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One of the fun parts of living in a big city is you never know what you'll run into on any given day. Like a decked out elephant in the middle of a city park.

Check the brake clearance first to make sure the smaller wheels will fit over the brakes. Some vehicles these days barely have any space between the brake calipers & the wheels so moving down in wheels size can be a problem.

Fall colours should be peaking in a week or two, time to see what Velvia 50 can do.

Is it just the end of the bar that's going into the slot or are you sliding half the bar through the slot? If it's the former than it doesn't really matter since aluminum's pretty soft and it shouldn't be hard at all to file or grind down the end of the bar if needed.

It's a small miracle that my family's GM cars didn't spectacularly self-destruct back in those days.

Wayne just touched upon something which I think is pretty important, the listening you do in a car is normally very different from the kind of listening we do in our homes & "serious" hi-fi systems. For one thing you're not going to be going "check out the low noise-floor, you can hear a pin drop" unless the car's parked with the engine off, the vast majority of the time the car's being driven and there's a ton of noise from the wind, road, and engine so you'll never hear the quiet parts & subtle details. You're not listening to the finer points of the music, most of your focus will likely be on the rhythm & groove of the song. If the car stereo can carry a beat and not make your ears hurt, it's probably good enough. Taken from that viewpoint, there's not much to complain about on the list.

At current market prices, there's around $230 worth of gold in each window.

McLachlan. I've met her a few times and somehow ended up having breakfast with her earlier this year, she's a truly remarkable woman. Really nice and down to eath, and she has this way of putting you at ease and making you feel like you've known each other for a long time even though you met like 5 minutes ago. Briefly met Wanderlei Silva last year, he's a scary looking badass especially considering what he does for a living, but he's the probably the nicest guy you'll ever meet. He truly cares about his fans and he's just a super cool guy to talk to and chill with. Doug Gilmour & Peter Zezel used to visit the shop I worked in around 10 years ago, sometimes one of the other Leafs players would drop by with one of them. They were pretty quiet guys and didn't really like to talk much about hockey, but other than that one issue they were nice guys.

Auto seems to work better, though I have to admit my use of the scene selection modes was very limited. I spent most of my time in the full auto or full manual modes, plus I only had the camera for a day since it wasn't mine. The Fuji GA645 series is your friend, goes for around $600 or so on ebay and very easy to use. If you like it and think you'll be doing more medium format work you can then step up to Fuji's 690 series rangefinders which gives you a frame that's twice as large as the 645. The only problem is you'll need a light meter unless you happen to score a 100mm auto-electro lens for the camera.

E-PL1. The problem with the NEX series cameras is the goddamn retarded menu system, if you ever want to use it in anything other than the full auto mode it'll drive you to tears. If you're 100% sure that you'll never want to diddle with manual settings then the NEX series cameras work great, but if need to adjust the colour balance or ISO, have fun finding them and digging through several layers of menus.

I haven't heard the Exemplars yet, but I can't say I'm all that surprised. I've heard a DIY system based on Azurahorns with a ribbon tweeter and large bass cabinet which absolutely murdered the Avantgarde Duo Primo system.

The 2nd picture is what I think of as the classic Kodachrome look, the 1st & 3rd are more contrasty & saturated than what I'd expect from that film. I don't recall Kodachrome having such intense greens, it's a bit of a surprise to me. I've been saving my Kodachrome for fall colour shoots, but since the greens are that good I might as well break out a roll this summer.

Fishy. An amp which allegedly runs in class A but doesn't even get warm, yeah. Either it's a very low powered amp or it's not class A.

Check out PMC. Like the TDLs they're transmission line speakers and they're from the same family of sound as the Harbeths. I've only heard the lower to mid-level products from Harbeth and PMC so I don't know how their big speakers sound like.

Depends on what I'm going for, sometimes I'll use it to tone down distracting stuff around the edge of a frame if cropping it out messes up the framing, sometimes I'll use it to put a bit more emphasis on the subject, sometimes I'll do it just cause it looks better to me for whatever reason, and other times I won't use it at all. I usually keep it fairly subtle though, just enough to get effect without having it become obvious.

When in doubt go Canadian, in this case Sarah Harmer. I'm a Mountain is a sweet folk/bluegrass album, originals, covers, uptempo and relaxed, it's got it all.

Grab some Warren Zevon, start with the 2 CD "I'll Sleep when I'm Dead" compilation, if that's to your taste then grab "The Envoy" and fill in the gaps from there. IMO his songs definitely fit the silly lyrics but damn freakin' good criteria. The Tea Party are one of my fave bands, their Edges of Twilight album's always on my playlist. It's got a bit of everything, there's blues based songs, Doors & Zeppelin middle eastern inspired songs, and a nice instrumental. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_y9kSt-4g0, there's quite a few of their songs all over youtube.

A few photos from the Toronto air show last year

I'd agree that the GS1000 is a wtf choice for sound engineer work, but I'd have to say that a PS1000 is a perfectly viable choice as a 2nd headphone to go with a Senn 600/650 or Grado HP-2. For example, the PS1000 would catch a lot of glitches in the treble which get smoothed over by the Senns, and as a check against the HP's it helps make sure that you haven't mixed the mid-bass too fat or too thin.

Nice shots! I think it's definitely worth spending some time in Photoshop to clean them up a bit, fix the colours & brightness and really make things pop. This is what I generally aim for in my airplane photos, this one's from the Toronto air show last year. I try to get the colours as bright and saturated as I can.

Did you go nuts with the sharpening settings on the 1st picture? There's a pretty obvious halo around the Empire State Building as well as the top of the trees.

They're fairly similar for the most part unless you're going with Pan F Plus or Tri-X. Those 2 have a signature look to them which isn't found in the other films from either company, but with the rest of them, processing will make a bigger difference than the films themselves. Kodak's T-Max films have a slightly finer grain & better resolution than their Ilford Delta series counterparts, but chances are you'll never notice the difference unless you're using a tripod for everything and have the best lenses money can buy.

Same thing here, I'm lazy with my kitchen knives. All my knives are stainless except for a cleaver since that one takes a ton of abuse. It gets hacked through bone and half frozen meat all the time so toughness is more important than anything else.

Damnit. So either that douchebag Carcillo gets a Cup ring or Hossa gets one. Maybe a meteor can hit the Wachovia center during one of the games so that no one wins the cup this year.