Darts?

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From: "Reef Fish" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: [SCUBA-SE] e-Nekton, Bjorn, and their BAD influence on da Feesh


> Da Feeesh is very much alive.  Just spending much more time in
> his new life, circa Life #7 or #8.  :-)
>
> But I jsut wanted to drop in and report an interesting route I
> followed, which I blame ENTIRELY to Strike and Bjorn!  (With
> the MX-10 being the accomplice).
>
> Sue's new MX-10 died after one trip, and I told Sea&Sea to
> smash it with the biggest sledgehammer they could find, and
> stuff the smitherines where they belong, rather than paying
> for the "repair" (used only a month or so since new) that cost
> almost as much as the new camera.  Given the paragraph below,
> I may have to start looking at e-bay for a good used one to
> go with the new MX-10 YS-40 strobe we still have.
>
> So, we "upgraded" Sue's UW camera to the ReefMaster 2000 digital.
> The quality of the pics down-graded at least 99.8 percent because
> she now specializes in shooting crows in the blackforest at
> midnight,improved to twilight when we added a $200 extenal strobe
> to it.
>
> So, the only salvation (other than using the sledgehammer trick
> again <G>) was to learn from Bjorn's article in e-nekton on how
> to squeeze color out of crow-meat <aka cheat>.  :-)
>
>
>
> This was when the interesting Photo-Shop <tm> shopping trip took
> me through.
>
> The first Box I saw in CompUSA was $149.  Hey, not bad.  The
> prices must have dropped since I told Bjorn it was TOO COSTLY
> at an educational discount of $299 years ago, and Bjorn said
> it was a bargain!
>
> Then I realized that the $149 was the price for UPGRADING an
> older version (CompUSA couldn't tell me WHICH old version when
> I figured I could get an obsolete oldie for practically nothing
> and upgrade it :-)).
>
> Then I saw a simpler versioni for $99 for ranking amateurs
> that would have suited our purposes.  But THAT price was for
> upgrade also.
>
> Then I suddenly noticed CompUSA had a package "PHOTOPLAY 2"
> on sale, for $2.88 (that's Two dollars and 88 cents), from
> the original price of $9.99, listing features (on the box):
>
> Cropping, Redeye Removal, Lighting Correction, Rotate and FLip,
> Perfect Color, plus 16 other listed features, and "... and much more!"
>
> That abruptly ended our shopping, to try it out of CURIOSITY, if
> nothing else, until we found out that the package lacked one of
> its requirements that's sold in the UK for about 100 Brit pounds. :-)
>
> Okay.  $3 down the drain, and so I went back to my old "educational
> discount" source (which I still hold the privilege, as a retarrred
> professor emeritus).  It was then that I found that Adobe's PhotoShop
> 7 costs the same $699 as it was 6 or 7 years ago, and the same
> educational discounted price of $299, with a new wrinkle.  For an
> additional $100, I get three other Adobe packages that had a total
> retail price of over $1100 for $399.88, which I have ordered.
>
> So, I am just sharing this bit of wild-goose chase with others on
> the list who might be thinking about buying and using the
> e-nekton=Bjorn sanctioned Adobe PhotoShop 7.0.
>
> BTW, the ReefMaster 2000 comes with its own photo-editing freebie
> called "Photo Suite" but it's pretty much useless.  :-)
>
>
> My new Life #7?  It unofficially started less than a month ago, and
> I have already risen from an (inter)national ranking of below 200,000
> to the neighhood of 16,000 (in spite of a 10-day interruption diving
> in Coz <BG>)  and accomplished on very unusual feat (in a
> competitive setting) of something equivalent to a hole-in-one
> followed by a double-eagle in two holes of golf.  No, it's not
> golf but I think it's impossible to have two hole-in-ones in two
> consecutive holes.  Otherwise, it would've been equivalent to
> that!   :-)))
>
> For for $2 AUD or $4 Batt, what's that Life #7?
>
> -- da new Feeesh Bob.
>