I have a film SLR, last used on my Kenya trip in September, a digital SLR last really used in Catalina at Thanksgiving, and a pocket sized digital last used yesterday in a vain attempt to get a picture of this huge bird by the parking structure at work.

Until I can work the digital SLR like the film SLR, there's no competition. And that may not ever happen, although they're about equivalent.

So all three cameras have their role.

I want a polaroid to live in my apartment, to come out for occasions to make people laugh, or to record something quickly and physically without needing to get photo paper into the printer.

Hell, I'm amused by the idea of snapping all my visitors and pinning up their pictures somewhere. It tickles me.

however I don't see the lameness.

Sometimes I feel like I own too much crap. Mostly computer stuff and cars, I guess....

who the HELL needs thirty nine megapixels?

Just curious: How many megapixels did the previous top-of-the-line Hasselblad have?

Sometimes I feel like I own too much crap. Mostly computer stuff and cars

How many cars do you own?

How many cars do you own?

At the moment, it's back up to three. But I'm pro'lly gonna sell the '73 Mercury.

PDA question -- how can I figure out what version of PalmOS my Clie is running? And how can I upgrade it once I do? (This page, where Palm.com sent me, doesn't have any OS updates listed.)

Or would I be better off buying a new PDA from a company that still makes them?

On my Palm, I can tell by going to the Info menu option from the main screen and choosing Versions. However, that may be OS dependent.

Way after the fact, but thanks Jon and le nubian!

I'll look into the whole opening workbooks from another workbook thing. In the meantime, I used a compromise method which wasn't as slow as I had feared.

going to the Info menu option from the main screen and choosing Versions

Excellent.

Huh, this thing hasn't been upgraded since I bought it -- it's still running 4.1.

We haven't used a film SLR since 1999, when Paul's cameras were stolen. We still have a few floating around, but it's time for us to accept that we're never going to use them again.

Then I feel lame for needing two digital cameras. But I figure this place would be a good place to confess this.

Don't feel lame! We have, umm, four if you count Paul's camera phone. But only one is in heavy use right now. However, the reason we had two to start with was so that we'd have a small pocket one for when packing the Nikon was a PITA. (The Sony that replaced the Nikon is just the right size, so we don't need that sort of arrangement these days.)

Paul still wants a digital SLR some day, so it's totally possible that we'll wind up with as many digitals around the house as once there were film.

I want a Poloroid that has the option of saving the image to a memory card as well as printing. That would be keen.