Breasticle day
 

Second the elph, although I have the older, less-MP S200, which has proven more than adequate for snapshots. Don't bother with Bilmore's suggestion of the top-end professional SLR unless you're a serious photographer, in which case you'd be using film.

Check amazon for memory card deals . . . and you'll support breasticle day.

Adorama has very good prices and reliable shipping. Their store is in NYC, so you could just drop in to buy. bhphoto.com is another place worth considering--also very good prices.

Breasticle day
 

I missed the announcement - this is "baseless throw-away comments" Day?

Coltrane on Running
 

Hmm, I never said that the old biddy who hit me was a "bad" driver. It was her failing eyesight and bad reflexes, brought on by her advanced age, not her "skills." And I wouldn't have leapt to that conclusion if not for her hitting me, driving on for a block after flipping me over her hood, backing up to where I landed in the street and almost whacking me in the head with her door to ask if I was okay and then acting totally confused about the entire incident as they loaded me into the ambulance. Of course, she had the minimum insurance and no assets. :mad:

Coltrane on Running
 

Yeah, she sounds like a *great* driver!

Coltrane on Running
 

You can pull a u-turn drunk through a red light and they won't pull you over here. My SO gets pissed when people on the Kennedy are driving under 90 mph.

Plus the cab drivers are fucking insane...

Coltrane on Running
 

I think of a bad driver as someone who intentionally disregards others on the road and the driving laws (or just doesn't give enough of a shit about either to pay attention). The old broad who hit me was different in my view (the view I have now, not the one I had when I flipped over her hood). She probably had every intention in the world of being a "good" driver but her age-induced physical maladies hindered that and while her skills may have been just fine her bad eyesight and slowed reflexes inhibted her use of those skills. Bad drivers should be summarily shot while people whose age or injuries/disease* prevent them from safely participating in the daily "race" should just be made to sit it out.

*Neither being a fucking jerk nor driving with your head up your ass is a qualifying disease/injury.

those wacky Liberians
 

I won't go too deep here since this is probably a Politics Board topic but I believe this phenomenon is also related to the very high prevalence of child-soldiers in this part of the world.

Coltrane on Running
 

I read this entire post with the voice of (the apparently not sexy (although I think she's quite cute)) Reese Witherspoon in my head.

Exercise creates endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people don't kill their husbands. They just don't.

I need help. Can anyone recommend a good movie that does not include the words red, white or blond in the title?

Paging Dr. Coltrane
 

Typical lawyer - knows more than the doctor.

My biggest complaint doesn't involve the knees - it is agonizing shin splints after Mile 2.

not7yS

Coltrane on Running
 

Too easy. Gigli.

Coltrane on Running
 

A board member in need asks for sincere help and this is what she gets. Typical.

On a related note, Mr. Hathaway and I rented Punch Drunk Love this weekend (yes, I know, three years after it came out - we're slow). Normally I cannot not finish a movie, no matter how bad. I've never walked out on a movie (different from being thrown out). Mr. Hathaway made it through ten minutes, I made it through an hour. Was I just missing something (i.e. no appreciation for real art?) or did this movie just suck?

Paging Dr. Coltrane
 

Get up off of your heels.

Coltrane on Running
 

in long meetings try to get to "open mind", then sketch on your note pad. don't think of what to sketch, just do it. if you end up with patterns, try making rugs, if you end up with sketches of landscapes or peple buy paints. if you end up with thoughts for follow up on other files or grocery lists, perhaps the arts are not for you.

BreastDay
 

Actually, there would be two of us (36DD actually, but who could tell the difference from a photo?)

Coltrane on Running
 

This rant reminds me of my favorite pet peeve, why are there so many different ages at which you are considered an adult?

You can drive a car in your teens, you can't drink until 21, but you can vote and be drafted at 18. Then throw the Age of Consent for sex and marriage into the equation, I haven't even thought about how old you need to be to have a gun license.

I fail to see the logic in the idea that someone in their early teens is mature enough to decide to get married, but is not mature enough to vote.

Anne
If Uncle Sam is going to send you to war, the least he can do is allow you to have a drink before you go.

Keeping it short because I have a lunch appointment.

Coltrane on Running
 

Oh come on, just suck it up you wuss. Go out there and coast a 2:58 or something, just to keep up the streak. You'll still have 5 months to recover before Boston.

Adding to the problem, my favorite recovery after a long run is to sit in an icewater bath for 15-20 minutes afterwards. Shrinkage?!? My balls are recessed into my throat at that point.

Coltrane on Running
 

Concur.

those wacky Liberians
 

And the fact that most of the child soldiers are very high. They are usually sent into battle after smoking large amounts of cannibis.

BreastDay
 

:hi: Or at least I hope that I would "know my own," so to speak.

Coltrane on Running
 

Seabiscuit was quite good.

Coltrane on Running
 

So, should I reconsider the treadmill that I just ordered Mr. Hathaway in celebration of our anniversary?

I was thinking it would be a good way for both of us to get in shape (him to gain weight and stamina, me to lose weight and excuses)...but if there are going to be unforseen consequences...

