What are you doing right now?

[Warp Daddy]

2 of us leaving for Titus in 15 minutes then get home tonite sharpen and wax em up for our 4 day trip Gore to ski with my son and grandson while the Queen and JV Queen do their thing in the shops and other area attractions . the queen doesn't like to ski with crowds so being PreZ week she's not up for Gore .. We'll do West Mtn too while we're there and give a local mtn some bidness .

 

[severine]

Excited that my morning class is canceled. I have to do a presentation this afternoon and I wasn't yet...prepared...so now I have some time to finish it up.

 

[bvibert]

Excited that my morning class is canceled. I have to do a presentation this afternoon and I wasn't yet...prepared...so now I have some time to finish it up.

Woohoo!

 

[RootDKJ]

Just finished shoveling out the driveway. 3"-4" fell overnight here in NJ

 

[severine]

I am in awe. Our driveway is actually being plowed as I type. Nobody has cleared our driveway yet this winter--I figured our landlord had abandoned us!

Also in pretty bad pain. Back is better (though not 100% yet) so this week's twist is elbow tendonitis. Luckily, it's my left elbow and I'm right-handed. But it's pretty hard to type papers for school without both arms. And all I can find for "cures" are R.I.C.E. and to not use it for 3 weeks. Yeah, that's going to happen. Still....owie!

Also semi-re-outfitting my 10-year-old Sony Cybershot DSC-S50. It took better pics than my Nikon Coolpix that I have now! So I'm getting a new power cord (lost that a long time ago) so I can have this as my travel camera. You'd think the Memory Sticks were made of gold with the prices for them!!! That's the part that hurts... trying to justify buying obsolete equipment for about as much as one could buy the entire camera kit used now.

 

[wa-loaf]

Also in pretty bad pain. Back is better (though not 100% yet) so this week's twist is elbow tendonitis. Luckily, it's my left elbow and I'm right-handed. But it's pretty hard to type papers for school without both arms. And all I can find for "cures" are R.I.C.E. and to not use it for 3 weeks. Yeah, that's going to happen. Still....owie!

You are to young to be falling apart like that! :-(

 

[severine]

You are to young to be falling apart like that! :-(

I'm getting pretty sick of this crap! I feel like I'm 80!

 

[RootDKJ]

Looking for a place to ski up north 3/13-3/14, cheaply...

 

[ZYDECORICH]

Just finished shoveling out the driveway. 3"-4" fell overnight here in NJ

Had to drive to Bethlehem PA for a funeral today in the snow... fun...plowed when i got home ... more fun.. 7 here.. would like to do Creek tomorrow but may not be able to. the little one has a fever and may be home from school. wifey working... Shazbat!!!

 

[o3jeff]

Looking for a place to ski up north 3/13-3/14, cheaply...

http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=72189

I don't know if it's cheap or not

 

[riverc0il]

Also semi-re-outfitting my 10-year-old Sony Cybershot DSC-S50. It took better pics than my Nikon Coolpix that I have now! So I'm getting a new power cord (lost that a long time ago) so I can have this as my travel camera. You'd think the Memory Sticks were made of gold with the prices for them!!! That's the part that hurts... trying to justify buying obsolete equipment for about as much as one could buy the entire camera kit used now.

That is crazy! I have been following the digital camera world plotting a new camera purchase and it is pretty dismal. No surprise a really old camera with good optics could out perform a cheap POS camera that can only boast 14 megapixels (whoopie!!! as if the average camera user is printing out poster sized photos rather than sizing them down to share on the web!). Though Memory Sticks are big news... Sony FINALLY decided to grow up and join the real world and not limit consumers to proprietary memory. I might actually consider buying a Sony now that I don't need to shell out for a new memory card.

What am I doing right now? Complaining and generally feeling pretty miserable about storms that keep missing northern New England.

:dunce:

 

[severine]

That is crazy! I have been following the digital camera world plotting a new camera purchase and it is pretty dismal. No surprise a really old camera with good optics could out perform a cheap POS camera that can only boast 14 megapixels (whoopie!!! as if the average camera user is printing out poster sized photos rather than sizing them down to share on the web!). Though Memory Sticks are big news... Sony FINALLY decided to grow up and join the real world and not limit consumers to proprietary memory. I might actually consider buying a Sony now that I don't need to shell out for a new memory card.

