Green Stream
(Camera: Nikon D90 with 18-105mm Nikkor zoom lens and polarizing filter.)
(Camera: Nikon D90 with 18-105mm Nikkor zoom lens and polarizing filter.)
1 | Mark Winter Sun, May 15, 2011 6:11:27pm |
The Nikon D90 is an excellent camera, actually better than its pricier successor.
2 | Daniel Ballard Sun, May 15, 2011 6:16:18pm |
One of my favorite things about a polarizer is how it lets the blue in the sky show in water reflection. That's why I take some good natured ribbing for going with fast shutter speeds on a shot like this. But this slower shutter (maybe 1/60?) lets some motion blur happen. Very nicely done Charles. As much as I'm a Canon fan I must admit the film camera in my bag is a Nikon.
3 | Charles Johnson Sun, May 15, 2011 6:16:27pm |
re: #1 Mark Winter
The Nikon D90 is an excellent camera, actually better than its pricier successor.
I love the way the D90 captures color. It's incredibly accurate, with a lot of depth and clarity. When I want a really good picture, the D90's the one I use.
It has a bit of a learning curve, and it's a little quirky, but I don't mind that in a really good piece of pro equipment.
4 | Charles Johnson Sun, May 15, 2011 6:18:38pm |
re: #2 Rightwingconspirator
Heh. I have about 20 pictures of this scene, with different exposure speeds. This was the special one.
5 | Charles Johnson Sun, May 15, 2011 6:21:06pm |
What you can't see is that this little waterfall is in an area with overhanging trees on all sides, with plenty of leaves. That's what gives it the deep green cast.
6 | Daniel Ballard Sun, May 15, 2011 6:25:29pm |
re: #5 Charles
Did you use a faithful or a landscape color setting?
9 | PhillyPretzel Sun, May 15, 2011 6:28:48pm |
re: #8 Aceofwhat?
It is quiet but nice. Right now quiet is a good thing.
10 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 6:29:45pm |
re: #9 PhillyPretzel
It is quiet but nice. Right now quiet is a good thing.
I'll try to keep my beverage out of someone else's lap, then...this has been a great game so far.
11 | Daniel Ballard Sun, May 15, 2011 6:30:02pm |
The Bible literalists will be truly pissed over this article.
12 | Mark Winter Sun, May 15, 2011 6:30:08pm |
re: #3 Charles
I love the way the D90 captures color. It's incredibly accurate, with a lot of depth and clarity. When I want a really good picture, the D90's the one I use.
It has a bit of a learning curve, and it's a little quirky, but I don't mind that in a really good piece of pro equipment.
Charles indeed. Some more expensive Nikons (the D300s for example) may have a better handling, but I could barely detect a difference in picture quality. And the new D7000 has issues and costs more, too.
The D90 can be had at bargain prices now and I won't give it away. Much better to invest in lenses than in a new camera body.
13 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 6:31:23pm |
re: #5 Charles
What you can't see is that this little waterfall is in an area with overhanging trees on all sides, with plenty of leaves. That's what gives it the deep green cast.
I love waterfall shots. Some of my own favorite pictures I've taken are of the Waterfall Garden at the Chicago Botanical Gardens.
14 | Charles Johnson Sun, May 15, 2011 6:32:37pm |
re: #6 Rightwingconspirator
Did you use a faithful or a landscape color setting?
Actually, this is the RAW image with minimal editing in Aperture: boosted the shadows and contrast a little bit.
16 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 6:33:34pm |
17 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 6:34:15pm |
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
SMACK!
(Chicago born and raised) Go Bulls!
Thought i'd find you here! Do you have the game on?
18 | PhillyPretzel Sun, May 15, 2011 6:39:24pm |
I am still using my L20 and I am getting some good photos. Here is one of my favorites. [Link: www.flickr.com...]
19 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 6:39:40pm |
re: #17 Aceofwhat?
Thought i'd find you here! Do you have the game on?
I'm watching some of it. I'm not a big basketball fan anymore.
21 | PhillyPretzel Sun, May 15, 2011 6:44:39pm |
I got to go. Good Night to my fellow Lizards. :)
22 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 6:45:59pm |
re: #19 Dark_Falcon
I'm watching some of it. I'm not a big basketball fan anymore.
goodbye MJ, Larry, Isaiah
see ya Magic, Charles, Kareem
not the same anymore
23 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 15, 2011 6:46:57pm |
The Buttered Cat Paradox
24 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 6:47:21pm |
re: #22 albusteve
goodbye MJ, Larry, Isaiah
see ya Magic, Charles, Kareem
not the same anymore
I'll take LeBron. You can have Magic.
25 | Stanghazi Sun, May 15, 2011 6:48:57pm |
re: #20 Aceofwhat?
Oof. Bulls can't miss from 3.
Go Joakim! (just woke up from NAP, yes NAP!) Went to brunch today where they had bottomless mimosas. Turning on TV.
26 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 6:50:42pm |
re: #25 Stanley Sea
Go Joakim! (just woke up from NAP, yes NAP!) Went to brunch today where they had bottomless mimosas. Turning on TV.
Sorry girlfriend, i'm a Heat fan! I can appreciate Noah but i'm rooting against his teammates this time...
28 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 6:51:10pm |
re: #24 Aceofwhat?
I'll take LeBron. You can have Magic.
when James can play all star caliber ball at all spots...get back with me
29 | Digital Display Sun, May 15, 2011 6:51:29pm |
re: #25 Stanley Sea
Go Joakim! (just woke up from NAP, yes NAP!) Went to brunch today where they had bottomless mimosas. Turning on TV.
Noah is playing lights out
31 | sod Sun, May 15, 2011 6:52:31pm |
Picked up Say Hi - Um, Uh Oh yesterday. I really like it.
Here's a good animated video for a song off it - Handsome Babies.
32 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 6:52:43pm |
re: #25 Stanley Sea
LOL! Mimosas = naptime!
*waves*
33 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 6:52:57pm |
35 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 6:54:56pm |
re: #28 albusteve
when James can play all star caliber ball at all spots...get back with me
When Magic's 20ppg can take a craphole like the Cavaliers to 60 wins and NBA finals, let me know.
36 | Stanghazi Sun, May 15, 2011 6:55:45pm |
re: #34 Stanley Sea
Floral! I'm having a great day!
Watching the game now. Listening to BOSTON. Playing words with friends. Whatta life.
37 | Digital Display Sun, May 15, 2011 6:55:49pm |
re: #33 albusteve
4 assists from the big man so far
I can't stand the Heat...I hope they get trashed
38 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 6:56:29pm |
re: #37 HoosierHoops
I can't stand the Heat...I hope they get trashed
agreed...they've sealed up James so far
39 | Stanghazi Sun, May 15, 2011 6:57:35pm |
re: #37 HoosierHoops
I can't stand the Heat...I hope they get trashed
Anyone that anoints himself the king in high school........
He's poison. Too bad he's a good player.
40 | sod Sun, May 15, 2011 6:57:47pm |
re: #37 HoosierHoops
I can't stand the Heat...
I guess you better stay out of the... forget it, too obvious.
41 | Digital Display Sun, May 15, 2011 6:58:15pm |
re: #38 albusteve
agreed...they've sealed up James so far
He took his talent down to south beach...Maybe he forgot to pack
42 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 6:59:19pm |
re: #39 Stanley Sea
Anyone that anoints himself the king in high school...
He's poison. Too bad he's a good player.
good players are everywhere, but good players that have a character to them that make them fun are rare....James bores me
43 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 6:59:37pm |
re: #41 HoosierHoops
He took his talent down to south beach...Maybe he forgot to pack
Watching the disaster that was the Cavs this year, who blames him?
44 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:00:20pm |
re: #42 albusteve
good players are everywhere, but good players that have a character to them that make them fun are rare...James bores me
Magic has character?
45 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 7:01:31pm |
re: #34 Stanley Sea
Of COURSE you are!
And many more in your future, too!
48 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 7:02:20pm |
re: #44 Aceofwhat?
Magic is good people. And a great athlete.
49 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 7:02:33pm |
re: #41 HoosierHoops
He took his talent down to south beach...Maybe he forgot to pack
by now, Barkley would have him so psyched out, he'd be faking an injury (again)
50 | Digital Display Sun, May 15, 2011 7:02:36pm |
re: #43 Aceofwhat?
Watching the disaster that was the Cavs this year, who blames him?
Most of America..It's not that he left..He was a free agent..It's the way he left...Sports fans love free agents now a days..We hate egotistical jerks
51 | Romantic Heretic Sun, May 15, 2011 7:03:23pm |
52 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 7:04:11pm |
53 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:04:39pm |
re: #48 Floral Giraffe
Magic is good people. And a great athlete.
I have issues with the casual promiscuity he displayed throughout his career. It wasn't good for him or the women he was involved with.
54 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 7:05:23pm |
re: #53 Aceofwhat?
I have issues with the casual promiscuity he displayed throughout his career. It wasn't good for him or the women he was involved with.
the subject is basketball not sex
55 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:07:14pm |
re: #50 HoosierHoops
Most of America..It's not that he left..He was a free agent..It's the way he left...Sports fans love free agents now a days..We hate egotistical jerks
Eh. Generally i hear people railing at athletes for 'chasing the money'. Then a group of friends decide to sacrifice some money to play together and people are pissed that he's 'chasing the ring'. Can't please 'em all.
And didn't he schedule the primetime special so that he could donate the proceeds to the boys and girls club? What a terrible human being...
57 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:07:37pm |
re: #54 albusteve
the subject is basketball not sex
you said character. don't whine about the subject you chose.
58 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 7:07:45pm |
re: #53 Aceofwhat?
He's paying for it now.
59 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:08:02pm |
60 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:08:34pm |
61 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 7:08:58pm |
re: #54 albusteve
the subject is basketball not sex
Casual promiscuity can be viewed as a character and moral flaw. I view it that way.
62 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:09:26pm |
Aw, that shot was bullshit. Or miraculous. Same thing:(
63 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 7:09:32pm |
re: #57 Aceofwhat?
you said character. don't whine about the subject you chose.
I said A character...an aspect of personality that's my style to enjoy....there is more than one to to spin the word
64 | Lidane Sun, May 15, 2011 7:09:39pm |
65 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 7:09:51pm |
Nicely abstract image - of course, Ed Weston would have put a naked woman in there just to mix it up a bit.
