Yeah, I'd say avoid looking. I have zero use for it, and it makes me want to buy one.
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InaudibleWhispa
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I had zero use for an iPad before my brother gave me his, and now I haven't turned my laptop on in months (still using a desktop for primary computing). If you want one, go for it. You will find a use for it, guaranteed. Tablets are a fantastic web consumption device.
I have two ipads a nook and a kindle. I realize they are awesome, I also realize I have zero impulse control.
Speaking of zero impulse control, has Norm done any sort of roundup of mirrorless cameras? I'm looking to buy one for my wife.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Buy me a nexus 7 ez, please!
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Mirrorless cameras can be summed up in:
If you want a selection of great lenses and a pretty decent sensor, go for m43, the OMD em5 for the top end or the EP line for the lower end. If you want mirrorless cameras for their smallness the EPM-1 and 20mm 1.7 combo is a great choice and very nearly pocketable.
If you want an entry level DSLR sensor in a small body, get the sony nex. The problem is having a mediocre lens selection, and most of their lenses negate the small form factor, but if you don't buy alot of lenses who cares?
Or really, if your wife is just a casual photographer who doesn't really give a shit about changing lenses, here's the current king compact zooms, and it is really good. The Sony RX100.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/27/3187725/sony-rx100-review
http://www.flickr.com/groups/rx100/pool/
She has a pretty nice Canon DSLR and a couple of lenses. It's great for "events" when she knows she'll want a camera. But she'd also like something a bit more casual that will still take good pictures and that she can carry around in a purse/diaper bag.
That Sony seems pretty dope....hmmm
That reminds me, Gary, this bag is an awesome camera/diaper bag! It worked great this past year for us.
http://products.lowepro.com/product/Fastpack-250,2086,14.htm
You probably aren't looking for one yet but I imagine you will be fairly soon.
That Sony seems pretty dope....hmmm
That reminds me, Gary, this bag is an awesome camera/diaper bag! It worked great this past year for us.
http://products.lowepro.com/product/Fastpack-250,2086,14.htm
You probably aren't looking for one yet but I imagine you will be fairly soon.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
If she wants to use those canon glass on a mirrorless than she can wait for the Canon EOS-M, for which you can buy a $250-300 adaptor(around there I think?) and use those lenses too, but it pretty much defeats the purpose of something being casual and easier to carry around. 
Really though, personal bias will make me say go for M43. But for her needs I'd say either wait for the EOS-M for the choice of being able to use her current lenses, and you can use the smaller EOS-M lenses for carry-around purposes, or get the RX100 which seems to fit what she wants: something easy to carry around that is more of a supplementary camera, and you don't have to build a system around it aka spend more money on lenses. Plus the quality seems pretty amazing for a compact.
Really though, personal bias will make me say go for M43.
But for her needs I'd say either wait for the EOS-M for the choice of being able to use her current lenses, and you can use the smaller EOS-M lenses for carry-around purposes, or get the RX100 which seems to fit what she wants: something easy to carry around that is more of a supplementary camera, and you don't have to build a system around it aka spend more money on lenses. Plus the quality seems pretty amazing for a compact.Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
The eos-m?
Around september I think. Though if you don't pre-order it probably later. Can't really tell how hot it'll be right now.
Around september I think. Though if you don't pre-order it probably later. Can't really tell how hot it'll be right now.
So Gary posted these ridiculous looking glasses for the Hobbit on Twitter and I said I'd like to see him wear it on Octoberkast.
He said he'd wear it if I donated $1000.
That got me thinking. They should put milestones and embarassing stuff they'd do for X amount of donations. It could be fun and be a great motivator.
He said he'd wear it if I donated $1000.
That got me thinking. They should put milestones and embarassing stuff they'd do for X amount of donations. It could be fun and be a great motivator.
I'm sure he was joking about the wiki but I seriously hope they are planning on getting a website worth a damn before bothering about a wiki. The last redesign is so terrible, it's not even functionnal for watching videos.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
"If you come visit us...
no, don't visit us. No visitors."
LOL
no, don't visit us. No visitors."
LOL
From what I have read from other people, Staples and Wallmart maybe.
Finally! New podcast is up! Gary is back!!!
EPISODE 133 - SITTIN' IN NORMAN'S LAP - 8/2/2012
EPISODE 133 - SITTIN' IN NORMAN'S LAP - 8/2/2012
Broder Salsa
Banned
Well I'm not going to say no to sitting in Normans lap.
Gary Whitta
Member
w00t!
Technosteve
Banned
Ah the original three, I wish for a norm Gary will and brad show in the future.
Anatoli Bacharach
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Enjoyed the Joey & Bradcasts, but it's nice to have Gary back!
Gary Whitta
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We talked about it briefly this week. I didn't have much to contribute as I still haven't seen it.
Cool, I've been looking for some confirmation bias with the problems I have with that show.
If you've seen an Aaron Sorkin show before, you've already seen it.
Will's idea of an Octoberkast live audience sounds like the worst possible thing they could do. We've seen in the Pax cast how the audience is not only distracting, but it also messes with what is great about the Tested podcast. The guests can be good and bad as we've seen, but an audience? Just 10 random dudes might even be worse too.
Just make it like last year's but with fewer bad guests!
Just make it like last year's but with fewer bad guests!
slaughterking
Member
i.e. more Veronica Belmont.
Keyser Soze
Member
Gary v Olympics. YES!!
