Archive for March, 2010
I purchased this lens to replace my 18-55mm canon kit lens. I didn’t read too much reviews on this lens because it was new, but I heard relatively good reviews on the older model and with the addition of the HSM and optical stabilizer, it gave it more appeal. It is a great walk around lens. It has good range and the f2.8-4 is nice, but the 2.8 does disappear really quickly when zooming in from wide angle. It takes sharp photos from wide angle to zoom, and macro. The Body is well built with a solid construction. The focus and zoom rings feel good when rotating. The HSM is really quiet while auto focusing. The auto focus is a bit slow and sometimes has problems focusing during low light situations. Overall the lens works well and it gives me good results. Definitely a great replacement to the canon kit lens.
Sigma 17 70mm f
What’s not to like? It’s multi-coated, it’s threaded front and back (front to hold another screw-in filter or a lens hood, back to screw into lens), it’s perfectly flat, it doesn’t change the color of photographs, it’s neutral density, it’s thin enough not to cause vignetting or interfere with the flash for close-in work, it’s relatively cheap protection for a really expensive lens. Too bad it costs more than twice the cost of the same filter for my older DSLR camera, but then the new one is 10mm wider in diameter. And it’s way cheaper than the same kind of filter from a camera manufacturer. I like it.
Hoya 67mm DMC PRO1
This bag has loops that match the metal seatloops found on most leather bike seats. Like all Sunlite products is also has the prismatic reflective strips that help you be seen in the dark.
The zipper is easy to access and use, and the bag has an effective interior stiffener to help hold its shape. Also, this bag is larger than most standard seatbags on the market.
Sunlite Handlebar or Bicycle
I only gave it four stars because I haven’t had enough time to play it. What I have done so far has been a blast. And the grandkids can’t wait to come over now.
Magasinage de Nol by
I love it and my husband is even using it now. Greatest investment we have made so far. I did my research on e-books and found that the Kindle was the best choice for me. The BIG selling point for me was the 3G network that allows you to purchase a book right away or even put it in your wish list online instead of having to hook it up to a computer. Also, what I thought was great was how you can store your books online instead of filling up your kindle with books already read. The only down fall I have is not being able to go online to the library and down load their digital books. I may be wrong but i did not read or see a way to do so. I have already read several books in just a short period of time because it is easier to: read from Kindle, easier to hold, and you can move on to the next book with out having to go get it. Now if we can just get the Kindle to smell like a new book we will be set!
Valley Railways Trolleys on
Do what you want, no guilt, nothing is right or wrong. No commitments, just feel good. Tired of your partner? Just get a new one. Everyone else is okay unless they’re trying to get you to do something you don’t want to do.
This moral relativism is leading our society down the path of decline. Whether you are a Jew, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or agnostic, life is enhanced by some self-discipline and guts to stand for something. There is good and evil in the world, right and wrong. If we don’t stand up for it, we’ll descend into a pile of garbage. This is a rehash of the 60’s philosophy of do your own thing, free sex, drugs, feel good, it doesn’t hurt any one but me. These are all lies that degrade our society. If you don’t believe it, teach school for a while. See the hippy grandchildren paying the price for the selfish drug induced excess of their parents and grandparents. We’ve been there done that. It wasn’t very pretty. I didn’t buy it then and I’m not buying it now.
Give me individuals who believe in hard work, discipline, saving rather than spending, community service, a view that goes beyond their own noses and pleasures. That’s what makes a society and its people great. Get out and do something for someone and most the neurotic worries about self will disappear. That’s what is basic to all major religions. They have survived for millennia because they work and will long outlast Mr. Walsch. I’m far from perfect, but I know wisdom when I see it. This isn’t it.
Clean n Dry Waterproof
The book had noticeable markings & stains on the cover which were not in te description.
Internet Monitoring System Video
This 1925 silent film documentary is not for everybody. The first half is irrelevant and slow, and the commentary is hokey. I was surprised there were no dramatic Hollywood scenes of people falling off cliffs. But what I got instead was a historical record of 50,000 people and 500,000 animals walking for 48 days across Persia to avoid famine. It’s hard to believe that these are real people, genuinely swimming for their lives, crossing a half-mile of freezing rapids holding on to blown up goat skins. We are so used to seeing things staged, that it’s hard to accept that they really are climbing that 12,000 foot mountain in their bare feet, to get a better grip in the ice and snow.
Grass A Nation s
This is an odd duck of a computer. On the one hand it is packaged as an appliance: a sealed cute little appliance out of the AppleTV mold. On the other hand, it requires a fairly high level of technical expertise to setup so in practice it is anything but an appliance. It’s not everyone who has a USB optical drive lying about; or can get their hands on an ISO of 64-bit Linux, this takes a little geekery.
As it happens, I recently assembled a very similarly spec’d home theatre PC, which coincidently included a Zotac IonITX motherboard. How does a home built computer compare to the Zotac Mag? Fairly well. My DIY computer and this Zotac Mag ended up costing about the same amount; somewhat less if you already had some components, somewhat more if one were to order all the parts. The DIY is quieter and runs cooler; the Zotac Mag is smaller, more stylish and has a cool glowing O logo. Both appear to be up to my task of playing over the air recordings of network television.
While this box would likely be a capable Windows Media Center frontend, I would not recommend it. It doesn’t make sense to pay retail for a Windows 7 license when competing boxes include a license. I installed 64-bit Mythbuntu 9.10 and it runs well on this hardware as a frontend to the MythTV server in the basement. Boot times are quick, applications launch quickly. It plays my video files with ease. I did have to use the VDPAU slim setting to make use of hardware acceleration, and I setup the BIOS to use 512 MB for the video buffer. I was unable to install using a USB thumb drive, and ended up burning a disk and installing via an external USB DVD drive.
I am a bit distressed that the box does not appear to wake from sleep via USB events. This will make it hard to get the most energy efficiency out of it. The BIOS does have a Wake on Lan setting and that might be helpful in the future. 25 Watts Idle is not bad, but it would be great to put the box to sleep when not in use.
I attached my Kill
Zotac MAG Intel Atom
This brush is great – it gets out all kinds of hair you never knew your pet was about to shed! Also it’s very relaxing for my dog. My only complaint is that it can be a bit messy, so best to do all the brushing outside.
Coiled Power Hot Sync