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nthach
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20 Nov 2010, 11:14 pm

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You guys are better off than I am in a lot of respects lol. Photography runs in my blood, my dad has a HUGE trophy for his high school photography work. I have no camera and have managed to get a 1600x1200 wallpaper quality shot out of a borrowed $70 2mp camera. In the mean time every scene girl on earth has a Nikon D or a Canon Digital Rebel and claims to be a photography expert because she can shoot flowers in black and white.

I also ride a $12 bike, it exceeds 30mph regularly. It however won't get the same attention a "proper" road bike with presta valves, 90 million itty bitty cogs, carbon fiber wheels, etc. gets going the same speeds.

My car, I've spent maybe a couple thousand dollars on and it's my pride and joy and despite being able to leave a stoplight faster than almost anything on the road it's looked down on because I don't have carbon fiber this, forged alloy wheels, a big brake kit or countless other stupid expensive things.

I got 3 cameras, all Canon - a old-school AE-1 Program manual film SLR, an EOS 50D DSLR, and a dinky PowerShot A610 point and shoot. I'm not that great of a photographer - if you want to see my work look for Spazzergasm's photography thread but I love the control an SLR gives you and the fact you can swap lenses. My dad has a $4000 Canon EOS 5D MkII he'll never use the full capability of. Scene kids can go screw themselves and stick to iPhone cameras.

As for my bike, which I affectionately named Bella is a nice little bike - I got compliments from cyclists riding some super high-end bikes all the time. It's got a classy paint scheme and a pretty good drivetrain - Shimano 105/Tiagra mix. I'd kill for a Cervelo or Seven but that'll wait until I can see myself racing.

I drive an old Lexus, even though my interior's shot to all hell it's still a great car. Drives well for being 20 years old. But then again, we got a Prius in our garage so people on our block see my parents as smug...



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20 Nov 2010, 11:20 pm

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I don't know if I would classify myself as a hobby snob. What do you think? Do I come across as a hobby snob?


with your musical hobby, to be snobby would be [for example] to be a cymbal chauvinist who favors pasties over ziljians, and casting into outer darkness anybody who disagrees with one. or one who favors one drumming technique over another and sees moral corruption in anybody who disagrees. i kinda doubt you fall in any of those categories.

p.s., i do wish i had your talent.



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21 Nov 2010, 3:22 pm

Hrm.

One of my "hobbies" is videogames. Mostly, I like the "Mass Effect" series and view videogames as a fun thing to do. However, these days, you're only allowed to like videogames if you think everything NextGen sucks and only "old school" games were any good. Yeah, because "Sonic the Hedgehog" was soooo friggen brilliant. :roll: And that's not getting into the whole, "If you like videogames, you must be illiterate and have no imagination." Newsflash: I probably read more books in a week than you do in a month, twit.

And I really can't stand other writers. I hate listening to people telling other people what writing is "really" about or what "really" constitutes a good story/good genre/good writer/ect. Most wanna-be writers have their heads shoved up their a$$. I write because I enjoy it, not because I believe I'm a Muse-kissed "wonder child" who will dazzle the world with the next great novel. Ugh.


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22 Nov 2010, 4:05 am

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You know there is a major effort in Nasa right now to locate ET for whatever reason. Stephen Hawkings seems to think that is a really bad idea.
Eitherway, there has been some shows on the Nat Geo channel about ancient people and artifacts that look very much like modern accounts of aliens as well as other evidence that ET was teaching the ancient people. Whether that is true or not, I dont know cause, I was not there. But if it were true, it appears that we have been disowned.


gulp. 8O
i guess mr. hawking believes that since the benevolent ETs have disowned us [maybe] then we are at the mercy of the malevolent ones.


thats a scary thought.


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22 Nov 2010, 4:10 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I don't know if I would classify myself as a hobby snob. What do you think? Do I come across as a hobby snob?


I dont think you are snobby at all, I have never seen you been mean to anyone on here.
Snobby people usually have a overdeveloped sense of self importance, you are not like that at all.... You are one of the nicest people here.


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