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got a roll of black and white ilford iso 400 film from amazon today and took a few pictures with my mom's old minolta af eii rangefinder. it is a fixed 35mm plastic bodied point and shoot camera with a mechanical winder. can't find any info on it online other than it goes for 10 bucks on ebay. anyone have suggestions for where I can send the roll and get reasonable big scans (bigger than 1200x1200) for less than $15? sams club and walmart don't work with film anymore. the local costco doesn't do it not that I have a membership with them anyways. I have contacted 2 local cvs' and walgreens each but neither of them do film processing - they are all just printing services now it seems. I don't mind shipping stuff out and don't want prints. just clean scans to a cd or some ftp server that i can get the files from. i don't have the time to do black and white film processing myself even though it seems pretty straightforward so need some place that I can send the roll to. given that I have no clue if the camera is still functioning properly or not I'd like to get away with the cheapest possible route for now for verification purposes. once I have the negatives I can get it rescanned with a "better" scanner.

wonder what tubes those are. looks cool. are there any similar consumer/mainstream products?

I was just kidding.

All cli gentoo for badass points Carl. Not that you need them but I remember some kids my freshman year running boxes that way and they were the envy of the whole floor. Major need cred.

Happy birthday marshall

Happy birthday birgir

Happy birthday mike

Dinny fredmiranda.com has a lot of good people. Very helpful as well. No articles that I am aware of but if you look at the photo critique section yOu can pick up a lot of stuff from the suggestions people give to others.

Good god that salmon gave me the worst stomach ache ever. Spent the better part of my evening hurling the contents out at both ends. Not a very good post meal experience.

Garlic paste with a home made sauce that my mom makes for chicken but I tried it with salmon tonight. Did not disappoint. Baked at 375 for 15 minutes. Homemade basmati rice from India. Good meal.

Happy birthday sir

Man little monkey has grown up fast.

Thanks all. Spent all day at Barnes and noble studying for the mcat. Not much time to relax until aug 17th but hopefully I'll get a few days to take off somewhere nice with the gf once the test is over.

Happy birthday sir

Matlab. How did I forget that? Maple is another one. I love Mathematica for having the greatest help tab in the history of all languages. A monkey can write a reasonably difficult program in it given the entire help section. Now if they could just stop using those damn square brackets they seem to be married to...

Most if not all back end financial stuff is written in C++. But with so many flavors optimized to particular needs and niche models i don't know if it's fair to call them all C++ even though they all sprouted from there. I guess I don't follow the argument. If you know how to code you know how to code. The rest is syntax which IMHO can be picked up a lot easily than say actually understanding encapsulation or polymorphism and being able to implement them in one language. Again the assumption is working on some oop language. Outside oop I don't know much but I can't imagine the syntax being that hard to pick up. Also if you are smart enough to understand the theory behind objects would it be a terrible stretch of imagination that you could pick up non oop languages kinda quickly too? Also one doesn't NEED to work in emacs or some super super lean editor and then compile stuff. At least I don't see such a need. Work in a sufficiently advanced IDE and it should give you plenty of help writing code and getting used to the syntax. So many people in my dept stuck to vi just for the hardcore points when the rest of the team was working in eclipse or CodeWarrior. Gui's aren't always a bad thing. Developers can get microsoft stuff for free. My naive suggestion would be to spend a few hours looking at the libraries they use for whatever the job requires prior to the interview if possible instead of picking a 500 page Wiley manual to learn java or the like. One part of the interview at rutgers for financial engineering was reading their library for parsing parallel threads in C++ which apparently wasn't natively supported and then answering questions on how one would solve specific problems with some screwy classes. Ps. Fuck java and whoever made it.

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...