OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread Joseph McAllister
an article that ran in the NY Times this past Saturday is something that you might all be interested in reading. I just clicked on a link to an "Opinion" column whose title intrigued me, It took me to an article that gave me pause, and opened a door that I should explore behind. You might w

GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread Christine Aguila
Hi Everyone: I'd be interested in knowing if you like the interface and the inclusion of text here. If not, feel free to say so. If you hover your curser over the right side middle of the large frame you get an advance arrow. I really haven't done much street work lately, and I really felt

Re: ping

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/8/8 Thomas Bohn : > I would like to know, if Windows 95 had failed, how OS/2 would look like > today. Just as bleak as it did in the previous millennium. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread Cotty
On 9/8/09, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: >Ideal for me would be half-term. Around mid October. Ack, half-term week here is week beginning Oct 26can you confirm your half term date? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cott

Re: GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread Joseph McAllister
And at 3 o'clock in the morning, you're still up? Interesting shots RBE. I like the first one because I'm a leg man. The subway expirements are good. Shows more creativity than the shots I did tonight at a home concert. Like the carneys shutting down series too. Keep up the walk abouts and

RE: GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
It works very well in my opinion. Bob > -Original Message- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On > Behalf Of Christine Aguila > Sent: 09 August 2009 08:58 > To: pdml@pdml.net > Subject: GESO Street Walk > > Hi Everyone: > > I'd be interested in knowing if you

RE: ping

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> Time, p...@web-options.com writes: > again > > > > == > Watch that, you're getting repetitious. > What, again? -- 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 foll

RE: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
I've found this to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm Although I'm threatened with redundancy, and likely to have a hard time finding another job, the fact is that worse things happen to a lot of people every day. I live in a reasonably decent society and even if I have to pack

RE: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> > On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:16 AM, Bob W wrote: > > > Paper maps are so 20th century... > > I'm amused by the fact that men have a reputation of never > using a map or asking directions. But put the map and > directions into an electronic gizmo and it's an entirely > different story. > Good

RE: PESO: Tongan Winter

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
Very atmospheric! Looks like a great place. Bob > -Original Message- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On > Behalf Of Alastair Robertson > Sent: 09 August 2009 06:25 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO: Tongan Winter > > http://www.pbase.com/update

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
Duh! forgot the link. :-( Lucky escape that the blog is in my sig, but still stupid. Well if anyone's still interested, here's the direct link to the post: http://alunfoto.blogspot.com/2009/08/2469.html Jostein 2009/8/8 mike wilson : > AlunFoto wrote: > >> 4 images in a blogpost describing the ci

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/8/8 Brian Walters : > How on earth did they fit all of those people on the summit!? A good squeeze, it was... :-) Well actually, two of the four parties on the glacier are coming down. But it was disappointingly crowded up there. > My congratulations - a great effort. Thanks. I will relay

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/8/8 Bob W : > Very enjoyable - nice to trek through the snow like that. Our highest > so-called mountain, Scafell Pike, is less than 1,000m. When I went to the > top it was February and the snow was up to my hips, but it was very > enjoyable  - I imagine your trek would be even more so. Thank

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/8/8 Joseph McAllister : > Mt. Rainier - 4392 meters, 14,411 feet, 105 km or 65 miles to my south > linearly > Mt. Baker -  3286 meters, 10,781 feet 90 km or 56 miles to my north linearly > But I will never climb either one! :-) Those heights are much more challenging than our little peak tho

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
Thanks for the tip on the colour rendering, Christine. I will keep it in mind when I get back to my desktop PC. Jostein 2009/8/8 Christine Aguila : > Those are great, Jostein, and I especially love the third one.  Really nice > there.  Hard to tell about PP; the shots render a little blue on my

Re: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread Cotty
On 9/8/09, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >I've found this to be true: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm Shouldn't that be ' People look like Frenchmen as they age' ? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread mike wilson
Cotty wrote: On 9/8/09, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: Ideal for me would be half-term. Around mid October. Ack, half-term week here is week beginning Oct 26can you confirm your half term date? Not 'til tomorrow but that sounds right. I'm as tight as a Rebel's focus on d

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread Cotty
On 9/8/09, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: >Not 'til tomorrow but that sounds right. I'm as tight as a Rebel's >focus on dates, me. But as flexible as a Pentax's ? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: Pentax FA 80-320 vs Sigma 70-300mm 4.0-5.6

