Jive. 
Friday, December 29, 2006, 04:59 PM
Way back in 1998 a digital camera found its way into my possession. Understand that this was, at the time, a new and wonderful and mysterious device, and as such, it had a profound effect on my life. The camera was an Olympus D-320L (seen below, being investigated by Rivet) and it packed 4 AA batteries and a massive 8mb Smartcard. I brought it everywhere I went despite it being big, heavy, and slow. Unfortunately, due to a hard drive mishap I lost most of the shots I took with it. Eventually, technology (and my own needs) outpaced it and it had to be put down.


The Olympus was replaced by a Sony Cybershot. This was a stop-gap solution...I only needed it to take photos of eBay stuff. Despite it being a few years newer than the Olympus it was still heavy and bulky. I have no good memories of this camera.


Next I joined the club and got into a Canon Elph S230, bought slightly used from a co-worker. Thousands of pictures, dropped dozens of times, lost in the snow at Stowe...it took me three years to kill this camera, which I did by dropping it into the lake during a kayak incident. I don't have a picture of that camera right now but I will find one...it's in about a dozen pieces after I took it apart and tried to dry it out.

So then I needed to get another camera and unfortunately again went down the stop gap road. I bought a Nikon Coolpix L3, thinking with the Nikon game how could I go wrong? Well, I have had this camera for about five months now and can say that I have never had much of a relationship with it...not like with the Elph or Olympus, anyway. It took okay photos under the best circumstances and poor photos everywhere else. It's too bad, really. It was small and light but there were too many things I couldn't deal with...it turned itself on way too easily, was hard to adjust, hard to shoot photos inside with, and in the end it will hopefully serve Ali far better than it did me.



So I went to this website that Peter Sunna showed me and this guy was fully claiming the Canon A530 as the be-all/end-all for performance, value, and every other metric you could judge a camera by. I went to our local spot and they were of course sold out of the A530 but had its big brother the A540 in stock. I bought it and have been messing around with it for a couple days now and I have to say that I really like it. It is quick, light, takes good photos and once I figure it out I think I'm going to be really happy with it. Oh, and it has a little 1GB card in it which works out to more storage than the PC I had back when I got that first Olympus.



XOXOXO

Cris

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Happy Birthday to Me. 
Thursday, December 28, 2006, 05:30 PM
And to Tara White and Andy "Fisher" Fisher, who I share this day with.
Parents stopped by, too.



And it's ass-cold now, but that's okay, because there's only an inch of snow on the ground, right?

XOXOXO

Cris


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Jesus was born today...really? 
Monday, December 25, 2006, 05:52 PM
In NH for Christmas and that's what's up.





Happy holidays.

Cris

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This is how the magic happens. 
Monday, December 18, 2006, 05:57 PM


Jeremy and Blotto...note one-armed Jay with the BGP.
Photo taken at 2 am.

Cris


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Go West, meaning Go East. 
Sunday, December 10, 2006, 06:06 PM
The Houstons were in town...rocked that breakfast situation, Violette-wise.



Get out while you still can.

XOXOXO

Cris


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NH is 'merican for best ever. 
Sunday, December 3, 2006, 06:01 PM
Preparing to receive transmissions...



Garage-wise the parents are tightening things up:



Cris



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Fat Little Dog 
Saturday, November 25, 2006, 01:49 PM


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Thanksgiving. 
Thursday, November 23, 2006, 01:46 PM

These two rule.

We had an awesome Thanksgiving. Biggest meal we have ever cooked, hands down.


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Mind Bending. 
Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 04:52 PM
Two days into the week and it feels like the world has been turned upside down multiple times. Yesterday was bizarre and today...today I got news that I simply don't believe...I almost refuse to believe it's true.

Stunned.

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Stroker Ace 
Saturday, November 18, 2006, 11:20 PM
"When Lugs Harvey sets up a car, your mother could drive it."

"Is that God's own racecar or what is it?"
"What is it"

"You've seen bible class. Everyone cheats a little bit."

"What was her first name?"
"I don't know. Last time I was with her she had a sash on...said 'Miss Daytona'...probably her last name."

VT resident Ken Squier cameo bonus!

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