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Jack M

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  1. Congrats Fin, I think this was the best solution. Having tried my hand at upgrading/repairing the forum, I was afraid it was just going to have to be scrapped in the end. I'm very impressed IP Board was willing and able to migrate the db to their structure. Indeed, good riddance to vBulletin. The upgrade instructions said to back up the database, "in case the upgrade corrupts the database". What? What kind of software company says that? So I backed it up and sure enough the upgrade failed. We restored to the backup and let it limp along like that until things recently got worse. Anyway, thanks again Fin for finding this solution.
  2. Thanks! My iPhone didn't do it justice, the topsheet is photo quality. It will definitely go on the wall someday! A cool little easter-egg is that my trenches are in the corduroy on the tail.
  3. Custom Metal AX 163/21.5/10-11. Jackson Hole photo by yours truly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  4. Do I win? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  5. Yes, 2004. That 170 was something special. It put Madd back in business. You're right that the 2005s were not as good, and many were defective, but in 2006 they were amazing again.
  6. Ok that was cool. I had seen that back in 2012 but I only remembered the smoke, not the flares.
  7. FIRE BOARDING! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/f2HoZ4cU1r4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  8. I guess if you really want to be literal about "reissue", but dang that is not going to be a very durable board.
  9. Cool news, aside from the slam on racing, and shoddy journalism ("today, every snowboard can trace its roots back to this original design") http://snowboarding.transworld.net/news/sims-terry-kidwell-roundtail-1550-reissue/ But... horizontal lamination? Why?
  10. Took a tour at Moët & Chandon. Guide said how when the Queen Mother came to visit in 1990, on her 90th birthday, they opened a bottle of vintage 1900 Dom Perignon in her honor, and that it was out of this world. I'd say this board is like a bat used by Babe Ruth. Just a pice of wood, but with history attached. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  11. http://onboardmag.com/features/talking-points/most-expensive-snowboard-burton.html Bryan???
  12. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/09/world-cup-brazil-john-oliver_n_5471605.html
  13. http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/27/news/midcoast/man-who-fell-into-megunticook-lake-identified-as-james-wescott-father-of-olympic-snowboarder-seth/
  14. Congrats, that will be great. D3100 vs D3200 is insignificant.
  15. Pathological liars suck. If you know she is victimizing someone else, or is defrauding the state, then report her. Otherwise it sounds like you don't have anything to report other than a hunch.
  16. Hard to go wrong with Canon, Nikon, Pentax. If you want the smallest DSLR out there, check out the Canon SL1.
  17. So are Canon and Nikon if you dig deep enough. Aaaahhh I'm gonna have to disagree here.
  18. Cool. Definitely handle them in person before buying. And if it's not too much more money, buy locally. Don't rule out Pentax, they have pro-level weather sealing on their mid-level DSLRs like the K-30 and K-50, which Canon and Nikon do not. If that's important to you. Pentax and Nikon both buy their sensors from Sony, so the image quality is basically the same.
  19. Photography is my other passion. Only you can decide whether a DSLR is too big or not. Personally I think babies and kids are the perfect use for them. They're not too expensive anymore, you can get a Canon T4i or Nikon D3200 or Pentax K-30 from stores liquidating them for like $450 or less with lens. They are the previous model but are very mature, capable cameras. Throw them in full-auto mode and they're as easy to use as a point-n-shoot. If you don't want the size of a DSLR but you want the same image quality, have a look at mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras like the Sony NEX series (now called the a5000 and a6000) or the Fuji XE-2, XM-1, or XA-1. These can fit in a small bag or even a large jacket pocket. The trade-off here is the autofocus is not usually up to the task of kids running around or playing sports like soccer. Personally I wouldn't bother with Panasonic or Olympus as they use a smaller sensor which I am prejudiced against. If you really want a point-n-shoot that you can easily bring everywhere without a bag, the hands-down best is the Sony RX100-II, or you can save a bit with the previous but still current model, the RX100. The next best thing would be the Canon S120, but I wouldn't go any cheaper than that. Avoid "superzoom" cameras, and point-n-shoot cameras with lenses with f-numbers that start higher than f/2.8. For example the RX100's lens starts at f/1.8 and goes to f/4.9. f/1.8 is nice and bright at the wide end.
  20. Take it easy, just teasing. I'm sure it works great, but you've got to admit it looks unusual.
  21. Is the Storm Trooper look deliberate? Nerd alert!!
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