Harbinger

Fixed lenses can be rather economical and produce fantastic results. The 55-200 you have is much more efficient for casual shooting however, and I'm guessing it has a similar aperture range to the mirror lens B used for these shots. For what it's worth - lenses don't come cheap. The Canon 70-200L 2.8 IS lens easily costs double what I paid for my pathy... Good glass makes the difference though. My fave so far is my Tamron 17-50 2.8, and it cost more than my digital SLR body.

Manual only is for wimps? I don't know many people who can meter and expose a manual photograph anymore... Ha! I was wondering... Nice score though, dare I ask though, what was the intended purpose? By that, did you mean for it to be used for shooting "heavenly bodies" as the case maybe? Also, I slept through the eclipse myself, but it must have been rather bright. Was that 10 seconds @ f6.3? or did you stop down some? Ha! I concur even.

Good grief! Hell of a time to get a lens like that. Nice shots B - and on the 10 second exposure, cmon now, it's common knowledge that the universe spins around us. I blame the universe.

I'll agree. Boobs are awesome. How do you like yours cooked?

I scour the local metal yard. If you know what your looking for it can be rather profitable. Case in point - dropped off my several milk crates worth of beer bottles on a Saturday. Found a road bike frame in the steel bin. Did the research on it and listed it on ebay. A 1980 bike frame got me about $100.

I know that Walmart "provides" dormitories for Chinese factory workers, and the rent comes out of their pay check whether they live there or not. If anything I blame the greed and evil that blooms in the human soul. I fear big government almost as much as I fear big corporations. Personally I don't think that donations to political associations should come from corporations *cough Haliburton *cough* either, but hey, the more I learn about things the more ignorant I become. My former room mate worked for Walmart. Tried explaining the evil to him, but well, suffice to say he fit their demographic of an American employee. Ever changing hours, crappy benefits, and at the end of the day he still spent his grocery money at his store. Never mind that the employee owned grocery store (Winco) was on his way home.

Seems likely, that was wd-40's intended purpose, dispersing water and whatnot.

Well you have to admit, they do that really well. I wouldn't purchase many other brands with 193K on the odometer.

Yeah I'm leaving them in for now. I'll fill 'er up and see if the fuel gauge changes at all. Could very well be the sending unit. The tach was at 0, but after driving to work today it sat at 3K for the rest of the trip. At least it's not bouncing all over the place? Time will tell I suppose. Will have to rip into it more once I'm done with this acursed move.

So - I bought my 95, and it came with a fuel gauge that wasn't reading correctly, and a tachometer that was bouncing all over the place. B was kind enough to send me replacement units from his parts truck. I just got them installed today. Which leads me to this: No results from the fuel gauge, and the tach sits dead still, instead of bouncing all over the place. All the connections are tight. No fuses are blown. I've noticed some holes in rear of the assembly that have no screws? Also the back plastic with the solder connections isn't flat, could it have warped and severed some connections? I've heard about the voltage regulator going out, but much like B, I'm not that friendly with electrons.

Nice work on the frontend swap, I've contemplated doing the same to my gti, but haven't been able to find a jetta front end cheaply enough. The past couple years I've been spending more working on bicycles. I've been restoring old ones and flipping them to fuel my habit. I just rebuilt this 1984 Motobecane a few months ago. Its my road bike/summer commuter. I built my cargo bike last summer. And I'm currently gathering parts for this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBh4TnUYnwo&feature=PlayList&p=A6F961D5DFA044C4&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1 Of course once I find another pathfinder all that might get de-railed.

Wtf? I'm taking it mean that he was supposed to wait for her to return to purchase one together.

My '87 had 267,000ish on it when I sold it a few years ago. I miss that beast. Was reliable as all get out, even with nearly 300K on the clock.

Awwwww, you guys remember widdle ole me? I'm still around...doing more bicycling than driving these days though. Still in the midst of wanting to sell my car, but the lack of payments is pretty nice...

I'm running Norton Corporate on my system. It takes up a LOT less system resources than the other norton products. Then again, I run Norton Ghost, and tend to re-image my system every 2 weeks or so to a clean install of XPP2. So I don't run into a lot of problems.

<Paste>Well I fell into prison about a quarter till three Where I found in my cell a glass waiting for me So I filled what was empty and I pulled up a stool But he stood in the corner, the old devil wouldn't move He said, "You drink when you're lonely." No I drink when I want! He said, "You'll never be sober." Sure. Why would I want that? I only drink to be merry but unfortunately I'm in the wrong prison cell and the wrong company </Paste>

So THATS why theres a snow chains "suggested" warning on the Bogus Basin website. *goes off in a corner to cry over his lack of a 4wd*

Happy b-day Mr.Pickles!

Not that I have a pathy, but no. Would you give up your relationship with a beautiful girl for a SAS'ed pathy?

I really like Ron Paul, but his stance on Abortion is enough for him to not get my vote.

Heh, SC I love the costume Although I would have been swinging @ invisible bats in that photo Heres one of me all bloodied up for last weekends Halloween party, went as a Zombie Monk, but didn't do a good job on the Makeup. I looked more like a monk that had been rolled and left in the desert for dead.

I try to carry one with me everywhere, but its kinda hard to sit down with a 12ga stuck down your pant leg.

Heh, true. Problem being with voting in the states, is people would rather vote for the next "American Idol" than vote for the next president. Saying that, I did not vote for the chimp currently in charge.

Heh, as a resident of the state of Idaho, I'm pretty tired of hearing all the hub bub about him myself. LOL -- Thanks Vsicks - I needed the laugh, kinda got some weird looks from my co-workers though.

Happy b-day man!