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eh, it would have been better if you pressed the muslin before you took the picture. but maybe the electric iron is on the fritz

yup, you can "liquidate" that and get a tub-full of money (remember the bathtub full of money scene in "Slumdog Millionaire")

Hello, all. FWIW, you might want to take a look at my "newest" pictures. They were hastily posted. Did not/have not had the time since then to really pick out the ones I liked. Just scanned the 300 or so pix for what seemed sharp enough and un-blurred enough for posting. The guy with the small...

Just got back from the old house, had to watch while the guy painted the roof and did some repairs. No internet there. When I used to do some running back in the 80's, I would gain weight during the first 3 months. Then I would lose weight after that. I figured the exercise increased my...

9-12 hours doesn't sound like here.

Hey, was that masterful or not. Really feels like, "Good Job, Fushigi!"

In my case, she wouldn't worry if I went on some "dangerous" thing such as that mountain trek last March. But that's now. And we've been married since 1973. Of course if I shed some blood it probably would be different. But I didn't. During our first few years, she would be worried sick given...

I somehow knew you'd say that. Was the wife sick with worry? Then relieved. Did she give you an earful? In the same situation, I know my wife would.

The wife had the flu (not swine flu, thankfully) since last Thursday and wanted me by her side. She went back today to teach. I normally stay at home once every two days so when I want to sleep, I just crawl onto the bed. My work crises consist of calls for virus removal or restoration of...

Mike J (THE onlinephotographer) said it was "However, it is inherently slow and very difficult to manufacture, and devilishly intricate to process" Was only able to use ektachrome, Kodachrome being beyond what my 30yearold pockets could afford. And I was an expat working in Saudi Arabia at the...

I also thought the Mazda Pi was good. But Lenin (or whoever) playing basketball made me LOL. Thanks, David. Made my morning.

Ahh, but if I remember rightly, they have set an end to XP support

I am preparing a "safe PC usage" presentation for them so they would know why what they are doing is potentially dangerous to their PCs and the workplace. Thanks to Mercutio, and the people here, what I will be sharing, I mostly learned from this place.

Two organizations lean on me for hardware and sometimes software advice. I often build systems for them. Problem is, they deal with kids, off the street kids. One takes them off the streets, off drugs, houses and teaches them. The second deals with gangs and tries to teach them. So some of the...

I was a fan of David Carradine. Low key and understated. Sad ending. Kinda like Bruce Lee who likewise had a sad ending. But the pic in the link shows him like he just got out of bed after sleeping in his clothes. Could be typical, huh!

Have any of you come across "Densha Otoko" a TV series (Japanese with English subs) released in 2005. I watched it again this week and I can't help laughing (and most times identifying with) with the "lame" hero as he tries to win his love with the help of the denizens of a "singles" thread...

O.T. "Indicators" of the global financial crisis in this part of the world: 1. Enrollment in private schools is DOWN! Parents are transferring kids to public schools inspite of them being overcrowded, with over-worked and underpaid teachers. They just can't pay the tuition and would rather...

hmmm, thanks. I understand that thing about the Windows firewall. I will be reading up on that NAT setup thing And I will read those security articles.

I looked at the wedding pix... The pictures are records the couple should cherish over the years. Sure, from a technical point of view one could say "This should have been..., that could have been..." But given the circumstances Dave must be credited for coming up with pictures such as...

any freeware effective firewall?

I just have to express my appreciation for the very well written (easy to follow) article on malware removal. I have used it to clean up 4 PCs. Beats reformatting any time. (oops did I just admit to that?) And that advert article, great, too! eh, I have been using Avast for more than a year...

Dave, in that situation, I'd either be flustered and be totally useless or be so happy to be useful that I'd do a good job. Either way, I'd still end up taking pictures of the event and piss off most of the guests by ordering them around and shouting a lot. BTW, glad you are pleased with the...

Thank you for the comments. I acknowledge the need to clean the sensor as dust particles manifest themselves every now and then. Which is why I shun small apertures. But right now, I don't have a way of cleaning it. I did some levels on all the shots, (not that it was actually needed) and some...

May I invite you to take a visit to my latest set on Flickr. Would appreciate comments. http://www.flickr.com/photos/paugie/sets/72157617505368293/

Yep, I already am sure its not Lupus in disguise.

Great, I'll be away anyway. And maybe watching the Pacquiao-Hatton bout.

