Three Strikes

2009-01-01 Thread John Celio
My stupid 18mm Fish Eye Takumar failed to sell on ebay three times, even after price reductions and 27 watchers. The last time, someone else undercut me slightly on shipping and had a Takumar lens cap (as opposed to my off-brand cap). I bought a Takumar cap today, and as soon as that shows up

Re: sic transit optio w60

2009-01-01 Thread John Celio
John - the LCD screen is good on the W60 - but no viewfinder at all, as previously noted... I wish my cellphone LCD was as visible as the one on the Optios. I was just kidding about not being able to see what's on the screen, as I noted. I much prefer a screen to a P&S viewfinder, as viewfind

Re: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG

2009-01-01 Thread Christine Aguila
Pretty. It's a lovely Scatter, Godfrey. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" To: "SeePhoto Talk" ; "PAW Picture-A-Week project" ; "DUG" ; ; "PDML List" Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 5:22 PM Subject: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG The fat lady sang. Happy 2

Re: From a London Window

2009-01-01 Thread Christine Aguila
Rick: I prefer the 1st one--I don't view it as busy--all the elements, to my eye, make for richer subject and composition. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Rick Womer" To: Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 7:04 PM Subject: PESO: From a London Window >From Faringdon I

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Christine Aguila
From: "Mark Roberts" ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm Mark: you put together a fun list. Some favorites: Mike Wilson: "Drive to Birmingham . . ." Tim Bray: " . . . splashed with gutter contents while switching on exotic prime lens

Re: HNY

2009-01-01 Thread Fernando
I see this was a very productive year for you. Those are awesome, very entretaining; I remembered the Stonehedge ones, but I missed all the others. The Morocco ones are great. Good stuff, thanks for sharing. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Bob W wrote: > Happy New Year to everybody! > > I hope

Re: PESO: Faringdon Suburbs

2009-01-01 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Jan 1, 2009, at 16:54 , Rick Womer wrote: A five minute walk from bustling downtown Faringdon brought me to this scene (though to take the photo I had to climb to the top of a stone wall): http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8447711&size=lg (K10D, DA 16-45) Rick A. The subur

GFM rainbow

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Sullivan
In the middle of this gallery (#28 or so) there's a shot of Grandfather Mountain by Jim Morton. http://www.pixcetera.com/pixcetera/2008-pictures-of-the-year-peoples-choice/43257 Thought you might be interested. Regards, Bob S. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mail

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Subash
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 15:58:03 - "Bob W" wrote: > I'm rather disturbed to see my name feature so often. People will > think I sit around all day drying my humour. On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:59:49 -0600 "William Robb" wrote: > And I made the list far too often. > If you like, I can send my pithy

Re: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG

2009-01-01 Thread pnstenquist
Nice image. A "painterly" composition. Paul -- Original message -- From: "Ken Waller" > Nicely done ! > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > - Original Message - > From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" > Subject: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG > > > > The

Re: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG

2009-01-01 Thread Ken Waller
Nicely done ! Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" Subject: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG The fat lady sang. Happy 2009! http://homepage.mac.com/godders/001-scatter.jpg "Scatter" - Sunnyvale 2008 Panasonic G1 + Summilux-D 25mm f/

RE: PESO - Three Pines

2009-01-01 Thread Brian Walters
Thanks for all of the comments on this - much appreciated. Some specific replies.. Bob W said: "Bit of a Michael Busselle in Tuscany influence going on there." Thanks - I have a couple of Busselle's books. I like his work. Ken, Frank, Christine and Bruce suggested that the sky be cropp

Re: PESO: From a London Window

2009-01-01 Thread Brian Walters
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:04:22 -0800 (PST), "Rick Womer" said: > >From Faringdon I traveled back to London, and stayed with my niece and her > >husband in their lovely flat in Belgravia. > > This was the late-morning view from one of their windows: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8455

