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Looking for a good Point and Shoot digital camera

I have started to look for a new point and shoot digital camera to replace my Nikon 800 that I bought back in 1999. It has been a good P&S, but I am wanting something a little smaller. I still use this one and it makes great pictures (even if they are only 2 megapixels).

So to all you who read this, if you have a point and shoot digital camera that you absolutely love (or have one that you use as a back up for a DSLR) please leave a comment with the make/model and what you like and don’t like about it.

Even though I am pretty set on Nikon DSLR’s, i can go any way with a P&S… My only requirements are that it must be small enough to fit in my pocket and have a decent battery life. Secondary requirements would be that it have a good optical zoom and fast power to shot.

So far, I have been looking at a Fuji F50fd. Megapixels does not really matter that much as long as it is over 6. Picture quality should be good. Also if you have pictures you have taken with it and they are on the Interweb some place, post a link if they are public.

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Random pictures from phone

I was going through the pictures on my phone and found some from when I was over seas.
The first one I found was this one:
dope store
The store was named “dope” which was right down the street from the “fcuk” store.

The second one was from a Royal Copenhagen store (Amagertorv 6, 1160 København K, Denmark)
Royal Copenhagen China
The price was 399:- at the time I was there, translates to roughly $78.56USD. Yes that is $78.56 for one tea cup.

The third was of Tivoli Garden’s entrance. Did not get to go in it, but it is like an amusement park and a flower/tree garden all together.
Tivoli

The final picture was of Hans Christian Anderson, some what of an icon there..
HCA

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Kids say what?

While I was out at the stores today I heard some of the weirdest things from some kids walking around with their parents..

The first one was a 8 or 9 year old boy walking around Target with his father. They were in the movie section and the kid saw the movie Get Rich or Die Trying and picked it up and told his dad that he wanted it. He said it was his favorite movie and he wanted it. His dad looked at the back of it and saw that it was rated R and told him no. So the kid was a little upset.. According to IMDB, the reason it is rated R is “for strong violence, pervasive language, drug content, sexuality and nudity.” Wonder how the kid saw it in the first place?

The second one was a 3 or 4 year old girl walking with her parents through the super market. As they were walking in front of me the little girl said “can we go out for dinner tonight?” I was expecting her to say something like McDonald’s or the such. But her parents started asking why she wanted go to out to eat and she said something that I could not hear. She then said, “can we please go out to eat? I want to go to Oliverio’s which is a good Italian restaurant downtown. Shocked me to hear a little 3 or 4 year old asking to go there.

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What is the most expensive storage medium?

While I was waiting at the grocery store this evening, I was walking around and went past their “office supply” isle… To my surprise they had a box of 10 1.44mb floppy disks. The cost was $4.99 for roughly 14MB of disk space. (I bought a 1GB flash drive not long ago at K-Mart for $9.99)… Interestingly right next to the floppy disks there were a 10 pack of 700 MB cd-r’s. They were $7.99….So a little bit of math:

Disk Size Cost for 1 disk Cost per Meg
Floppy 1.44MB $0.49 ~$0.35
CD-R 700MB $0.79 $0.001
4GB Flash Drive* 4000MB $34.99 $0.008
300GB HD* 300,000MB $79.99 $0.0003

As you can see the Floppy disk is still the most expensive medium around. What is funny is I haven’t seen a home computer/laptop in years that actually come with a floppy disk any more.

*- Represents prices of said drive from a local office store sale price for this week.