Going to Greece

If in a week, you think I have moved over to a different forum and left Snarkpit behind, it's not true but it is because I'll be in Greece for 11 days.

There's a chance there is an internet connection there so if there is I can make few posts with my psp We'll be near the city Petra (on the map, 2 city's below the highest city: Eftalou)

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Sadly, if you're gone only 11 days nothings likely to change around here.
Enjoy your trip and post some nice pictures.

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Yeah true...

But thanks! I'll be leaving tomorrow night from home at 1:00 AM and our plane will leave at around 5:30 AM (not sure)

So basically 14 hours to go

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Yes have a good time and a safe trip. Never been to Europe but maybe some day.
The wife and I are going to Seattle on the 17th for two weeks to see our 6th grandchild be born. I'm gonna hopefully get over to Valve and get some pics for you guys also, if the son in law is gonna be working after the baby is born.

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Thanks man, I myself have never been OUT of europe.

Have a nice time in Seattle! And congratulations on your grandchild

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Niborius said:
And congratulations on your grandchild

And Valve. Lets not forget Valve.

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Greece is lovely. I went to Corfu as a kid on holiday. They're having a little trouble right now what with being finacially broke and all but doesnt change the fact its a lovely place to spend youre cash and help them out a bit.

Hey, I gots me a Greek cook book for Christmas but sadly, there are no stores around that sell the ingredients. Get me a box full of spices and such that are non-perishable and mail'em to me.

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Try Cavenders seasoning, I believe it's a greek all purpose seasoning.
I have pictures now that I can't post. (non disclosure agreement)
I'll get some I can post though, I promise.

Try to see as much of the world as you can while your young my friend, it's a beautiful place despite all it's troubles

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Light is faster than sound:That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Your riches in life are family and friends, everything else is just a distraction.

at airport now, almost leaving

4:03 AM as I am typing this

edit: @orph: can't promise! XD

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Niborius said:
edit: @orph: can't promise! XD

Joking bud. Joking.

And Cavendars is to Greek cooking like Taco bell is a fair representation of Mexican food. It falls a bit short I'm afraid. I ate at a Greek restaurant in Chicago. The food was amazing. Of course, I stuck to the recognizable parts. No octopus for this old man.

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That's the closest I come to knowing about Greek food other than eating in a restaurant. Was it the Parthenon?, that's the best Greek place bar none. Ooopa!

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Light is faster than sound:That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Your riches in life are family and friends, everything else is just a distraction.

I got wifi over here so I can read your posts btw

just wanted to say that everything is great here! I got to post some pictures when I'm back

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Man, sounds awesome Nib. You should take pictures of the food you eat. (before you digest it of course)!

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Riven said:
(before you digest it of course)!

During would be cool too but, after... Well, from a scientific stand point we could endure I suppose.

Hope the trip is going well too.

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yeah well sadly I am weird enough to not like so much kinds of food. neither does my brother.

What I'm doing now: wathing the stars. They're really bright! Saw about 3 falling stars already

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I am back, and in one piece I'll post a few pictures soon.

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Welcome back and awaiting expectantly those pics.
No spices?

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Orpheus said:
Welcome back and awaiting expectantly those pics.
No spices?

No spices. You hate me now don't you?

For the meantime I got some pictures here: Click

But it's possible that the link doesn't work or/and that you need a hotmail account.

If it does work, don't mention the Mercury Express photo, it was a joke to my brother since his nickname is Mercury. I uploaded those pictures when I was still there using my PSP. So don't expect great quality.. Yet!

High quality ones are yet to come.

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Pics say "deleted"

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This should do: Click (again)

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Wow, those pics look amazingly like America west.. Some look a lot like New Mexico, only with water.

Great shots bud.

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fantastic! Beautiful area for those shots. I would say you enjoyed your trip alot, if that view is common there.

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Light is faster than sound:That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Your riches in life are family and friends, everything else is just a distraction.

Indeed I did, and about 5 of those pictures where taken at the apartment

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Very beautiful shots. Looks like a really nice place to stay. The Greeks thought it good enough heck, I'd start a city there too!

It looks like somewhat recent development for the area you were staying in, how far would you say maybe the nearest ruins might have been, if they were close at all?

That looks like a nice trip, despite all the ruckus going on over there.

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Riven said:
Very beautiful shots. Looks like a really nice place to stay. The Greeks thought it good enough heck, I'd start a city there too!

It looks like somewhat recent development for the area you were staying in, how far would you say maybe the nearest ruins might have been, if they were close at all?

That looks like a nice trip, despite all the ruckus going on over there.

Actually, it's made by an Australian person "Birds Bay", as the apartment is called, only existed for 2 years now.

If you drive out of the apartment, over the about 300 meter dirt road, you'll already find the nearest ruins. And there's lots of them!

Have I already mentioned I caught a Mantis?

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Niborius said:
Have I already mentioned I caught a Mantis?

Like, a praying Mantis?
They're everywhere around these parts if so.

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You mean a Manta ray as in the fish or a praying mantis as in the bug?
Either one is cool, but if it's the mantis..... tell my wife to get home please.
Love visiting ruins, so much history there. Trying to think about what it was like living back then... can send chills up your spine. Like the Machu Pichu and Southwest indian ruins...but the ancient ruins in Europe have such a known recorded history more so, that I can't imagine how cool it is to be there.

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Light is faster than sound:That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Your riches in life are family and friends, everything else is just a distraction.

