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And Mike traded in his "next in line" status when he took on the role of dad-at-home.
Hi Mike! Let's see, we last talked about 2.5 months ago.... so you missed the new Forester XT for me and a baby inbound too! That's the Cliff notes anyway.
Oh, and Bob and I were invited back by SoA, this time to Vegas to try the new Legacy on May 17.
-juice
Where've you been? And are you STILL driving around in that Civic?
Hurry up and get a Subie already!
Mmmm. Canon 10D. That's a nice piece of equipment.
Ken
Me, I like Bill :-)
You may want to sent in a Contact us form and see if the tech people have any suggestions.
Steve, Host
Loosh, congrats on both accounts! I almost went to see you play last night.
Loosh is correct, juice, I lost next in line status. But it's a good trade. Congrats to you and Bob w/SoA!
Yes, Ken, I'm STILL driving that Civic. What's really nice is the EF 80-200mm f/2.8L IS -- big, fast glass. Not exactly portable or inconspicuous. But if you're low light it's the only option.
http://www.usa.canon.com/eflenses/lenses/ef_70-200_28is/ef_70-200_28is.html.
..Mike
..Mike
huh? I thought any modern AF canon 35mm lens was usable on a 10D? I didn't research it much, that was just my assumption.
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different subject: juice don't get too excited about mileage for the 2.5L. subaru is working hard against nature here; fact is, it simply is a bigger engine than the 1.6-2.0L powerplants used by the real misers in the economy car class. it's going to use more fuel especially since the competition are long-stroke inline fours and the EJ25 is a much shorter stroke out of necessity, with the boxer layout.
~c
-Brian
Anyways ... I have been in Missouri for two days and have not seen a single Subaru! What's up with that?
Craig
Cheers Pat.
..Mike
..Mike
..Mike
Occasionally I'll pop in on Safari too, and no problems there. The little Edmunds car logo in the address window instead of the IE world icon is sort of cool too.
Steve, Host
tune
in
to
CHAT
on
Thursday
at
9:00 .......
BTW after a big Saturday night in Missouri, I still have not seen a single Subaru!
Jim
[public service announcement on]
BTW, I do really like Brenda. I was sitting on the porch one CHAT night, and she kept waving at me <as only she can> until I felt more than compelled to join in.
[public service announcement off]
Bren, I "branded" is a tad too harsh. Think of it as being "profiled"! Don't you feel better now???
Re: browsers - I had been using Opera for several years and loved it, but would occasionally have difficulties with sites not supporting it. However, the only problem I had with it in TH was the chat. I recently switched over to Mozilla Firebird. So far it's been working pretty good and I haven't encountered any problems yet.
Cheers Pat.
Bob
Good to see your friendly fonts here again!
Cheers!
Paul
Cheers Pat.
One other thing is that with digital SLRs, the CMOS or CCD is often smaller in area than a standard 35mm shutter so the effective zoom lengths change. The mounts are the same, but you need to keep the effective lens length in mind.
Ken
-Frank P.
Karen & Frank, thanks for the welcome and cargo box info. I'll look it up.
..Mike
..Mike
-Frank P.
Now on topic: I did some of the 30/30 maintanance stuff this weekend - more over in that thread.
Steve
Cheers Pat.
Oh how technology has changed us!
Steve
Home Theatre rocks. 91" projection LCD at home, takes up half my basement.
Because 60" is just too small!
-juice
Guess I should slink away and swap the Sube for a pickup.
Oh wait, that'd be the Baja.
Sometimes the geeky stuff insulates you from the real world. So that's why I have two hammocks.
Steve, Host
Cheers Pat.
-juice
Cheers Pat.
Got the Optioi 330 (3x zoom/3.2mpx) and a Kodak DX 6490 (10x zoom/4 mpx)
David Charles Myrick will surely be a future Subie driver! :-)
We're going to visit them tonight, most likely, so I'll try to bring a WRC Rally Car toy as his first gift, appropriately.
-juice
According to this fellow, when the English encountered kangaroos upon their first visits to Australia, they didn't know what that strange animal was called. So they asked some local aborigines: "What is that animal called?" The aborigines replied: "Kangaroo."
Well, as it turns out, the word "kangaroo" in the aborigine's language translates to: "Don't understand?"
In any event, the name stuck. Have you heard anything along those lines? Is this true? Even if it's not, it makes for a good story!
Bob
-Brian
-Frank P.
Besides, once it gets to the dealer it still needs to get the moonroof installed, so add another 2 days.
-Brian
-Frank P.
Hope none of you were affected by the tornados that hit this afternoon. That was caused by one of the local weather people here in NYC. He mentioned last night how it has been very low number of tornados in your neck of the woods, so voila!
Seriously, hope everyone is OK.
Mark
Yes, I can confirm that Kangaroo translates roughly as "I don't understand" in the language of the tribe around Sydney who Joseph Banks, the botanist on Captain James Cook 1770 voyage interviewed. I'm suffering a brain freeze on the name of the tribe and language.
Australian Aboriginal (strictly Koorie) culture is interesting with lots of parallels to American Indian. They first migrated here about 70,000 years ago across a land bridge that existed from South East Asia.
Small groups, ranging from a small family to a large tribe (say 300) had a close affinity to their land, identifying as animals or totems and developing a complex Dreaming story of the earth's creation and shaping (Typical story would be that a river was formed as the track of a giant snake in the dreaming.). Occasionally, several of these groups would join together for a special event. For example, there is a large moth that migrates to the Victorian Alps each year. It is large enouigh and plentiful enough to make excelllent eating when cooked and the annual arival of the moths would see large groups of Koorie temprarily relocate to the Alps. you would not want to do this outsdie summer as it gets very cold with snow cover for about 5 months.
There were about 300,000 Koorie at the time of white settlement, speaking probably 300 languages in a variety of language groups. There are similarities between languages of adjoining tribes but the further apart the tribes, the less likely there would be contact and hence the less similar the vocabulary. Grammar rules are generally roughly similar.
Today there are only a handful of languages left although the total Koorie population remains at about 300,000.
Aboriginal nouns have been picked up for many places and objects although comparatively few adjectives or verbs have made it into Australian English.
Cheers
Graham
that's not to say that we don't get our share around here at times ... moving from near Dallas-Fort Worth to South Bend, I basically went from one end of tornado alley to the other, but at least now I have a basement!