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No you don't. Just do what I did: cut a notch into the screen using a razor blade.

Pro Tip: A black Sharpie works too. :-)

There are entire sites dedicated to everyday carry (EDC) with some sites focused on flashlights, knives, Atwood tools, etc. You can spend a lot of time and money on EDC "research" :-)

Front pocket (in approx. order of use)

• Cell phone with $20 behind cover
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• Burt's Bees lip balm with a keyring cap
• Victorinox Swiss Army Manager Pocket Knife w/ toothpick on a McGizmo Nano clip (20mm #1)
• Olight i3S EOS LED flaslight with lithium AAA battery
• some inch-wide Gorilla Tape and elecrical tape wrapped around a black Sharpie Mini
• 64 GB USB 3.0 flash drive (Kanguru for write-protect switch; FlashBlu30 but considering SS3) on split ring and metal #0 Nite Ize S-biner
• silicon ear plugs and half a Q-tip in a key fob (approx. same diamater as lip balm, slightly shorter)
• $20 bill wrapped around BIC Mini lighter on a Keeep-It holder
• all connected with other split rings and clips on an older Munroe Mega Dangler
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Other front pocket (in approx order of use)

• white LED Photon freedom with car keys on the snap ring
• True Utility TU245 key shackle with 3 keys, #2 Phillips key, grocery card, and Uncle Bill's Sliver Gripper Tweezer
• house key cut on green KeyLights on clip that came with True Utility key shackle
• $20 wrapped around a 0.5 oz (15 mL) Purell hand sanitizer in jelly wrap holder
• all connected with a split ring
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• leather billfold with slots for six cards; cash $1s/5s/10s/20s, bandaids, a hair pin, and Plop Boot Manager on a credit-card sized CD-R
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Shirt pocket--you *always* have a shirt pocket, right?

• Zebra Clip-On four-color pen + 0.5 mm pencil
• Monteverde Stylus Tool Pen with ruler, level, and screwdriver
• a handkercheif wrapped around a small (2.5" x 4") Moleskine book

These do NOT bleed, generate a nice thin line of even darkness with no blots. I prefer them even over the Pilot V5, which tends to leave blobs and not have consistent thickness. There are only two problems with the sharpie pen. 1. the paint on the pen body will start to flake off when it gets old and 2. they run dry rather quickly. Usually 2 happens not long after 1 so when I see flakes coming off I usually just throw the thing away. They are cheap enough.

Sharpie Pen

I know, Sharpie markers bleed. But this pen doesn't. It's a fine point (I can't seem to find the specs though), you don't have to push down hard, always produces a consistent dark line, and it's acid-free/archival quality. I have to keep them in my car because my boss kept "borrowing" them from my desk drawer. They're usually about $2 each.

Make it so!

Pick up a http://www.sharpie.com/ (R) In your right hand the text is right side up. In your left hand the text is right side up. As a fellow south paw, I don't know what your yammering on about!

The Radio Shack etching kits include a Sharpie brand marker to be used as a resist for the etching process. You're supposed to draw your traces on the copper side, and apply chemicals to get your design. Interesting concept, but I think my non-surgeon hands would make more of a scribble than a good design.

Bullshit. If they start putting advertisements in the elevators, I am going to take said elevator to the top floor, whip out my machine gun, and murder everyone in sight.

It can be plenty of fun to fight back by defacing obnoxious advertising. The classic example for me is zoom media who have for some years now been putting advertising in front of urinals and in bathroom stalls.

Like many students at my University, I became well acquainted with the following weapons: permanent markers and sticky labels. It used to be the case that the advertising in most every washroom on campus was graffitied, stickered, scratch tagged or subverted. A recent visit to campus suggests, sadly, that the current crop of students have come to accept these obnoxious intrusions as commonplace, and can no longer summon the wherewithal to fight back. Mind you, the advertising companies were crafty; they gave away poster versions of advertisements featuring busty half-naked women and men to generate good feeling, for instance. They also put in "public service anouncements" for the University and various charities to guilt people into not attacking their advertisement frames, etc.

Carry a permanent marker at all times..

Straight from the horses mouth

The Top 5 DVDs in my collection are:

1. Ritek
2. Memorex
3. Imation
4. Taiyo Yuden
5. Verbatim

Of course, you'll need a good Sharpie or equivelent and a copy of DVD Shrink

BTW: Special 100 pack of DVD-R's at newegg... See, both funny and informative.

Goodness. I think there are easier ways to simulate dead pixels. http://www.sharpie.com/

This is the only CD printer I've ever needed: $2 CD printer

Anyway, a Sharpie is a permanent marker and here is the website:

http://www.sharpie.com

Is the SHARPIE marker safe for writing on CD's?

Sanford has used SHARPIE markers on CDs for years and we have never experienced a problem. We do not believe that the SHARPIE ink can affect these CDs, however we have not performed any long-term laboratory testing to verify this. We have spoken to many major CD manufacturers about this issue. They use the SHARPIE markers on CDs internally as well, and do not believe that the SHARPIE ink will cause any harm to their products.

Yeah, this would be cool if you could burn data on both sides. It'd probably cost more though, and the burners might be more expensive. It could even, with a little work, perhaps go up to 3 gigs! Think of the versitility. And it's digital too. We could call it a Digital Versitile Disc.

As for the product being advertised here (because that's what this is, a /vertisement (and isn't even as cool as a double sided CD (they have double sided DVD's, too ))), this is all I've got to say.