Re: PESO: Faringdon Suburbs

2009-01-01 Thread Brian Walters
A very effective composition of light and shadow. I like it - very peaceful. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:54:11 -0800 (PST), "Rick Womer" said: > A five minute walk

Re: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG

2009-01-01 Thread Brian Walters
A nice one to start off the new year! I assume this image has some deliberate vignetting to highlight the centre foliage? Very effective. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 1

Re: PESO: Faringdon Suburbs

2009-01-01 Thread Cotty
On 1/1/09, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: >A five minute walk from bustling downtown Faringdon brought me to this >scene (though to take the photo I had to climb to the top of a stone wall): > >http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8447711&size=lg > >(K10D, DA 16-45) > >Rick Nice shot

Re: PESO: From a London Window

2009-01-01 Thread pnstenquist
I like the full version. I think the framing is better. Nice shot. Paul -- Original message -- From: Rick Womer > >From Faringdon I traveled back to London, and stayed with my niece and her > husband in their lovely flat in Belgravia. > > This was the late-mornin

PESO: From a London Window

2009-01-01 Thread Rick Womer
>From Faringdon I traveled back to London, and stayed with my niece and her >husband in their lovely flat in Belgravia. This was the late-morning view from one of their windows: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8455083 I'm not sure, but I may prefer a cropped version, as less "busy": ht

PESO: Faringdon Suburbs

2009-01-01 Thread Rick Womer
A five minute walk from bustling downtown Faringdon brought me to this scene (though to take the photo I had to climb to the top of a stone wall): http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8447711&size=lg (K10D, DA 16-45) Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Cory Waters wrote: > crushed just positively destroyed. Woe is me. Type harder this year. Dave > CW > > Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: >> >> http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss M

RE: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Bob W
> > From what I've read in the last few years ,almost any media you use > is going to fail or become obsolete and unreadable within a > surprisingly short period of time. Library of Congress and > archives of > all kind, public and businesses around the world spend lots of money > and ho

Re: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG

2009-01-01 Thread Joseph McAllister
That is not to say I do not like your images. I do. A lot. But you make it seem too easy. And it's yours. So none of us can get in on the game! :-) On Jan 1, 2009, at 15:22 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: The fat lady sang. Happy 2009! http://homepage.mac.com/godders/001-scatter.jpg "Scatter"

Re: PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG

2009-01-01 Thread Joseph McAllister
Do you just have your 4/3 camera permanently mounted on the arbor over your patio? Just blowing nearby foliage around with a leaf blower? On Jan 1, 2009, at 15:22 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: The fat lady sang. Happy 2009! http://homepage.mac.com/godders/001-scatter.jpg "Scatter" - Sunnyval

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Jaume Lahuerta
Wow, I made it this year!!! I am greatly honoured and I would like to thank to the members of the Academy for this award, also to my family, that suppots me even when they would like to be photographied with a FF DSLR, and also I would like to... (microphone sound goes down, music sound goes up

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Joseph McAllister
From what I've read in the last few years ,almost any media you use is going to fail or become obsolete and unreadable within a surprisingly short period of time. Library of Congress and archives of all kind, public and businesses around the world spend lots of money and hours transferring

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" Subject: Re: The best-laid plans... :-( I plan on upgrading my backup/archive hardware to include a Drobo RAID unit. Four 500G or 1T drives in an internally multiply mirrored, automatically self-correcting device ... can't be too bad. I

PESO 2009 - 001 - GDG

2009-01-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
The fat lady sang. Happy 2009! http://homepage.mac.com/godders/001-scatter.jpg "Scatter" - Sunnyvale 2008 Panasonic G1 + Summilux-D 25mm f/1.4 ASPH ISO 100 @ f/2.5 @ 1/160 sec Comments and critiques are always appreciated. enjoy Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net ht

Re: PESO 2008 - 185 - GDG

2009-01-01 Thread Rick Womer
I think that's only a centimeter worm--or it's a really big flower. I like the composition, but might have brightened it a bit, and cropped 1/4 off the top and left. HNY, Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Wed, 12/31/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > Subject: P

