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The lovely holiday known as labor day. Meaning I'm working all day since I don't have class.

If I had $10K lying around, I'd do it. That car has got to haul ass. My thoughts exactly.

Looking to buy a SIG 245 for carry, local pawn shop has one that is pretty damn nice.

Anyone need a Camaro project car? 99 Twin Turbo Z28 for 12k.... http://ksu.craigslist.org/cto/1359936283.html

Happy Birthday! May it be filled with boobies and booze!

Didn't buy much at the surplus sale, two carbide countersinks for 2$ and then 22lbs of .020 stainless sheeting and 22lbs of cp-3 titanium .070 sheets. About came home with a 3/8" titanium plate, but then I tried to figure out wtf I would do with the damn thing.... Wasn't sure.

But of course I have to wait on the woman to get ready before we can leave....

A 6" Wilton round ram vise would be nice too, but who knows....

Going to see what I can buy at the Spirit surplus sales here in Wichita... Be nice to find a couple of torque wrenches in inch pounds and some micrometers.

Hmm, it appears I got a pay raise at work. Sweet.

Habitat for humanity has cabinets? News to me. All depends on the day, they get EVERYTHING...

nope, you seemed organized to me Yep, seem organized to me too.

nope, then we wouldn't have anybody working the crappy jobs It would certainly make me feel better though.

So... Any chance we could get a law passed that allows us to beat the stupid out of stupid people?

Test tomorrow in fluid power. Going to bend it over and make it my bitch.

Yes. My brother just made a extra cord and plug to switch out his stove and saw since he doesn't use both at the same time.

I wouldn't get that particular JET saw, haven't heard that many good things about them. Nothing bad but then again nothing really good. I'd probably go for the unisaw before the hybrid but both of those would be good saws.

Also, don't be sad about not getting the shop smith. I've never been impressed with them.

Problem number one: Its a Craftsman table saw Number two: Its a Craftsman table saw Go and find a unsed Delta Unisaw to buy, put a bieselmeyer fence on it, extension tables, and be happy.

Exposure is a bitch... lol

Camera top!

Sounds good Sean. One of the problems people staring out with DSLR's have is they just take photo after photo after photo without actually stopping to realize wtf is going on and why anything is changing (or not changing). I doubt you will be one of those people though. Just keep at 'er and you'll get it figured out. It took me a couple of years with manual film to be able to manipulate the controls to get what I wanted in odd scenarios.

Bah. Real cameras don't need a computer. *still loves his old school film*

I wouldn't worry about the filter at all Sean.

Anything less than ~1/30th you are going to want a tripod. Sure you can hand hold it/improvise but it will be a lot sharper with a fixed mount. I would wait a bit longer for some real light, run a f-stop somewhere around the 5.6 mark, just go ahead and run the auto focus, no need to try to manually do it unless you have focusing rings on the viewfinder. Absolutely not a damn thing wrong with a 50mm lens. You will notice with the 50mm in lower light you can run a lot faster shutter speeds since it will let in more light than your adj. telephoto lens will. Something else you can do is jack up the ISO to 800ish to compensate for lower light. You don't need to worry about a little bit grainer photo, especially with the digital format and where they are at with that. Are you running in dummy mode (automatic), manual, aperture priority, or shutter priority? I'd be tempted to run in aperture priority, set the f-stop to what you find works for you and work from there. Keep an eye on the shutter speed though to make sure that it doesn't want to lower it to much though. If it does find more light, jack up the ISO, or lower your f-stop (lower the f-stop number, bigger the opening).