I've been through 2 P&S POS digital cameras since the Cybershot and decided that even though it's nearly 1 lb and bulky, they all have the same shutter lag issue and the optics were best on the 2.1 megapixel Cybershot. Go figure! Memory Sticks for that particular model haven't been made in a while. Sure, you can find Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Pro Duo, Memory Stick Micro, blah, blah, blah, but the originals... $25 for 128mb (the max size that can be used). But yeah, I end up resizing all pics down to the max size that the Cybershot does anyway, so why not. At least if it gets stolen on vacation, I won't be (totally) heartbroken. Good luck with your search! I think I'm a vintage girl now... even my DSLR was bought used (Canon 10D prosumer product).

 

[Geoff]

I've been through 2 P&S POS digital cameras since the Cybershot and decided that even though it's nearly 1 lb and bulky, they all have the same shutter lag issue and the optics were best on the 2.1 megapixel Cybershot. Go figure! Memory Sticks for that particular model haven't been made in a while. Sure, you can find Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Pro Duo, Memory Stick Micro, blah, blah, blah, but the originals... $25 for 128mb (the max size that can be used). But yeah, I end up resizing all pics down to the max size that the Cybershot does anyway, so why not. At least if it gets stolen on vacation, I won't be (totally) heartbroken. Good luck with your search! I think I'm a vintage girl now... even my DSLR was bought used (Canon 10D prosumer product).

Any camera with decent optics is going to be something of a brick. You need enough glass to gather the light. Shutter lag is an autofocus problem. Contrast detect AF takes a lot of processing to figure out the best focus. The cheap P&S cameras with wimpy processing power take forever. As the semiconductors used in pocket cameras follow Moore's law, AF will get faster.

FWIW: The Canon PowerShot G11 has the best optics of the larger pocket cameras. My bitch about the G11 is that video is still limited to VGA. It's also tough to find it discounted more than $50.00. I don't think I've ever seen one for less than $449 unless it was grey market with no US warranty.

 

[RootDKJ]

http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?t=72189

I don't know if it's cheap or not

Great idea, but not cheap enough. Shooting for around 150 a day for lift/lodging

 

[severine]

Any camera with decent optics is going to be something of a brick. You need enough glass to gather the light. Shutter lag is an autofocus problem. Contrast detect AF takes a lot of processing to figure out the best focus. The cheap P&S cameras with wimpy processing power take forever. As the semiconductors used in pocket cameras follow Moore's law, AF will get faster.

FWIW: The Canon PowerShot G11 has the best optics of the larger pocket cameras. My bitch about the G11 is that video is still limited to VGA. It's also tough to find it discounted more than $50.00. I don't think I've ever seen one for less than $449 unless it was grey market with no US warranty.

The Cybershot that I have wasn't cheap; was somewhere around $700 when we bought it new 9 or 10 years ago, so maybe that's why it's continuing to exceed my $250-$350 cameras (Nikon Coolpix and Pansonic Lumix).

 

[Warp Daddy]

Had a great day at Titus yesterday 23 runs , great conditions , flat lite ,a bit brisk w but the boot gloves did their thing and i was very comfy .

Gotta wax em up now pack our gear , we're leaving tomorrow for 4 days at Gore and West mtns .

Looking forward to skiing with my son and 15 y/o grandson from Manhattan .

Gotta crank up the axe today too my grandson is a real guitar ace can't let him smoke da ole man

 

[drjeff]

Had a great day at Titus yesterday 23 runs , great conditions , flat lite ,a bit brisk w but the boot gloves did their thing and i was very comfy .

Gotta wax em up now pack our gear , we're leaving tomorrow for 4 days at Gore and West mtns .

Looking forward to skiing with my son and 15 y/o grandson from Manhattan .

Gotta crank up the axe today too my grandson is a real guitar ace can't let him smoke da ole man

Have fun Warp, especially at West (basically my home mountain from '80-'93 )

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

having coffee, listening to CNN in office (we stream Sirius to the overhead speakers in office and for vm system..hold music) plotting out the day....thinking of grabbing an iphone for Mrs. Skiquattros' Bday today...

 

[Warp Daddy]

Have fun Warp, especially at West (basically my home mountain from '80-'93 )

Thanks Doc we will -- did you go to school there ??

Yeah we always have fun there after a couple of days at Gore its a nice change -- retro vibe , love MACH I trail 1000 vert of rollers straight down the hill -- BUT worst effin chairs on that lift no pads and yer butt gets a serious az kickin but the run is worth it >

We spend alot of time in boltonLanding in the late summer and early fall damn near moved there -- great area

 

[bvibert]

Contemplating building a George Costanza style napping area under my desk...