2009-08-09 Thread Bong Manayon
Hello, I sold a Sigma 70-300/4-5.6 APO Macro for a used/defective FA 80-320/4.5-5.6 and never regretted it (I need to fix the defect though: the aperture "disengages" from the "A" setting arbitrarily--loose electronic connection somewhere I guess). Bong On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Tony Coga

Re: GESO- two blocks away-more or less

2009-08-09 Thread Bong Manayon
Thank you all for your comments. No one can plan for a funeral and our country crawled to a standstill during the past week and were just getting back into the loop. Bong On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:25 AM, gldnbearz wrote: > Bong- > > That was a really nice gallery.  She was much loved and your pho

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/ I tried different lenses and I really liked 200mm, 300mm and 50-250mm. No free camera for me, instead my bike was stolen. I love San Jose! --Sasha

Re: ping

2009-08-09 Thread Thomas Bohn
On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: That may have had more to do with the DVD you rented. Well, my guess is, Disney set up a weird new copy protection sheme, which prevents the disc from being played on computers. But I get from observation of claims that DVDs are made to

Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU?

2009-08-09 Thread Thomas Bohn
On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Alastair Robertson wrote: So CPU's options start with Pentium Dual 2.6 GHz 2MB cache, then Core 2 Duo processor 2.8 with 3MB cache, then move into the Quad systems. I take it then that a Duo would be ok Why not AMD? The Athlon or Phenom processors are working nic

Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU?

2009-08-09 Thread Thibouille
My 2 cents: * If bang for the buck is what you want, go AMD, not the best in town but certainly best price/performance ratio. * 4GB is alright (I'd say OKish). You may want to consider getting a 64bit OS if you're using windows. Peripheral support isn't good in 64bit versions if you have too many

Re: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Bob W wrote: > I've found this to be true: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm > > Although I'm threatened with redundancy, and likely to have a hard time > finding another job, the fact is that worse things happen to a lot of people > every day. I live i

Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU?

2009-08-09 Thread Adam Maas
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Thomas Bohn wrote: > On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Alastair Robertson wrote: > >> So CPU's options start with Pentium Dual 2.6 GHz 2MB cache, then Core 2 >> Duo processor 2.8 with 3MB cache, then move into the Quad systems. I take it >> then that a Duo would be ok > >

RE: OT: Can't keep a good song down

2009-08-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: "Bob W" Rootling around on Youtube I found these, which I thought might interest some of the old silverbacks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=RuuOAA9ekbg Half a century later: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nq_-DHhVOg&feature=related I've never heard of this before: http://ww

Re: ping

2009-08-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: Thomas Bohn On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > Licensing matters. And several of those corporations make MS look > small (Sony for starters). Once I rented "Pirates of the Caribbean" and tried to watch it on my Mac, with a licensed and legal DVD player software. But it did

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, mike wilson wrote: > Having looked comprehensively and taken recommendations from locals, this > seems to be the best company to deal with and, to me, the best location. > > Alnmouth is on the main east coast train route and close to the A1. Well > stocked with shops

Re: Shoot till you drop

2009-08-09 Thread Jack Davis
Hope you find the post processing equally satisfying. I'm sure your work will dazzle..as usual. Jack --- On Sat, 8/8/09, paul stenquist wrote: > From: paul stenquist > Subject: Shoot till you drop > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 3:43 PM > Shot ten hours at

Re: PESO: Tongan Winter

2009-08-09 Thread Bob Sullivan
Travel brochure material Alastair...looks very inviting. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Alastair Robertson wrote: > sorry wrong link http://www.pbase.com/kiwibiologist/image/115872534 > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Alastair > Robertson wrote: >> http://www.pbase.com/update_i

Re: GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread Jack Davis
I had a greater appreciation for your shots as I read the prose. Think it adds. Jack --- On Sun, 8/9/09, Christine Aguila wrote: > From: Christine Aguila > Subject: GESO Street Walk > To: pdml@pdml.net > Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 12:58 AM > Hi Everyone: > > I'd be interested in knowing i

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: Joseph McAllister On Aug 8, 2009, at 22:57 , David Mann wrote: > On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:16 AM, Bob W wrote: > >> Paper maps are so 20th century... > > I'm amused by the fact that men have a reputation of never using a > map or asking directions. But put the map and directions into an

