Doxory Choices (All) The latest public Doxory choices kyrandil: I lost my 7 year old (3MP) digicam recently. The camera I replace it with must be pocketable (so not an SLR). I did funny things with it (that you typically only do with an SLR, like low-light exposures without a tripod -- fast shutter, &c). ... kyrandil 2008-07-02T16:35:28Z Buy an identical one off ebay vs. Get a new one, despite not having yet found one that isn't horribly noisy or horribly smoothed. (what?) lakmiseiru: Getting from Seattle to Sacramento to catch Amtrak to Yosemite Valley (additional $33) for backpacking... lakmiseiru 2008-07-02T16:17:52Z Take a 20-hour train, connections are easy, buy one ticket, $125 vs. Take a short nonstop flight, connections are hard (crash overnight with a friend), $200 Mark: Need a quad-band, bluetooth, tetherable phone to replace my Nokia 6630. Nothing has US-band HSPDA yet.... Mark 2008-06-25T22:27:19Z get a Centro, even without 802.11 vs. get something else (suggestions?) Schwern: ... Schwern 2008-06-24T19:33:11Z Code for work vs. Code for fun photon: My mom needs a new computer to use for video editing. She's been using iMovie for years and occasionally pokes around with Final Cut Express. Each movie is several tens of gigabytes, so space becomes an issue pretty quickly. She's a die-hard Mac user.... photon 2008-06-24T17:55:13Z Get a badass iMac and use external harddrives for extra storage. Pro: cheap. Con: not expandable. vs. Get a Mac Pro (quad core, probably refurbished) and an external monitor. Pro: expandable. Con: Expensive, would need an external monitor. sbidaho: Things are getting financially tight. If we can make it through the next year things will ease a bit but if taxes, food, gas, and utilities continue to skyrocket we maybe left "holding the bag". We are trying to decide to sell our dream home now or wait until we see if it really does get worse (especially if the democrats win) But at that time will it be to late to get what we need out of our home.... sbidaho 2008-06-18T22:51:46Z sell now vs. wait and see, if so, how long should we wait? Ian: I'm tempted to apply to become a poll worker....... Ian 2008-06-18T16:47:49Z Do it. Help out with the election process. [Insert sappy spiel about representative democracy here] And poll workers are scarce. vs. Nah, I'm shy. And there are other things I could/should be doing. photon: Getting a grad rat before prices go up June 30. Parents (bless their hearts) are paying for it.... photon 2008-06-16T20:38:32Z Just get a Celestrium one. Steel rats are pretty slick. vs. Get two: Celestrium and Elysium---everyone seems to have a gold rat. octal: Go back to college (MIT) to complete an undergraduate degree and masters degree, at age 29 (will take 2-4 years)... octal 2008-06-08T19:56:42Z Return to MIT in Fall 2008, with tight finances, relying on student loans and financial aid vs. Return in Spring 2009 after doing more contracting and startup work (or, never return) melike: Read more of... melike 2008-06-04T04:44:16Z fiction vs. non-fiction Orkan: Which racing game should I buy for my 360?... Orkan 2008-06-03T15:13:05Z Race Driver: GRID vs. Forza 2 melike: In my spare time, learn... melike 2008-05-30T23:21:32Z Visual Basic vs. SuperCollider gugod: What's a good lightning talk topic for me to talk on Ruby Kaigi 2008.... gugod 2008-05-30T14:26:44Z "Those 40 Rails plugins I use for my website X.com". (So that I can promote X.com) vs. "Learning Perl with Ruby" (Need to funny or people will be boo me off stage.) johanspun: I have to revise today but I don't know whether to have a bath or not...... johanspun 2008-05-30T10:43:52Z Have a bath and then revise vs. Start revising and just be smelly kevinr: I've yet to make a successful Jifty install on my server, even with Shipwright, such that I could install Wifty and use it for my personal wiki, and my hosted Wiki provider has been down for maintenance for at least four days.... kevinr 2008-05-23T00:32:44Z Keep fighting with Jifty vs. Just migrate my personal wiki to MediaWiki already ThomasLeeIV: What do we Saturday after our lunch... ThomasLeeIV 2008-05-21T18:16:49Z Stay in town and save some money vs. Go to disney world and have a blast (But kill the pocketbook) Juan: Watch House or Go to Bed?... Juan 2008-05-21T09:13:26Z Watch House vs. Go to Bed melike: I have music in my head, but I can't write it down because I can't decide how to notate it.... melike 2008-05-14T05:38:11Z Put it in a midi sequencer without being bogged down by notation and instrument choices (like drums and weird midi noises). vs. Put it in a score notation program so you'll have music that you can actually read and make a midi file out of. hlb: drink in cafe house?... hlb 2008-05-08T07:15:24Z coffee vs. tea nkhurana: in my career... nkhurana 2008-05-01T16:57:05Z go for business vs. go for job as a software designer