66 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 7:10:35pm |
re: #61 Dark_Falcon
Casual promiscuity can be viewed as a character and moral flaw. I view it that way.
sure....I'm talking basketball here tho....the way the game is played, not how many girls you dunked
68 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:10:59pm |
re: #61 Dark_Falcon
Casual promiscuity can be viewed as a character and moral flaw. I view it that way.
And it can lead, as Floral intimated, to physical danger.
69 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:11:34pm |
re: #64 Lidane
Here's some Heat for ya:
[Video];)
Heh. Even i thought that was awesome, and it was in Wade's face-
71 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:15:02pm |
re: #63 albusteve
I said A character...an aspect of personality that's my style to enjoy...there is more than one to to spin the word
re: #66 albusteve
sure...I'm talking basketball here tho...the way the game is played, not how many girls you dunked
then let's get back to how Magic wasn't nearly the scorer that James is.
72 | Obdicut Sun, May 15, 2011 7:16:15pm |
re: #68 Aceofwhat?
And it can lead, as Floral intimated, to physical danger.
So can marriage, given the rates of domestic abuse.
73 | Digital Display Sun, May 15, 2011 7:16:33pm |
re: #55 Aceofwhat?
Eh. Generally i hear people railing at athletes for 'chasing the money'. Then a group of friends decide to sacrifice some money to play together and people are pissed that he's 'chasing the ring'. Can't please 'em all.
And didn't he schedule the primetime special so that he could donate the proceeds to the boys and girls club? What a terrible human being...
My Friend..
There has never been a free agent in the history of the world that humiliated his City, Fans or Team like James did.
He showed no class at all and I don't care how much money he gives to Charity..He is one one of the most despised Athlete in the world right now..Except for South beach..
/This is fun Ace
74 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 7:16:54pm |
re: #70 albusteve
where's LaBrondo?
Resting. He played the entire 3rd period, and may need to rest a couple minutes.
75 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 7:17:20pm |
re: #71 Aceofwhat?
re: #66 albusteve
then let's get back to how Magic wasn't nearly the scorer that James is.
I didn't say he was...stop reaching doofus
I implied that James has little attractive character for basketball...he acts like a dullard half the time and as good as he is, I don't find him too entertaining like a lot of the older players were....he's a clone, a bot
76 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:17:21pm |
77 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 7:18:06pm |
re: #72 Obdicut
So can marriage, given the rates of domestic abuse.
Getting involved with other people always carries risk. But it beats being isolated.
78 | albusteve Sun, May 15, 2011 7:18:07pm |
re: #74 Dark_Falcon
Resting. He played the entire 3rd period, and may need to rest a couple minutes.
look at his stats...that's the point
79 | steve_davis Sun, May 15, 2011 7:18:22pm |
I'm just amazed you can get a 18-100mm zoom that isn't complete shite. I'm gathering you either paid a hefty sum for it, or it can barely creak open to 4.6 at 18mm. :-)
80 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:20:24pm |
re: #73 HoosierHoops
My Friend..
There has never been a free agent in the history of the world that humiliated his City, Fans or Team like James did.
He showed no class at all and I don't care how much money he gives to Charity..He is one one of the most despised Athlete in the world right now..Except for South beach..
/This is fun Ace
Right? I rarely get to disagree with you...and on sports, no less!
See, i'm from Cleveland - i saw him play in HS. And he was a free agent, so it wasn't his team anymore.
But i will grant you that it was very clumsy on his part, and it certainly gave the appearance of classlessness.
On the other hand, i submit as exhibit A the owner's letter the day after James "decision" to remind your honor what true classlessness looks like.
82 | Digital Display Sun, May 15, 2011 7:22:38pm |
re: #80 Aceofwhat?
On the other hand, i submit as exhibit A the owner's letter the day after James "decision" to remind your honor what true classlessness looks like.
Tru Dat Bro
83 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 15, 2011 7:24:06pm |
84 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 7:25:40pm |
The Heat are down 19 with less than 2:30 to play. Put a fork in this game, it's DONE! Go Bulls!
85 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:26:56pm |
re: #81 albusteve
the Heat went cold
poke em with a fork
Yup, the Bulls made everything, and got the rebound when they didn't. Should be a great series!
Oh, and Steve- if you aren't watching Derek Rose, you're missing out on life. I'm a Heat fan and even i think that Derek Rose is the balls.
86 | Obdicut Sun, May 15, 2011 7:27:27pm |
re: #76 Aceofwhat?
non sequitur
No, not really.
Anyway, other people's sex lives really aren't any business of mine unless they feel mine is their business. I'm reciprocal that way.
Adults can make their own decisions about risky behavior.
87 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, May 15, 2011 7:27:47pm |
re: #82 HoosierHoops
I was surprised when LJ left Cleveland. I figured he'd get his friends to join him there. In Cleveland.
Cleveland, Ohio.
On Lake Erie.
20F all damn winter long...
88 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:28:20pm |
re: #86 Obdicut
No, not really.
Anyway, other people's sex lives really aren't any business of mine unless they feel mine is their business. I'm reciprocal that way.
Adults can make their own decisions about risky behavior.
I respect your opinion.
90 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, May 15, 2011 7:29:16pm |
re: #85 Aceofwhat?
IMO, ten to fifteen of the 50 greatest players in NBA history are currently playing in the NBA.
91 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:31:18pm |
re: #90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
IMO, ten to fifteen of the 50 greatest players in NBA history are currently playing in the NBA.
Yep. And I heart Borg. I heart Sampras. But Federer is the best ever. In 10 years, somebody else will be.
That's how it is...athletes in certain sports tend to get better over time. We can appreciate the past greats and still acknowledge the current greats.
94 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, May 15, 2011 7:37:38pm |
re: #93 Stanley Sea
They certainly couldn't win with him on the floor.
/
He's much better in the NBA than I expected him to be.
95 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:37:38pm |
re: #93 Stanley Sea
Joakim was on the bench at the end! GO FUCKING GATORS!
Speaking of our Gators, did you see that Jenkins got kicked off of the team? We needed that like a hole in the head. Friggin idiot.
96 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:38:30pm |
re: #94 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
They certainly couldn't win with him on the floor.
/He's much better in the NBA than I expected him to be.
Likewise. He's in incredible shape for someone of his size...lets him outwork folks on both ends. Must be those tennis genes!
97 | Stanghazi Sun, May 15, 2011 7:43:28pm |
re: #95 Aceofwhat?
Speaking of our Gators, did you see that Jenkins got kicked off of the team? We needed that like a hole in the head. Friggin idiot.
Yep. Couldn't let go of the weed. What ev. I'm liking Muschamp. And his NAME! whatta name.
98 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:44:17pm |
re: #97 Stanley Sea
Yep. Couldn't let go of the weed. What ev. I'm liking Muschamp. And his NAME! whatta name.
Yeah, i like him too. I think (hope) we have a keeper there.
100 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, May 15, 2011 7:45:45pm |
re: #96 Aceofwhat?
Huh. Didn't know about the Yannick Noah connection.
Another day at LGF, one more little useless tidbit of information to jam into mah brain!
102 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, May 15, 2011 7:47:54pm |
re: #99 Stanley Sea
I'm guessing Noah the Younger was reeeally sqatted down for that shot.
103 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 7:47:56pm |
Ayatollah: Iran’s president ‘bewitched’ by senior aide
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came under new pressure Sunday, as an influential cleric charged that he has been “bewitched” by a controversial senior aide and key lawmakers renewed their impeachment threat.
Ahmadinejad is behaving “unnaturally” and needs to be “saved,” Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a former supporter of the president, told the weekly Shoma magazine.
The cleric said Ahmadinejad’s top adviser, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has used has hypnotism, spells or charms to take control of Iran’s elected leader. “I am almost certain that he has been bewitched,” Yazdi said.
104 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, May 15, 2011 7:50:21pm |
I also like Noah's "Shogun" look.
He's being interviewed right now. First time I ever heard a player mention that the National Anthem pumped him up.
105 | Aceofwhat? Sun, May 15, 2011 7:50:55pm |
re: #100 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Huh. Didn't know about the Yannick Noah connection.
Another day at LGF, one more little useless tidbit of information to jam into mah brain!
Then i'll make like Costanza and end on that note...allright that's it for me, goodnight everybody-
107 | Stanghazi Sun, May 15, 2011 7:53:11pm |
re: #103 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
You know what? That is crazy. Crazy begets crazy. I feel so hard for the normal folks living there.
108 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 7:54:06pm |
109 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 7:54:53pm |
re: #103 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Can't be doing this kind of stuff, without approval!
The critics likened him to a dictator, pointing to his decisions over the weekend to merge eight government ministries and fire three top officials, the ministers of oil, welfare and industries, without parliament’s consent.
110 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 7:55:32pm |
re: #109 Floral Giraffe
Can't be doing this kind of stuff, without approval!
"AND HE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!"
111 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 7:55:47pm |
112 | Charles Johnson Sun, May 15, 2011 8:02:02pm |
One of Pamela Geller's admirers:
shaunantijihad said...
Correct. Pamela IS the most dangerous woman in America... dangerous to the Communist plot unfolding; to the Muslim political ideology that never will end until Mecca, Medina and Qom are incinerated or free people submit to slavery; dangerous to those who want to destroy the US Constitution and end freedom of speech...
This is the language of the enemy. Pamela is dangerous to those who wish to destroy the Constitutional freedoms guaranteed in the US (and UK) Constitutions. She is certainly a dangerous woman. She opposes the second class status of beautiful Womankind and non-Muslims under the barbaric Sharia of the Muslims.
But she's not dangerous to lovers of freedom and Womens' rights, nor to lovers of the Constitutional freedoms guaranteed in the greatest document ever written by Man.
Keep your powder dry guys, women like this are worth defending.
113 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 8:05:30pm |
114 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 8:07:25pm |
re: #113 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
What's up with all those candles?
115 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:09:26pm |
116 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 8:11:49pm |
117 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:15:36pm |
re: #103 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Next up: French President "bewitched" by new first lady.
It's probably true.
118 | Bubblehead II Sun, May 15, 2011 8:18:11pm |
re: #112 Charles
"Keep your powder dry guys, women like this are worth defending someone you should be running away from while screaming at the top of your lungs."
119 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 8:18:42pm |
re: #100 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Huh. Didn't know about the Yannick Noah connection.
Another day at LGF, one more little useless tidbit of information to jam into mah brain!
He's the center, right? Cause the Bulls have a better center now than they did back during their other six title runs.
120 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:20:24pm |
re: #118 Bubblehead II
"Keep your powder dry guys, women like this are
worth defendingsomeone you should be running away from while screaming at the top of your lungs."
Why, in this day and age, is anyone needing to keep their powder dry? That was for flintlock muskets.