Re: ping

2009-08-09 Thread Thomas Bohn
On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:29 PM, John Sessoms wrote: Is "Pirates ..." one of those that tries to install its own player software when you insert it? I sometimes have problems with those. No, I think they just didn't follow the DVD standard so that computers get confused and can't read it. The

RE: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: "Bob W" I've found this to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm This is NOT good news from my point of view. I worked long and hard to become a curmudgeon and now some young whipper-snapper psychologist comes along to spoil my plans. ;-D -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

RE: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> That was my philosophy Bob. I knew it would be next to > impossible to find a survey job in these times and age is > also a factor, so i looked for the next best alternative. > > I may make less money than what i was used to, but i can tell > you with out a word of a lie, that i am MUCH happi

RE: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> From: "Bob W" > > I've found this to be true: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm > > This is NOT good news from my point of view. I worked long > and hard to become a curmudgeon and now some young > whipper-snapper psychologist comes along to spoil my plans. > > ;-D I thought

First thoughts: GPS, geocoding (Mac, Lightroom)

2009-08-09 Thread Thibouille
I was frustrated not to remember were I took some shots so decided that somehow I should get a GPS. There are multiple solutions, including some small devices (mouse-like) which became quite commoncalled gps loggers and full featured GPS devices. I thought that about 100 Euros for that was maybe a

RE: OT: Can't keep a good song down

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> From: "Bob W" > > Rootling around on Youtube I found these, which I thought might > > interest some of the old silverbacks: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=RuuOAA9ekbg > > > > Half a century later: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nq_-DHhVOg&feature=related > > > > > > > >

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread mike wilson
Cotty wrote: On 9/8/09, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: Ideal for me would be half-term. Around mid October. Ack, half-term week here is week beginning Oct 26can you confirm your half term date? Ours is the same. At the moment. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.n

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Sorenson
Case in point - she was following her GPS...from the August 7th Los Angeles Times *http://tinyurl.com/kjpscl* An 11-year-old boy died in the intense heat of Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded and survived for several days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts and cheese

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Brian Walters> > Using Firefox I find that trying to print a satellite map from the > Google maps 'Print" option produces the standard map in the printout, as > with your experience.  However, printing via the Firefox print menu > produces the satellite version. Rea

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > I taught map reading and land navigation in the Army. I do NOT rely on a GPS > to tell me where I'm going. I've learned that when the GPS & the paper map > disagree, more often it's the GPS that's wrong ... assuming the GPS can > actually get a

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Miserere
Sasha, "You can never have too many..." WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts with silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? We need to know! Nice shot of Mark D. otherwise :-) Sorry to hear your bike got nicked :-( --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.Entici

Re: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread mike wilson
Cotty wrote: On 9/8/09, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I've found this to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm Shouldn't that be ' People look like Frenchmen as they age' ? When did you ever see De Gaulle smiling like that? Even after we got his country back for

Re: GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
Works for me.:-0 I like the first one, of the leg, and the biker shot and the last one of the lady on the subway, but the others are also well done. Dave On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > I'd be interested in knowing if you like the interface and the inc

Re: PESO: Tongan Winter

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Alastair Robertson wrote: > sorry wrong link http://www.pbase.com/kiwibiologist/image/115872534 > Very nice. I feel the stress just melting away.:-) Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Regio

Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU? -- Memory

2009-08-09 Thread Igor Roshchin
Some thoughts about memory clock speed (800, 1066, 1333, 1600, ..) and latency timing (CL7, CL9..). About a year ago, in 2008, many people were saying that DDR2 was giving a bettera "bang for buck": http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ram-speed-tests,1807.html On the last ("Conclusion") page, t

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:34 AM, John Francis wrote: >    http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow1.jpg > > > (The above shot, of course, is taken with the 10-17mm fisheye @17mm. > That's fairly obvious. Not quite so obvious, perhaps, is that it was > taken at ISO 3200 using one of the K-7s; I took along

Re: PESO 2009 - 128 - GDG

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
I like it. The line up of the trees, with a subtle curve and the ground slope, all very pleasing Dave On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > From my 'round the USA' car trip in 2006 ... > >  http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/128-roadside-forest > > Comments always appreciat

Re: PESO -- After the Fall.

