Re: SP blackout

2015-07-17 Thread Matthew Hunt
I found a Super-Takumar 50/1.4 at a local flea market a couple of years ago, and it had the word "Takumar" blacked out. "Super" and everything else were left alone. Serial number was 3140896. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:26 PM, CollinB wrote: > Picked up a used SP in the neighborhood yesterday. On

Re: SP blackout

2015-07-17 Thread P.J. Alling
Probably the lens was a grey market import. On 7/17/2015 12:26 PM, CollinB wrote: Picked up a used SP in the neighborhood yesterday. One oddity is that the lens, Super Takumar, has those words blacked out. (It's the 50/1.4.) Was this one of those import mods? -- I don't want to achieve imm

SP blackout

2015-07-17 Thread CollinB
Picked up a used SP in the neighborhood yesterday. One oddity is that the lens, Super Takumar, has those words blacked out. (It's the 50/1.4.) Was this one of those import mods? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the

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2003-08-18 Thread Raimo Korhonen
:22 Aihe: Re: Re: blackout >> Fra: Dan Matyola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Plzen is in the Czech Republic and the home of modern beer. Pilsner >> Urquell is the brand name, and its very good as imported into the US,but >> simply unequalled over there. >&g

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2003-08-18 Thread dagt
They are quite different, so it depends on the weather ;-) Another thing is the story when US Budweiser tried to stop the Czech Budweiser from advertising when the Czechs started selling their beer in the west. The Americans tried referring to a hundred years of tradition. The Czechs answered

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2003-08-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Definitely. I still prefer the Czech Pilsner. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original Budweiser from Budvar is also very good.

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2003-08-18 Thread dagt
> Fra: Dan Matyola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Plzen is in the Czech Republic and the home of modern beer. Pilsner > Urquell is the brand name, and its very good as imported into the US,but > simply unequalled over there. > The original Budweiser from Budvar is also very good. DagT

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2003-08-17 Thread Alan Abbott
Don wrote: >I love beer, but simply don't have the patience to wait for Pilz to be drawn. It takes half an hour to fill a glass with the good stuff. The best beer >I've ever tasted is Schlösser Alt. There is also a good bitter to be had in Wiltshire - Arkell's. Here in the Cheshire (UK) we have (

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2003-08-17 Thread Dr E D F Williams
F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: July 31, 2003 - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 4:57 PM Subject: Re: blackout > Ok so i'm an idiot,(but

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2003-08-17 Thread Dr E D F Williams
ED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 7:12 PM Subject: Re: blackout > > > << I know you can develop 35 mm film in urine. Of course the results are not > much use since there is no image. >> > > There is no equal to this list. Praise the Lord.

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2003-08-17 Thread brooksdj
Ok so i'm an idiot,(but with a 6x7) Don't forget up here in the sticks,that micro brewed stuff is a hard find.Blue, Ex,and Canadian is about it.lol I was in Rochester a few years ago and the imported Canadian beers,even with exchange calc;d was cheaper in the US than here. Go fiqure eh. Dave(w

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2003-08-17 Thread Camdir
<< I know you can develop 35 mm film in urine. Of course the results are not much use since there is no image. >> There is no equal to this list. Praise the Lord. Probably the first time that the good doctor has caused a guffaw in these quarters. Peter

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2003-08-17 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Cotty wrote: > >Since there can never be enough light for me, the hardest part was the > >darkness - so I > >taped a small flashlight to my sunvisor and made an mining cap for myself. > > Ann, do yourself a big favour, buy a Petzl. Anyone who likes to see what > they are doing should not be withou

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2003-08-16 Thread frank theriault
BTW, Paul, I ~love~ that line! It would make a good sig for someone... -frank Paul Stenquist wrote: > I figured I'd rather smell > bad than feel bad. > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer

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2003-08-16 Thread Matt Bevers
Good post! But, the drinking age, AFAIK, is now 19 in most of Canada - except Quebec, which is still 18. Eh, figures. Must be some of that American Puritanism rubbing off on ya. As for drinking with relatives - I am just getting used to drinking with my "little" brother, I can't imagine drink

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2003-08-16 Thread Paul Stenquist
By the way, my extension cord has two MALE connectors, it doesn't do mail. On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 11:36 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 04:20 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Amita Guha wrote: So how did everyone fare in the blackout? I was in an elevator