RE: OT: Disturbing news about a certain PDMLer's ancestry

2009-01-01 Thread Bob W
> > > >I was rather alarmed, however, to find myself in the company > of a certain > >Coterel, who was a notorious outlaw and bandit of the time, > and had his very > >own gang. I've found a website here which identifies this > fellow as the > >original for Robin Hood: http://catterall.net/RH/In

Re: PESO -" Homage to Godfrey"

2009-01-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/29/2008 1:32:37 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, kwal...@peoplepc.com writes: Please check out http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html Taken with a K20D, 200mm f4.0 SMC A* ED Macro on a Gitzo 3530LS tripod with a Bogen mini gear head, ISO 400 - 1/200 sec

Re: testing the G1 ...

2009-01-01 Thread Adam Maas
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Jan 1, 2009, at 4:44 AM, Anthony Farr wrote: >> Godfrey's comments about the G1's suitability for candid portraiture, >> especially restless children, will be interesting. > > I have done a little bit of people work with the G1 so far,

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Luiz Felipe
Paul, I had lots of CDr and DVDr failures, not all due to counterfeit media. I lost some 70% of my scanned files over the years, and almost the same ratio of digitalized VHS tapes. My problem with the tapes is far worse, since they were discarded. I started doing multiple sets, and soon after th

Re: HNY

2009-01-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 1/1/2009 11:17:26 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br writes: > Here are some of the pixels I assembled on a sensitive surface last year: > http://www.web-options.com/Pick2008/ > > Bob = I love that phrase. Nice gallery, of course. Sensiti

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Charles Robinson
If my screw-up helps nudge just one person to get off the stick and be more organized and methodical, then it is worth it. That was my intent. I also now have a few labels on the outside of my Image Archive harddrive telling me exactly what I need to do, like a checklist, for each month's

Re: testing the G1 ...

2009-01-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 1, 2009, at 4:44 AM, Anthony Farr wrote: Until the light levels get very low, it completely compensates for the stopped down iris. At the limits it gets noisy and eventually gives up the ghost, but conditions like that would have an optical viewfinder too dark to see long before. I h

Re: PESO - Bored HNY

2009-01-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 1/1/2009 10:42:22 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, amont...@gmail.com writes: http://mountainfort.com/gallery/6976071_M4WSN/1/446508228_N2y55 Was all alone in the early morning and started getting silly ideas. So erm, Happy New Year. :-) -Adam === Your house has ghost

Re: OT: Arbitrary ruminations and possibly too long.

2009-01-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 1/1/2009 12:23:24 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, cesar_ab...@mindspring.com writes: Good light and working tools, César Panama City, Florida = Good to hear from you, Cesar. Marnie aka Doe :-) - Warning: I am now filt

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 1/1/2009 6:29:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, msrobert...@ysu.edu writes: ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm === Thanks, Mark. Marnie aka Doe :-) - Warning: I am now f

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I plan on upgrading my backup/archive hardware to include a Drobo RAID unit. Four 500G or 1T drives in an internally multiply mirrored, automatically self-correcting device ... can't be too bad. I don't know a single Drobo RAID user that has anything but praise for these units. It's not che

Re: Subject: OT: 1937 Bugatti, only 26,000 miles on the clock

2009-01-01 Thread Cotty
On 1/1/09, Morris Galloway, discombobulated, unleashed: > > From Galloway, constant lurker who will de-lurk for a moment. >Golly Gee! Want to know more about the Type 57 Bug, see it inside, >outside, under the hood, being driven down the road by a real guy? The >very well-paid American comedian

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Cotty
On 1/1/09, Christian, discombobulated, unleashed: >Made it twice! (and both about cormorants... hmmm, what have I done!) You damned sicko. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pent

RE: OT: Pun Stores

2009-01-01 Thread John Sessoms
Locks up your computer and won't let you close the tab, close Firefox or end the task under task manager. -- 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 directions.