How about "keep your nikes on and tied securely..."
121 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 8:20:52pm |
re: #112 Charles
One of Pamela Geller's admirers:
Why am I so sure that guy has a John Birch Society membership?
122 | ProGunLiberal Sun, May 15, 2011 8:21:04pm |
A large explosion has occured in Tripoli. Possibly Ammo Storage struck.
[Link: www.facebook.com...]
As a Tweeter pointed out:
Size comparative: Delay between flash & boom ~ 5 seconds = 1.6 km / 1 mile
123 | Daniel Ballard Sun, May 15, 2011 8:21:49pm |
re: #120 EmmmieG
These guys? More like keep the Bud Light cold and the remote close.
124 | Stanghazi Sun, May 15, 2011 8:23:33pm |
re: #119 Dark_Falcon
He's the center, right? Cause the Bulls have a better center now than they did back during their other six title runs.
I've followed Joakim since his freshman year at Florida. He's incredible. Gah I hope to HELL they beat the heat.
125 | Bubblehead II Sun, May 15, 2011 8:24:23pm |
re: #120 EmmmieG
Why, in this day and age, is anyone needing to keep their powder dry? That was for flintlock muskets.
How about "keep your nikes on and tied securely..."
You obviously have never done any reloading. You always keep your powder dry (as well as at a stable temp. Increases shelf life).
126 | jaunte Sun, May 15, 2011 8:25:01pm |
re: #112 Charles
shaunantijihad said...
Correct. Pamela IS the most dangerous woman in America... dangerous to the Communist plot unfolding; to the Muslim political ideology that never will end until Mecca, Medina and Qom are incinerated or free people submit to slavery; dangerous to those who want to destroy the US Constitution and end freedom of speech...
That communist plot is unfolding slower than drying paint.
127 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 8:27:28pm |
re: #126 jaunte
That communist plot is unfolding slower than drying paint.
Thats why its so insidious. First, you get the secular atheists, then you get your gay islamists, then you get the Commies.
128 | McSpiff Sun, May 15, 2011 8:29:06pm |
129 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:29:35pm |
re: #125 Bubblehead II
You obviously have never done any reloading. You always keep your powder dry (as well as at a stable temp. Increases shelf life).
So we have a dude sitting in his garage, reloading ammo, and thinking about Pamela Geller.
That sounds healthy.
130 | Lidane Sun, May 15, 2011 8:35:47pm |
re: #112 Charles
Pam Geller is many things, but a feminist role model isn't one of them. That guy's portrayal of her as a defender of Womankind is laughable.
131 | jaunte Sun, May 15, 2011 8:36:17pm |
Flooding in South Vicksburg:
“This is ridiculous,” said Tawanna Bush, a 36-year-old waitress at a Cracker Barrel restaurant, looking at the top third of her uncle’s house. “Is it a sign?”“Yeah, it’s a sign,” said Jackson Floyd, 49, offering the practical fatalism of those who have known hard luck. “It’s a sign that it’s time to move and get another house.” [Link: www.nytimes.com...]
132 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 8:38:19pm |
re: #130 Lidane
I have, but one upding to give!
133 | Bubblehead II Sun, May 15, 2011 8:38:26pm |
re: #129 EmmmieG
So we have a dude sitting in his garage, reloading ammo, and thinking about Pamela Geller.
That sounds healthy.
/// Well we can always hope he gets distracted and double loads a round and becomes a candidate for the Darwin Awards.
134 | Lidane Sun, May 15, 2011 8:40:24pm |
Homemade oven fried pickles...OM NOM NOM. Tasty. :D
135 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 15, 2011 8:40:57pm |
I've had this link open most of the day. A live webcam on a watering hole in Africa. Oddly mesmerizing
[Link: www.elephantswithoutborders.org...]
Sun will be up there soon. enoy
136 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:41:03pm |
re: #133 Bubblehead II
/// Well we can always hope he gets distracted and double loads a round and becomes a candidate for the Darwin Awards.
I was hoping more for enrolling in the local community college.
138 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:41:16pm |
re: #136 EmmmieG
I was hoping more for enrolling in the local community college.
Getting a girlfriend.
139 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:41:44pm |
140 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:42:10pm |
141 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Sun, May 15, 2011 8:49:26pm |
Dead thread, dead thread, getting down on the dead thread.
So, tell me, how might The Metamorphosis have turned out differently if Gregor had been turned into a different animal?
Fuzzy bunny?
Large angry bear?
Nightingale?
142 | Bubblehead II Sun, May 15, 2011 8:51:31pm |
re: #137 ProLifeLiberal
Ah, the eunuch route.
Not really. More like having a (low level) grenade going off in your hand. A doubled charged cartridge isn't something you want. Just ask anybody who reloads. It is one of our worst nightmares.
That or using the wrong powder for the round.
143 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 8:51:57pm |
re: #135 Killgore Trout
Thanks... looks interesting. In just the past couple of minutes the light has started to improve and one can really start seeing outlines of the area. Early morning ought to bring surprises.
144 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 8:52:22pm |
145 | ProGunLiberal Sun, May 15, 2011 8:52:48pm |
re: #142 Bubblehead II
Oh, I was thinking of something...else.
146 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 8:52:56pm |
re: #141 EmmmieG
Dead thread, dead thread, getting down on the dead thread.
So, tell me, how might The Metamorphosis have turned out differently if Gregor had been turned into a different animal?
Fuzzy bunny?
Large angry bear?
Nightingale?
The Meowmorphosis (Quirk Classics)
“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten.”Thus begins The Meowmorphosis—a bold, startling, and fuzzy-wuzzy new edition of Franz Kafka’s classic nightmare tale, from the publishers of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! Meet Gregor Samsa, a humble young man who works as a fabric salesman to support his parents and sister. His life goes strangely awry when he wakes up late for work and finds that, inexplicably, he is now a man-sized baby kitten. His family freaks out: Yes, their son is OMG so cute, but what good is cute when there are bills piling up? And how can he expect them to serve him meals every day? If Gregor is to survive this bizarre, bewhiskered ordeal, he’ll have to achieve what he never could before—escape from his parents’ house. Complete with haunting illustrations and a provocative biographical exposé of Kafka’s own secret feline life, The Meowmorphosis will take you on a journey deep into the tortured soul of the domestic tabby.
147 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 8:54:33pm |
148 | jaunte Sun, May 15, 2011 8:55:11pm |
re: #141 EmmmieG
Fuzzy bunny: he would not have enjoyed climbing around on the walls as much, but would have provided a meal for his needy family.
Large angry bear: would have eaten the chief clerk, and the rest of the family, including Grete.
Nightingale: right out the window.
149 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 15, 2011 8:56:03pm |
re: #143 freetoken
Thanks... looks interesting. In just the past couple of minutes the light has started to improve and one can really start seeing outlines of the area. Early morning ought to bring surprises.
Sun coming up now. Critters come crawlin'
150 | Ben G. Hazi Sun, May 15, 2011 8:56:13pm |
re: #131 jaunte
Flooding in South Vicksburg:
I know the flooding a bad thing...been there, done that, got a (mostly built) new house for my troubles. But, lemme inject a little more gallows humor into that NYT quote. That exchange reminds me of Ghostbusters, when EPA prick Peck had the power cut to the ghost containment grid:
[the Ghostbusters HQ blows up]
Louis: This is it! This is the sign!
Janine Melnitz: Yeah, it's a sign, all right - "Going out of business".
151 | Four More Beers Sun, May 15, 2011 8:56:17pm |
I'm a Canon shooter, 3 Mark III's and I specialize in shooting sports, and I can tell the difference in IQ. between Canon and Nikon. Nikon fell way behind during the early digital wars, but now they're ahead especially with the higher ISOs. I still can't switch because the glass I use (400 2.8, etc.) would be way too expensive to do so.
152 | jaunte Sun, May 15, 2011 8:57:10pm |
re: #149 Killgore Trout
The soundtrack has me scratching at nonexistent mosquito bites.
153 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 8:57:29pm |
And now the Stalkers a going into a Geller love fest, mixed with vile imprecations against Charles. They can't stand the facts about Geller, so they retreat into fantasy. If me have Charles and they have the Shrieking Harpy, that's just more proof as to who has the better blog.
[waves to the Stalkers]
154 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 8:57:54pm |
Anyone know if Reine is OK? I'm worried about her. Just tried to search her nic, but my search fu failed!
155 | jaunte Sun, May 15, 2011 8:58:38pm |
re: #154 Floral Giraffe
I think she said yesterday that her house was above the flood area.
156 | Killgore Trout Sun, May 15, 2011 8:59:01pm |
re: #154 Floral Giraffe
Anyone know if Reine is OK? I'm worried about her. Just tried to search her nic, but my search fu failed!
She's out of the danger zone.
157 | prairiefire Sun, May 15, 2011 8:59:01pm |
re: #154 Floral Giraffe
Anyone know if Reine is OK? I'm worried about her. Just tried to search her nic, but my search fu failed!
I think she posted she is in a area safe from the floods.
158 | goddamnedfrank Sun, May 15, 2011 8:59:04pm |
re: #113 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I didn't realize this guy was blogging
[Video]
The important thing is that he's got a good attitude towards menstruation.
160 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 9:00:10pm |
re: #150 talon_262
I know the flooding a bad thing...been there, done that, got a (mostly built) new house for my troubles. But, lemme inject a little more gallows humor into that NYT quote. That exchange reminds me of Ghostbusters, when EPA prick Peck had the power cut to the ghost containment grid:
Ray: Everything was fine until Dickless here cut the power to our containment grid.
Peck: THEY CAUSED AN EXPLOSION!
The Mayor: Is this true?
Peter: Yes, it's true! [He looks at Peck] This man has no dick!
162 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 9:01:14pm |
re: #158 goddamnedfrank
The important thing is that he's got a good attitude towards menstruation.
[Video]
I'm going to put that vid in the "do not push play" category.
163 | Four More Beers Sun, May 15, 2011 9:01:22pm |
re: #153 Dark_Falcon
I've always thought that the vile directed towards Charles and LGF was just a form of penis envy. LGF kicks ass with the most witty, intelligent dialogue and they resort to "OBAMA'S A MOOZLIM!!!" crap.
164 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 9:01:52pm |
re: #161 Killgore Trout
I should like some snacks!
BRB
165 | goddamnedfrank Sun, May 15, 2011 9:02:50pm |
re: #162 Dark_Falcon
I'm going to put that vid in the "do not push play" category.
You're missing out, it's a classic.
