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[Oleg]

Screw the wedding talk.  Let's talk about Pre's bachelor party instead.

Two words :

Eastern.  Europe.

Krakow is fun, I've been there a few times.

Prague is ideal for this sort of activity.

I have heard that it's nearly impossible to beat Prague when it comes to cash-to-beer value.

I thought Budapest was the new Prague.

And Bucharest the new Budapest.

Is Istanbul the new Constantinople?

[Indolent Reader]

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

[Kermit, B.]

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

I'm wacky!

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

As a Republican, it is my sacred duty to support all raclial and ethnic stereotypes.  Even when they are directed at me.

Is that romanian?

You know what they say about Transylvanians.

They can't type worth a damn.

[RD]

Screw the wedding talk.  Let's talk about Pre's bachelor party instead.

Two words :

Eastern.  Europe.

Krakow is fun, I've been there a few times.

Prague is ideal for this sort of activity.

I have heard that it's nearly impossible to beat Prague when it comes to cash-to-beer value.

Bratislava beats Prague in this department.

[TDubbs]

Screw the wedding talk.  Let's talk about Pre's bachelor party instead.

Two words :

Eastern.  Europe.

Krakow is fun, I've been there a few times.

Prague is ideal for this sort of activity.

I have heard that it's nearly impossible to beat Prague when it comes to cash-to-beer value.

Bratislava beats Prague in this department.

I thought it was Myanmar?

[Kermit, B.]

Pen, did you ever decide on a camera?  At some point, I think we're going to get one, and I love solicited advice.

[PenFoe]

Pen, did you ever decide on a camera?  At some point, I think we're going to get one, and I love solicited advice.

I did indeed.

We ended up getting the Canon HF10.

I don't know why Amazon is listing it for $999, you can get it elsewhere for like half the price.

The good: It's very, very easy to use, compact (about the size of a can of soda/pop/Coke).

The one "bad" thing so far is that the files are really big. I took a 2 minute video of my daughter that I wanted to send to the grandparents. When I went to view the file on my computer (transferring from the camera is really easy on a PC running Vista or XP) the file was 150 MBs, shot in SP (which is the 2nd lowest of 4 quality options, though still HD).

The software that came with the camera let me convert it down to an MPEG but it was still about 16 MBs, too big to email.

So basically, if you want to share any videos more than about 30 seconds, you're going to need to upload them to youtube, which is fine, just not what I originally anticipated...though at least it spares me the hassle of having to explain to the over 60 crowd how to open Quicktime files.

[Andre Dawson's Creek]

Pen, did you ever decide on a camera?  At some point, I think we're going to get one, and I love solicited advice.

I did indeed.

We ended up getting the Canon HF10.

I don't know why Amazon is listing it for $999, you can get it elsewhere for like half the price.

The good: It's very, very easy to use, compact (about the size of a can of soda/pop/Coke).

The one "bad" thing so far is that the files are really big. I took a 2 minute video of my daughter that I wanted to send to the grandparents. When I went to view the file on my computer (transferring from the camera is really easy on a PC running Vista or XP) the file was 150 MBs, shot in SP (which is the 2nd lowest of 4 quality options, though still HD).

The software that came with the camera let me convert it down to an MPEG but it was still about 16 MBs, too big to email.

So basically, if you want to share any videos more than about 30 seconds, you're going to need to upload them to youtube, which is fine, just not what I originally anticipated...though at least it spares me the hassle of having to explain to the over 60 crowd how to open Quicktime files.

Get Dropbox (http://www.getdropbox.com/pricing).  2GB of storage to share.  Essentially you just drop the file in and anyone you want can log in and watch it or download it.  It's pretty easy to use, and if they can operate extracting the file from an email, they should be able to figure this out.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Pen, did you ever decide on a camera?  At some point, I think we're going to get one, and I love solicited advice.

I did indeed.

We ended up getting the Canon HF10.

I don't know why Amazon is listing it for $999, you can get it elsewhere for like half the price.

The good: It's very, very easy to use, compact (about the size of a can of soda/pop/Coke).

The one "bad" thing so far is that the files are really big. I took a 2 minute video of my daughter that I wanted to send to the grandparents. When I went to view the file on my computer (transferring from the camera is really easy on a PC running Vista or XP) the file was 150 MBs, shot in SP (which is the 2nd lowest of 4 quality options, though still HD).

The software that came with the camera let me convert it down to an MPEG but it was still about 16 MBs, too big to email.

So basically, if you want to share any videos more than about 30 seconds, you're going to need to upload them to youtube, which is fine, just not what I originally anticipated...though at least it spares me the hassle of having to explain to the over 60 crowd how to open Quicktime files.

Blu-Ray burner is the way to go with the HF-10.  Also takes great stills.  Love the video but the shake stabilization software is pretty poor.  I'm always looking for a place to brace my elbow so as to not give everyone motion sickness when we watch it.

And no, I don't have early onset Parkinsons.

[PenFoe]

Pen, did you ever decide on a camera?  At some point, I think we're going to get one, and I love solicited advice.

I did indeed.

We ended up getting the Canon HF10.