After the Mount Pulag climb, I participated in a bike event for Clean Air this morning. About 7000 cyclists weaving through the metropolis. Quite short, only 30 or so kilometers. But the heat was energy sapping. This was my first "Tour of the Fireflies" as this annual event is called, although...

yeah, very timely. the organization which looks to me for tech support has its network crawling with viruses and malware. now it seems I can look as if I know what I'm doing. thanks much.

Yes, thank you, Handruin. Your 5K is great. I have not had one since 1988. Been quite sedentary ever since. My friend who was acting as team leader was waking us up at 5:45 yesterday morning, "Get up, let's have breakfast, clean up and break camp. We've got a 3 hour walk down the mountain and a...

Hike up Mount Pulag I'm back. And really glad. Wasn't able to take pix to speak of, it was raining most of the time we were there. And it was really cold (for us) maybe 11 degrees centigrade. If one is used to 28 degrees or higher, that's quite a temp to get accustomed to. If it wasn't...

I'm sorry, Tony, that such a big catastrophe happened. We hope that by this time there are no more fires burning. I knew that I posted something in this thread early on but looking it over, there's nothing from me. :-(

whoa, where does the soot come from? here, in the summer, which we are entering and will last until august, our problem is dust which settles quite thickly on every surface, not only horizontal. most Filipinos (except street dwellers) take a shower/bath or two a day due to the normal hot...

just to say I will be attempting, on 54 year old knees, to climb a mountain over this weekend if I don't survive, I'll ask my son to post something here. heh-heh will be bringing the Pentax, maybe post a ho-hum landscape in the appropriate thread

You may have been lucky. Some guys have reported problems with the 5DMarkII. It was the only camera with significant failure rates on the Luminous Landscape's sponsored Antartica trip. And some professional fashion photographer ditched his 5DIIs because of image/sensor problems...

Yes, I was wondering very much why Buck wasn't posting for a very long time.

Yeah, what gives?

The last good burner I bought was a NEC. 3 years ago. still burning well, though I once opened it up to clean the lens. Then I bought Sony thinking its partnership with NEC would make it good. Nope. 3 replacements (heard other horror stories from other techs here) in the year it was under...

I took the pentax out for a spin one monday and had a heart thumping day, feeling somebody might grab it away from me. something of value, you know. there was a time 2 years ago when cellphone napping was the rage of petty thieves here. got maybe 2 or 3 pix I liked out of the 300 exposures...

Yeah, I still come over every day. Not much to post about. But happy, happy.

here in the Philippines, almost (not all, of course) any English language series I come across seems ok enough. mind you I don't own the TV and am at the mercy of my 2 nephews' watching habits. the odd House, Gossip Girls, Reaper episode. otherwise, it's anime, anime, zoids, gundams, ad nauseum

oh wow, that accident is the worst of nightmares come true. I commiserate with you, Dave.

Congratulations! When you work towards something important not only to you but eventually for others, it is a reward in itself to achieve it. Be a better doctor and help a lot of people.

yeah! a Christmas wish that we would all find our happiness(es). I am happy already.

Check out this link from theonlinephotographer.com http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2008/12/sony-vs-nikon-v.html#comments the author writes about his impressions of the A900, D700 and the 5DMarkII

additionally Journalists, radio commentators, activists, students, protestors all, are dying here. i'm so glad Obama has refused to take any phone calls from the arroyo.

sounds very much like our government. BTW, the one who sits as president here was a classmate of your president. must have learned the same things in the same school. whenever something comes up against her (arroyo's administration) they whip up some other happening to steal the people's...

The store I buy from only stocks 160Gb Samsungs. for larger drives I have gone to Hitachi in the last few months. Though Seagate's 5 year warranty is tempting, I have no compunction to buy them. BTW, a 20Gb Samsung I installed in August, 2002 died 2 weeks ago.

The regular fare is veggies and fish. For weddings, it's pork, pork, and beef, beef and more beef. Uh, the better weddings have lots of goat cooked in differing recipes but all done to make the beer and hard liquor better. I'm describing rural (provincial) weddings folks. The urban weddings...

Congratulations, Dave! Enjoy yourself at your wedding. I'll settle for leftover pizza. Here's what usually happens here. The neighbors come over to help cook food for you. You're glad they've come to help. So they're gutting the pigs, chickens and whatever else you've raised just for this...

yes the humor was good. and though like most of the genre, the ending was a bit of a letdown, but not too much that one would wish to have stopped the film 30 minutes before it ended.