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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 21, 2006, 11:24 AM »
Quote from: ruiner on March 21, 2006, 10:50 AM
Rob had a great post too in regards to this "election" mirroring our real presidential election(s) - he who has the most money wins!

Yet somehow I had to go in there again and spell it out for Mark_Rebelscum...  ::)

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: 2006 DVD Releases Thread
« on: March 21, 2006, 10:45 AM »
28 Days Later - Foreign sure, but indie?  With a budget of 8 million and Fox Search Light as a US distributor, maybe.  But it picked up steam and played in 1400 theaters and grossed over 45 million domestic.  And it's still a Danny Boyle film and he did it for less money on purpose and the DVD is still available on the $10.00 rack right infront of the registers at Target and has sold copies out the ass for the better part of 2 years.  It started off that way, but sure didn't end up that way.

Almost Famous -  With a 60 million dollar production budget, directed by a big name director, and released in over 2,200 theaters... an indie film?  Not even close.

American History X - It played in fewer theaters (500) so maybe, but with a production budget around 20 million dollars and a distribution deal with New Line, it's hard to say that it was really an indie film.

A Bronx Tale - Made for Television but somehow managed to find its way into 1,100 theaters and starred Robert Dinero

Indie films are things that have hardly any studio backing and small budgets.  Hardly any of these fit the bill to a tee.  So for the sake of argument I'll give you 28 Days later and A Bronx Tale, I'd lean no on American History X.  Almost Famous is a definite no.


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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Digital Rebel XT, Digital SLR's, & a question about Compact Flash Cards...
« on: March 21, 2006, 12:14 AM »
Quote from: JoshEEE on March 20, 2006, 10:20 PM
Rebel XT is a great camera, but like any camera....it's only as good as the lens you've got on it.  So....what did you get?

For now I've got the 18-55 Canon lens that came with the kit.  While it's not top-of-the-line it's not horrible either.  I've also got a slightly nicer one (27-80 or something like that...) that we got when we bought our Elan 7e a few years ago.  It may or may not be L-series, I've got to get it out and check.

Given the already large cost of what I've bought this week, I decided that a better lens would have to wait until later in the year.   I'd like to get something around 200mm (or 300mm if I'm feeling crazy) and I'd like to get a nice wide-angle lens.  I'd probably be looking into L-series lenses when that day comes (I'm a Canon whore).

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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, 06:46 PM »
Stop it ghuys.


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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, 03:04 PM »
Quote from: JoshEEE on March 20, 2006, 03:02 PM
I actually contemplated trying to get some sponsors after I saw the prizes one would get....but I doubt I could compete with the Rebelscum machine.

However....it made for an interesting question.  What if someone else did run?  Could they promote their campaign on RS?  I know someone "from JD" probably couldn't....but what if I did?   

Everyone knows I love that site.  So if I "ran" (and I'm only being hypothetical here), would I get in trouble for mentioning it at Rebelscum?

There would be the ultimate hypocrisy if (even a JD member) couldn't mention their candidacy for the SW.com fan club president position.  That person wouldn't be advertising JD, they'd be advertising themselves.

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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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