I don't know why Amazon is listing it for $999, you can get it elsewhere for like half the price.

The good: It's very, very easy to use, compact (about the size of a can of soda/pop/Coke).

The one "bad" thing so far is that the files are really big. I took a 2 minute video of my daughter that I wanted to send to the grandparents. When I went to view the file on my computer (transferring from the camera is really easy on a PC running Vista or XP) the file was 150 MBs, shot in SP (which is the 2nd lowest of 4 quality options, though still HD).

The software that came with the camera let me convert it down to an MPEG but it was still about 16 MBs, too big to email.

So basically, if you want to share any videos more than about 30 seconds, you're going to need to upload them to youtube, which is fine, just not what I originally anticipated...though at least it spares me the hassle of having to explain to the over 60 crowd how to open Quicktime files.

Blu-Ray burner is the way to go with the HF-10.  Also takes great stills.  Love the video but the shake stabilization software is pretty poor.  I'm always looking for a place to brace my elbow so as to not give everyone motion sickness when we watch it.

And no, I don't have early onset Parkinsons.

Blue-ray burner?
I'll just send out my butler to pick one up.

[Kermit, B.]

Pen, did you ever decide on a camera?  At some point, I think we're going to get one, and I love solicited advice.

I did indeed.

We ended up getting the Canon HF10.

I don't know why Amazon is listing it for $999, you can get it elsewhere for like half the price.

The good: It's very, very easy to use, compact (about the size of a can of soda/pop/Coke).

The one "bad" thing so far is that the files are really big. I took a 2 minute video of my daughter that I wanted to send to the grandparents. When I went to view the file on my computer (transferring from the camera is really easy on a PC running Vista or XP) the file was 150 MBs, shot in SP (which is the 2nd lowest of 4 quality options, though still HD).

The software that came with the camera let me convert it down to an MPEG but it was still about 16 MBs, too big to email.

So basically, if you want to share any videos more than about 30 seconds, you're going to need to upload them to youtube, which is fine, just not what I originally anticipated...though at least it spares me the hassle of having to explain to the over 60 crowd how to open Quicktime files.

Blu-Ray burner is the way to go with the HF-10.  Also takes great stills.  Love the video but the shake stabilization software is pretty poor.  I'm always looking for a place to brace my elbow so as to not give everyone motion sickness when we watch it.

And no, I don't have early onset Parkinsons.

Is it the DTs?

Thanks for the feedback, Pen.

[Andre Dawson's Creek]

Pen, did you ever decide on a camera?  At some point, I think we're going to get one, and I love solicited advice.

I did indeed.

We ended up getting the Canon HF10.

I don't know why Amazon is listing it for $999, you can get it elsewhere for like half the price.

The good: It's very, very easy to use, compact (about the size of a can of soda/pop/Coke).

The one "bad" thing so far is that the files are really big. I took a 2 minute video of my daughter that I wanted to send to the grandparents. When I went to view the file on my computer (transferring from the camera is really easy on a PC running Vista or XP) the file was 150 MBs, shot in SP (which is the 2nd lowest of 4 quality options, though still HD).

The software that came with the camera let me convert it down to an MPEG but it was still about 16 MBs, too big to email.

So basically, if you want to share any videos more than about 30 seconds, you're going to need to upload them to youtube, which is fine, just not what I originally anticipated...though at least it spares me the hassle of having to explain to the over 60 crowd how to open Quicktime files.

Blu-Ray burner is the way to go with the HF-10.  Also takes great stills.  Love the video but the shake stabilization software is pretty poor.  I'm always looking for a place to brace my elbow so as to not give everyone motion sickness when we watch it.

And no, I don't have early onset Parkinsons.

That's what your gut is for.

[PenFoe]

Pen, did you ever decide on a camera?  At some point, I think we're going to get one, and I love solicited advice.

I did indeed.

We ended up getting the Canon HF10.

I don't know why Amazon is listing it for $999, you can get it elsewhere for like half the price.

The good: It's very, very easy to use, compact (about the size of a can of soda/pop/Coke).

The one "bad" thing so far is that the files are really big. I took a 2 minute video of my daughter that I wanted to send to the grandparents. When I went to view the file on my computer (transferring from the camera is really easy on a PC running Vista or XP) the file was 150 MBs, shot in SP (which is the 2nd lowest of 4 quality options, though still HD).

The software that came with the camera let me convert it down to an MPEG but it was still about 16 MBs, too big to email.

So basically, if you want to share any videos more than about 30 seconds, you're going to need to upload them to youtube, which is fine, just not what I originally anticipated...though at least it spares me the hassle of having to explain to the over 60 crowd how to open Quicktime files.

Blu-Ray burner is the way to go with the HF-10.  Also takes great stills.  Love the video but the shake stabilization software is pretty poor.  I'm always looking for a place to brace my elbow so as to not give everyone motion sickness when we watch it.

And no, I don't have early onset Parkinsons.

That's what your gut is for.

Chuck's gut is busy making well thought out decisions about baseball.

[Wheezer]

Is it the DTs?

Don't mistake "rum fits" for delirium tremens.