Can't beat a good old dog. I know it might not help with the car but Moms saftey and your associated peace of mind are important. Any law enforcement offical will tell you a barking dog is a great deterent, and the dog would be great company to mom. Try and get what I call a 'dopey dog' , big and barkey but not hyper active. Like a lab or a basset hound.
I have a new Dell Latitude. I get about 2 1/2 hours if I'm not using the CD drive. A couple things that help. Don't use the Luna themes with XP, they shorten life about 20%, turn off indexing, about another 10%. If you have 1/2 gb of ram go with no swap file, you get about another 10% out of that. The themes really kill the tink though, loss them and you will be fine.
My Accura and Maxima both got the excellent MPG promised. They were both standard transmissions, so you could even do better than the rated MPG if you didin't drive to hard (both cars were too much fun to drive slow!). I had a Ford Taurus wagon that was supposed to get 22 and never did better than 16. Most of the people I know have had similar experiences with Ford, and very few people buy them again (they fall apart too!). MY recomendation; a nice japanese car with a standard transmission (subaru WRX is my next car)
I would get a used name brand and a 50mm lens. A Canon AE-1, or Pentax k-1000 are good choices. Of course Nikon and Olympus are good too. The darkroom is great, color or balck & white. When you shhot color you want to use slide film. Sure prints are great, but with slides you will learn about exposure, contrast, saturation and backlighting. All things that the photo lab can correct for, but you won't expand your knowlege. Speaking of slide film try Fuji Velvia and you must try Kodachrome. These films are 'slow' meaning action shots will need plenty of light. The next thing to buy after your basic setup is a tripod. More valuable than any lens. Get you, your camera, your tripod and your Kodachrome out at all hours of the day or night.
Clinton. No matter what bad thing happens on this administrations watch it will be blammed on Bill Clinton. There is no sense of personal responsability, it's always Clintons fault.
Hmmmmmmmm. I could buy the Shrek soundtrack for $19 or I could buy the Shrek DVD for the same $19. Whats wrong here? Seems we get a lot more content on the DVD. I can download movies from the net, why isn't that hurting the studios? Perhaps, and this is just a hunch.......there are far fewer stupid people willing to buy the crap that the record companies are trying to shove down out throats? Could it have anything to do with content? Now I now that there are some DVD's that I just "must have" the first week they are out. I can't remember the last time I anticipated such a CD (OK, I bought the last Chili Peppers CD on the first day it was out, BUT, that is partially because Best Buy sould it for $13 for the first day of release only)
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I must not be an engineer! Damn, whole life down the drain.
Can't beat a good old dog. I know it might not help with the car but Moms saftey and your associated peace of mind are important. Any law enforcement offical will tell you a barking dog is a great deterent, and the dog would be great company to mom. Try and get what I call a 'dopey dog' , big and barkey but not hyper active. Like a lab or a basset hound.
I have a new Dell Latitude. I get about 2 1/2 hours if I'm not using the CD drive. A couple things that help. Don't use the Luna themes with XP, they shorten life about 20%, turn off indexing, about another 10%. If you have 1/2 gb of ram go with no swap file, you get about another 10% out of that. The themes really kill the tink though, loss them and you will be fine.
My Accura and Maxima both got the excellent MPG promised. They were both standard transmissions, so you could even do better than the rated MPG if you didin't drive to hard (both cars were too much fun to drive slow!). I had a Ford Taurus wagon that was supposed to get 22 and never did better than 16. Most of the people I know have had similar experiences with Ford, and very few people buy them again (they fall apart too!). MY recomendation; a nice japanese car with a standard transmission (subaru WRX is my next car)
I would get a used name brand and a 50mm lens. A Canon AE-1, or Pentax k-1000 are good choices. Of course Nikon and Olympus are good too. The darkroom is great, color or balck & white. When you shhot color you want to use slide film. Sure prints are great, but with slides you will learn about exposure, contrast, saturation and backlighting. All things that the photo lab can correct for, but you won't expand your knowlege. Speaking of slide film try Fuji Velvia and you must try Kodachrome. These films are 'slow' meaning action shots will need plenty of light. The next thing to buy after your basic setup is a tripod. More valuable than any lens. Get you, your camera, your tripod and your Kodachrome out at all hours of the day or night.
Clinton. No matter what bad thing happens on this administrations watch it will be blammed on Bill Clinton. There is no sense of personal responsability, it's always Clintons fault.
Hmmmmmmmm. I could buy the Shrek soundtrack for $19 or I could buy the Shrek DVD for the same $19. Whats wrong here? Seems we get a lot more content on the DVD. I can download movies from the net, why isn't that hurting the studios? Perhaps, and this is just a hunch.......there are far fewer stupid people willing to buy the crap that the record companies are trying to shove down out throats? Could it have anything to do with content? Now I now that there are some DVD's that I just "must have" the first week they are out. I can't remember the last time I anticipated such a CD (OK, I bought the last Chili Peppers CD on the first day it was out, BUT, that is partially because Best Buy sould it for $13 for the first day of release only)