I am going scuba diving next month and want to buy an underwater digital camera. Any suggestions? I have no experience with taking underwater photos so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
OK, so I have another court date. This time it was for driving naked in a state park. The other day I took a little trip to the beach and stretched out on the warm sand and fell sound asleep. I woke up about an hour later to discover that the dang sea gulls had been into my potato chips I had brought along and there was gull poop all over my backside and hair–yuk! I ran into the surf and stripped off my clothes and tried to rinse them out but they still smelled like old fish guts. I stayed in the water for awhile and was wondering where everybody had gotten off to when I hear this huge BOOM! Dang if there wasn’t a huge storm coming off the water right for me and I was the last dumba** left on the beach. I figured since no one was around I would just trot over to my truck and drive home. Well I made it to the truck and even drove about three miles before a cop pulled me over (cause I don’t have a windsheild) and gave me a ticket to see the judge. Oh, Lord — what do I do now??
We will be visiting Cairns, Australia for a day and want to do a simi-submersible tour of the Great Barrier Reef. I have identified several tour companies that will leave from the Reef Fleet Terminal in Cairns. The companies that I have found are:
— Big Cat Green Island Reef Cruises
— Reef Magic Cruises
— Sunlover Reef Cruises
— Great Adventures Outer Reef & Island Cruises
— Quicksilver Cruises
I would like a tour leaving from the Reef Fleet Terminal as it will be walking distance from our hotel. Also, are tours going to Green Island the same as or as good as those going to other places like Agincourt Reef??
We are not interested in scuba or snorkel, just seeing the reef and maybe some beach time if the weather is nice (1/30/2009). Advice??
Here are my options :
HP Pavilion dv5z customizable Notebook PC
* – Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
* – AMD Turion(TM) X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-70 (2.0GHz)
* – 15.4″ diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
* – 3GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
* – ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3200 Graphics
* – 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
* – Webcam + Fingerprint Reader
* – HP Color Matching Keyboard
* – 802.11b/g WLAN
* – No Modem
* – SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
* – No TV Tuner w/remote control
* – 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
* – $100 OFF Microsoft(R) Office Home and Student 2007!!
* – HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope
and
3-year Accidental Damage Protection Extended Service Plan for Notebook PCs
cost: 940.04
Inspiron 1525 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5750 (2.00GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
Operating System -Genuine Windows Vista® SP1 Home Premium Edition
System Color -Midnight Blue BLU
Memory- 3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz 3G2D
LCD Panel -Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280×800) 15XGAT
Video Card Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 INTAC
Hard Drive Size: 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) 250GB
Network Integrated 10/100 Network Card INTNIC
Modem Integrated Modem I56NM
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1 ADOBER
Combo or DVD+RW Drive CD Writer / DVD player (Combo Drive) 24COMBO
Sound Card High Definition Audio 2.0 IS
Wireless Networking Cards Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini-Card DW1395
Camera Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam DCAMERA
Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) Special Offer:Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007
Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 30-Days MC930D
Battery Options 6 cell battery 6BAT
Warranty & Service 3Yr Ltd HW WRTY, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis, 24×7 Phone Support SQ3OS
Accident and Theft Protection Add Accidental Damage and LoJack Theft Protection to 3Yr Warr. CCLJ3
Datasafe Included 3 GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Yr DATSF3G
Dial-Up Internet Access No ISP requested NISP
Dell Recycling Free Recycling Kit RECYCL
Processor Branding Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor IC2DNB
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium
cost: 936.56
I will be using this computer mainly for school, chatting, email, dowloading music and burning dvd’s also surfing the web. I’m not into gaming. if you think other options would be more suitable please offer that info. thanks
CD: LG 22X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Dual Layer Drive (BLACK COLOR)
# CD2: 16X DVD ROM (BLACK COLOR)
# CAS: Xion III Gaming Mid-Tower Case with Side Window [-25] (Black Color)
# CASUPGRADE: NONE
# CS_FAN: Default case fans
# CPU: AMD Phenom™II X2 550 Black Edition Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology [-56]
# FREEBIE_CU1: ATI Agent Ruby™ Limited Edition Figure (Ruby Figurine for AMD DDR3 Systems)
# FAN: XtremeGear Ultra Twin Heatpipes Cool Copper Heatsink CPU Cooling Fan (Extreme Silent at 20dBA & Overclock Proof) [+8]
# FREEBIE_RM: None
# FREEGAME_VC02: FREE! (Stormrise) Game
# FA_HDD: None
# FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (BLACK COLOR)
# FLOPPY: NONE
# FREEBIE_OS: None
# HDD: Single Hard Drive (320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [-26])
# HDD2: NONE
# IEEE_CARD: NONE
# KEYBOARD: NONE [-4]
# MOUSE: XtremeGear Optical USB 3 Buttons Gaming Mouse
# MODEM: NONE
# MULTIVIEW: Non-SLI/Non-CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors
# MONITOR: NONE
# MONITOR2: NONE
# MOTHERBOARD: Asus M4A77TD PRO AM3 DDR3 AMD 770 Chipset CrossFireX Technology SATA RAID MB w/GbLAN
# MEMORY: 4GB (2GBx2) PC1333 DDR3 PC3 10666 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
# NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
# OS: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)
# OS_UPGRADE: None
# PRINTER: None
# PRINTER_CABLE: None
# POWERSUPPLY: 700 Watts Power Supplies [+7] (SLI/CrossFire Ready Power Supply)
# RUSH: NO; READY TO SHIP IN 5~10 BUSINESS DAYS
# SOFT1: Free 60 Days Microsoft® Office® 2007 (Words, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook + More) – Windows Vista™ Required
# SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
# SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
# SPEAKERS: None [-5]
# TEMP: NONE
# TVRC: None
# USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
# USBHD: NONE
# VIDEOCAMERA: NONE
# VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB DDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [DirectX 11 Support] (Major Brand Powered by ATI)
# VIDEO2: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB DDR5 16X PCIe Video Card [DirectX 11 Support] [+175] (Major Brand Powered by ATI)
$869
For General Gaming and Web Surfing :]