I agree. Just the other day, I heard about a company went under when they fired their star programmer for leaving a disk labeled "main project-2004" on his desk (which was used in a presentation to the venture capitalists), instead of marking it "Sesame street - hardcore pr0n." He just didn't have a marker.

To make a long story short, the company didn't get the investment they needed due to a bad presentation, and they went under.

I don't think Fujitsu is really known for it's marking...shouldn't they have merged with another company?

slow to start up and there's a lot of delay between pressing the shutter release and actually taking a picture. You can mitigate this by half-pressing the shutter release to pre-focus/meter, but that's a problem with a moving subject (like a toddler!).

Try setting the camera to "action" mode, so it continuously re-focuses while the shutter release is half-pressed.

Second issue: on camera flash is evil. Only a few compact cameras give you a hotshoe. DSLR's will give way better flash results with their bounce flash/diffuser capability. Almost every flash picture I have yields terrible red-eye. Photoshop Album can generally fix this, but not all the time. Even without red eye, you generally get a sterile, harshly lit result.

1. At Digital Photography Review I identified 24 non-SLR digital cameras between 3 - 6 megapixels and under $600 as having the ability to add an external flash either via hot-shoe or pc-sync connector. That seems like more than a few to me.
2. I've looked at a number of sample on-camera flash pictures at Steves Digicams, including ones for the A70, and see that it is possible to take pictures using the built-in flash without red-eye. Of course several factors affect whether or not red-eye will appear, so this isn't definative, but there are certainly camera configurations that make it less likely to be a factor.
3. That is assuming the user actually owns an external flash and a diffuser/bounce-unit, and is carrying it when the photo-op presents itself, and can manage to pull-out, mount, turn-on and charge the flash and associated diffuser/bounce-unit, and then frame and take the picture before said opportunity goes away (or, in the case of your toddler, decides to take a nap). But yes, if you have a DSLR and an external flash with a Lumiquest diffuser, particularly if its always mounted on a nice Stroboframe flip-flash bracket, the result will be much more pleasing than any direct-lighting flash setup, regardless of the camera its attached to.
4. I submit that virtually anyone who needs an article to decide between an SLR and non-SLR camera should start with a non-SLR. Likewise, anyone who isn't ready to buy an SLR because of the unnecessary cost, complexity and size is not going to buy and drag around another 5 lbs. and $300 of external flash, diffuser and flip-frame.
5. I find that most every photo editing program does an adequate job of red-eye removal, and this (or a black Sharpie brand marker) is a more convenient and appropriate option for most digital camera consumers.

As a former pro photographer, (newspaper, studio, wedding), I appreciate the advantages of an SLR, and how a pro or avid hobbyist benefit from these more costly, larger and more complex pieces of equipment. But a pro or avid hobbyist does not need to read this type of article. As for myself, I've grown too lazy and cheap to drag $2,000 and 8 lbs of camera gear around with me and go through the ritual of setting-up flash brackets and bounce cards anymore. If I need that stuff, I still have the gadget bag with over $5K of Canon gear. Instead, I use a Panasonic Lumix, which is still at the upper-end of size and weight for most consumers.

On the other hand, when the typical consumer asks "what's the best camera" what they really want to know, when questioned, is what's going to give them good snapshots of the kids and easily print quality 4x6 and maybe the occasional 8x10. For them, something with a good zoom range, relatively quick focus and release time, decent low-light capability, built-in flash that sits-up high enought to avoid red-eye in most cases, and at least 3 megapixels, coupled with a pl

NIST tells us not to use anything solvent-based, and Sharpies are solvent-based markers. In fact, the Sharpie Materials Safety Data Sheet (pdf) tells us they contain 3 different solvents - a propanol, a butanol, and an alcohol. One Eric Teel of Jefferson public radio (in Oregon) wrote the manufacturer of Sharpies and they said there could be problems.

Damn, and I've got hundreds of CD-Rs written on with Sharpies. I hope they last till I get around to buying a DVD burner and transferring the data.

I'm too lazy to look for an "expert" quoting anything, myself.

Sharpie (as an example) is easy to find though. Consider the composition of your average Sharpie's ink. I'm feeling really lazy, so let's just pick the first one off the top of the list - the "Sharpie Fine":

Dyes, n-propanol (71-23-8), n-butanol (71-36-3), diacetone alcohol (123-42-2)

Sorry, but there's nothing there that leaves me with a warm fuzzy feeling (expect perhaps as a result of a mild chemical burn). Based on that "ingredients" list alone, in my opinion (note the emphasis, because that's what this argument is about when you get right down to it), you're the one with the burden of proof on this one. Prove to me that a Sharpie (again, as an example) will have no affect on a CD-R after 20 years, and I'll send you a donut via UPS.

It's about risk and value. For me, it's usually a case of, "If it's worth writing to a CD-R, why the hell take the risk?" Same with you? Fine, then go out and buy a $3 water-based marker. No? That's fine too. Go right ahead and keep using your xylene-based markers. Either way, let's put this lame argument to rest.

Sanford has used SHARPIE markers on CDs for years and we have never experienced a problem. We do not believe that the SHARPIE ink can affect these CDs, however we have not performed any long-term laboratory testing to verify this. We have spoken to many major CD manufacturers about this issue. They use the SHARPIE markers on CDs internally as well, and do not believe that the SHARPIE ink will cause any harm to their products.

If it were an issue you can bet Sanford would be covering their ass legally and not making such a claim.

You have to be using HP hardware.

[/me Cobbles together makeshift Sharpie-style HP OpenView logo for front of what is left of my case]

Making party signs
Marking toothbrushes
Protecting assets from SCO
Coloring Easter eggs
Checking off items on checklist