166 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 9:03:21pm |
re: #151 Kid A
... the glass I use (400 2.8, etc.) would be way too expensive to do so.
The EF 400 2.8 is supposed to be one of the finest lenses ever made.
As for quality... yeah, Nikon's reliance on Sony in the early years really slowed them down, especially as Canon was able to make sensors in-house and knew they could work on CMOS and be a couple of years ahead of their competition.
I think finally the small format camera market has returned to the old model, where systems (lenses etc.) are what differentiates vendors now.
167 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 9:03:51pm |
re: #163 Kid A
I've always thought that the vile directed towards Charles and LGF was just a form of penis envy. LGF kicks ass with the most witty, intelligent dialogue and they resort to "OBAMA'S A MOOZLIM!!!" crap.
Well its hard to have as good a blog when the you don't have an programmers in the same league as Charles. It's even harder when your posters are so full of hate and butthurt that they've lost contact with reality.
168 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 9:05:13pm |
Those lionesses look like they need something to do.
169 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 9:05:41pm |
re: #158 goddamnedfrank
The important thing is that he's got a good attitude towards menstruation.
[Video]
But there are a few difficulties with mass murder
170 | Lidane Sun, May 15, 2011 9:06:37pm |
OK. I'm about to see if the new version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force is worth a damn. The first episode was terrible, but I'm giving it one more chance.
171 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 9:06:40pm |
re: #168 freetoken
Those lionesses look like they need something to do.
Let's fly Gaddafi down there and introduce him to them.
/kinding
172 | Four More Beers Sun, May 15, 2011 9:08:41pm |
re: #166 freetoken
Agreed. There's just a difference in the overall appearance; I can tell what's Nikon and what's Canon, though it's very slight. I still love Canon, and the 200 2.0 is mind-blowing. Poor man's choice is the 135 2.0, another fine piece of Canon glass.
173 | goddamnedfrank Sun, May 15, 2011 9:10:57pm |
re: #169 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
But there are a few difficulties with mass murder
[Video]
"Mass Genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer."
-Dogma
174 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 9:11:46pm |
re: #172 Kid A
Poor man's choice is the 135 2.0, another fine piece of Canon glass.
Had one (for several years until I sold my Canon stuff a while back.) Another great Canon telephoto.
To me the big thing with Canon is that their raw software has continued to improve and I still think it gives the best color (better than Adobe or Apple software) from the raw files. Plus it's fun to play with the Style editor to make one's own curves.
175 | goddamnedfrank Sun, May 15, 2011 9:16:15pm |
re: #174 freetoken
Had one (for several years until I sold my Canon stuff a while back.) Another great Canon telephoto.
To me the big thing with Canon is that their raw software has continued to improve and I still think it gives the best color (better than Adobe or Apple software) from the raw files. Plus it's fun to play with the Style editor to make one's own curves.
176 | Bubblehead II Sun, May 15, 2011 9:17:57pm |
Lizards, It is time to for me crawl back under my (sun warmed) rock and get some sleep.
May the Deity of your choice smile down upon you.
177 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 9:19:43pm |
re: #175 goddamnedfrank
That's true of virtually all camera makers' gimmicks.
My comment about Canon's color had nothing to do with bit depth.
179 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 9:22:40pm |
180 | Gretchen G.Tiger Sun, May 15, 2011 9:25:07pm |
re: #179 Dark_Falcon
I'm OK. How'd you deal with the Cold and Wet down in Aurora?
eh, it's not as bad as it sounds. Just another day in Chicagoland.
181 | Dark_Falcon Sun, May 15, 2011 9:28:52pm |
re: #180 ggt
eh, it's not as bad as it sounds. Just another day in Chicagoland.
True that.
And now I see that "Internet Septic Tank Engineer" has returned to hurling vile imprecations against Charles, for which he offers no proof. Thus proving my main contention. Have a good night Stalkers, I won't be calling you on your bullshit any more tonight. I know you need time for the butthurt to die down before you go to bed. >:D
182 | Four More Beers Sun, May 15, 2011 9:29:11pm |
re: #174 freetoken
If you care to take a look.
ericsmith.photoshelter.com
Any c&c is always appreciated.
183 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 9:34:44pm |
Looks like the lionesses finally found something to engage themselves - themselves!
184 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 9:39:45pm |
re: #181 Dark_Falcon
They just thrive on the attention, and the butthurt.
Sad bunch of banned losers.
185 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 9:41:13pm |
re: #182 Kid A
Clearly you like to spend a lot of time shooting sports.
Not sure I can give much of a helpful critique, except that I like this image:
[Link: ericsmith.photoshelter.com...]
because of the clear view of the face. Having the tee in the shot makes it an action shot, but having such a good view of the face tells the story (such as in your featured image of the swimmer.)
Overall a worthwhile gallery - I assume you have it online to advertise your services?
186 | Kragar Sun, May 15, 2011 9:42:54pm |
re: #184 Floral Giraffe
They just thrive on the attention, and the butthurt.
Sad bunch of banned losers.
188 | Dancing along the light of day Sun, May 15, 2011 9:46:25pm |
re: #186 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
OK, BIG mistake to search "butthurt": on youtube.
Please pass the brain bleach..
STAT!
189 | Four More Beers Sun, May 15, 2011 9:47:31pm |
re: #185 freetoken
I freelance for a major paper and others. Shot 7 days of the Houston Open, and got some good props. That was a cool assignment as I love shooting golf. The gallery is on the photoshelter site.
190 | lostlakehiker Sun, May 15, 2011 9:55:25pm |
re: #86 Obdicut
No, not really.
Anyway, other people's sex lives really aren't any business of mine unless they feel mine is their business. I'm reciprocal that way.
Adults can make their own decisions about risky behavior.
Oddly, not so much when it comes to, say, seatbelts. And non seatbelt-wearing is not communicable.
191 | (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, May 15, 2011 10:05:25pm |
Any why the LGF script keeps flubbing the mp3 link in this page? I tried pasting as well as spelling it out but it keeps getting mangled by the script for some reason.
192 | (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, May 15, 2011 10:10:41pm |
193 | Lidane Sun, May 15, 2011 10:25:59pm |
G'night Lizards! Have some Arcade Fire for the overnight:
194 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 10:29:36pm |
195 | goddamnedfrank Sun, May 15, 2011 10:32:52pm |
re: #177 freetoken
That's true of virtually all camera makers' gimmicks.
My comment about Canon's color had nothing to do with bit depth.
Then what does it have to do with if not the science? Is this a subjective assessment?
196 | (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, May 15, 2011 10:35:43pm |
re: #194 freetoken
There is a space between the "g" and "e" in Savage. Don't know if your link already had it there, or if the hamsters are inserting a line break due to the length of the url.
re: #192 000G
Hamsters' ways are mysterious.
No, the hamsters inserted the spaces; I did not have any spaces in the link, and editing them out and resubmitting does not work. I don't believe it's due to the length of the URL because the embedding of that MP3 DID work on preview a couple of times. I think it has to do with the YouTube embedding together with the MP3 link that makes it fail.
197 | (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Sun, May 15, 2011 10:44:47pm |
Just to make a note of this: the LGF Pages script has some other bugs that unnerve me:
* parsing "special" characters almost always results in a garbled mess when re-editing a post
* when searching for a term that does not yield any results, putting another search term in the search field and hitting enter when on the no-results-page will not yield any results either, even if the latter search term would have yielded results if used initially.
198 | goddamnedfrank Sun, May 15, 2011 11:02:17pm |
Wow, Gingrich came out in favor of the individual mandate today.
He's doomed, no way he get's the nomination.
199 | Targetpractice Sun, May 15, 2011 11:12:53pm |
re: #198 goddamnedfrank
Wow, Gingrich came out in favor of the individual mandate today.
He's doomed, no way he get's the nomination.
Then, to truly damn himself, he spoke out in praise of Romneycare. Stick a fork in him, he's done.
200 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, May 15, 2011 11:23:36pm |
re: #199 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Hoping to get tapped as his running mate, perhaps?
201 | freetoken Sun, May 15, 2011 11:50:52pm |
re: #195 goddamnedfrank
Then what does it have to do with if not the science? Is this a subjective assessment?
Digital camera color is very complex (well, so was the analog color techniques.) For example, the color filter dyes used in the Bayer (or other) filter are different between sensors and manufacturers. Then, the re-creation of the tri-stimulus basic colors from the filters varies.
Then we get to what you label "subjective". In creating the final color curves different manufacturers have different priorities. I always liked the Kodak and Fujifilm colors in the early years of DSLRs because the old film companies knew that humans prefer very subtle color biases in different situations (which is why they made a wide variety of color films.)
Of the digital camera makers who weren't film makers I thought, and still do, that Canon did the best in coming up with their color curves.
202 | engineer cat Mon, May 16, 2011 12:04:10am |
re: #198 goddamnedfrank
Wow, Gingrich came out in favor of the individual mandate today.
He's doomed, no way he get's the nomination.
huckabee removing himself subtracted the last major candidate who could plausibly link up the wingnuts with the mainstream of the party
203 | goddamnedfrank Mon, May 16, 2011 12:26:03am |
re: #201 freetoken
Digital camera color is very complex (well, so was the analog color techniques.) For example, the color filter dyes used in the Bayer (or other) filter are different between sensors and manufacturers. Then, the re-creation of the tri-stimulus basic colors from the filters varies.
Then we get to what you label "subjective". In creating the final color curves different manufacturers have different priorities. I always liked the Kodak and Fujifilm colors in the early years of DSLRs because the old film companies knew that humans prefer very subtle color biases in different situations (which is why they made a wide variety of color films.)
Of the digital camera makers who weren't film makers I thought, and still do, that Canon did the best in coming up with their color curves.
Okay, I asked because I have an M.S. in Photography / Modern imaging and work as a consulting scientist for professional print, photographic, medical and forensic laboratories. The current industry view is that Nikon capture surpassed Canon in the past few years in both sensor design, dynamic range, and real color fidelity. It's close, but 12 bit Nikon capture actually demonstrably has better color and less noise than 14 bit Canon RAW files. Like that article says, Canon just made the files bigger, their improvements in RAW are really just putting the same amount of information in a bigger box, with zero addition to dynamic range or usable color space.
