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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: How Do You Spell Hypocrisy? P-H-I-L-I-P W-I-S-E
« on: March 20, 2006, 02:53 PM »
It shouldn't be colman - he lives right down the street from Comic Con.

NOMINATE ME!!!

I could run under my old Zod monicker...


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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: How Do You Spell Hypocrisy? P-H-I-L-I-P W-I-S-E
« on: March 20, 2006, 12:24 PM »
That IS the dumbest thing I've ever heard of... I could shell out 350 bucks and make 7 fake accounts right now and be the frontrunner?  Yikes.  That's about the same amount of money I'd spend on a plane ticket to Comic Con anyway - and they'll cover it if I win.

Vote for me everyone!

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: How Do You Spell Hypocrisy? P-H-I-L-I-P W-I-S-E
« on: March 20, 2006, 11:45 AM »
I dunno, I think this isn't as big a deal.  Doesn't RS have sponsorship deals with the people that Dustin's linking to?  If so, they wouldn't have any issue with that.

On a surface level, I'd expect nothing less than all the campaign hoopla since one of their main employees is in the running - as obnoxious as it is, and as little as I'd think anyone would be in the whole thing, I don't fault them too much for pushing their own guy.

Although the newspost by Phillip sure does smell like b.s.

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Dustin For President
Posted by Philip on March 20, 2006 at 09:39 AM CST:
It's time to get out the support.

Those with current subscriptions, you can renew now and it will tack on your subscription to the end of your current term.

Can't afford it? That's not so unusual with all the stuff we have to buy for our collections; give one away as a gift to a friend, or ask for one for your birthday. Get it early even.

Or, go wear out your friends and have them sign up.

We need to get this thing moving!

Read all about the campaign here.

Join or renew here.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Digital Rebel XT, Digital SLR's, & a question about Compact Flash Cards...
« on: March 20, 2006, 11:14 AM »
The plan is only for if it breaks or parts go bad or anything occurs do to normal wear and tear.  I'm going to call State Farm today, but I'm 95% sure that if it's stolen or I lose it I can get it replaced through my regular insurance, minus the deducatble.  The irony of course is that if I drop it and break it, State Farm won't replace it - but if I drop it off the side of a mountain and can't find it at the bottom, they'll replace it as lost.

As for being in another country and crime - it's always possible, but New Zealand isn't the den of crime that some of the bigger cities that I've been through in Europe are.  I'm pretty good about keeping my bag wrapped around an arm or a leg at all times and such.  In the end, I'm a pretty experienecd traveller and always do my best to not look like a tourist...  I'm 10 times more worried that I'll drop it than I am about theft.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: How's the weather?
« on: March 19, 2006, 03:18 PM »
It's pouring here - for only about the second time in the last 5 months.  It's great. 

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Digital Rebel XT, Digital SLR's, & a question about Compact Flash Cards...
« on: March 19, 2006, 03:17 PM »
Cool.  I ended up doing it this way.

1 Digital Rebel XT
1 One Gig Compact Flash Ultra II card
1 Compact Flash reader
1 Extra Digital Rebel XT Battery
1 Four year service plan.

I normally don't buy the service plans, but on something like this I figured I'd better...

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Digital Rebel XT, Digital SLR's, & a question about Compact Flash Cards...
« on: March 19, 2006, 12:56 PM »
I might be shooting in RAW mode in the future - what would be beneficial about the fancier compact flash in that situation?

I'm now considering keeping the better card, today's ad has them for $30.00 less with instant and mail-in rebates.  Infact, I'm thinking about grabbing one more of them because if I shoot exclusively at 8 megapixels I can only put about 250 on a 1 Gig Card.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Canon's Digital Rebel XT - and Digital SLR's in general
« on: March 18, 2006, 07:22 PM »
Okay, so I pulled the trigger on this one today... here's my new question.

The girl told me that this SanDisk "ultra II" Compact Flash card was better than the regular old Compact Flash card.  She implied that it was special for DSLR's and that it was the only way to go.  It's about $30.00 more for this one gig card than the other one gig card.  I bought it with the intention that I'd research it before I opened it.

So does anyone know if there's 'really' a difference - my impression is that it reads and writes faster than the regular type - but if there isn't realy a difference I could get two gigs for a little more than I paid for one.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Canon's Digital Rebel XT - and Digital SLR's in general
« on: March 17, 2006, 06:34 PM »
Not many photography enthusiasts around here I see?

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Watto's Junk Yard / The Digital Rebel XT, Digital SLR's, & a question about Compact Flash Cards...
« on: March 17, 2006, 10:49 AM »
I'm headed to New Zealand, and I need a new digital camera before I go.  I've been looking to buy a semi-professional DSLR for several months and this has sort of kicked me into action...

So I'm most likely buying a Digital Rebel XT tomorrow.  I'm very excited about it.  I've reasearched the camera pretty extensively and almost everything I've read has been practically glowing, but I was looking for opinions from people who own one.

Does anyone here have one?  If so, do you have any problems with it?  Anyone have a different brand that they feel very strongly about?

Thanks in advance.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: 2006 DVD Releases Thread
« on: March 16, 2006, 03:32 PM »
This week:





I'm thinking about passing Squid and the Whale...

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: 2006 DVD Releases Thread
« on: March 16, 2006, 03:23 PM »
It flopped - monumentally so.

The estimated production budget was $80,000,000

The Opening Weekend gross was $917,398
The Domestic gross was $1,900,451
The worldwide gross was $7,214,275   

It closed in October of 05', never played in more than 816 theaters simultaneously, and lost around 73 million dollars.

A Sound of Thunder

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: iPod-racing
« on: March 16, 2006, 11:28 AM »
Hmmmm... I didn't have any mpeg4 stuff but iTunes converted all of my wma's into mp3's when I first tried to import it all.  But I had to set it up to do that before I tried importing anything...  I'm sure a quick google search for mpeg4 converter or something like that would net a few programs that you could use.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: "George Lucas to direct Indy IV"
« on: March 15, 2006, 05:57 PM »
**** it - I hope they go for it and make it huge.  And I hope Connery comes back and there are Nazis (although a 63 year old Indy would make more sense in the 60's with some Soviets to fight...) and monsters and lions and tigers and bears. 

And I'll be there on opening night.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JD Fantasy Hockey 2005
« on: March 15, 2006, 05:33 PM »
I left Shanahan on the bench to the tune of 3 points the other day when I completely wanted to start him...I thought I had but obviously hadn't - and one of my defensemen that I had every intention of playing had a two point night on a day that I forgot to make the switch.

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