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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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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Official Darth Big Boy; Bearer of Bad Celebrity News - Appreciation Thread
« on: March 14, 2006, 06:01 PM »
Thanks DBB, but we need it to be a link from Rebelscum for it to fit in with the rest. :)

By the way, did you or anyone else get that Oscar Winning Actress (who's name escapes me) who died yesterday or the day before?

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: 2006 DVD Releases Thread
« on: March 14, 2006, 06:00 PM »
Quote from: Cory H. on March 14, 2006, 04:48 PM
I also think you're confusing me with Rob who recently started getting into Cronenberg movies a few of months back, not that it matters or is relevant to why we like someone's work.

The only problem with that is that The Brood, Scanners, and The Fly have been some of my favorites since I was a little kid.  I just filled in some gaps last year.

Quote from: Cory H. on March 14, 2006, 04:48 PM
What a crock of ****. I'm not even going to counter that because I know it's untrue.

Dude, WTF are you talking about?  Looking at your collection we find:

28 Days Later
50 First Dates
The 6th Day
Alien Vs. Predator
Airforce One
Airplane
Airplane 2
Alien Boxed Set
Almost Famous
American History X
Amityville Horror remake
Anchorman
Antitrust
Apollo 13
Assault on Precinct 13
The Austin Powers Boxed Set
Back to the Future Trilogy
Bandits
Batman
Batman Begins
Batman Returns
Beetlejuice
Black Hawk Down
Blade
Blade 2
The Bone Collector
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
A Bronx Tale
Butterly Effect


And that's just the A's and B's.

I've got tons of mainstream movies too, but to so vehemently deny that you're into mainstream movies is crap.

Quote from: Cory H. on March 14, 2006, 04:48 PM
Not that anyone else here is capable of independent thought to see things my way.

Independent thought doesn't mean seeing things your way. 

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Battle of Tatooine Wave
« on: March 14, 2006, 10:29 AM »
Are we pretty confident that that isn't a custom?  It looks hands down better than the Evolutions Sandtrooper - which looked pretty freaking good in its own right.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: 2006 vOTC (or vTSC) - now with pics!
« on: March 14, 2006, 10:20 AM »
Super Articulated Sandtrooper?  This is the happiest day of my collecting life.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Wilhelm Scream
« on: March 13, 2006, 12:37 PM »
http://loresdelsith.unicyber.org/trp7/vid_varios/Wilhelm!.mov

This is pretty fun too...

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Wilhelm Scream
« on: March 13, 2006, 12:37 PM »
http://www.folkbildning.nu/wilhelm.wav

It might not be the original one - sounds like there's a secondary audio edit in there somewhere...

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Taxes
« on: March 12, 2006, 11:54 PM »
Quote from: Deanpaul on March 14, 2005, 12:52 AM
Quote from: Kneel Before Zod on March 10, 2005, 10:28 PM
I'm self-employed.   So no one pays half of my taxes, AND no one witholds any of it for me - so at the end of the year I'm paying.

Rob, please tell me you're filing as an S-Corp. If you're not, we need to talk. Seriously, it was the best thing I ever did in my business organization. I got my ass handed to me year one as a sole proprietor, but for the last four years I've come out way ahead being incorporated.

Looks like I missed this last year...  Deanpaul, the reason I never incorporated myself (is that the same thing that you're talking about?) is because I never intended to stay freelance - and I didn't, I was hired full time last September.  So this year I've got 8 months worth of freelance taxes to pay - and then I'm done with that shizz.  Next year I'll be getting a big fat refund.

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