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2003-08-16 Thread frank theriault
I beat you, Tom. But, to further clarify, I believe that Pilsner is a town or city in either the Czech Republic or Slovakia (which is my way of saying it's in the former Czechoslovakia, but now that they're separate, I don't know which it's in). They brewed an exceptionally fine lager there (the

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2003-08-16 Thread frank theriault
Hi, Matt, Good post! But, the drinking age, AFAIK, is now 19 in most of Canada - except Quebec, which is still 18. It used to be 18 in most provinces, but they put it up by one year - like that'll make a difference, eh? I just didn't want a flood of 18 year old Pentaxians coming up to this coun

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2003-08-16 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 04:20 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Amita Guha wrote: So how did everyone fare in the blackout? I was in an elevator. Yep. Fortunately, the elevator was hooked into the building's backup generator. The lights went out, but the elevator kept moving. I had w

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2003-08-16 Thread frank theriault
Brendan, My point exactly! Blue is only to be drunk after you're already well on your way to intoxication, and can't tell the difference in taste from one beer to another. Blue always has me talking on the big white phone (see previous thread on "puke euphemisms), but if you wait until you're ne

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2003-08-16 Thread Brendan
Sorry but Blue is not beer, it's water with a poor excuse for beer flavouring. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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2003-08-16 Thread Matt Bevers
I have a story about Labatt Blue, it goes as follows: A friend of mine had an older brother who took a trip up to Canada when he turned 18 (that's the drinking age there, it's 21 in the US) - he of course went right to a bar. He and his friend say: "Can we have two Labatts please?" The barten

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2003-08-16 Thread T Rittenhouse
Boy you really have a problem, Dave. Because you see pilsner is a type of lager. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 1:49 PM Subject:

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2003-08-16 Thread frank theriault
Dave, Isn't Pilsner a type of lager? Unless you're talking about Labatt Pilsner (which was the original name for Labatt Blue). In which case, I'm not sure that swill is to be called beer at all... cheers, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Worse still

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2003-08-16 Thread brooksdj
> Worse still, last Saturday the front page of the daily star proclaimed > that the UK would run out of lager in 10 days if the heatwave > continued!!! Lucky its cooled down a bit now, so people have probably > slowed down their drinking... > > > -Ori

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2003-08-16 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Amita Guha wrote: > So how did everyone fare in the blackout? > > Anyway, hope everyone in the Northeast is ok > > Amita Well, my 'hood was the last in the city to get the power back... (9 pm EST). I was home, luckily, when it hit. Had it occurred 30 minutes later

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2003-08-16 Thread Rob Brigham
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 August 2003 11:47 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: blackout > > > You think you've got it tough: > > According to the 'Daily Express', an English 'newspaper', the > whole of the > United Kingdom wi

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2003-08-16 Thread Camdir
You think you've got it tough: According to the 'Daily Express', an English 'newspaper', the whole of the United Kingdom will run out of electricity before Christmas. I have very reasonable prices on batteries, and hamster-operated dynamos. Kind regards Peter

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2003-08-15 Thread Jim Apilado
ate: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:12:35 -0400 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: blackout > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:12:36 -0400 > > I work at a hospital, and everything is OK now. After the blackout started > we went on auxi

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2003-08-15 Thread Kathleen
I work at a hospital, and everything is OK now. After the blackout started we went on auxiliary power, but only certain areas (where power was most urgently needed) had the power. The worst thing was yet to come: No Water. That was terrible. we had to bring in lots and lots of bottled water

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2003-08-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: blackout I came home at about 6;00 with some non-perishable food (found a working bank machine today), and my power is finally back on. We were without for over 24 hours. Now I have to go back to the cafe to drink the rest o

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2003-08-15 Thread brooksdj
My area is still out.Work has some power now.Gas is sporatic and the lines are HUGE.I have enough to get home,then hope for our area to get on line. Dave > I got lucky. I was on the fringe of it and was without power for only abo> ut > 1½ hours. 15 miles w

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2003-08-15 Thread Butch Black
I got lucky. I was on the fringe of it and was without power for only about 1½ hours. 15 miles west in Stamford they were powerless well into the evening. Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hess (Demian)

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2003-08-15 Thread Brendan
of lit windows. > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Steve Desjardins > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:35 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: blackout > > > > > > &g

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2003-08-15 Thread brooksdj
of Manhattan. :) I was > doing other goofy things like tracking people walking with flashlights > and shots of lit windows. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Steve Desjardins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:35 AM > > T

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2003-08-15 Thread brooksdj
We're ok here.Food still cool and we have some too:).Have propane for the Q too. Now if i can just buy some gas.:( Dave > So how did everyone fare in the blackout? I got caught out in it without > my Optio (never doing that again) but I did

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2003-08-15 Thread Amita Guha
3 9:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: blackout > > > I was thinking about that (stars over Manhattan) last night > as I watched CNN. Be sure to post those star trails when you > get them developed.

