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Finished Michael crichtons last posthumously released novel - micro. Richard Preston took over the unfinished manuscript and turned what started off as a great book almost as good as prey or timeline or state of fear and turned it into a steaming pile of shit about halfway through. I can almost pinpoint the very chapter where I couldnt feel crichtons voice reading the book to me anymore. Bought the game of thrones. Hopefully it is not as arduous as the Iliad or the lord of the rings books. Starting game of thrones on iPad now.

holy hell. initially i read that as 1tb of hard drives and i was wondering why that would be fun to play with.

while taking a class on financial engineering and models i had to come up with something for a final project. obviously i waited until the night before thinking i could probably cook up something relatively A worthy in C++ or R. Turned out either I had to write functions from scratch or use the plethora of libraries available for C#, a language I did not know. Similar to C++ but its so freaking quirky. Ended up spending all night learning C# and turned in a project in the morning with bugs. Figured my professor would run it and email me back and by then I would have had time to debug it. Worked out luckily. Got an A for the most extensive project in the entire class.

that sounds like fun dan. chris what kinda stuff are you running? (assuming you can talk about it vaguely) i wasted some time on a 32 core mainframe at my dept running some silly simulations. like modeling the burj khalifa floating on a submarine. very strange results but fun to run nonetheless. the labbie was obsessed with navier stokes equations and was always trying to make a 10 second sequence of a tidal wave look as realistic as possible.

I miss having university Internet nice Shelly.

simply. fucking. amazing.

I saw your first post and starting trying to find 1300 bucks Then I read other replies to my post and I had a sad

$1300? I haven't kept up with the prices but is that a stupid good deal or the usual going rate now?

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that interview. Just out of curiosity...

have you considered manual focusing? could go fast and wide and get very good iq.

Happy birthday ben

very cool video about zeiss lenses being tested. http://www.popphoto.com/news/2012/04/inside-look-carl-zeiss-lens-stress-test

Happy birthday beanman

Happy birthday raffy

What Dan suggested never crossed my mind. I'm addicted too now

Happy birthday jin

I am always amazed at the stuff people do with the book carvings.

happy birthday sir

Never had crawfish but looks like everyones having fun naaman.

I have the tenba discovery photo laptop messenger and absolutely love it. The camera sections lifts out completely for when you want to pack for a couple of nights and want to take your laptop but no camera (business trip etc). Completely packed it held my 13"MBA, charger, d7000 (without the vertical grip) with a rokinon 35mm/1.4 (big ass lens), nikkor 50mm/1.8, sigma 30mm/forget f stop, a couple of notebooks, assortment of pens, pencils, wallet, phone, jh16. Oddly enough it wasn't bad at all to walk around with. http://www.tenba.com/collections/discovery.aspx

That's mean larry. Just mean.

congratulations beefy. hope it is "significant."

What The Fuck

Now you need some ZF glass dinny.

I had the d7000 for a bit. didn't really feel the need to have a grip. did try it with a grip but the whole thing got waaaay too bulky. with manual lenses that had an aperture ring, it was fun to just set the camera to aperture priority and be able to change iso on the fly with one of those control wheely contraptions. never really felt the need to fiddle around with other settings. but even with afs lenses the other wheel allows you to change the aperture. so wasn't bad at all. nice camera. a few from my recent trip to nyc/penn state for my sisters graduation. Getting out of Port Authority Terminal Walking a wee bit further Then someone turned off the colors Lunch with Colin After eating the burger I felt a slight amount of shame for betraying Le Tub A fine musician who, even for $10 and a free lunch, would not perform the epic sax guy riff. He had no clue what I was talking about so I pulled out my phone and showed him. He laughed and said his dead grand father would come back to life and whoop his butt if he even tried to play that nonsense. Then he went back to playing Coltrane. I heard you like taking pictures so I put a guy taking a picture in your picture so you can take a picture while he takes a picture Off to Penn State On the way to 33000 ft Waiting to get the diploma (to sister) aka $220000 piece of paper (to dad) Off to bigger and better things It seems like only yesterday we were fighting over her putting her finger in the air on my side of the room...