phongn wrote:I think Mike bought a Nikon D50 DSLR.
Aside from the fact that I remember talking about it in a thread with him, you can tell those photos are Nikon D50 shots from the distinct aura of psychic awesomeness imprinted on them when you point a Ghostbusters style scanner at it. Like ectoplasm, but photographic in nature.
Then what of Nikon's higher-end cameras, or canon? Do they have distinct bands of awesomeness radiating out in a manner not consistant with mere Japanese lenses?
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Man, Vegas sure has changed. I was there when I was 14 and there wasn't nearly as much for those under 21 to do. I live close enough to drive and haven't been back in over 12 years. Should I give it another try?
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Godzilla: Final Wars, to be exact. I believe that's the scene in Sydney where Godzilla is kicking the American Godzilla's ass.
Absolutely correct.. a testament to the awesomeness of your camera and that TV that I was able to identify movie and scene from that photo.. that or I'm a gigantic Godzilla dweeb, one of the two.
That being said your camera is indeed awesome, as are the photographs. I've never actually seen much of Vegas and the one time my dad was there for some gun match or other he spent most of his time in an arcade with his gun buddies plugging quarters into the Area 51 machine and locking it up in the resultant barrage of alien deaths, so getting any sort of detail out of him beyond that is pretty much hopeless.
Some absolutely beautiful buildings in that place.
phongn wrote:Then what of Nikon's higher-end cameras, or canon? Do they have distinct bands of awesomeness radiating out in a manner not consistant with mere Japanese lenses?
More intensity in their bands of awesomeness. The Canon EOS 20D, for instance, has a different awesomeness radiation pattern when you set it against an Awesome Sensitive Target than a Nikon D50. It is characteristic of higher intensity and denser band packing, indicating a higher degree of wang.
However, despite not having the vertiable wang of higher end cameras in, as you point out, the Nikon and Canon lines, the Nikon D50s indeed demonstrates considerable Awesomeness.
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Hey, did anyone notice that you can't see any stars in the night-time shots? Clearly, according to the logic employed by moon-landing conspiracy theorists, this means that Las Vegas is actually located on a giant soundstage in Hollywood
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Darth Wong wrote:Hey, did anyone notice that you can't see any stars in the night-time shots? Clearly, according to the logic employed by moon-landing conspiracy theorists, this means that Las Vegas is actually located on a giant soundstage in Hollywood
Legas is a fake, a hoax. You havetn ben there you hawe been on a spae ship.
Darth Wong wrote:Hey, did anyone notice that you can't see any stars in the night-time shots? Clearly, according to the logic employed by moon-landing conspiracy theorists, this means that Las Vegas is actually located on a giant soundstage in Hollywood
OH NO! The people must know!
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Darth Wong wrote:Hey, did anyone notice that you can't see any stars in the night-time shots? Clearly, according to the logic employed by moon-landing conspiracy theorists, this means that Las Vegas is actually located on a giant soundstage in Hollywood
Acutally, since you can't see any stars in the Nevada desert, and you can't see any stars in the moon pictures, then obviousily the moon pictures where taken in the Nevada desert.
Or perhaps you lied to us and took your vacation on the moon. What are you sneaky Canadians up to anyway?
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Darth Quorthon wrote:Man, Vegas sure has changed. I was there when I was 14 and there wasn't nearly as much for those under 21 to do. I live close enough to drive and haven't been back in over 12 years. Should I give it another try?
Absolutely. Its much more for the family now instead of an adult get away for the weekend. They have plenty of things for the kids to do while the parents go and dump their life's savings down a rat hole.
The Circus Circus hotel has a miniture amusement park inside a big dome behind the casino.
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Darth Wong wrote:Mind you, Caesar's Palace looks pretty nice on the inside too:
Indeed. My brother and I got lost in there last December just wandering around admiring the interior. That was the ONLY time I've seen spiral escalators.
And of course, we had to go to the Hoover Dam:
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Uh, huh huh, excuse me. Is this a god Damn?
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Kuja wrote:So, did you come out ahead or are you mortaging the site?
