crappyjones123

Lightroom 3 for 70 bucks on bh today.

Seller claims camera shake is throwing off the auto focus as the lens was fine with him. I dont understand how that makes sense when the af shots were taken with the camera on a cement platform and shit was blurry when the hand held shot with manual focus was much better... Thoughts? Ari, I'll try the suggested when I get home tomorrow.

body is a d7000. it does have af micro adjust but the option doesn't highlight with the sigma lens. it does so with the nikon lens however. ill look in the manual again today in case i did something wrong but it didn't let me go into the option last night. purchased it on fm from a guy with good feedback so hopefully things can be resolved. it wasn't cheap (not for me at least) and i would prefer not to buy more gear just to get this to work correctly.

i recently got a sigma 30/1.4 for nikon. with manual focusing i am getting fairly sharp images but with af i haven't really gotten any images where the focus was where i wanted it to be. on a shelf with af with focus point on the bottle closest to the camera - http://imgur.com/Ke2R7 on a shelf with af with focus point on the bottle farther away from the camera - http://imgur.com/KOEPt with mf, hand held using live view - http://imgur.com/BAfsQ all shots were taken wide open in aperture mode but the results have been the same with the lens stopped down and in other shooting modes. all the shots were indoors but outdoors i have back focusing issues as well on all shots. the nikon 35/1.8 lens i was shooting for the past week with is not as sharp nor does it give as nice colors but it focuses accurately so i know the body is ok. i pmed the seller and am waiting for a reply but what are my options if he doesn't offer any help

where is shelly? i feel weird around all these biologists...

1. increase sample size. 2. decrease noise. 3. 4. profit.

Lehmann is a typical grad text. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0387949194 I'll see if I still have my copy. It had a nice rigorous treatment.

didn't know biology was moving away from it. it is still the back bone of model testing for robustness and risk analysis. at least for the things i worked on, i couldn't go 5 pages without confidence intervals making an appearance. whacha coin with anova beefy?

im assuming you are talking about the probability of a type 1 error. how does one define low, even in the context of the null hypothesis? surely, the drug companies would like low to be 10% so they can peddle their wares but would you prefer to take a drug that the fda cleared for consumption at alpha = 1% or alpha = 10%. "low" could mean different things depending on who is looking at things. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/signif4.pdf how does one provide confidence intervals without alpha being predefined?

"hmm...crappy is right but i can't let that pass. so i am going to backtrack and say that the preciseness doesn't matter even though i tried to correct him on it (and failed)" just admit you were wrong instead of trying to safe face. sorry to thread crap doug but needed to get that out.

absolutely wrong and utterly misleading. see the example under statistical significance. http://www.stat.yale.edu/Courses/1997-98/101/sigtest.htm any elementary stat book will explain why it is necessary to give a significance level or a p value otherwise the test is meaningless.

i could, for alpha = 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% i know its just the pedantic mathematician in me talking but it leaves this weird feeling in the back of my throat whenever people talk about statistical significance without mentioning the significance level.

i would try running a highish frequency through some frequency generator to just that speaker - something the crossover would send only to the tweeter. then try it with the speaker that seems to be ok. that should at least tell you if the tweeter is indeed bad.

I don't have the appropriate tools to fix this mess. I'll try the guys that built the fonkens for me. If nothing comes of it I'll check in with Tom.

A guy who is home alone, doesn't like to do dishes and whose awesome gf doesn't care Dessert was supposed to be a big home cooked chocolate chip cookie courtesy of Julie topped off with fresh strawberries, whipped cream, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some homemade chocolate syrup. Only, I took too long to finish my he and we got hungry

0.88lb filet mignon + some brocolli Fresh squeezed OJ not pictured. (I don't like doing dishes anymore)

I picked up the case today. No scratches this time but the holes for the screws for the mounting plate are completely filled in. The two halves don't mate due to the thick coating. Is there any chemical process via which everything can be returned to the way it was before? I'd rather take a chance again with painting it myself. Actually got better results with that.

Ginger boiled in water to a thick liquid. Add honey to taste. Drink while warm. Tastes worse than anything you will ever taste but boy does it do the job.

thats real purrty. enjoy steve

i read that this morning and was about to post it

Happy birthday

i have procured season 2 as well today. shall watch it tonight while doing my organic chemistry problem set.

got the tenba discovery mini messenger in the mail. http://www.tenba.com...-Messenger.aspx it comfortably takes my 13" macbook air, charger, d7000 with the 35/1.8 and the 30/1.4 lenses, a notebook, pencil, eraser, external portable hard drive, jh16s with room to spare. for whatever reason it feels lighter to carry than my current wenger 15" notebook sleeve which was carrying all the above barring the camera gear. perhaps it is the way it is constructed but i absolutely love it. comes with a rain cover as well which is probably going to be helpful during the sofla rainy weather. nice little pocket on the outside for a p&s or a water bottle. short version - fits all my shit perfectly and is comfortable on the shoulder and back. also got a mini display - hdmi cable for the macbook air to watch stuff on the tv. ok construction. i want to say flimsy but everything else i saw was more money. there are random white artifacts on the tv with the hdmi cable however given the infrequent use and non critical viewing, i am not too bothered by it. do i wish they weren't there? sure, but i can live with it. any thoughts on getting rid of the white spots? they come up at random times in random pixels. never the same pixel twice. also got that rocket blower thing for cleaning cameras sensors. its going back to amazon. 12 fucking dollars for a glorified air bulb that came with the debrox bottle for free. looked around for a nice place to take julie this sunday. will be exactly 6 months on sunday. can't find anything cool enough but will continue looking. valentines day is 2 days later. going to be an expensive week however, she is awesome so i shouldn't bitch.

Happy birthday sir

I don't mind the filler with well written stuff. For instance House, Season 1 of Prison Break, Campus (cancelled after season 1), Coupling. I like seeing characters being developed. More so the interaction between them. What makes house so great (for me) is his dialogue with wilson. I know the medical stuff is just fluff but his interactions with other characters always makes me chuckle.