Some of the Zeiss lenses for Sony certainly compare favorably (but, truth be told, some Zeiss lenses are less Zeiss-y than others) but I haven't paid a ton of attention to the most recent Sony-branded additions (G and G Master), either; I don't know how much DNA they share with Zeiss, but I would have to imagine there's a decent amount of overlap.

Oh god yes. Canon vs Nikon fanboyism is bad enough, but it's really hard to discuss/share Zeiss on a lot of forums - something about the brand gets a lot of non-Zeiss users worked up and defensive. Pretty much the reason that I stick to Alt forums/threads these days.

;) That's called 'taking the piss.'

... in the kitchen sink?

Stop making fun of me I'm young, fat, and slow. :p

I am so glad we can say that word now. It was censored for a long time.

I was skimming through the page and I saw the picture above. I initially thought it was a dork disk or some type of spacer....

Well it is a spacer...

I rode my steel bike this morning. I think I prefer the fit on that one over that on my Trek. Putting them side by side I can see the reach is a bit longer and there is also a fair amount of extra drop. Most of it is due to the classic-styled bars. I hope I can set up my new bike similarly to the steel one. Checking the specs, the new one has even shorter reach than the Trek, but also lower stack fortunately. I think I might have to go for one of those super pro-looking ultra-long stems.

"The Sixth Sense" was good, although it gave me a permanent dislike of that Osmett kid. "Signs" was o.k. The rest are not worth seeing, IMO.

He has not, and the very last scene of "Split" totally cheapens the film. Corny would be an understatement. While not gory, the device he uses is something you would expect to see in the third installment of a slasher flick meant to set up installment number four.

I was thinking some fancy newfangled crown race :)

Unfortunate. This is the James McAvoy (sp?) one? I like him, but he's taken on some questionable projects recently.

What I imagine the scene looking like:

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*colour

[MENTION=185471]WhyFi[/MENTION] is a youngster. ;)

Speaking of colours, I'm afraid the SID is a little too orange for the tandem :( Might do it anyways...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4182/3...ed90e3de_k.jpg

This is as close I a get.

Same

Went with POC air knee pads for my mountain bike falls, they're beautiful. Impressed for once.

Really? I figured out The Sixth Sense at the dinner scene; after that it was naptime until they got around to the "big reveal". Signs creeped me the eff out. The Village had a million holes that partly pointed at the reveal but also partly just went unanswered. Unbreakable was boring. I gave up after that.

So did I, but I figured I couldn't be right because that would made it too easy.


Re: Unbreakable, the people I know who really like it are deep into the comic book/super hero thing. Must be like with Kevin Smith's "Dogma." The combination of him and the cast convinced me to see it the day it was released. I was, like, wut? But many people I know who were raised Catholic thought it was great.

In other news, kitty has not been himself the last few weeks. He was scheduled for his monthly lymphoma checkup this morning. Initial blood work revealed his red cell count has dropped from 34 last month to 24, leaving him anemic after he had been going in the opposite direction for months. He's having an ultrasound this afternoon. Have to wonder if this is the beginning (or middle) of the end.

Late this morning, I stopped and thought, "wait - did I poop today?" Two seconds later, I thought, "wow - that's a question an old person would ask themselves... I must be old."

I never think that. I'm old. Must be another reason.

I have this little paralyzed dog that I did surgery on Monday afternoon. Someone else had done spinal surgery unsuccessfully and now the dog was totally paralyzed in her hind legs with no feeling in her toes. It was a difficult surgery and I had no better luck than the first surgeon so I resorted to a salvage procedure that usually works but given the severity of this dog's symptoms, I was not very optimistic. Then kind of a rough time post-op, several not-insurmountable things have gone wrong and the dog refusing to eat. We all start to wonder if its worth going through all this for the dog, since the odds for recovery were looking so slim. But it was the wife's dog and she died last year, the guy wants to do everything for her within reason.


Yesterday he wondered about euthanasia and I told him that wouldn't be wrong. But two spinal surgeries in two weeks, my opinion is, after all that, we should give her a reasonable amount of time to recover.


So today she is moving her hind legs again and ate her breakfast. Home by the weekend. :)