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Cotty
Forwarded to my wife Alma, who replied: Thanks! after about 15 or so had enough:-) Have bookmarked Mark's web-site tho! Mark! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: sic transit optio w60

2009-01-01 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Jan 1, 2009, at 12:14 , John Celio wrote: As I'm about to buy a replacement small digital camera for my wife (I'm absconding with her Optio S5i) I'll keep reading to determine what the consensus is on really small digitals. The W60 doesn't seem to be much of a bargain! My wife's complai

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Adam Maas
I feel your pain. In Septmeber 2007 I lost 135GB of archives due to a HDD failure. They'd only partially been backed up and due to a schitzophrenic labelling system the backups were essentially useless for about 66% of the data (I couldn't associate the backups with the film archives due to stupidl

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Christine Aguila
Sorry to hear, Charles--had a few boo-boos similar to this myself--I used to spend time cleaning closets like women do sometimes--but now I've the option of hard-drives, and I get over zealous sometimes--I think it's time to get my back-up program down for those zealous moments. Christine -

Re: OT: Disturbing news about a certain PDMLer's ancestry

2009-01-01 Thread tonym
>-Original Message- >From: Bob W p...@web-options.com >Sent 1/1/2009 11:23:28 AM >To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net >Subject: OT: Disturbing news about a certain PDMLer's ancestry >pastimes on a cold winter's day: disappearing into the 14th century. > >I was rather alarmed, howe

Re: Winter scenes

2009-01-01 Thread Christine Aguila
Very nice! http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p821843095/h294d69a9#h294d69a9 I like this one except for the tail-clipping--has a kind-a-modern feel to it. :-) http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p821843095/h294d69a9#h3ac9bf36 Happy New Year to you and Meg! Cheers, Christine - Original Message -

Re: PESO - Bored HNY

2009-01-01 Thread Christine Aguila
That's kinda cool--in a New Year's Past, Present, Future kind-away ;-) Happy New! Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Adam Montoya" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:42 PM Subject: PESO - Bored HNY http://mountainfort.com/gallery/697607

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread John Celio
...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm Heh heh heh! Great list. There's a lot of gold in there. I'm amazed I made it! John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/calemp http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pent

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread John Francis
Shouldn't that be " ... spelled correctly" ? On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 10:08:44AM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: > Thanks again for doing this MARK. > > Some real gems in there. Most spelt correctly. > > Dave > > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > ...the annual PDML quotation

Re: sic transit optio w60

2009-01-01 Thread ann sanfedele
John Celio wrote: As I'm about to buy a replacement small digital camera for my wife (I'm absconding with her Optio S5i) I'll keep reading to determine what the consensus is on really small digitals. The W60 doesn't seem to be much of a bargain! My wife's complaint about her S5i is the tiny

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread George Sinos
I previously backed up everything to an external hard drive, then did a second backup to DVDs. The external hard drive was updated daily, the DVDs were updated monthly. Recently, during a rare cleanup effort, I mounted a couple of the old DVDs to check them out. Only one could be read. I don't k

Re: GESO: Winter scenes

2009-01-01 Thread pnstenquist
Nice gallery. I envy you the wildlife and location. I've seen Cedar Waxwings here north of Detroit in the Spring. Got a decent shot of one nine or ten years ago on film. Will have to try again this year. Paul -- Original message -- From: Stan Halpin > Thanks Bob

Re: Subject: OT: 1937 Bugatti, only 26,000 miles on the clock

2009-01-01 Thread pnstenquist
Hi Morris, Good to see you live on the list! Thanks for the link, and a happy new year to you. Paul -- Original message -- From: Morris Galloway > > From Galloway, constant lurker who will de-lurk for a moment. > Golly Gee! Want to know more about the Type 57 B

