The Balloons

2014-02-22 Thread David Mann
Releasing the red black balloons at 12:51pm yesterday to commemorate the earthquake of 3 years ago. I presume there were 185 of them but don't know for sure. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/769/#peso This was held after the Run to Remember, a remembrance event which was first held last

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Bob W-PDML
When I got my first programming job, in 1982, it was at a site which ran an old ICL mainframe. We had a paper-roll teletype, and submitted jobs on paper-tape, including our source code, which was either COBOL or the ICL assembler, called PLAN, which we wrote in pencil on coding sheets. These

PESO - Take-Out

2014-02-22 Thread Rick Womer
I had a half-hour before choir rehearsal last week, so I did some wandering and shooting. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17691617size=lg or http://gallery.photo.net/photo/17691617-lg.jpg (K-5, DA 16-45) Comments? Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W-PDML wrote: When I got my first programming job, in 1982, it was at a site which ran an old ICL mainframe. We had a paper-roll teletype, and submitted jobs on paper-tape, including our source code, which was either COBOL or the ICL assembler, called PLAN, which we wrote in pencil on

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 22 Feb 2014, at 19:02, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: Bob W-PDML wrote: When I got my first programming job, in 1982, it was at a site which ran an old ICL mainframe. We had a paper-roll teletype, and submitted jobs on paper-tape, including our source code, which was

Re: Boris PESO 2014 #04 - Sakura

2014-02-22 Thread Bulent Celasun
Elegant and refreshing, especially colorwise. A rather busy bokeh which might as well be taken as a sign of the coming season. Do you know if it (the bokeh) might be smoother (?) at, say, f/4 ? Bulent - http://patoloji.gen.tr

Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread J.C. O'Connell
$2400 for the superbird?? no way! On 2/22/2014 12:43 PM, John wrote: It *was* remarkably low. That's why I remember it for so long. It was about the same price as the plain vanilla Chevy 4-dr sedan my father had bought the year before and I found that amazing. On 2/21/2014 7:35 PM, Ken

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Well, that's about as surprising as the Dutch wins in speed skating. G Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On 21/02/2014, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Men's. Women's. Canada vs. USA. 'Nuff said... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Boris PESO 2014 #04 - Sakura

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Quite lovely. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Well, We're having quite a weather here. Today it climbed up all the way to +30C here. We drove to Jerusalem and had very good time in the

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Darren Addy
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:05 AM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 21/02/2014, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Men's. Women's. Canada vs. USA. 'Nuff said... This doesn't count as politics? Strictly speaking, it is Nationalism (not politics). The Olympics has been used

Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread John
Not a Superbird, not even a Road Runner - a 1966 Belvedere II 2-dr, but with a 426 Hemi 3-speed on the floor manual transmission. I don't know why, but that's what it was. I think it was the same platform that would in later years be used for the Road Runner Superbird, but this particular

Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
That price is wrong. Here’s a marooned sticker from a Dodge Daytona with the less expensive 440 engine. It’s well over 4K. This car was an OE restoration winner at the Mopar Nationals a couple of years back. You can back up to the folder if you want to see it. Not very pretty. The nose is

Re: GESO Pool Night Low Light Pics

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
The nice high contrast rendering is probably more to the credit of the DA* 50-135 than the K-3.. I use the other DA* lenses more often, but the 50-135 is probably the best in terms of rendering. Super glass. Paul On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:39 PM, John johnsess...@yahoo.com wrote: Looks like it

Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread J.C. O'Connell
that was still a damn good deal, even in '66 considering it had the 426 hemi and 3 on the floor. On 2/22/2014 3:42 PM, John wrote: Not a Superbird, not even a Road Runner - a 1966 Belvedere II 2-dr, but with a 426 Hemi 3-speed on the floor manual transmission. I don't know why, but that's what

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread knarf
The Americans always have strong teams and you always bring your best game to us. For a hundred years or more hockey has been our game. While we weren't watching the rest of the world (the cold world, anyway) started playing and improving and all of a sudden thirty years ago guys with names

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread knarf
You're right, it is nationalism. Hockey is part of the soul of the country so winning is a big deal. And no, not much to gloat about. Except maybe universal health care. ;-) Cheers, frank On 22 February, 2014 2:47:44 PM EST, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
And friendly people. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:01 PM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: You're right, it is nationalism. Hockey is part of the soul of the country so winning is a big deal. And no, not much to gloat about.

Re: OT: Events in Ukraine WARNING -- Political Content

2014-02-22 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 20/2/14, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: my Ukrainian dancing model Yes, um, where exactly do you get these? In general, in the Ukraine. Apparently it's a cultural thing: Ukrainian parents encourage their

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
And now the US loses to Finland!!! Finland, Finland, Finland The country where I want to be Pony trekking or camping Or just watching TV Finland, Finland, Finland It's the country for me You're so near to Russia So far from Japan Quite a long way from Cairo Lots of miles from Vietnam Finland,

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
It seems as though the first organized ice hockey game may have been played in Montreal in 1975. It was probably a variant of field hockey type games played in Ireland and Scotland. Oxford University in the UK started playing ice hockey in 1885. Yale and John Hopkins in the U.S. started