I don't really have a dog in the fight, I've shot both, I support both, just reporting the current industry consensus, which is that while Canon glass and image stabilization may retain a slight edge, particularly in sports photography, but in terms of color capture Nikon is generally currently considered by imaging scientists and engineers to currently be the better manufacturer. Again, this is only in the last few years, since the release of the D300/700/3x bodies. Basically I think Kid A nailed it in his #re: #151, talking color without discussing noise first is kind of pointless, and that's where Nikon is really dominating, high signal gain (ISO) noise reduction.
re: #202 engineer dog
huckabee removing himself subtracted the last major candidate who could plausibly link up the wingnuts with the mainstream of the party
Yeah, it's going to get ugly. Everyone realizes that Obama is in a very strong position now and losing to him is going to make them damaged goods for 2016, so only those with nothing to lose are going to make a go of it. Expect scorched earth.
204 | laZardo Mon, May 16, 2011 12:49:41am |
re: #163 Kid A
I've always thought that the vile directed towards Charles and LGF was just a form of penis envy. LGF kicks ass with the most witty, intelligent dialogue and they resort to "OBAMA'S A MOOZLIM!!!" crap.
So I logged on and one of the Google Ads is:
"Buraaq - Muslim Superhero"
o_O
205 | treasured people Mon, May 16, 2011 1:38:37am |
I understand there's a way of starting threads on this site. Could someone walk me through the process?
206 | treasured people Mon, May 16, 2011 2:32:39am |
Figured it out, process seems to have been simplified. Thanks.
207 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 2:39:19am |
re: #190 lostlakehiker
Oddly, not so much when it comes to, say, seatbelts. And non seatbelt-wearing is not communicable.
Seatbelts are being used in a common area, on the roads. You don't have to wear a seatbelt while tooling your Dodge around on your own property. I'm fine if we mandate that people wear a condom while having sex on the highway, or, indeed, just not mandate that they can't have sex on the highway.
208 | freetoken Mon, May 16, 2011 2:47:35am |
re: #203 goddamnedfrank
Which is why, when the subject was originally brought up, I suggested that the digital imaging market today has returned to the "buy the system" concept as making decisions based only on a sensor is too trivial in the big picture. There just isn't reason enough to buy brand X based on sensor quality. Sensor size maybe (for those who want larger than the old 135 size - i.e., the now outdated term "medium format".)
It was always known that silicon sensors would max out photon capture sooner rather than later. And, as you are probably well aware, alternate techniques (e.g. Foveon) really haven't panned out in real life. That's the thing about digital imaging - sure, it's faster, cheaper, and better color than the old analogue film - but now one top of the line sensor is just about as good as another and with digital imaging techniques whatever difference does exist can/will be obscured (for example, I notice on several of the recent BBC documentaries the director is having extra vignetting applied to the image, as well as increasing saturation.)
Some time ago on here we had a discussion about photography (I don't believe it was with you), and about the effect digital has had on the art and craft of photography. No matter how much I love the convenience of digital I am one of those who still find myself being partial to film, larger format the better, at least as far as aesthetics.
210 | sattv4u2 Mon, May 16, 2011 3:58:04am |
So
I was going to pressure wash my back deck and front porch today ,, BUT
It's overcast, breezy and a chance of heavy rain showers
SO
You lucky people get me on and off during my day off!!
212 | sattv4u2 Mon, May 16, 2011 4:00:39am |
re: #211 sattv4u2
All 11 of you!!
{sigh}
//
6 of which prolly just didn't log off last night and are still in la la land!
214 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 4:10:09am |
just catching up on the thread..... a cool and wet Monday morning in the Pac NW.
Morning all.
215 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:10:28am |
re: #207 Obdicut
Seatbelts are being used in a common area, on the roads. You don't have to wear a seatbelt while tooling your Dodge around on your own property. I'm fine if we mandate that people wear a condom while having sex on the highway, or, indeed, just not mandate that they can't have sex on the highway.
No sex on the road, again? When will the legislators stop prying into our private lives?
216 | Wozza Matter? Mon, May 16, 2011 4:12:03am |
217 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:13:20am |
re: #216 wozzablog
Jim Henson died 21 years ago today.
RIP
[Video]
It was a sad day. Still makes me sad.
I grew-up with his work and still have a part of me that feels like Kermy and Miss Piggy are REALLY my friends. It takes a special gift to create magic like that. Jim Henson had that gift.
218 | Wozza Matter? Mon, May 16, 2011 4:15:45am |
re: #217 ggt
It was a sad day. Still makes me sad.
I grew-up with his work and still have a part of me that feels like Kermy and Miss Piggy are REALLY my friends. It takes a special gift to create magic like that. Jim Henson had that gift.
The man was a genius. I remember the news reports.
Such quality and the mega stars who agreed to do absurd things.
:(
219 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 4:15:56am |
221 | Wozza Matter? Mon, May 16, 2011 4:20:29am |
222 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 4:26:31am |
Regarding Henson. My biggest "that was really cool!" moment at the movies? Not Titanic or Avatar... When they found a way to have Kermit riding a bike in the "Muppet Movie".
CGI? How the hell did they do that? But after years of seeing the hand puppets stationary, that knocked me out.
223 | BARACK THE VOTE Mon, May 16, 2011 4:28:14am |
Did you know that it's a crime to "noodle" a catfish in Texas? Oh, you don't know about noodlin'? Also called "hogging" or "grabbing," it's when you reach your hand into an underwater hole, jam your fist into a catfish's throat, pull the sombitch out of the water and then do whatever it is you do after catching a fish with your bare hands. The crime is currently a misdemeanor in Texas, and could come with as much as a $500 fine. But that could soon change.
Texas Debates Harsh Catfish 'Noodling' Law
Morning, all. Afternoon here. Video of catfish noodlin' at link.
224 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:28:32am |
Ernie and Aaron Neville
225 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 4:32:03am |
re: #224 ggt
Aaron Neville? Always sounds like an AM radio with bad reception to me. I know. I'm a heretic.
226 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:32:58am |
227 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 4:37:27am |
re: #223 iceweasel
Noodling for Flatheads
Great book.
228 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:38:27am |
229 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 4:42:00am |
re: #223 iceweasel
What's more wrong with that that spear fishing, angling, dynamite fishing, trawling or other means of fishing?
230 | BARACK THE VOTE Mon, May 16, 2011 4:44:05am |
re: #229 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
What's more wrong with that that spear fishing, angling, dynamite fishing, trawling or other means of fishing?
the opponents claim it doesn't give the fish a fair chance or something.
231 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 4:45:02am |
re: #229 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
What's more wrong with that that spear fishing, angling, dynamite fishing, trawling or other means of fishing?
It's apparently 'unfair', according to rod-and-reel anglers.
I don't get it. You're taking a risk.
I think you'd love the book I linked above, by the way. The Holy Rollers (about these Appalachian marble players who kicked Britain's ass at their own marble game) story alone is worth it.
232 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:45:09am |
re: #230 iceweasel
the opponents claim it doesn't give the fish a fair chance or something.
Not Sportsman-like enough?
Give Me A Break. It's a freakin' fish. If a homeless guy wants to eat fish and can catch one with his hand, who cares.
233 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 4:45:31am |
re: #228 ggt
BB King's girlfriend gets a tatoo of the letter "B" on each butt cheek as an homage. Comes home and says, "Hey, BB. Look at my new tatoo!" as she drops her drawers and bends over to show him.
BB says, "Who the hell is Bob?!"
234 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:46:07am |
re: #233 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
BB King's girlfriend gets a tatoo of the letter "B" on each butt cheek as an homage. Comes home and says, "Hey, BB. Look at my new tatoo!" as she drops her drawers and bends over to show him.
BB says, "Who the hell is Bob?!"
groan
235 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 4:46:48am |
re: #232 ggt
Not Sportsman-like enough?
Give Me A Break. It's a freakin' fish. If a homeless guy wants to eat fish and can catch one with his hand, who cares.
Give a man a hand and he'll eat for a lifetime.
/
237 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:48:10am |
re: #235 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Give a man a hand and he'll eat for a lifetime.
/
Give him a "hand" (applause) because he is talented enough to catch a fish with his bare hand. Geez, sporting chance. The fish is slippery!
238 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 4:48:31am |
re: #235 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Give a man a hand and he'll eat for a lifetime.
/
That's not all he'll do.
239 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:49:27am |
Now, if he was wearing special gloves with barbs or some such protrusions that helped him catch the fish--now, that might be unfair.
240 | Gretchen G.Tiger Mon, May 16, 2011 4:49:59am |
242 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 4:51:16am |
243 | BARACK THE VOTE Mon, May 16, 2011 4:56:06am |
re: #242 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Fuck.
I'm not watching that, just long enough to see the warnings come up.
tThere was another story on gawker about a cat who was shot with a bow and arrow. Bow (his new name) is doing fine and they're trying to find the guy who did it. Apparently it happens a lot.
that maxed me out on animal cruelty for the day.
244 | RogueOne Mon, May 16, 2011 4:58:16am |
re: #223 iceweasel
Texas Debates Harsh Catfish 'Noodling' Law
Morning, all. Afternoon here. Video of catfish noodlin' at link.
13 stiches for noodling a beaver......there's a joke in there but I'm not going to be the one that does it.
246 | kirkspencer Mon, May 16, 2011 4:59:33am |
another I Miss Henson hurrah.
247 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 5:00:38am |
re: #246 kirkspencer
Still can't believe his heirs sold the rights to the Muppets to Disney.
248 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:04:12am |
re: #247 Obdicut
I can. If I didn't have the cleverness/talent/intelligence/drive to continue the business, take the money; move to the Caymans (or wherever it is the Ubers move).
249 | BARACK THE VOTE Mon, May 16, 2011 5:04:26am |
re: #245 RogueOne
Morning folks.
Morning, Rogue. I have to take off now, but I hope everyone has a great day.
Later, all.
250 | kirkspencer Mon, May 16, 2011 5:05:14am |
re: #247 Obdicut
Still can't believe his heirs sold the rights to the Muppets to Disney.
Yep, which is one of the huge reasons I think the copyright duration is too long.
251 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 5:05:30am |
re: #248 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Yeah, but not to Disney. Anyone else.
252 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:05:33am |
re: #243 iceweasel
All I watched were the warnings too. Doesn't make my blood boil, but it does break my damn heart that we (human peoples) do this stuff.
253 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:06:32am |
re: #251 Obdicut
Who else? GE? Microsoft? Smith Barney? Viacom?
254 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 5:07:11am |
255 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:07:48am |
256 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 5:08:37am |
re: #253 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Who else? GE? Microsoft? Smith Barney? Viacom?
Meh. I shouldn't complain; Henson himself started the negotiation of the sale. I'm wrong to blame his heirs.
I'm just not fond of Disney.
