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pr126,
thats my favorite fruit, not sure how to say it in english "acerola"
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Say cherries. As in cherry picking.
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Newman
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| pr126 wrote: | | Say cherries. As in cherry picking. |
really? oh my, cant believe it was that simple, Acerola (originally a Caribbean fruit, also called Barbados cherry)  yep feeling dumb. they dont taste as cherries
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| Newman wrote: | | pr126 wrote: | | Say cherries. As in cherry picking. |
really? oh my, cant believe it was that simple, Acerola (originally a Caribbean fruit, also called Barbados cherry) yep feeling dumb. they dont taste as cherries
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My mind acts funny sometimes. Usually whenever somebody can't remember something, like an actor's name or even the English name for "cherry", I can't remember it either all of the sudden. It's like I telepathically adopt somebody else's dumb. Does this happen to anybody else? |
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you're not alone, Mr_C... its the "its on the tip of my tongue!" syndrome... you know the info is in your head, you can FEEL it, but you just can get it to come to the forefront.. i hate that.
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| Moloth wrote: | | you're not alone, Mr_C... its the "its on the tip of my tongue!" syndrome... you know the info is in your head, you can FEEL it, but you just can get it to come to the forefront.. i hate that. |
Yeah, that drives me crazy. Especially when I had the word readily available until somebody asked what the word was! |
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| Newman wrote: | | pr126 wrote: | | Say cherries. As in cherry picking. |
really? oh my, cant believe it was that simple, Acerola (originally a Caribbean fruit, also called Barbados cherry) yep feeling dumb. they dont taste as cherries
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Don't feel dumb  Just a glance earleir and I thought they were a form of crab apple which taste nothing like cherries but are equally delicious. Especially when they are canned and spiced.
Also those in the pic above are called Queen Anne cherries in the states and are extremely delicious. Yet they taste quite differently from our most common cherry which is the Bing and which is just now being sold at a reasonable price. I eat pounds of those some days they are so good I prefer having both in season but if I had to choose I would probably choose Bing. Glad I can have both |
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| Mr_C wrote: | | Newman wrote: | | pr126 wrote: | | Say cherries. As in cherry picking. |
really? oh my, cant believe it was that simple, Acerola (originally a Caribbean fruit, also called Barbados cherry) yep feeling dumb. they dont taste as cherries
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My mind acts funny sometimes. Usually whenever somebody can't remember something, like an actor's name or even the English name for "cherry", I can't remember it either all of the sudden. It's like I telepathically adopt somebody else's dumb. Does this happen to anybody else? |
it happens with names, I will never forget a face, but names 
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| ShaSha wrote: | | Newman wrote: | | pr126 wrote: | | Say cherries. As in cherry picking. |
really? oh my, cant believe it was that simple, Acerola (originally a Caribbean fruit, also called Barbados cherry) yep feeling dumb. they dont taste as cherries
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Don't feel dumb Just a glance earleir and I thought they were a form of crab apple which taste nothing like cherries but are equally delicious. Especially when they are canned and spiced.
Also those in the pic above are called Queen Anne cherries in the states and are extremely delicious. Yet they taste quite differently from our most common cherry which is the Bing and which is just now being sold at a reasonable price. I eat pounds of those some days they are so good I prefer having both in season but if I had to choose I would probably choose Bing. Glad I can have both |
they are very different than the "normal" cherries I have ever tasted, very different, but sooooooo good
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Hey there PR, I finally got 'round to upgrading my computer, so I got the upgrade to CS3. Adobe was so pleased with my decision to throw more money at them that they offered me a deal on Lightroom while I was extending the magic plastic card, so I got that too. MAN, is that ever a great program, at least I think so!
Here's a few recent shots from the Louisiana swamps:
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Yes, Lightroom is a very good program, I have it for some time now.
It does a good RAW processing, presets, Web, printing, the lot, and a very good cataloger if you got thousands of photos.
Much better than Bridge CS3.
That EOS 40D (body only) is on my wishlist! Maybe next year. 
Good luck with your new rig and software. XP or Vista?
Tutorial videos for Lightroom
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I went with Vista Ultimate. XP won't be supported much longer and ya can't fight the future coming anyway, so I figured I might as well get on with it.
I've only got my own shots cataloged in Lightroom, but that's over 21,000 images to deal with, and this makes the whole thing REAL workable. It imported my whole huge existing directory structure without a hitch, just the way I like to work 'em. I love the way the tags work too - so fast and easy both to tag the images and then to find stuff using them later. Very cool and useful photo management tool. I even dropped Bibble altogether because this is so good at working my RAW files, doing batch work, etc.
I built a new hard drive system while I was at it. I'm using external drive enclosures all connected via e-SATA to port multipliers. I've got 10 TB of hard drive space using it, which gives me plenty of redundant backup storage space and plenty of room to grow, and it's all really fast. Oh yeah, and a new 24" widescreen monitor with 1000:1 contrast ratio - very sweet for working these images big, so I can see every detail clearly and still have lots of room for tool pallets. Oh yeah, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout! 
I'll definitely check out those Lightroom video tutorials, though I have an account at www.Lynda.com and have been working my way through the Lightroom video tutorials there and getting a lot of good information and practice with it. I actually have studied a lot of stuff at www.Lynda.com, which is why I already have an account there. Deke McClelland's Photoshop tutorials are the best I've ever seen, by the way, and they're at that site.
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Well, I've just looked on Amazon for Wista Ultimate and now it is £190.00
When it first came out it was £360.00 a copy, that is almost half price from the original!
I think I'll wait a while and it maybe even less then.
But I will upgrade eventually.
I have a decent rig with Core 2 Duo, 4Gb Ram and nearly 1 TB Sata drives. 2 Flatscreen Monitors on Nvidia 8500 GT videocard.
You got 10TB HDD space? Wow. 
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| pr126 wrote: | | I have a decent rig with Core 2 Duo, 4Gb Ram and nearly 1 TB Sata drives. 2 Flatscreen Monitors on Nvidia 8500 GT videocard. |
I went with a Core 2 Quad and 4 Gigs of RAM on a ASUS P5N-E SLI Mobo with a Nvidia GeForce 8800.
| pr126 wrote: | | You got 10TB HDD space? Wow. |
Yeah, I know. Nuts, eh?
Here are the external drive enclosures:
Each of the Addonics enclosures holds 4 drives, and I've stuffed them with eight 1 Tb drives total. The top two Antec enclosures are single-drives, and they're each holding a 750 Gig drive. The final 500 Gigs is in my main system unit, but only used for operating system and programs. So, 10 TB at the moment, but a totally expandable system if I want to add more later.
Those 10 drives/cables all plug into a pair of e-SATA port multipliers (that's just an unrelated USB hub on top, for running my mouse and keyboard and importing data from my Photo Geo-tagging device):
Each port multiplier reduces 5 drives/cables down to 1:
And those two resulting cables are then plugged into a card on the motherboard of the main system unit.
Altogether, it's a very slick, fast and efficient hard drive system.
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