Speaking of which, if you guys ain't seem "My life in ruins" Its pretty good. I really like the lead woman actress. She is the same girl who played in Big fat Greek wedding.
She is really funny.

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sgtfly said:
You mean a Manta ray as in the fish or a praying mantis as in the bug?
Either one is cool, but if it's the mantis..... tell my wife to get home please.
Love visiting ruins, so much history there. Trying to think about what it was like living back then... can send chills up your spine. Like the Machu Pichu and Southwest indian ruins...but the ancient ruins in Europe have such a known recorded history more so, that I can't imagine how cool it is to be there.

The Praying Mantis, I've never seen one before but I heard a lot about them lately, so I was excited when I found one and was able to catch it in a bottle for a small time. I got some pictures of it as well, I'll have to find the cable for the camera first though if I want to upload the photos

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Ok, Got them here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IDNYMVI1

PS: Just noticed the file size is kinda big (50MB)... Hope you folks don't mind.

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Great set of pics bud.
A bit of advice on your camera. Look in the settings. Look for a "photo quality" setting.
You take big pictures but the dpi are only 72.
Mine takes photo quality at 230 dpi.
The pictures are way sharper at 230.
I only mention this because you may someday want to transfer these to paper. The dpi is pretty important.

Looking forward to the next set of pics.

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Orpheus said:
Great set of pics bud.
A bit of advice on your camera. Look in the settings. Look for a "photo quality" setting.
You take big pictures but the dpi are only 72.
Mine takes photo quality at 230 dpi.
The pictures are way sharper at 230.
I only mention this because you may someday want to transfer these to paper. The dpi is pretty important.

Looking forward to the next set of pics.

Thanks for your advice, so basically I should make smaller pictures since it won't be a loss of quality anyway? Correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't think mine can go higher than 72 dpi.

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I dunno really about image size. I am only aware of the dpi.
Maybe you should check into another camera. shrugs
Your pics are still good though. No worries there. I am just really partial to mine is all. Its pretty old now but the quality is exceptional. Better be for 500 bucks.
Its a kodak 4530 if you wanna compare the stats to yours.

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You can reduce resolution later to increase print dpi.

Let me explain. Let's say your camera is 5MP resolution (That's about 2050x1952 or something like that) and Let's also say, it's auto-set to 72 dpi. This image would print out ... to about 24"x26" or so. That's pretty big ... you can scale the dpi (though it will scale all proportions so you need to remember the original resolution) to 150 or 300 (150 is pretty standard for just some printing, if you want to print PHOTOS you need to use 300) This will make the image, without loss of quality, print size about 6"x7" or so.

So ... it's not really much to worry about, unless you want a HUGE high quality print.

You can check to see what dpi your camera supports by seeing if it has other quality modes ... take a picture in each mode (if they exist) and each resolution! You then take the resulting images toss them into something like photoshop and look at the image properties. It will tell you the resolution (as well as print size) of the image as well as the dpi ... you'll figure out which mode you should be using pretty quickly.

You should also be aware that taking a picture in a lower resolution may raise the dpi, so it's a pretty good idea to just do some tests and see which works best for print vs digital and then to keep this in mind when you use the camera.

Also, when you toss the photo into an image manipulation program ... which you WILL need to do to prep the image for printing, make sure you know where you're going to print it. If you're printing at home, it's likely an RGB color printer ... however, if you're going to get it printed at a store, you need to find out what they use ... because it's likely CMYK color. If you don't adjust your photo's color mode it will look really really bad. (wrong colors!)

Here's some background on why you have to do all this:

Monitors and TVs use pixels to display their colors (yes, I know everyone knows this, bare with me) printers use dots. They, literally, use very tiny drops of ink.

Monitor's unit density is pixels per inch (ppi), a printers unit density is dots per inch (dpi), they're not the same, of course. Ppi actually depends on the size of your monitor, physically. And a printer can scale dpi, most common printers can go quite high, like 1200 dpi. An average computer monitor might have 98ppi, though. So, basically, photos have a higher density of color units and are a MUCH higher resolution than your screen or any screen that you own.

This is also, to note, generally why film makers prefer film over digital cameras. Most all digital cameras are locked in at 1080P resolution, which is a much lower resolution and unit density than 35mm film. (To note IMAX uses 65mm film. Why it looks so pretty)

This is also why screenshots of games look AWFUL in magazines. They don't properly resize them to account for the density difference, therefore the games look aliased, texture stretched, and not as nice as they will actually look when you play them. The screenshots they get sent are likely 72dpi and a maximum of 1080P, if you want the image to take a two page spread ... it's going to need to be blown up.

It will be pretty nice when digital resolution surpasses photo resolution. You'll start seeing things that are absolutely jaw dropping and insane.

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Mine has 4 settings if I recall. 1.2 3.1 4.0 and 5.1
I have never really tested the dpi thing. I only know that it has a photo quality setting and that's the one I use, and have been using for all the pictures I have posted over the years.

I don't even know if any other non-photo quality setting alters the dpi. I guess I should check. But even at the setting I use I can get s many pictures on my sd card that I never worry. Even when I went to the grand canyon I had my laptop with me to empty the camera into so I always had room for great quality pictures.

I have noticed though that everyone with an Olympus camera has lower dpi pictures than my Kodak. I wonder if 72 is the norm now? All I know is if I load two pictures, one at 72 and mine at 230 and look at them in full size mode, mine remain clear and the 72 get fuzzy around the edges of objects. If 72 is the norm now, I'd look into older cameras that have higher dpi's.

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