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
Title is appropriate Peter. Well composed and rendered. Dave On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:15 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20afterthefall.html > > Equipment:  Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax FA 20-35mm f4.0 > > Notes: B&W conversion using B&W+ Photoshop plu

RE: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> Sasha, > > "You can never have too many..." WHAT? Lenses, cameras, > T-shirts with silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? > We need to know! > ...cormorants nesting in your beard Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to U

RE: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
I don't think anyone could survive a diet of Pop-Tarts more than a couple of hours > -Original Message- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On > Behalf Of Paul Sorenson > Sent: 09 August 2009 14:55 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Really OT Google map

RE: OT: Can't keep a good song down

2009-08-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: "Bob W" From: "Bob W" > > Rootling around on Youtube I found these, which I thought might > > interest some of the old silverbacks: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=RuuOAA9ekbg > > > > Half a century later: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nq_-DHhVOg&feature=related > >

Re: First thoughts: GPS, geocoding (Mac, Lightroom)

2009-08-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 09/08/2009, Thibouille wrote: > Using GPSbabel (freeware) to extract the log out of the device is very > easy and Houdahgeo (about 25 dollars) for tagging the pictures > automaticaly based on the tracklog is easy as well. Funny you should mention this, just a few hours ago I was experimenting

Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU? -- Memory

2009-08-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/08/2009, Igor Roshchin wrote: > See also charts comparing faster processor vs. faster memory > performance: > http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/RAM-Core2-scaling,0201--6464jpg-.html > However, personally I still won't go for the fastests CPUs. The laws of diminishing returns are well

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread Rick Womer
--- On Sat, 8/8/09, Cotty wrote: > > >Having looked comprehensively and taken recommendations > from locals, > >this seems to be the best company to deal with and, to > me, the best > >location. > > > >Alnmouth is on the main east coast train route and > close to the A1. > >Well stocked with sh

Re: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread ann sanfedele
Bob W wrote: I've found this to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm Although I'm threatened with redundancy, and likely to have a hard time finding another job, the fact is that worse things happen to a lot of people every day. I live in a reasonably decent society and even

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Cotty wrote: >>Ideal for me would be half-term.  Around mid October. > Ack, half-term week here is week beginning Oct 26 So October has, what, 45 or 50 days over there? On this side of the pond, the extra-large months only occur in Texas. -- PDML Pentax-Discu

RE: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> > >>Ideal for me would be half-term.  Around mid October. > > Ack, half-term week here is week beginning Oct 26 > > So October has, what, 45 or 50 days over there? > > On this side of the pond, the extra-large months only occur in Texas. > North of Watford they operate the Julian and Gre

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: Paul Sorenson ase in point - she was following her GPS...from the August 7th Los Angeles Times *http://tinyurl.com/kjpscl* An 11-year-old boy died in the intense heat of Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded and survived for several days on bottled water, P

Re: GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: David J Brooks Works for me.:-0 I like the first one, of the leg, and the biker shot and the last one of the lady on the subway, but the others are also well done. Gives a whole new meaning to "cut 'em off at the knees" though. ;-D -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://

Re: First thoughts: GPS, geocoding (Mac, Lightroom)

2009-08-09 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
Rob Studdert wrote: > Funny you should mention this, just a few hours ago I was > experimenting tagging my images too. I'm using a portable GPS device > that generates GPX track log files directly. I shouldn't need to use > GPSbabel but some Geotagging apps seem to need the files trans coded > fr

Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU?

2009-08-09 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Rob Studdert" Subject: Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU? Some of the just past Intel Core 2 Duo processors seem to be the best price point, great value really, 4GB of RAM can be had for peanuts and will allow the PC to handle even big comp

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Bob W" Subject: RE: Really OT Google maps I don't think anyone could survive a diet of Pop-Tarts more than a couple of hours Americans really are made of sterner stuff. Are chip sandwiches still the diet of choice where you are? William Robb -- PDM

Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU?