I never gamble with any amount of money that I wouldn't shrug at losing.
you too
smart mike.
of course with my luck the car breaks down and the bill comes to exactly what I set aside for friendly gambling+what my extra fundage obtained through friendly gambling+$100
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Kuja wrote:So, did you come out ahead or are you mortaging the site?
I never gamble with any amount of money that I wouldn't shrug at losing.
Meh, even when we win, me and the wife blow our wad (usually in the ~100's) on other shit in vegas.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
Knife wrote:Meh, even when we win, me and the wife blow our wad (usually in the ~100's) on other shit in vegas.
It's certainly not difficult to burn money without gambling in that town.
Indeed. Have you been to the Star Trek Experience, Mike?
I don't know about Mike, but I was there two-three years ago. Took the ride twice.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
Knife wrote:Meh, even when we win, me and the wife blow our wad (usually in the ~100's) on other shit in vegas.
It's certainly not difficult to burn money without gambling in that town.
Indeed. Have you been to the Star Trek Experience, Mike?
Yes, we went this time! It was pretty cool, but not the quasi-religious experience that I imagine it might be for a more devoted Trekkie. Nevertheless, the Klingon ride was pretty cool, especially the part where you walk onto a full-scale highly accurate reproduction of the Enterprise-D bridge.
At one point, my younger son David turned to Rebecca and said, in his adorable little-boy voice: "Mommy, are we on a real spaceship?" That was the high point of the whole thing for me. Matthew is already well beyond that phase.
And then later, in the gift shop, we ran into a woman in full Klingon getup and try as I might, I couldn't get her to break character. She seemed to be pleased that my younglings were exhibiting particular interest in the weapons.
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Dalton wrote:
Indeed. Have you been to the Star Trek Experience, Mike?
I don't know about Mike, but I was there two-three years ago. Took the ride twice.
I was disappointed. $35 just for an immitation of Star Tours at Disneyland. My waitress wasn't ammused when I said I was fresh out of Latinum. The museum was rather well done though.
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Those are some wonderful pictures you have there. How much did the camera cost? I think my dad may need a new camera (since we lost our old one in Japan last year) and I'll recommend the Nikon D50's to him.
Of course, they may be a little bit too new-fangled for him. He's usually been the type to go for big, clunky, non-digital cameras. Maybe I should show him these pictures to prove that digital cameras can be pretty damn good.
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Darth Wong wrote:And then later, in the gift shop, we ran into a woman in full Klingon getup and try as I might, I couldn't get her to break character. She seemed to be pleased that my younglings were exhibiting particular interest in the weapons.
The actors were pretty good. I ran into a borg drone while there. I told him there was a really good skin cream he could use to cleary up his "affliction". He responded that he had nanites for that.
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"Watching Sarli argue with Vympel, Stas, Schatten and the others is as bizarre as the idea of the 40-year-old Virgin telling Hugh Hefner that Hef knows nothing about pussy, and that he is the expert."--Elfdart
Discombobulated wrote:Those are some wonderful pictures you have there. How much did the camera cost? I think my dad may need a new camera (since we lost our old one in Japan last year) and I'll recommend the Nikon D50's to him.
It's a DSLR, which is four-figure territory and always has been even for the old film SLRs. Even if you get one below a grand, you'll go well over once you add a speedlight, a second lens, etc.
Of course, they may be a little bit too new-fangled for him. He's usually been the type to go for big, clunky, non-digital cameras. Maybe I should show him these pictures to prove that digital cameras can be pretty damn good.
The best thing about digital cameras is that they allow you to get a very quick idea of how the picture turned out so you can try again if it was shit. They also allow you to use the "take 30 pictures and then pick the best one" technique without costing an arm and a leg for developing. But the biggest reason I got a nicer camera was its ability to take decent pictures in bad light. Any camera can take a good-looking picture in great lighting conditions, which is why I've heard some people say that photography is 10% camera and 90% lighting. But when the lighting is shit (which is usually the case indoors), then you need tricks.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