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread pnstenquist
Hi Luiz, Have you had DVD discs fail? I have a lot of backups on DVD, and thus far none have failed. Some are six or seven years old. I don't do mirrored drives, but I backup all important photos on a second drive. So far, I haven't lost anything, but Charles' message is motivating me to get cau

Subject: OT: 1937 Bugatti, only 26,000 miles on the clock

2009-01-01 Thread Morris Galloway
From Galloway, constant lurker who will de-lurk for a moment. Golly Gee! Want to know more about the Type 57 Bug, see it inside, outside, under the hood, being driven down the road by a real guy? The very well-paid American comedian Jay Leno owns one. Actually he owns several Bugattis, and se

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Luiz Felipe
... ouch... Charles, I understand your feelings. I'm up to re-scan a lot of stuff lost due to media failure, and right now I don't trust dvdr media enough to depend just on them. Guess I'll be using mirrored HDs eventually, but right now I can't afford. Unfortunately some of the older stuff is

Re: sic transit optio w60

2009-01-01 Thread John Celio
As I'm about to buy a replacement small digital camera for my wife (I'm absconding with her Optio S5i) I'll keep reading to determine what the consensus is on really small digitals. The W60 doesn't seem to be much of a bargain! My wife's complaint about her S5i is the tiny viewfinder! And of cou

Re: GESO: Winter scenes

2009-01-01 Thread Stan Halpin
Thanks Bob W and Bob S and Brian. Bob S - no not a Waxwing, but a Tufted Titmouse. This was taken at my father-in-law's home in mid-Michigan; he does have occasional Cedar Waxwings passing through, but I haven't been at the right place at the right time to get any shots of them. The house i

Re: OT: Arbitrary ruminations and possibly too long.

2009-01-01 Thread Norm Baugher
Gateboy (slutboy) must come back! Norm Scott Loveless wrote: On 1/1/09, Mark Roberts wrote: Good to hear from you Cesar. It's been too long. Looking forward to seeing you at GFM this year. You *will* be there because we have a team ready to kidnap you and drag you there by force if necess

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread ann sanfedele
Charles Robinson wrote: My Time Machine backups only go back to early November - which is long after I nuked the directory from my harddrive. SO! The only images I have from my daughter's wedding (and countless other events) are the ones I have put online. I'm disappointed and angry

Re: OT: Arbitrary ruminations and possibly too long.

2009-01-01 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/1/09, Mark Roberts wrote: > Good to hear from you Cesar. It's been too long. > > Looking forward to seeing you at GFM this year. You *will* be there because > we have a team ready to kidnap you and drag you there by force if necessary > this time... The 4x4 is gassed up (since it's almost a

Re: 50

2009-01-01 Thread ann sanfedele
Scott Loveless wrote: On 1/1/09, Mark Roberts wrote: Scott Loveless wrote: On 12/29/08, Mark Roberts wrote: There was a special "Pentax LX" PUG once. Why not a special "Cormorant" PUG? I'm not really sure if I'm allowed to pull rank, but I'm gonna. No.

Re: OT: Arbitrary ruminations and possibly too long.

2009-01-01 Thread Norm Baugher
Nicely put...everyone needs a reminder now and again. Happy New Year my man!!! Norm Cesar Matamoros II wrote: Greetings to the list, First, I must apologize to the list for being quiet for so long. But then again my silence may not be not be a bad thing :-) I have had too much going on per

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Sullivan
Charles, All out backup strategies are only as good as the operators, US. Your problem is a common one and I'm sorry to hear about it. We should all remember to read our backup files on occasion, just to check. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > That's rea

Re: HNY

2009-01-01 Thread Luiz Felipe
I second that (more likely 2345, since I'm away from the list since last year ;-) Happy New Years! Luiz Felipe luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:40:28 -, "Bob W" escreveu: > Happy New Year to everybody! > > I hope the credit crunc