2009-08-09 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Graydon" Subject: Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU? So somewhere in the "performance", rather than "enthusiast" categories; a Radeon 4850 or 4770, for example. I went to a Radeon 4850 (1gb ram). It seems to do the trick. William Robb -

Re: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "John Sessoms" Subject: RE: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but From: "Bob W" I've found this to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm This is NOT good news from my point of view. I worked long and hard to become a curmudgeo

Re: Shoot till you drop

2009-08-09 Thread Christine Aguila
Go Paul! Lookin forward to seeing the pictures. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "paul stenquist" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 5:43 PM Subject: Shoot till you drop Shot ten hours at the Mopar Nationals in Columbus, OH yesterday and a

Re: First thoughts: GPS, geocoding (Mac, Lightroom)

2009-08-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/08/2009, Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > IMHO Thibouille doesn't need GPS-Babel either for retrieving track data > from his Garmin. I have exactly the same model. It's recognized by Mac > OS as a normal USB mass storage device and Houdah-Geo reads the files as > they come out of the Garmin. >

RE: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> > > >I don't think anyone could survive a diet of Pop-Tarts more > than a couple > >of > > hours > > Americans really are made of sterner stuff. > Are chip sandwiches still the diet of choice where you are? > Only for royalty. The rest of us eat chip butties. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread mike wilson
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, mike wilson wrote: Having looked comprehensively and taken recommendations from locals, this seems to be the best company to deal with and, to me, the best location. Alnmouth is on the main east coast train route and close to the A1. Wel

Re: Tongan Winter

2009-08-09 Thread Christine Aguila
Looks lovely! Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Alastair Robertson" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 12:24 AM Subject: PESO: Tongan Winter http://www.pbase.com/update_image/115872534 We spent three idyllic days at this place in Vava'u in T

PESO 2009 - 129 - GDG

2009-08-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Why does the chicken cross the road? http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/129-why Comments always appreciated. Godfrey -- http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread mike wilson
Bob W wrote: Ideal for me would be half-term. Around mid October. Ack, half-term week here is week beginning Oct 26 So October has, what, 45 or 50 days over there? On this side of the pond, the extra-large months only occur in Texas. North of Watford they operate the Julian and Gre

RE: PESO 2009 - 129 - GDG

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
That's great - I have a small collection of chicken crossing the road photos taken in different places around the world - it's one of my themes. Must put together a little web page of them sometime. Bob > > Why does the chicken cross the road? > >http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/129-wh

Re: PESO 2009 - 129 - GDG

2009-08-09 Thread Christine Aguila
Godfrey, love the pic, and Bob W. I'd love to see your set! Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Bob W" To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:45 AM Subject: RE: PESO 2009 - 129 - GDG That's great - I have a small collection of chicken crossing

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
Miserer, It was our John btw. Of course lenses :) --Sasha On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Miserere wrote: > Sasha, > > "You can never have too many..." WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts with > silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? We need to know! > > Nice shot of Mark D. otherwise  :-) >

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
Oops, how did I dare to misspell your name? On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Sasha Sobol wrote: > Miserer, It was our John btw. > Of course lenses :) > > --Sasha > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Miserere wrote: >> Sasha, >> >> "You can never have too many..." WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts wi

Re: First thoughts: GPS, geocoding (Mac, Lightroom)

2009-08-09 Thread Doug Franklin
Hi Thibouille, Thibouille wrote: I thought that about 100 Euros for that was maybe a bit steep but realized I could make a better investment and got myself a Garmin Gpsmap 60cx. The exact model isn't important of course. IMO paying 250 Euros for a device I can use while cycling, driving a car, w

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread Doug Franklin
John Sessoms wrote: My experience is about 25% of men can learn to read a map well enough to navigate by it. The day I really started enjoying maps was when I figured out how to visualize a topo map as a 3D environment, when I was a kid. Since then, I've been a map junkie. -- Thanks, Dou

Re: GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread Christine Aguila
Big thanks, Joseph, Bob W., Jack, Dave, and John. If I can, I'm going to go back tonight to try for more carnie shots. Experimenting with this lightroom web interface is driven by a desire to move towards the direction of story and project with my photography. With the creation of my web pa

Re: PESO 2009 - 129 - GDG

2009-08-09 Thread Igor Roshchin
That old joke has been a puzzle for me since the first time I heard it: I still don't understand what's so funny about it... But it is rather funny, that in Quitman, GA, USA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitman,_Georgia ), local ordinance prohibits chickens from crossing the road. (I wonder if

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:18:27AM +0200, AlunFoto scripsit: > 2009/8/8 Joseph McAllister : > > Mt. Rainier - 4392 meters, 14,411 feet, 105 km or 65 miles to my south > > linearly > > Mt. Baker -  3286 meters, 10,781 feet 90 km or 56 miles to my north linearly > > But I will never climb either one!

