Yesterday, Emily and I went to Best Buy and bought a new gadget. Four our anniversary (Aug 9th, so just a little early), we bought a Nikon D40x Digital SLR camera. I have friends who have the D50, D80, D40 and D200 and love them. I went with Nikon instead of my favorite brand, Olympus, because the lense options and after market support for the Nikon seemed to be stronger. Guess I need to start brushing up on those skills I learned during my two photography courses back at Murray State! This is the camera:
Emily has started playing with it and taking photos of the cat, dog, and some other things. The image quality is flat out amazing. The detail it pics up in Macro, zoom, and normal range is pretty amazing.
Now what extras should I buy? I think we are going to get a lense hood/shade and a filter. I found an article on Digital -Photography-School.com that lists the 10 most popular lenses for Nikon DSLR cameras, so I can use that as a reference.
Click here to see some pictures we’ve taken so far.
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Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites
Thought this was pretty interesting, and highly detailed. Check it out and make sure you zoom in *ALL* the way!
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IrfanView (link here!)
This is a very popular image editing software. Its great for people like me who take hundreds of photos and then need to resize them in a large batch to put on the web. Also has some other nifty features like converting, printing, slide shows, etc. Give it a whirl!
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GigaOM SunRocket is Toast, MEMO «
Crap. Yes, Sun Rocket, the nice alternative to VOIP (Voice over IP or Internet Phone) service Vonage, is going out of business – and without ANY notice to its customers. I’ve got two SunRocket accounts and we pay for the service annually, at $200 each. One account just renewed a month ago yesterday for another year! I already transfererd our 859-XXX-1286 number to Vonage and it apparently is already working on their service. We won’t have their “gizmo” device to make the phone ring for another couple of days though. If you need to get a hold of us, just call our cell phones.
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Link: Bacon Salt
My brother sent me this link. Wow…When you think everything in the world has been thought of.  How did they come up with this? Eating a baked potato with a sprinkling of Baconny Bacos, the guy thought “hmm…I like bacon, but this bacos bits are too big and get in the way of my butter and sour cream?”.
Of course…I will have to try it.
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We went to the Cincinnati Zoo today. There were lots of animals out and about, and even some babies! There was a gorilla family and a zebra family :-). It was kind of hot and sunny and the zoo was packed, so we didn’t stay too long, but we had fun. It was the first time we had been back to the zoo since the night we got engaged.
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Paul and I went to a new dentist today, Edgewood Dental Care. I really liked them. They have state of the art equipment, tv’s in every room (great so you don’t have to listen to what’s going on in other rooms), very kind and extremely gentle staff and really cool dentists. The dentist we saw, Dr. Mosher, was 30 years old and really down to earth. It was by far the best dental experience I’ve ever had. Pretty amazing from someone who really hates the dentist. 🙂
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Found out yesterday that my work WILL be paying to get my car fixed, on their insurance. I’ve been standing firm on not paying since it’s happened. I got the feeling for a long time that they weren’t going to pay it. Their insurance company is sending me a check then I can get it fixed! Woohoo!
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This quiz is very truthful and everyone should take it!
Link to quiz – click here!
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