Living in Ireland, I have access to RTE (for the Irish specific stuff). BBC (and its 24 channels for anything I want to watch LIVE), a few decent apps for stuff on the move, and daily highlights (which range from 20minutes to 90minutes) showing everything in 3D on Eurosports 3D which is available On Demand. Really awesome stuff!
NBC seems horrible, from everything I heard - and apparently they have exclusive rights for Rio 2016 and 2020 too :/
Living in Ireland, I have access to RTE (for the Irish specific stuff). BBC (and its 24 channels for anything I want to watch LIVE), a few decent apps for stuff on the move, and daily highlights (which range from 20minutes to 90minutes) showing everything in 3D on Eurosports 3D which is available On Demand. Really awesome stuff!
NBC seems horrible, from everything I heard - and apparently they have exclusive rights for Rio 2016 and 2020 too :/
HamPster PamPster
Member
Can't they just put some black garbage bags over the skylights? Not a pretty solution but it should keep some of the heat out
Also I love Will's chest cam. I wonder what videos they are cooking up for that
Also I love Will's chest cam. I wonder what videos they are cooking up for that
Fox Mulder
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Yeah, they have this thing to hold a box up to block the light, but why not just duct tape the cardboard over the skylight instead.
I used to live in a house where one room had a huge window that faced the sun all day. That one room easily stayed like 85 degrees all year.
BolognaSoup
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Love that Gary's back. Podcast is much more boring without him to bring it back to down to Earth.
Does anyone else ever feel like Norm needs to sloooooow down and enunciate?
Does anyone else ever feel like Norm needs to sloooooow down and enunciate?
HamPster PamPster
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You never forget your kid's first major poop disaster. I still harass my kid over the infamous "green poopie" incident. I'll tell it at the wedding to if I'm invited. Never forget!
Really? I click the videos and they load fine.
Fox Mulder
Member
the videos play fine, it's just finding them that's the problem. The sorting is gone as they dump everything into one video category.
It's obvious that this stuff will be fixed when they get the site finished, but it's still a big problem now for a site that wants people to watch their content.
Finally watching the podcast. Gary, hopefully Leah's wound will heal soon. I had the same kind of bandage/treatment in my lower back following a minor surgery and it wouldn't heal up! Ended up having to go to the clininc minimum once a week for over a year to change the bandages! Ridiculus!
Fun fact, the first week I had a nurse come to my house to change it there before I could get to the clinic by myself. On day two, when the wound was still roughly the size of an egg, we got an incompetent nurse who used the bottle with the stuff you use to sterilize the gear instead of the distilled water bottle when she went to irrigate the wound. Let me tell you, it was NOT fun....omg...
Fun fact, the first week I had a nurse come to my house to change it there before I could get to the clinic by myself. On day two, when the wound was still roughly the size of an egg, we got an incompetent nurse who used the bottle with the stuff you use to sterilize the gear instead of the distilled water bottle when she went to irrigate the wound. Let me tell you, it was NOT fun....omg...
I'm kind of confused by Gary's rip on Phelp's. What he does is basically compete in every running event. Most guys are specialists, very few swimmers try as huge a program as Phelps does. Hell, Lochte tried it and dropped out of one of his races after the first day. It's like trying to run the 100, 200 and 400 yard races plus the hurdles. Claiming he's just doing the same thing over and over is something I'd expect a sports expert like Ryan Seacrest to spout.
America still has a soccer team playing by the way.
Less troll-y, travelling with a kid is 1. simple until about 8 months and 2. a destroyer of the "I never check bags" philosophy. The nice thing about traveling with kids though is that I don't have to go through the porno scanner and all of our bags get checked (and picked up) at the gate.
America still has a soccer team playing by the way.
Less troll-y, travelling with a kid is 1. simple until about 8 months and 2. a destroyer of the "I never check bags" philosophy. The nice thing about traveling with kids though is that I don't have to go through the porno scanner and all of our bags get checked (and picked up) at the gate.
Hmm, Gary might have a point. During the Olympics both a professional BBC sports commentator and a multiple gold medallist former swimmer suggested FINA and the IOC are in the preliminary stages of reducing the total amount of swimming events in order to bring it in line with other modern Olympic disciplines (just like cycling did after Beijing 2008). I'm inclined to believe them, they should know.
So yeah, while Phelps' unprecedented success is probably what brought it to attention, whether 1 person wins them all or 10 is kinda irrelevant, obviously there is something to the argument that 34 medals are too many (and that's not including diving or syncro).
That's fine, but medal count aside it's rare for a person to utterly dominate a solo sport so utterly and completely for the 12+ years that Phelps has.
I don't understand the "guy has too many medals" argument. Harrison Bergeron?
I agree, it's not like we're going to see 4 Phelps' every Olympics from now on (hell, I doubt we'll even see one again in our lifetime) - but I definitely think the IOC should endeavor to make sure all disiplines are as evenly spread as possible.
Aruarian Reflection
Chauffeur de la gdlk
10 of the top 10 medal winners this Olympics are swimmers. It's not just a Phelps problem, there's fundamentally too many swimming events
Because it then encourages all the separate committees (like FINA, UCI, etc) to make sure their individual events are as physically and observably different as possible. If any discipline is allowed an unlimited amount of medals, you're just going to see the same thing over and over again with minor alterations.
It will also free up time and budget so sports like archery can get more than 1 single and 1 team event.
Too many American medals.