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Found a Mate for my L35AF

My friend ___ drove me out to The Camera Traders in Englewood yesterday. Amazingly, I found a mint condition Nikon L35AF camera to match the one I recently acquired on eBay. I'm planning on using both on my stereoscopic rig.

www.thecameratrader.com

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Val Kilmer is the Best Doc Holliday

Watching "Tombstone" right now on History Channel. Val Kilmer's is easily the best screen portrayal of Doc Holliday. This historical figure has been a favorite of mine ever since I attended school in Morrison, Colorado, with a guy who was a relative of Holliday's.

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I've Been Framed!

Variation on the standard self-portrait.

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Union Station's Holiday Spirit

Denver Union Station at 17th and Wynkoop streets is all set for Christmas.

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Last-Minute Trip

Couldn't fly home for Thanksgiving, but then had a last-minute opportunity to spend Saturday and Sunday in the Queen City of the Plains. So, it's off to Denver I go, if only for the weekend. I'll be back for longer around Christmas.

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Upside Down

I can't be the only one who thinks all cranberry sauce cans are upside down. You have to use the opener on the bottom. What gives?

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Ken Burns Effect

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Latest update to Nexio ReelDirector lets you create Ken Burns effects.

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I Want Hair Like Howie Long

Back in the day, I sported a pretty severe flattop. In fact, when my barber cut my hair, he used a spirit level to get the top exactly flat.

Time, tide and dying follicles did in my flattop, so for about the past 15 years I've been making do with a generic crewcut. Not many barbers can deal with a flattop, anyway, so it wasn't that big a deal.

Mike's Barbershop in Edison Park can do any kind of manly haircut, so today I figured what the heck and asked Mike if there was any hope that I could once again pull off a Howie Long-style flattop. Well, no, he said, but he could sort of give me a short, faux flattop.

I like the result, but it's sure no Howie haircut. Actually, you can't really see the faux-flattop effect in the photo of me, so I don't even know why I'm bothering with this post at all.

Concrete Opinion

According to a security guard, a "crazy lady" tossed a brick through the window of WGN Radio's Boul Mich studio.

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Steve Zodiac Please Call Home

Just watched J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" on AppleTV. Entertaining, but I could have done without his insane use of anamorphic lens flares and the portrayal of Chekov as Yakov Smirnoff. I did like the end titles, which sure seemed like an homage to "Fireball XL5."

"Star Trek" -- what a franchise!

Apostrophe Issues

Spellcheck is of absolutely no help in most situations like this. (Ad in vestibule of Metra railcar.)

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

It's great to see MGMDigitalMedia offering up "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" free on YouTube in a restored edition presented in its original Techniscope aspect ratio.

The only thing about this film that drives me nuts is that while Ennio Morricone's principal themes add to the Western genre, some of his slow-moving compositions -- especially the painfully lengthy stuff played by the soldiers in the POW camp -- just don't fit the time period.

This film isn't the only Western to suffer musically. The otherwise classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" subjects its audiences to Burt Bacharach's excruciatingly grinding 1960s car-commercial style a capella voices and the suitable-only-for-irony "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head."

Bacharach does somewhat redeem himself with his musical treatment for the montage of Butch, Sundance and Etta's days in New York City and their arrival in Bolivia.

How to Save 100 Percent

Don't decorate your home for the holidays! That's how to save more than 90 percent. Save 100 percent!

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Ultimate Pepperoni Feast

I love this pizza from Donino's, but the tell-tale evidence makes me feel extremely guilty.

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Not Long Now

Workers install new lighting for the DRIVE-THRU sign at the Jefferson Park McDonald's at the corner of Gale Street and Milwaukee Avenue. The rebuilt restaurant probably will open within a week, I'll bet.

I noticed that the upper sign has changed, too. It used to declare, "Billions and Billions Served," but now simply notes, "Restaurant."

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