Re: PESO - Three Pines

2009-01-01 Thread Luiz Felipe
Agree - those distant trees are the only (minor, for me) issue. Luiz Felipe luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:50:28 -0800 (PST), Rick Womer escreveu: > Beautiful shot. I wouldn't change the composition or cropping at all. The > only c

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Christian" Subject: Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until... Made it twice! (and both about cormorants... hmmm, what have I done!) Pehaps you just have a one track mind. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/m

Re: PESO - Bored HNY

2009-01-01 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/1/09, Inigo Montoya wrote: > http://mountainfort.com/gallery/6976071_M4WSN/1/446508228_N2y55 > > Was all alone in the early morning and started getting silly ideas. So > erm, Happy New Year. :-) That's very cool. Made me chuckle. Happy new year! -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, Pennsy

PESO - Bored HNY

2009-01-01 Thread Adam Montoya
http://mountainfort.com/gallery/6976071_M4WSN/1/446508228_N2y55 Was all alone in the early morning and started getting silly ideas. So erm, Happy New Year. :-) -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Christian
Mark Roberts wrote: ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm Made it twice! (and both about cormorants... hmmm, what have I done!) -- Christian http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.

Re: 50

2009-01-01 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/1/09, Mark Roberts wrote: > Scott Loveless wrote: > > > On 12/29/08, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > > > > > There was a special "Pentax LX" PUG once. Why not a special "Cormorant" > > > PUG? > > > > > > > I'm not really sure if I'm allowed to pull rank, but I'm gonna. No. > > > > Good for you!

Re: Peso Red barn

2009-01-01 Thread Cotty
On 1/1/09, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >Needs some cormorants, too. Mark! (well, when did *you* last make the list?) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discus

Re: OT: Disturbing news about a certain PDMLer's ancestry

2009-01-01 Thread Cotty
On 1/1/09, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >I've just started reading a fascinating book called The Time Traveller's >Guide to Medieval England, which lets me indulge in one of my favourite >pastimes on a cold winter's day: disappearing into the 14th century. > >I was rather alarmed, however, t

Re: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
That's really sad, Charles. It's the sort of thing I worry about and have worked hard to make sure never happens. I never delete any photographs off my working drive until I am certain I have at least two verified backups on external storage, preferably three. I use Time Machine's backup

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Cotty
On 1/1/09, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: > >http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm A good year, thanks Mark. Several made me LOL but this one got the guffaw: "I'm really a mild, very happy guy . A while back there was a time when I th

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Boris Liberman
Cool! Mark Roberts wrote: ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm -- 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 dir

RE: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Bob W
oh dear, that's extra-embarassing. I think I'll shut up this year. > > Woo hoo! Bob W got top billing! ;-) Go Bob! > > G > > On Jan 1, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: > > > > http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm -- PDML Pentax-Dis

RE: The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Bob W
[...] > Well, fast-forward to yesterday when I'm poking through my Lightroom > library. Lightroom thought that my 2008_May images were > still on the > harddrive (they were not) so I went to tell LR that the images were > now on this disk over here but that disk image was empty. In a

Re: OT: 1937 Bugatti, only 26,000 miles on the clock

2009-01-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Amazing serendipity. It just so happened that I was relating a story about the Bugatti Type 57SC Atalanta Coupé at dinner with some of my motocycle/car geeky friends on Tuesday night! When I was 16, just after I got my drivers license in NY, and had just received a small inheritance from so

Re: OT: Arbitrary ruminations and possibly too long.

