I think you're too close to canadia for his powers to be effective. :p

I got to shovel ice on my sidewalk this morning. Our super is on vacation in Thailand for 8 weeks or something and the backup guy hadn't gotten out there yet. :rolleyes:

On the plus side, I got a new computer (netbook) today so I'll be traveling ~6 pounds lighter next weekend. :D

which one did you get?

I have quite the routine now, grab(ie. struggle) to get the ladder across the snow banks and up against the roof without putting out a window, long roof rake to pull down the snow as far as I can reach, shorter(lighter) roof rake to actually pull the pile off roof, axe to get rid of the ice damn at the bottom of the valley, bowl full of snow melter stuff heaved up the ice mid way up.

Yeah... You need something like this:

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/len...49&navigator=3

Yes, that would work. :D

Is that why it was so darn hot in Houston late last week that I was running the air conditioning? Next time I'm there in winter, you should be in Canada. :p

As for camera bag, I have Canon backpack (good deal, about $30 from Amazon.com); but usually I use the Crumpler "6 Million Dollar Home" shoulder bag that's very spacious but doesn't look like a camera bag. Enough room for one dSLR body, 3-4 lens and a flash.

Wow, I never knew such a bag existed. I'm very tempted to order one ASAP before we head to Europe in a few weeks. One of the challenges I've always had is packing both my laptop and larger camera, which is only a few centimeters smaller than the average DSLR. I end up carrying two bags, which is a major pain, and I once almost left the camera bag behind at security. A single bag solution for laptop and camera would be ideal.

Afternoon, everyone...

:rolleyes: at CO for just slashing BOS-EWR frequencies by at least one flight a day. 1129 is gone, starting this coming fri and through the end of January. Which now means I'll only have 50mins to make my connection on the 20th, instead of 2hrs.

On the positive side, I already dug my car out, so hurray for extra 30mins sleep tomorrow :)

Acer AspireOne 160/6-cell in white. I wanted the blue (to give to my wife and I was going to take her black) but the blue was sortof out of stock (one in the computer but they couldn't find it) at J&R. I just finished the RAM upgrade and am getting my software loaded on it now. The nice thing is that we now have the same computer so we get efficiency of chargers whiile traveling.
I have the Tamrac Expedition 9 and it is similarly effective. Padded sleve for a 15-17" laptop and a whole bunch of camera kit quite nicely. Depending on what I want to be carrying (basically tripod or not) I'll either carry that or a smaller over-the-shoulder camera bag around town when I'm wandering. I'll have both in BRU next weekend.

Mine's in the mail! I decided dragging around my 17" HP was ridiculously heavy. How much RAM did you put in it?

I have enjoyed my eeePC, but really want something a bit more robust for biz travel. These netbooks are teasing me left and right!

It maxes at 1.5GB. It is a royal PITA to swap the RAM out on the Acer - about 15 screws and 20 minutes work. Other than that, however, I'm pretty happy with it as a system. I forgot that it doesn't have BlueTooth that my main laptop has, so I need to find a solution to that. And I'm considering an iGo or something similar for air travel, though I don't fly the 767s too often on CO and the others will all have standard plugs. It has taken a bit of time to clean off all their junk that is pre-installed and get to my preferred configuration (I'm still working on it), but I love the form factor and the weight.

Tried any of the others out there?

Nope. I'm sure that the touchpad bit will annoy me, but it matches my wife's and it is too cheap to worry too much about.

My biggest concern was screen size, and that is pretty much the same across all of them, so I'll stick with this one.