257 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:09:07am |
re: #253 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Who else? GE? Microsoft? Smith Barney? Viacom?
Michael Jackson?
(there's a tie-in joke there, but I ain't gonna use it)
258 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 5:13:07am |
re: #256 Obdicut
Meh. I shouldn't complain; Henson himself started the negotiation of the sale. I'm wrong to blame his heirs.
I'm just not fond of Disney.
I'm waiting for their Trademarked action figures of Seal Team 6....
259 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:23:13am |
I just got pissed off. Someone posted a picture of me on Facebook from a bar the other night to promote his new Karaoke show. Not a group shot, just me.
1. I feel like President Scroob. "Why didn't someone tell me my ass was so big!"
2. The picture is just fucking awful.
3. Dude didn't ask me.
260 | Flounder Mon, May 16, 2011 5:23:28am |
That Mr. Henson was uber brilliant, I cried when I heard he died. Too effin young.
261 | Flounder Mon, May 16, 2011 5:24:09am |
re: #259 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
At least you remember being there.
262 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 5:32:19am |
Bomb warning received in London
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
"The Mall and other central London streets were closed on Monday morning although a link has not been confirmed.
The warning is thought to be related to Irish dissident republicans but the threat level for Northern Ireland-related terrorism has not been changed.
The BBC understands the police received a coded bomb warning."
263 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:33:21am |
re: #261 Shropshire_Slasher
It is one of the few things that I hate about Facebook. People posting pictures of other people without a slightest hesitancy, without permission.
264 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:35:11am |
re: #262 Ericus58
I thought that was over with.
The rags to riches to rags thing getting some hooligans back in the mix?
265 | Flounder Mon, May 16, 2011 5:35:28am |
re: #263 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I haven't signed up for Facebook for fear that I would just stalk ex-girlfriends
266 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 5:37:51am |
re: #265 Shropshire_Slasher
I haven't signed up for Facebook for fear that I would just stalk ex-girlfriends
"A man's gotta know his limitations."
267 | sadhu Mon, May 16, 2011 5:39:46am |
STS-134 launch in about 15 minutes :
[Link: www.nasa.gov...]
268 | Guanxi88 Mon, May 16, 2011 5:45:13am |
Ni hao, mein scaly drugi.
Going through quite a bit just now, but thought I'd stop in anyway.
Let me forestall any questions with an answer, as provided by the inimitable Ute Lemper:
269 | Guanxi88 Mon, May 16, 2011 5:46:18am |
re: #268 Guanxi88
Ni hao, mein scaly drugi.
Going through quite a bit just now, but thought I'd stop in anyway.
Let me forestall any questions with an answer, as provided by the inimitable Ute Lemper:
270 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 5:53:29am |
I need some caption help here! (Second picture)
271 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 6:03:49am |
re: #270 Alouette
That's a man, btw. Or a woman with the manliest hands I've ever seen.
272 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 6:08:46am |
re: #270 Alouette
So yesterday was just more like "silly shenanigans" than a real problem? Stuff I was reading made it look like pre-Armageddon shit.
274 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 6:11:53am |
re: #271 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
That's a man, btw. Or a woman with the manliest hands I've ever seen.
Yeah, it is a man.
275 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 6:12:44am |
re: #272 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
So yesterday was just more like "silly shenanigans" than a real problem? Stuff I was reading made it look like pre-Armageddon shit.
Did I say it was "silly shenanigans" yesterday?
276 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 6:14:06am |
re: #275 Alouette
I don't know. I didn't see you post about it.
The sofa joke kind of led me to believe it wasn't as big a deal as I thought.
277 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 6:14:38am |
re: #276 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I don't know. I didn't see you post about it.
The sofa joke kind of led me to believe it wasn't as big a deal as I thought.
It is a very big deal but that doesn't mean we can't still make fun of it.
278 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 6:14:51am |
279 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 6:15:23am |
re: #278 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
So a good caption is from Austin Powers, "She's a man, baby!"
haha, Winner!
280 | Varek Raith Mon, May 16, 2011 6:16:09am |
re: #277 Alouette
It is a very big deal but that doesn't mean we can't still make fun of it.
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
281 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 6:17:02am |
re: #277 Alouette
I posted this yesterday:
#155 Fat Bastard Vegetarian :: Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:00:34 pm
To my Lizard friends with family/friends in Israel, my thoughts are with you and yours.
You were specifically in my mind when I posted.
282 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 6:17:58am |
re: #281 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I posted this yesterday:
You were specifically in my mind when I posted.
Thank you.
283 | RogueOne Mon, May 16, 2011 6:43:58am |
My SiL went to her folks for a long weekend so she could watch her old classmates graduate. Her entire family and 1/2 a dozen friends want to come out here in a few weeks when she graduates and they're having a hard time getting their heads around the fact that she only has 7 tickets to give away to attend the ceremony. There were only 30 kids graduating at her old school (maybe 300 people total in the town) and there are roughly 900 kids in her new graduating class. I've tried to explain the math to them but they aren't getting it.
284 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 6:46:14am |
re: #283 RogueOne
I am always first to volunteer NOT to go to a four hour long ceremony where I only care about one person walking across a stage for 15 seconds.
285 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 6:48:16am |
re: #270 Alouette
Caption suggestion...
"Dammit! It's not right! You guys always make me dress as the chick."
286 | darthstar Mon, May 16, 2011 6:49:12am |
Mornin' everyone. Had a nce, relaxing weekend. Now just need to wipe the sleep out of my eyes and take the dogs for a run along the beach before getting ready for work.
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
287 | lawhawk Mon, May 16, 2011 6:49:25am |
Alouette (re your caption contest):
Top photo:
Hassan should have known better than use an Ikea Crap sofa for his bonfire; it would have gone much better if he went to Ethan Allen.
Still trying to come up with something for that bottom photo, but the Sayaret Matkal might get upset.
288 | RogueOne Mon, May 16, 2011 6:50:48am |
re: #284 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I am always first to volunteer NOT to go to a four hour long ceremony where I only care about one person walking across a stage for 15 seconds.
I've already volunteered and been shot down. 4 hrs is probably a good bet. I don't want to sit through 899 of them. Prom is next weekend. For some reason I'm expected to go sit outside the theater where it's held to take pics of her walking in the building.....why, I don't know. At her old school the parents walk the kids into the building which I find pretty weird. I guess when you live in the boonies there's not a whole lot else to get excited about.
289 | WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Mon, May 16, 2011 6:59:59am |
re: #190 lostlakehiker
Oddly, not so much when it comes to, say, seatbelts. And non seatbelt-wearing is not communicable.
breaking my sabbatical briefly as a life long car dork who always wears a seatbelt, to say this:
Ever been sideswiped on a freeway and lose complete control of your vehicle? Ever had a high speed blowout deploy your airbags? My brother had the former happen to him as a passenger, I had the latter happen to me.
Not wearing a seatbelt means you are more likely to be knocked out of commission in a collision while your car is still in motion, whereas being belted in may give you the time to guide your car to safety after being hit. Physics is apparently difficult for libertarians to parse.
So yeah, wear a seatbeat, it's the fucking law, because the life you save MAY BE MINE
Libertarians, so narrow minded, selfish, and foolish, and willing to endanger others for their own myopic ideology, pretty much par for the course
291 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:20:20am |
So, I'm putting up a light fixture in my kitchen. The instructions clearly say, "may require two people". Well, I figured out how to make it a one person job... Until I'm holding up the end of the fixture, removing a cap bolt that holds the diffuser in place...
I drop the nut. Rolls across the floor... I'm on a two feet high stool...
From that position I had to figure out how to...
1. Hold the light in position (through each step)
2. Get off the stool.
3. Grab the broom.
4. Use the broom to sweep the nut back to me
5. Use my toes to pick up the nut, and sit it on the stool.
6. Bend over far enough to pick up the bolt.
7. Get back up on the stool.
8. Put the nut back on.
9. Smile with smug satisfaction that I got it done.
Then I noticed that while I was doing all that? The other end fell apart.
10. Frown.
11. Curse.
292 | Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, May 16, 2011 7:22:54am |
re: #291 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How many divorced men does it take to change a light bulb? None, the light sockets go with the house!
/
293 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:26:36am |
re: #292 Cannadian Club Akbar
My favorite Jewish joke...
How many Jewish mothers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
"None. Don't worry about me darling. I'll just sit here in the dark. You have your own life. Why should you even give me a second thought..."
294 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:28:42am |
re: #284 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I am always first to volunteer NOT to go to a four hour long ceremony where I only care about one person walking across a stage for 15 seconds.
Went to my nephew's graduation ceremony (cue Nancy Kerigan shouting, "Why!?!").
Worked the entire Washington Post Sunday Crossword puzzle.
295 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 7:30:55am |
re: #293 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
My favorite Jewish joke...
How many Jewish mothers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
"None. Don't worry about me darling. I'll just sit here in the dark. You have your own life. Why should you even give me a second thought..."
How many real men does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. Real men aren't afraid of the dark.
How many Palestinians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Thirty. Ten to throw stones at the light fixture, ten to condemn Israel for blockading their supply of light bulbs, and ten foreign activists to bring them a boatload of green curly bulbs that don't fit in their light sockets.
296 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:32:33am |
re: #295 Alouette
HA! FANTASTIC!
How many Tea Partiers? One. But it takes 60 more to sit around and complain that it is not nearly as good as the old bulb.
297 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:33:36am |
re: #291 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Shocking, huh? I read the instructions.
298 | reine.de.tout Mon, May 16, 2011 7:35:24am |
re: #297 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Shocking, huh? I read the instructions.
Yeah, but the thing is - you're supposed to read and then FOLLOW the instructions, not ignore them!
299 | sattv4u2 Mon, May 16, 2011 7:36:30am |
re: #297 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Shocking, huh? I read the instructions.
especially if you didn't turn the circuit off!
300 | Cannadian Club Akbar Mon, May 16, 2011 7:37:01am |
I have to run. BBIAB. I have a guy that wants to short sell my house. I will lose equity but keep credit. This is a positive thingy considering I need to call this afternoon about a job. My first interview wasn't the best, but my next one, I got my guns loaded.
301 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:37:10am |
re: #298 reine.de.tout
Actually, the instructions read, "May need two people to install the fixture". I figured out a very clever way to do it, at least, until all hell broke loose.
303 | sattv4u2 Mon, May 16, 2011 7:38:05am |
re: #301 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Actually, the instructions read, "May need two people to install the fixture". I figured out a very clever way to do it, at least, until all hell broke loose.