Coltrane on Running
 

So, we're being asked to take exercise-safety advice from one guy who's already had major knee surgery, and another guy who has to pull his balls down out of his body after a run?

(Picturing an old guy with a patch over one eye, a missing ear, one arm, and scars over his face lecturing on "Safe Dueling.")

The Doctor is In
 

For 5 cents, this is the advice I get? Thanks Lucy.

not7yS

Get UR Freak On
 

That moron will become richer than you will. I've said it before and I'll apparently have to say it again: "Freaky Friday" will be remade about once every ten years until the end of time. This is a good thing.

Adult-child body-switch comedies allow a familiar adult comic talent to behave in the stereotypic way kids in each generation are believed to behave, mildly pleasing the parents because it skewers their sons and daughters five seats over and two rows up (desperately trying to pretend their parents didn't bring them to the PG-13 movie). And they amuse the audience with a skilled youngster's ability to channel the recognizable mannerisms of the known adult actor. Granted, Jamie Lee Curtis doesn't have any recognizable mannerisms other than showing her TITS, which they probably won't let Lindsay Lohan do here. But they'll come up with something.

Plus, there's no fucking way a 13 year old girl will dig out the Jodie Foster movie from the bottom of the Blockbuster discount bin. Generation gap jokes have changed enough in that timeframe to make it new and fresh.

Take it to the bank: Movies targeted to pre-teens and teens can be remade on 10-year cycles to great success and profit. (Exception: "The Parent Trap" doesn't need to be remade anymore, as the 1998 remake with Lohan was a perfect iteration.)

Coltrane on Running
 

Tell me why you sick freaks run, again?

Jesus. Trust me, you can get the same rush from a really good dessert. It's a lot, lot easier.

Coltrane on Running
 

Are you certain they're yours?

Actual Fashion News
 

I caught up on my fashion magazine reading this weekend. A brief summary:

1) Midriffs are out - thighs are in;
2) Gloves and fishnet stockings are THE must-have acessories for Fall;
3) Red is the new black (Elle);
4) Menswear tweed is the new black (Vogue);
5) Fall shoes are "ladylike" (high-heeled maryjanes with round toes or pointy-toed stilettos); and
6) Corsets and/or corset-inspired clothing is in.

I cannot wait to make a court appearance in a red suit jacket with corset detailing, tweed pencil skirt, fishnet stockings, maryjanes with 5 inch heels, and gloves. NTTAWWT

Coltrane on Running
 

I understand the distinction; I just don't consider it relevant for licensure. Sure, the guy who killed ten people in Santa Monica (if it was that age related) should not be held as responsible as a guy who did the same think recklessly, and neither should be as responsible as a guy who did the same thing intentionally. But there's a reason that traffic offenses are strict liability, and there's a reason that you have to have a license to drive. States and cities should get off their asses and deal with intentionally bad drivers. They should deal with incapacitated drivers. And they should deal with people who may be neither who do a bunch of dangerous or inconsiderate shit on the roads because it saves them time. I won't be any less dead when some asshole with the minimum insurance runs a red light.

Coltrane on Running
 

And you act like the post-receovery act of doing the above is not an enjoyable fringe benefit (no pun intended).

Coltrane on Running
 

Well, I am sure that Funny Cide and Empire Maker will also be quite tasty.

BreastDay
 

Purse Junkie and SEC Chick are also stacked. I would be afraid of posting mine out of outability by process of elmination as my tatas are not motherjumpin huge.

Coltrane on Running
 

You're French?

Actual Fashion News
 

This must explain the white shirt I saw today with rows of silver buckles and fabric tape--the kind used to bind people into straightjackets, not corsets/standard bondage gear--going up the torso. IMHO, ranting-flailing-dangerously-off-meds-paranoid-schizophrenic is not an appealing "look", but apparently I am merely unfashionable.

Paging Dr. Coltrane
 

90% of the time, shin splints are a result of a runner wearing the wrong shoes or a result of running too many miles on one pair of shoes. Get fitted at a running store and don't run more than 400 miles in one pair. You can usually get a good 350-500 miles out of a shoe, but 500 is pushing it, which of course means I always run about 520 b/c I'm an idiot...

BreastDay
 

My little tatas will be staying in their training bra.

Coltrane on Running
 

Yes, of course, because mine are always the lower set.

last comic
 

Paigow,
Your signature line reminds me that the season finale of Last Comic Standing is tomorrow night. Remember it's on an hour earlier.
My only wish for this show was to have seen more comedy and less working for exemptions. There should have been an elimination each week, but everyone should have been working. So what if we've heard the jokes before - some of them were funny.

So does the winner tomorrow night get to do more than a 5 minute set? What are they going to do for 2 hours?

Coltrane on Running
 

Non-running related knee surgery over ten years ago. Well, soccer related, but not running-forward-to-race related. I didn't start running until 2000...

It's merely a flesh wound.

Coltrane on Running
 

That's funny. Yo mama doesn't even bathe and she always has balls in her throat.

TM

last comic
 

You know the answer to this question. There will be 90 minutes of flashbacks to prior episodes, a bunch of commercials, a shameless plug for the next reality show, and 5 minutes of new material.