2009-01-01 Thread Ken Waller
I like you photo, but it needs more snow.:-) ...or a cormorant Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "David J Brooks" Subject: Re: OT: Arbitrary ruminations and possibly too long. Very nicely put Cesar. Happy New Year to you and your family

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Woo hoo! Bob W got top billing! ;-) Go Bob! G On Jan 1, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE f

The best-laid plans... :-(

2009-01-01 Thread Charles Robinson
I fumbled my backup routine and now it's too late. Normally, each month of images is in a separate folder on my harddrive. As space gets tight, I backup the folder to three different locations: A "disk image" out on an external harddrive, and two different DVD backups (one folder of d

Re: New Year Photographic Resolutions for 2009

2009-01-01 Thread John Sessoms
From: "Christine Aguila" How about you folks? Any resolutions? 1.) Improve my skills. Make better images. J.S. -- 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 di

Re: OT: 1937 Bugatti, only 26,000 miles on the clock

2009-01-01 Thread pnstenquist
It's a "that only happens in the movies" moment. A fabulous machine. Paul -- Original message -- From: "Bob W" > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7807210.stm > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listi

OT: 1937 Bugatti, only 26,000 miles on the clock

2009-01-01 Thread Bob W
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7807210.stm -- 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 directions.

Re: OT: Happy New Year and a recipe for you from my kitchen

2009-01-01 Thread ann sanfedele
Brian Walters wrote: Happy New Year to you too, Ann. That sounds delicious - I'm going to try it out after we consume all of the Christmas/New Year leftovers. Cheers Brian so when you make it in late February you'll let us knwo who you liked it? ann

Re: Happy New Year and a recipe for you from my kitchen

2009-01-01 Thread ann sanfedele
keith_w wrote: Christine Aguila wrote: Hey, that's a cool recipe--a bit like my beef stew but with out the wine & mushrooms--I'll have to try that. Happy New Year, Ann. Cheers, Christine Christine, That 1/4 cup (2 oz.) of white wine will lose all its alcohol by heating, leaving only

OT: Disturbing news about a certain PDMLer's ancestry

2009-01-01 Thread Bob W
I've just started reading a fascinating book called The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which lets me indulge in one of my favourite pastimes on a cold winter's day: disappearing into the 14th century. I was rather alarmed, however, to find myself in the company of a certain Coterel,

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Cory Waters
crushed just positively destroyed. Woe is me. CW Mark Roberts wrote: ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please vi

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Mark Roberts
William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "ann sanfedele" Subject: Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until... I see I didn't make the list this year - but I take comfort in noting something I wrote provoked a number of the quotes that did. :-) And I made the list far too often.

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Doug Franklin
Bob W wrote: I'm rather disturbed to see my name feature so often. People will think I sit around all day drying my humour. Is that a record for the earliest first quotation of the year for 2009? -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Bill Owens
I'm not sure the one attributed to me was really mine. The one I sent that I liked was; His eyeballs got crossed with his rectum and he got a shitty outlook on life. Bill On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM, William Robb wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "ann sanfedele" Subject: Re: It

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread ann sanfedele
William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "ann sanfedele" Subject: Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until... I see I didn't make the list this year - but I take comfort in noting something I wrote provoked a number of the quotes that did. :-) And I made the list far too ofte

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "ann sanfedele" Subject: Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until... I see I didn't make the list this year - but I take comfort in noting something I wrote provoked a number of the quotes that did. :-) And I made the list far too often. If you like, I can

RE: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Bob W
I'm rather disturbed to see my name feature so often. People will think I sit around all day drying my humour. Bob > > I see I didn't make the list this year - but I take comfort in noting > something I wrote provoked a number of > the quotes that did. :-) > > ann > > p.s. terrific list , bt

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/1/09, Mark Roberts wrote: > ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: What's a PDML? > http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm Thanks for the list, Mark! I spend most of my waking moments looking forward to GFM and the quotes list. -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, U

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread ann sanfedele
I see I didn't make the list this year - but I take comfort in noting something I wrote provoked a number of the quotes that did. :-) ann p.s. terrific list , btw! Mark Roberts wrote: ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm -- PDML Pentax-Di

Re: It's not OFFICIALLY 2009 until...

2009-01-01 Thread David J Brooks
Thanks again for doing this MARK. Some real gems in there. Most spelt correctly. Dave On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > ...the annual PDML quotations list is posted: > > http://www.robertstech.com/quot2008.htm > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http:/

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