No - hockey over here is played by tough individuals who sometimes have a little bit of a violent streak...

Oh...wait.... 'Hockey' over there is too...

(Remembering one year way back in high school rugby where the only game we lost all year is when the girls field hockey team at our school got tired of our success (well, tired of us talking about it anyway) and challenged us to a match of each - rugby and hockey. We were pretty confident before the match, but were humiliated by the end of the first one (rugby).... Injuries (and fear) caused us to concede the hockey match without actually playing it... They played tougher than any men's team we'd beat all year...)

You did very well - I never got the hang of hockey photos - the big expanse of white ice always seemed to blow out my exposure... Colours showed up well in your pics...

Jerseys had me stumped until I realized it might not be NHL... AHL? ECHL?

I think it'd make a great picture - gonna try it myself...

Run down to the local high school band practice and get a slow shutter close up of a metronome (in motion) against an out-of-focus backdrop of the band practicing... Movement (motion) of a movement (the upside down clock-like pendulum of the metronome) during a movement (the musical selection)...

Not terribly difficult to set up - and you'll impress your instructor(s) if they appreciate puns... (If they don't, I'm not to blame... )

I'd start stocking the liquor cabinet just in case...

It won't go bad...

(Try a couple of the Maple ones...)

This looks like something worth investigating further, but I see another drawback for myself - it isn't self-powered (battery)... I'd like the capability to use it without looking for mains or AC adapters and such... (well, in between recharges anyway...)

I have a laptop, but was looking for something pocketable, or semi-pocketable, something that would fit into my camera bag...

Tyr, you said :

Is that an actual retail pkg, do you have a URL ?

Don

I had looked at the Ipods, but didn't see how to hook up an SD - now I see the camera dongle - do you have it? How do the pictures actually look onscreen (though that's not a huge consideration...)

Is there any alternate method of reading SD's without hooking the camera to the Ipod? Could you plug in a generic USB card reader?

I read about LBA, but for me, LBA is simply a subset of EGBA. (Electronig Gadget Buying Addiction) I've always been enticed by electronic gadgets, and lately I've been looking at the portable data vaults (or the multimedia players with built in card readers and hard drives)... There are a few different sizes and brands available, but I was wondering...

Are they worth it ? Or would I be better off taking that money and buying a big handful of SD cards...?

Heck, 60 to 80 gigs is a LOT of pictures, but do I want to "put all my eggs in one basket", but there's the possibility to use it for other purposes data-wise or entertainment-wise perhaps, but for the same money I could probably get 30 - 40 gigs worth of SD cards... And I'm never away from my PC for more than a couple days (I get D.T.'s even considering it...) And theres the whole Solid-state vs. moving parts argument...

Aaarrrggghhh... Too many variables.... Brain melting.... Urk...

What's your experience / opinion ?

Smuggling? I didn't know Maple syrup was illegal there...

Wow...

Don - those liquers are quite tasty...

I guess we don't generally think of it as anything really special, but I was almost 20 years old before I tasted what's misleadingly referred to as "Syrup" by people that don't realize where it actually comes from, and might not even recognize a maple tree - we generally get about 40 gallons of finished product from our small sugar-bush every spring - some years more, some less,,, Not enough to run a business, but for us and our family and friends it's enough. There is a down side - some of our family and friends help keep a few of the local dentists happy... I was cured of my maple addiction when I was diagnosed with diabetes - well, maybe cured isn't the right word... I still want it...

Sounds like we have the makings of an underground economy here...

Which of your lenses (or other Pentax-related goodies) would you trade for a couple gallons of Grade A syrup ?
(it's a bit late in the season for the fresh stuff - but I'm sure some of the local sugar bushes have some vintage Spring '07 put away...)