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2003-08-15 Thread Amita Guha
So how did everyone fare in the blackout? I got caught out in it without my Optio (never doing that again) but I did have half a roll of film in my Super Program, which I used up before I got to the 59th St. Bridge. When I got home I shot a roll of long exposures and star trails off my balcony

Re. O.T. we're talking basketball slaughter of USC (was O.T. Rolling blackout in Ca.)

2001-03-21 Thread W Keith Mosier
Paulo Ernest wrote: But not in the middle of "March Madness" when my USC Trojans are in the "sweet sixteen" for the first time in history. GO SC. I hope you don't have a black out during the game, when my Cats defeat your Trojans. :-P I want you to see just how great Kentucky's t

Re: O.T. Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread Ernest Alejandria
Good news. I just heard that the city I lived in may not be part of the rolling blackout. Apparently, our local, fully regulated power company does not depend on Southern California Edison (one of the major culprit along with PGE in NoCal for this energy shortage fiasco) for it's power s

Re: O.T. Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread Ernest Alejandria
r >government officials. >It's also untrue. We get notification when our block is likely to be >hit. >We received advance warning today (at around 11:00am) that cuts were >very >likely somewhere between 12:00 and 1:00pm, and that any blackout would >last around 90 mi

Re: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread John Francis
ia folk to get tough with your > government officials. It's also untrue. We get notification when our block is likely to be hit. We received advance warning today (at around 11:00am) that cuts were very likely somewhere between 12:00 and 1:00pm, and that any blackout would last around 90 mi

Re: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread Bob Blakely
You're not alone in thinking this. I thought it would be a good idea to have a schedule too, but then I learned... Giving out the news as to which communities will be blacked out gives shoplifters the opportunity to be in exactly the right place at the right time to be in range of the high value

Re: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread PAUL STENQUIST
Bob Blakely wrote: > > You will NOT be given a schedule for security reasons. Only community > organizations (police, fire, hospitals, etc.) will receive advance notice. > That's nuts. It's time for you California folk to get tough with your government officials. Paul - This message is from t

Re. O.T. Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread Ernest Alejandria
s" when my USC Trojans are in the "sweet sixteen" for the first time in history. GO SC Paulo Ernest P.S. Hoped we don't have a blackout during the game on Thursday. Schucks. Do you get the NCAA Tourney on the telley down there in NZ? __

Re: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread Steve Scott
000 [ for $200 refurbished at Directdeals.com > > Maris > > - Original Message - > From: "Ernest Alejandria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:45 PM > Subject: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca. > > | R

RE: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread Len Paris
Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Ernest Alejandria > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca. > > > Rolling blackouts started today in so. cal. and >

RE: O.T. Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread Ernest Alejandria
Doug, William and Skip, Thanks one and all for the response to my inquiry. I'm heeding every advise and keeping them to heart but my fingers are crossed nevertheless. These blackouts sucks. Paulo Ernest _ Get your FREE download

Re: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-20 Thread petit miam
I work in a hospital lab and we have machines which are best not turned off, but we get lots of power surges. We connect them all to UPS's (Uninterruptable Power Supply). I don't know if there is a smaller version to connect to a home computer. These ones keep it going for about ½hr to give time t

Re: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-19 Thread dosk
> . I have a PC operating on > > Windows ME. I'd like to ask members of the list who are more > knowlegable if > > there is any precaution I can undertake to prevent problems > that may arise, > > if and when power goes off. . Good advice from William here.. > Turn your c

Re: O.T, Rolling blackout in Ca.

2001-03-19 Thread David A. Mann
William Robb writes: > Always remember, the computer is the enemy. They are vampires of > time. Damn, I just realised that the amount I'm about to spend on a PC could buy me a 77mm Limited at local prices. By the time I add a couple of film scanners and a printer it gets even more depressin