Re: PESO 2009 - 129 - GDG

2009-08-09 Thread ann sanfedele
nice! ann Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Why does the chicken cross the road? http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/129-why Comments always appreciated. Godfrey -- http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread Cotty
On 9/8/09, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: > >Ours is the same. At the moment. Wooohooo. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://

Re: Northumbrian coast PDML meet

2009-08-09 Thread Cotty
Mike, if we assume a solid interest, might be better and cheaper to hire one house with lots of rooms. I wonder if the Gnutty Norwegians can swing anything? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

Re: PESO 2009 - 129 - GDG

2009-08-09 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/9/2009 8:37:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ramar...@mac.com writes: Why does the chicken cross the road? http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/129-why Comments always appreciated. Godfrey == To get to the other side. :-) Nice shot, good atmosphere and color. M

Re: GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/9/2009 1:04:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cagu...@earthlink.net writes: Hi Everyone: I'd be interested in knowing if you like the interface and the inclusion of text here. If not, feel free to say so. If you hover your curser over the right side middle of the large

Re: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread P. J. Alling
mike wilson wrote: Cotty wrote: On 9/8/09, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I've found this to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm Shouldn't that be ' People look like Frenchmen as they age' ? When did you ever see De Gaulle smiling like that? Even after we got h

Re: GESO Street Walk

2009-08-09 Thread P. J. Alling
Streetwalk, hum, there's a joke here somewhere, I just can't seem to bring myself to make it... Christine Aguila wrote: Hi Everyone: I'd be interested in knowing if you like the interface and the inclusion of text here. If not, feel free to say so. If you hover your curser over the right s

Re: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread ann sanfedele
P. J. Alling wrote: mike wilson wrote: Cotty wrote: On 9/8/09, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I've found this to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm Shouldn't that be ' People look like Frenchmen as they age' ? When did you ever see De Gaulle smiling like th

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread P. J. Alling
Pop-Tarts will keep you nicely preserved for retrieval... William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bob W" Subject: RE: Really OT Google maps I don't think anyone could survive a diet of Pop-Tarts more than a couple of hours Americans really are made of sterner stuff. Are ch

RE: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> > mike wilson wrote: > > Cotty wrote: > > > >> On 9/8/09, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> > >> > >>> I've found this to be true: > >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm > >> > >> > >> Shouldn't that be ' People look like Frenchmen as they age' ? > > > > When did you ever see

Re: OT - Especially for my recently unemployed, but

2009-08-09 Thread P. J. Alling
ann sanfedele wrote: P. J. Alling wrote: mike wilson wrote: Cotty wrote: On 9/8/09, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I've found this to be true: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8183522.stm Shouldn't that be ' People look like Frenchmen as they age' ? When did you ever see De

Re: Really OT Google maps

2009-08-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Not me. I love maps. Of course, I was a professional navigator 40+ years ago . . Dan On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:57 AM, David Mann wrote: > On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:16 AM, Bob W wrote: > >> Paper maps are so 20th century... > > I'm amused by the fact that men have a reputation of never using a map or

Dream Cruise blog #3 on Times web site

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Stenquist
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/woodward-dream-cruise-beginnings/ Thanks for all who've had a look at these. Just made it back from my shoot in Ohio. Have to crank out another Times blog for tomorrow. Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/lis

Re: Shoot till you drop

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks. I shot about 2000 frames, but I'll probably process only around 300. Some of the less critical stuff I shot as jpegs, partly to save room on my cards. I didn't want to reformat any until I had the files on my laptop and my home computer. Paul On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Jack Davis wr

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/8/8 John Sessoms : > North Carolina has no snow capped peaks - maybe a little in the winter, but > it doesn't linger more than a day or two. > > The highest mountain in NC is Mt. Mitchell at 6,684 feet (2,037 m). It's > actually the highest in the whole Appalachian chain that stretches paralle

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/8/8 Bob Sullivan : > Jostein, > What a great adventure.  They are precious photos and convey the > enironment with beauty. > Regards, Bob S. Thanks Bob. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.n

Re: PESO - "2469"

2009-08-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/8/8 mike wilson : > > Congrats indeed.  I missed that it was a blogpost, therefore didn't need a > URL... Well I should have provided you folks with one none the less. Thanks for bearing over with me. > Probably, they get everyone on top the same way they do here > http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/

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