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I'd stick with that logic if I were you. No fewer than twice, and probably more if I care to jog my memory, I've bought point and shoot cameras to bridge the gap between my DSLR and phone. Bottom line, they all simply gathered dust. Basically nothing is a pocketable as a phone and once I'm beyond it actually fitting comfortably in my pocket I'd rather just carry the D7000 and be able to use it like a real camera. And my logic also gets highly tripped up on the idea of spending as much on a P&S as I would upgrading the D7000. Anyway, obviously opinions differ but cell phone cameras have gotten so good at this point that they really do cover a lot of ground for the casual photog. I've printed 24x36 poster quality prints from my GS5 and iPhones alike. In my book, that's good enough.

FYI - Abe's has long been a shady place to buy anything and often has prices that are simply too good to be true. I've ready horror story after horror story about them and camera gear so if it was my $$ I'd shop just about anywhere else.

I tired both of my purchases today. The Tornado is fantastic, the jetstream, ehhh, maybe I got a bad batch but it doesn't write nearly as well as expected even coupled with the expectation that it's a cheap pen ($3/ea). It's also crazy to see the variance in line width between two .7mm pens. The Tornado is pretty much as expected, the jetstream is much, much thinner, doesn't float and feels scratchy. Some of that is down to the crap paper that I'm writing on but that's not going to change any time soon.

I got a wind-chill warning at work this morning. It is spring, right?!??!?! The predicted high this week is 50ish but with rain that day and then the temps drop back into the 30s.

^^^ Epic! Me, assisted the heatmizer in letting some bubbles out of my heating system. Heat has been restored to all levels of the house. Happy happy, joy joy.

Ouch Marhsall. I think that autocad offers trial versions of their software, or at least used to.

Ugh, that doesn't sound good. The tank should be cheap but I have no idea how much the other components will cost.

Honestly my first thought was that it was refreshing to find multiple watches not costing 4 digits even if I didn't particularly like many of the recommended pieces.

If it's just an air bubble that has that zone locked up I'll be ok. If it's something worse it'll be, uh, worse.

Did you really get the impression that folks around here needed a beginner DIY article?

I'd happily eat either, yum. And for whatever reason that first loaf made me think of the Nightmare Before Christmas - in a good way.

I may have spoken too soon. We have no heat on the second floor of the house. So while it's toasty on the first floor, the second floor lost 10 degrees overnight and it's not supposed to get above freezing today. Yay. I'm trying to be kind and wait till 8am to call Mr. Heat again.

Yeah, I definitely got lucky. The expansion tank had failed which is definitely something that can flood a basement in a short period of time.

It wasn't too bad and my repair guy, who I've been using for 10 years cut me a break on the weekend service call cost. So I overpaid him and did it in cash. No more drippy boiler.

Walked downstairs to go grocery shopping and, for reasons I can't even recall, took a look into the storage room. Glad I did, as the boiler was dripping hot water all over the floor and had already created a small puddle. I put a Solo cup under the offending pipe and it relatively quickly started to fill so I called the heater repairman who informed me that I'd be paying $200 simply for the pleasure of interrupting his weekend. Currently waiting for him to arrive to find out how much on top of the flat fee I'll get to shell out. I love spring.

I know this will come as a shock... but it's snowing again. It's supposed to stop by noon time but goddamnit, yesterday was the first day of spring.

I was curious until I saw the ~$2k price tag. While less functional I'd be tempted to build a system around the Outlaw RR2150 first.

I fully expect Stretch's next post to be this.

I should clarify, it's the tip of the work pens that are fat. Like 1.2mm ballpoint fat. While I can't write well with fine or extra-fine point pens this is the other end of the spectrum and equally as useless (to me). I also grabbed some .7mm uni-ball jet stream pens.

I can now, in an extremely limited fashion, contribute to this thread. For the last few weeks the pens that work supplies have been driving me nuts. They're fat, write like shit and are just plain frustrating. But I wasn't about to use a fountain pen. So I did a bit of research and yesterday a Retro 1951 Tornado in stainless steel finish arrived. It both looks and writes excellently.

^^^ This.

My balls hurt just watching that, Greg. Crazy....

^^^ I'd listen to this guy.

I think you can also just put a divider off the pro bias.

Happy birthday to my west coast lawyer. May your day be filled with hops and no headaches.