"May need two people" translates to "Better to use three"
304 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:38:14am |
306 | reine.de.tout Mon, May 16, 2011 7:39:58am |
re: #304 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Just the light switch.
I live on the edge, man!
My father-in-law once was using a nail gun to do something - and he shot a nail through his hand, nailing his hand to the wall. And all the other tools, including whatever he wanted to use to try to get un-nailed from the wall, were just out of reach.
Be happy your experience was just a light fixture!
307 | iossarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:40:06am |
re: #292 Cannadian Club Akbar
How many divorced men does it take to change a light bulb? None, the light sockets go with the house!
/
LOL. How many divas does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb, the other to pull the ladder away.
308 | iossarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:40:41am |
re: #306 reine.de.tout
My father-in-law once was using a nail gun to do something - and he shot a nail through his hand, nailing his hand to the wall. And all the other tools, including whatever he wanted to use to try to get un-nailed from the wall, were just out of reach.
Be happy your experience was just a light fixture!
So I take it that your in-laws have a hereditary approach to power tool safety?
Sheesh.
309 | sattv4u2 Mon, May 16, 2011 7:40:54am |
re: #306 reine.de.tout
My father-in-law once was using a nail gun to do something - and he shot a nail through his hand, nailing his hand to the wall. And all the other tools, including whatever he wanted to use to try to get un-nailed from the wall, were just out of reach.
Be happy your experience was just a light fixture!
Should have put a frame around it
310 | reine.de.tout Mon, May 16, 2011 7:41:39am |
re: #308 iossarian
So I take it that your in-laws have a hereditary approach to power tool safety?
Sheesh.
Oh, my. I could go on and on with this topic & my father-in-law.
311 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:42:01am |
re: #306 reine.de.tout
That's why it's so hard to crucify yourself. Getting the other hand nailed in is IMPOSSIBLE!
312 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 7:42:02am |
re: #306 reine.de.tout
My father-in-law once was using a nail gun to do something - and he shot a nail through his hand, nailing his hand to the wall. And all the other tools, including whatever he wanted to use to try to get un-nailed from the wall, were just out of reach.
Be happy your experience was just a light fixture!
So what happened? I'm all on pins and needles.
313 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:42:52am |
re: #310 reine.de.tout
Hey, sweetie. How's the water situation down there. We're thinking of y'all.
314 | reine.de.tout Mon, May 16, 2011 7:43:14am |
re: #312 Alouette
So what happened? I'm all on pins and needles.
He was at home; so he yelled for his wife, and yelled and yelled and after awhile she paid attention and went out to see what all the fuss was about, and they got the nail out somehow, I'm not quite sure how (I'm not sure I want to know how!).
315 | reine.de.tout Mon, May 16, 2011 7:46:14am |
re: #313 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Hey, sweetie. How's the water situation down there. We're thinking of y'all.
Friend of mine was at a restaurant yesterday, and took this photo from the building's observation deck:
Image: River1.jpeg
316 | reine.de.tout Mon, May 16, 2011 7:47:02am |
re: #315 reine.de.tout
Friend of mine was at a restaurant yesterday, and took this photo from the building's observation deck:
Image: River1.jpeg
It's otherwise very very dry, we haven't had any rain whatsoever in a couple of weeks, and none is predicted for another week. So while the river rises, we're busy watering our lawns with hoses. sheesh.
317 | sattv4u2 Mon, May 16, 2011 7:50:54am |
Oh,,,,
Goody
So Mrs. Satty found out that I've decided not to start pressure washing the back deck because
A) it's prolly gonna start raining soon
B) it's cold outside today
C),,, yawn,,,, all good intentions and plans aside,, I'm just not up to it today
SO
She's whipped out the Honey Do list for OTHER things
Off to the shower
318 | lawhawk Mon, May 16, 2011 7:53:10am |
re: #311 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Nail gun, contortionist - and using your feet. /thinking outside the box.
319 | sattv4u2 Mon, May 16, 2011 7:55:35am |
re: #306 reine.de.tout
My father-in-law once was using a nail gun to do something - and he shot a nail through his hand, nailing his hand to the wall. And all the other tools, including whatever he wanted to use to try to get un-nailed from the wall, were just out of reach.
Be happy your experience was just a light fixture!
If he were a manly man he would have just pulled that sucker out with his teeth!!
320 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 7:56:24am |
re: #318 lawhawk
Nail gun, contortionist - and using your feet. /thinking outside the box.
Continuing that thought...
If I'm a contortionist? Why would I ever leave the house, much less commit suicide.
321 | Killgore Trout Mon, May 16, 2011 8:03:34am |
Glenn Beck is getting weirder....
Glenn Beck Announces 'Restoring Courage,' Rally In Jerusalem
322 | NJDhockeyfan Mon, May 16, 2011 8:04:40am |
Good morning lizards!
Frank says:
Who are the brain police?
323 | NJDhockeyfan Mon, May 16, 2011 8:05:10am |
Good morning lizards!
Frank says:
Who are the brain police?
324 | NJDhockeyfan Mon, May 16, 2011 8:06:46am |
Geithner tells Congress the US has reached $14.3T debt limit
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has informed lawmakers that the government has officially hit the debt limit.
Geithner made the announcement in a Monday morning letter to congressional leaders that said he was reducing the government's investment in the two government employee pension funds as the nation entered a "debt issuance suspension period."
The Treasury Department has said it can take steps to put off a default on the U.S.'s $14.3 trillion debt until Aug. 2, and the measure announced Monday by Geithner is a part of that plan.
It's obvious they need to spend more money to get out of this debt problem.
//
326 | KronoGhazi Mon, May 16, 2011 8:09:31am |
re: #321 Killgore Trout
Glenn Beck is getting weirder...
Glenn Beck Announces 'Restoring Courage,' Rally In Jerusalem
But he called the rally a "life altering event" and warned that the "very gates of hell" would fight his attempts to hold the rally.
He seems to be forming a new personality cult ministry.
327 | lawhawk Mon, May 16, 2011 8:11:10am |
re: #321 Killgore Trout
Seriously WTF - the 2 state solution as most commonly understood doesn't cut Jerusalem off from Israel, but does include a repartition of Jerusalem in some fashion. Arab portions of the city would form the basis of the Palestinian capital, while the Old City would likely be split with the Arab Quarter and Temple Mount going towards the Palestinian state, while the Jewish Quarter, Armenian and Christian quarters staying within Israel (although Israel's Basic Law includes the annexation of all Jerusalem (Jerusalem Law) and isn't recognized by the UN, US or other countries).
328 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 8:12:57am |
Does Beck have advisors? Or does he just listen to the many voices in his head?
329 | Killgore Trout Mon, May 16, 2011 8:13:08am |
re: #326 BigPapa
But he called the rally a "life altering event" and warned that the "very gates of hell" would fight his attempts to hold the rally.
He seems to be forming a new
personality cultministry.
Yeah, it seems more the kind of thing a TV preacher would do. I don't think his show is even shown in Israel and I doubt anyone there knows who he is.
330 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 8:13:38am |
re: #327 lawhawk
Seriously WTF - the 2 state solution as most commonly understood doesn't cut Jerusalem off from Israel, but does include a repartition of Jerusalem in some fashion. Arab portions of the city would form the basis of the Palestinian capital, while the Old City would likely be split with the Arab Quarter and Temple Mount going towards the Palestinian state, while the Jewish Quarter, Armenian and Christian quarters staying within Israel (although Israel's Basic Law includes the annexation of all Jerusalem (Jerusalem Law) and isn't recognized by the UN, US or other countries).
Giving the Temple Mount over to the Palestinians means swarms of Arabs dropping big chunks on concrete on Jewish worshippers at the Kotel below.
It's not gonna happen.
331 | sattv4u2 Mon, May 16, 2011 8:15:38am |
re: #328 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Does Beck have advisors? Or does he just listen to the many voices in his head?
Thats what I do
Problem is, they're all talking pig latin, Sanskrit and gibberish
I tend to follow the gibberish
332 | lawhawk Mon, May 16, 2011 8:16:50am |
re: #330 Alouette
Which isn't all that different from when the Palestinians riot from the Temple Mount at present.
Sad truth is that there is no peace process when one side (the Palestinian) ultimately seeks the other's destruction regardless of whatever borders are agreed upon. That is the ultimate declarations from Hamas and even the PLO/Fatah charter embraces that idea.
Israel will not have peace until the Palestinians accept Israel's existence, and they still haven't done so despite their obligations under Oslo. Fatah plays lip service to it, but hasn't undertaken the tough work of state-building and rooting out the decades of indoctrination to seek Israel's destruction. Hamas doesn't even bother with the charade.
333 | NJDhockeyfan Mon, May 16, 2011 8:18:09am |
Jimmy Carter's friends pray for Israel...
Haniyeh on Nakba Day: Pray for an end to Israel
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh spoke to Muslim worshipers on Sunday morning, telling them to pray for an end to Israel.
"Palestinians mark the Nakba with great hope of bringing to an end the Zionist project in Palestine," Haniyeh told 10,000 people at Gaza City's al-Omari mosque, AP reported.
"To achieve our goals in the liberation of our occupied land, we should have one leadership," he reportedly said, praising the recent unity accord between Hamas and Fatah.
Haniyeh added that Hamas would not recognize Israel.
334 | Killgore Trout Mon, May 16, 2011 8:18:13am |
335 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 8:19:06am |
re: #316 reine.de.tout
That must be an odd feeling.
337 | NJDhockeyfan Mon, May 16, 2011 8:21:14am |
re: #336 BishopX
You don't fuck with the debt limit.
Doesn't the credit card companies always raise your limit every time you max out your cards?
338 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 8:21:49am |
re: #337 NJDhockeyfan
Doesn't the credit card companies always raise your limit every time you max out your cards?
Isn't the national debt completely different from an individual's credit card debt?
339 | Vicious Babushka Mon, May 16, 2011 8:22:23am |
One thing that the "Nakba" celebrations proved beyond a shadow of a doubt:
"Settlements" in the West Bank are not the issue. Every "Nakba" border invasion rally was about Israel within the Green Line.
340 | Semper Fi Mon, May 16, 2011 8:23:09am |
re: #4 Charles
Heh. I have about 20 pictures of this scene, with different exposure speeds. This was the special one.
Without a doubt...very special.
341 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, May 16, 2011 8:27:35am |
342 | BishopX Mon, May 16, 2011 8:30:19am |
re: #337 NJDhockeyfan
If I was the CEO of my own credit card company...yes I would. The debt limit isn't a limit imposed by our creditors (like a CC limit). It's a limit imposed by our own government.