Re: OT: Events in Ukraine WARNING -- Political Content

2014-02-22 Thread Bulent Celasun
I prefer Natalie... Photographically, of course :) Bulent - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
Doh. Make that 1875 in Montreal. But you knew that. On Feb 22, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: It seems as though the first organized ice hockey game may have been played in Montreal in 1975. It was probably a variant of field hockey type games played in

Re: PESO kicking up her heels

2014-02-22 Thread Larry Colen
On Feb 22, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: great action shots! Thanks Dan. -- 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: Pesos x 2

2014-02-22 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 22/2/14, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: They're calling: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17691385 I like that one a lot. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv

Re: Pesos x 2

2014-02-22 Thread J.C. O'Connell
the photo's nice, but photo.net's presentation of photos sucks. big ads right over the images, images too small its distracting. On 2/22/2014 5:49 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 22/2/14, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: They're calling:

PESO: Icicles

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
The melting snow created a few icicles at our home: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17691732 K-r with smc DA 50mm F1.8 Comments are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 22 Feb 2014, at 22:41, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 22/2/14, Bob W-PDML, discombobulated, unleashed: When I got my first programming job, in 1982, it was at a site which ran an old ICL mainframe. We had a paper-roll teletype, and submitted jobs on paper-tape, including

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com: Many cities and towns lay claim to holding the first hockey game. Halifax thinks they had it. Montreal does, too. A very plausible theory has the first game in Kingston, Ontario between Montreal's McGill University (an alma mater of mine, which is

Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
Yeah? Couldn't remember how to spell it and too lazy to check:-) Paul via phone On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: You obviously meant Monroney sticker. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From:

Re: PESO kicking up her heels

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
great action shots! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: From a solo jazz dance competition last night: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/12705196175/in/set-72157641373714393/ -- Larry Colen

PESO kicking up her heels

2014-02-22 Thread Larry Colen
From a solo jazz dance competition last night: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/12705196175/in/set-72157641373714393/ -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread knarf
Many cities and towns lay claim to holding the first hockey game. Halifax thinks they had it. Montreal does, too. A very plausible theory has the first game in Kingston, Ontario between Montreal's McGill University (an alma mater of mine, which is why it's likely true) and Royal Military

Re: Boris PESO 2014 #04 - Sakura

2014-02-22 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 22/2/14, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: http://pentax-ways.blogspot.co.il/2014/02/2014-04-sakura.html Technically it was Nokton 40/1.4 somewhere around f/2.0 or f/2.8, or may be in between at f/2.4... I find the bokeh...interesting. Like the composition! -- Cheers, Cotty

Re: Daytona Superbird

2014-02-22 Thread Ken Waller
You obviously meant Monroney sticker. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Daytona Superbird That price is wrong. Here’s a marooned sticker from a Dodge Daytona with the less

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 22/2/14, Bob W-PDML, discombobulated, unleashed: When I got my first programming job, in 1982, it was at a site which ran an old ICL mainframe. We had a paper-roll teletype, and submitted jobs on paper-tape, including our source code, which was either COBOL or the ICL assembler, called PLAN,

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Bill
On 22/02/2014 3:01 PM, knarf wrote: You're right, it is nationalism. Hockey is part of the soul of the country so winning is a big deal. And no, not much to gloat about. Except maybe universal health care. That and we are us and not anyone else. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Bill
On 22/02/2014 3:31 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: It seems as though the first organized ice hockey game may have been played in Montreal in 1975. That was the year we let the Washington Capitals in. It seems Washington getting involved in something always changes everything. -- PDML

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
And, to tie this to another thread, the Washington Capitals featured that great Rusyn hockey player, Peter Bondra. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/02/2014 3:31 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread steve harley
on 2014-02-22 8:23 Ann Sanfedele wrote and as for me, Univrsity of Maine, Orono... working from 1961 to late 1962 or early 1963 for the head of the newly developed Computer center.. that happens to be where i first saw a real live computer; high school field trip in the mid-70s; we got to

Re: OT - The good old days (computer-wise)

2014-02-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
small worlds, such fun! My boss was still there in the 70's - last time I saw him in person was probably 1975 - but could have been 1978. I'm trying to remember the name of the building it was in - it began with A... He hired me, he said, because I was the only one who had written a

Re: PESO: Icicles

2014-02-22 Thread David Mann
Impressive. You must have a strong roof! We just had a big (by our standards) thunderstorm come through. Thankfully the hailstones were a lot smaller than forecast. Cheers, Dave On Feb 23, 2014, at 12:19 pm, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: The melting snow created a few

Re: OT - Olympic Hockey

2014-02-22 Thread Alan C
Almost certainly of military origin in Canada. Introduction of the puck must have been the defining moment. A fast furious sport today. However, Ladies (Field) Hockey is much more pleasing to the eye. I'm sure Larry would agree! Alan C -Original Message- From: knarf Sent: Sunday,

Re: PESO: Icicles

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, David. We had a LOT of snow this year, and it piled up on the roof. In the cold, sunny aftermath of the snowstorms, some of the snow melted, forming large icicles along the edges and corners. These were the largest on our house. I took this image from the upper deck off our bedroom,

PESO Swainsona formosa. from trip round Australia.

2014-02-22 Thread sup8pdct
Better known as Sturt's Desert Pea. http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u626/sup8pdct/desertpea_zps7f2d2bac.jpg There are different coloured ones around. usually pink center part instead of dark. Heaps of them in the pilbra.. Photo cropped and reduced in size. no other work apart from