Congress has the power to control spending, taxation, and the amount of money we can borrow. The amount we borrow is directly related to the the amount the government receives from taxes and the amount of money the government spends. Congress voted to spend the money, and now the republicans are threatening our ability to raise the money congress already allocated. If you're worried about the deficit, either raise taxes or cut spending to close the deficit. Don't renege on promises you already made.
343 | Varek Raith Mon, May 16, 2011 8:32:09am |
344 | BishopX Mon, May 16, 2011 8:32:30am |
re: #341 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
re: #338 Obdicut
The only thing I understand about this subject; is that all of the solutions, at this time, appear to suck.
That's not quite true. There are no painless solutions here, but there's a big difference between getting a cavity filled by the dentist and having your jaw chewed off by rabid beavers. The republicans are saying we should stick our head into beaver cage rather than go to the dentist.
345 | iossarian Mon, May 16, 2011 8:34:06am |
re: #344 BishopX
That's not quite true. There are no painless solutions here, but there's a big difference between getting a cavity filled by the dentist and having your jaw chewed off by rabid beavers. The republicans are saying we should stick our head into beaver cage rather than go to the dentist.
No, no, a country of 300 million people's economy is exactly the same thing as a single-earner household in Peoria.
Just stop spending money on Friday nights at Chuck's and we'll all be fine!
346 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 8:36:08am |
re: #341 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
re: #338 Obdicut
The only thing I understand about this subject; is that all of the solutions, at this time, appear to suck.
We mostly need to cut costs by getting medical costs under control.
As always, I'll pimp Gawande's writings on the subject.
[Link: www.newyorker.com...]
[Link: www.newyorker.com...]
348 | Varek Raith Mon, May 16, 2011 8:36:47am |
re: #345 iossarian
No, no, a country of 300 million people's economy is exactly the same thing as a single-earner household in Peoria.
Just stop spending money on Friday nights at Chuck's and we'll all be fine!
Just print a 15 trillion dollar bill.
Problem solved.
/
349 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 8:37:06am |
re: #344 BishopX
That's not quite true. There are no painless solutions here, but there's a big difference between getting a cavity filled by the dentist and having your jaw chewed off by rabid beavers. The republicans are saying we should stick our head into beaver cage rather than go to the dentist.
Or Honey Badgers.... cuz they just don't care.
350 | iossarian Mon, May 16, 2011 8:38:03am |
re: #346 Obdicut
We mostly need to cut costs by getting medical costs under control.
As always, I'll pimp Gawande's writings on the subject.
[Link: www.newyorker.com...]
[Link: www.newyorker.com...]
Completely agree that we should do a lot of things to control medical (and other) costs. At the same time, there's no reason we shouldn't ask those people who benefit the most from a stable and healthy economy to contribute more to its maintenance.
351 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 8:39:34am |
re: #350 iossarian
At the same time, there's no reason we shouldn't ask those people who benefit the most from a stable and healthy economy to contribute more to its maintenance.
Agreed. And we need to invest shitloads of money in renewable energy & industry, because AGW's a'comin' and it'll tank the economy if we don't. So there's a lot of spending we really need to do, so it behooves us to control other costs so we can afford to do that.
352 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 8:40:22am |
I sure like this blog and it's inhabitants...
It's like the full-meal deal; humor, serious subjects, technical talk, hobby pursuits, videos and music clips...
Thanks.
353 | Varek Raith Mon, May 16, 2011 8:40:50am |
re: #351 Obdicut
Agreed. And we need to invest shitloads of money in renewable energy & industry, because AGW's a'comin' and it'll tank the economy if we don't. So there's a lot of spending we really need to do, so it behooves us to control other costs so we can afford to do that.
GOP response.
Image: head-in-sand.jpg
354 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 8:41:13am |
Heh. Gingrich hates Ryan's plan so much that he basically proposed the same thing years ago.
What an opportunist.
[Link: thinkprogress.org...]
355 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 8:41:29am |
re: #353 Varek Raith
GOP response.
Image: head-in-sand.jpg
At some point, they just gotta come up for air....
356 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 8:44:15am |
re: #354 Obdicut
Heh. Gingrich hates Ryan's plan so much that he basically proposed the same thing years ago.
What an opportunist.
[Link: thinkprogress.org...]
You got that right.
I will without hesitation pull the lever for Obama before him.
358 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 8:54:19am |
Uh Ho... this will get the throngs to call for this heretic's head...
Stephen Hawking says afterlife is a fairy story
"Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking recently explained his belief that there is no God and that humans should therefore seek to live the most valuable lives they can while on Earth.
.........
Hawking's 1988 book "A Brief History of Time" sold 9 million copies, and in it Hawking referenced God metaphorically as the force that could fully explain the creation of the universe.
But in 2010, Hawking told Diane Sawyer that "science will win" in a battle with religion "because it works."
"What could define God [is a conception of divinity] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God," Hawking told Sawyer. "They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.""
359 | Interesting Times Mon, May 16, 2011 8:55:23am |
re: #357 lawhawk
Yet if you believe this guy (and the anti-AGW folks are jumping on his bandwagon), the whole thing about AGW is bunk and overestimating the effects. I wish LVQ was here to debunk this nonsense fully.
Kid A posted that article last night. Here's my reply (in short, David Evans is a lying fraud with no climate science credentials to speak of).
That garbage was published over a month ago, however - why is it getting traction now? "Drudged" up?
360 | BishopX Mon, May 16, 2011 8:58:07am |
Nate Silver has a good post up on the NYT about what Huckabee's decision not to run means for the Iowa caucuses.
ad Mr. Huckabee won Iowa again, a plausible narrative might have emerged that he was a one-state wonder. Other candidates with strong social-conservative or religious credentials, like Pat Robertson in 1988 and Pat Buchanan in 1996, performed strongly in Iowa but did not gather any particular momentum from it. The same was true of Mr. Huckabee in 2008, of course — he finished a distant third in New Hampshire and failed to win any states outside the South except Kansas.
That narrative may not have been entirely fair to Mr. Huckabee. Against what is probably a weaker field this time around, he would have had a pretty good chance of becoming the nominee. Still, with every other candidate trying to spin the story and diminish the importance of a Huckabee victory in Iowa, the narrative could have provided some cover. Now the rest of the field will have fewer excuses for a losing performance in the state.
The tl:dr version is that socially conservative voters actually gain clout with Huckabee out of the race.
361 | lawhawk Mon, May 16, 2011 9:00:08am |
re: #359 publicityStunted
As they say in my career path - asked, and answered. Thanks!
362 | KronoGhazi Mon, May 16, 2011 9:00:30am |
363 | Interesting Times Mon, May 16, 2011 9:00:33am |
re: #360 BishopX
The tl:dr version is that socially conservative voters actually gain clout with Huckabee out of the race.
Palin/Bachmann 2012!
Into the depths of derpness delve!
364 | BARACK THE VOTE Mon, May 16, 2011 9:01:10am |
re: #360 BishopX
I just put up a page from media matters about Huck not running. It's all about the bucks for Huck.
365 | BishopX Mon, May 16, 2011 9:04:29am |
re: #364 iceweasel
I just put up a page from media matters about Huck not running. It's all about the bucks for Huck.
As much as I detest the man and virtually everything he stands for, I'll be the first to admit that he isn't a dummy. A failed presidential bid nets you nothing.
366 | Obdicut Mon, May 16, 2011 9:05:52am |
re: #357 lawhawk
Yet if you believe this guy (and the anti-AGW folks are jumping on his bandwagon), the whole thing about AGW is bunk and overestimating the effects. I wish LVQ was here to debunk this nonsense fully.
Evans has been busted left and right, but it doesn't make any difference to the denialists and the GOP anti-science brigade.
[Link: scienceblogs.com...]
[Link: bravenewclimate.com...]
And right after a former denier scientist who actually started doing reconstructions stated unequivocally that his reconstructions were matching the claims perfectly.
Speaking of the GOP anti-science types, here's a great Nature article on the mix of politics and denialism:
[Link: www.nature.com...]
367 | SpaceJesus Mon, May 16, 2011 9:10:23am |
In which Fox News loses its shit...
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
368 | reine.de.tout Mon, May 16, 2011 9:11:36am |
re: #154 Floral Giraffe
Anyone know if Reine is OK? I'm worried about her. Just tried to search her nic, but my search fu failed!
Hey, Flo!
Here I yam.
Just fine, thanks!
It's those poor folks who decided to build their dream homes in the middle of the spillway that are having a very hard time right now.
369 | Winny Spencer Mon, May 16, 2011 9:18:18am |
Wow, Newt is getting positively savaged by both professional and amateur wingnuts. The Newt has apparently grown into a RINO.
370 | Killgore Trout Mon, May 16, 2011 9:23:11am |
re: #368 reine.de.tout
Good to hear you're safe. It's a very sad situation.
371 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, May 16, 2011 9:23:20am |
re: #368 reine.de.tout
Hey, Flo!
Here I yam.
Just fine, thanks!It's those poor folks who decided to build their dream homes in the middle of the spillway that are having a very hard time right now.
Did they just gamble that the spillway would never be used?
372 | Darth Vader Gargoyle Mon, May 16, 2011 9:25:23am |
re: #358 Ericus58
Uh Ho... this will get the throngs to call for this heretic's head...
Stephen Hawking says afterlife is a fairy story
"Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking recently explained his belief that there is no God and that humans should therefore seek to live the most valuable lives they can while on Earth.
...
Hawking's 1988 book "A Brief History of Time" sold 9 million copies, and in it Hawking referenced God metaphorically as the force that could fully explain the creation of the universe.But in 2010, Hawking told Diane Sawyer that "science will win" in a battle with religion "because it works."
"What could define God [is a conception of divinity] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God," Hawking told Sawyer. "They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.""
His most recent book is called The Grand Design. He he he.
374 | Kragar Mon, May 16, 2011 9:28:01am |
re: #364 iceweasel
I just put up a page from media matters about Huck not running. It's all about the bucks for Huck.
He's going to need the money for his lawsuit.
Two of the videos have a child wearing a red space marine helmet, one of the memorable factions in the Warhammer 40,000 table top board game. Beginning in 1987, the game has remained immensely popular, making appearances in novels and popular video games like the PC title Dawn of War II. When contacted on the issue, Andrew Hall of Games Workshop said: “I have forwarded this on to our legal department.”
375 | Ericus58 Mon, May 16, 2011 9:38:26am |
"IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, facing sex assault charges, denied bail by New York judge as a flight risk."
I think the search warrant to examine his body didn't go well for him....