White House Press Secretary: GOP Support for Scalise ‘Says a Lot’ About Party’s Values

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Unusually direct words from White House press secretary Josh Earnest, as the House Republican leadership unites to defend Majority Whip Steve Scalise despite his association with a white supremacist group founded by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.

“There’s no arguing that who Republicans decide to elevate into a leadership position says a lot about what the conference’s priorities and values are,” Earnest said during the briefing.

“Ultimately, Mr. Scalise reportedly described himself as ‘David Duke without the baggage,’” he continued, referring to a comment Scalise allegedly once made to a reporter. “It will be up to Republicans to decide what that says about their conference.”

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1 makeitstop  Jan 5, 2015 2:46:37pm

Good. Go after them on this.

And use Scalise’s words against him again and again.

2 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jan 5, 2015 2:52:37pm

well, the mask has fallen off the Republican/Libertarian nexus the past 6 years and the racism is just there for all to see. The problem is that the 25% or so of the country that falls into the reliable voting bloc supporting this far right wing ideology does not have any problem whatsoever with these racist associations and comments, and indeed many outright support the statements and goals. The right wing is splitting off from the rest of the country and from the world as a whole. About 25% of America is outright racist and are having a difficult time adjusting to the new world where borders are decreasing in importance. They are taking the moral authority of America down with them.

3 dell*nix  Jan 5, 2015 2:52:44pm

Time the gloves came off.

4 nines09  Jan 5, 2015 2:59:45pm

Don’t you just think it’s about time the Democratic Party just got pissed off? I think it’s a bout time. Hit them. Then hit them again. Then really hit them. Then hit them again. Grow a set. Stand for something. Represent who votes for you.

5 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 3:04:31pm

I like the “all out of fucks to give” Obama.

6 Kaessa  Jan 5, 2015 3:09:05pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

I like the “all out of fucks to give” Obama.

He’s my favorite Obama.

7 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 3:12:44pm
8 BlueGrl21  Jan 5, 2015 3:16:27pm

Good. And in the spirit of calling out our Republican brethren we need to start using correct titles when we refer to them.

- Convicted Felon Dinesh D’Sousa
- White Supremacist Majority Whip Steve Scalise
- Contemptuous Blogger Charles C. Johnson (Contempt for ignoring a subpoena is Mississippi and for his general existence)
- Family Values, but Marriage Four Rush Limbaugh

We need to show the propriety we’re famous for. These people earned their titles.

9 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 3:16:41pm

re: #7 goddamnedfrank

I saw Chuck’s dim-witted followers saying too bad the EXIF data didn’t have a date.

The picture was taken 14 years ago. That could be why it doesn’t have EXIF metatags, ya think?

10 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 3:22:06pm

This is true comedy.

11 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 3:23:58pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Gee, what happens to photos shot with film and printed on paper that are scanned?

idiots.

12 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 3:26:30pm

re: #7 goddamnedfrank

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I would just love to see one of these experts explain in simple form how an image is created. They can choose film or digital. I bet many of them fail.

And then, please explain heat maps and what they really have to do with a digital or film photographic image.

I bet the bullshit would be so deep they’d be swallowed up in it. Hmmm. That might no be a bad thing.

13 #FergusonFireside  Jan 5, 2015 3:30:36pm

Why the fuck is he even concerned with Prince Andrew?

14 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 3:31:08pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

I like the “all out of fucks to give” Obama.

As we’ve said time and again when he’s just thrown up his hands and said “FUCK IT!,” I really wish we’d seen more of this man the last six years. Hell, just seeing him since 2012 would have been a breath of fresh air. Going “full Bulworth,” as Daily Beast dubbed it, for the last two years on the job is like all the good parts of a movie coming in the last 10 minutes. It’s nice, but it doesn’t really save the whole mess.

15 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 3:33:33pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

I saw Chuck’s dim-witted followers saying too bad the EXIF data didn’t have a date.

The picture was taken 14 years ago. That could be why it doesn’t have EXIF metatags, ya think?

It was just being talked about at the time.

Also, many of the small digital cameras that first came out back then did all kinds of crazy halos and weird flat areas just by using them. I remember looking at the first ones and thinking that the French Impressionists would have loved them!

16 #FergusonFireside  Jan 5, 2015 3:34:57pm
17 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 3:36:22pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

I saw Chuck’s dim-witted followers saying too bad the EXIF data didn’t have a date.

The picture was taken 14 years ago. That could be why it doesn’t have EXIF metatags, ya think?

Sure. Or it was scanned from film and the scanner metadata wasn’t saved, or it was and was stripped out by the newspaper, or it was stripped out by CCJ when he slapped his goat logo watermark all over it and then asked experts to authenticate his altered file. Seriously, WTF?

It’s a fucking altered jpeg. Every time you save a jpeg you lose information. You open one up, do absolutely nothing and resave it at the highest quality, you lose information. The file format is intrinsically lossy even before he decided to crap his logo all over the image, and that’s not even the real problem. Because it ignores the fact that if the exif data was there it wouldn’t prove jack shit, and that CCJ and his fanboys would be saying it was faked. Because that shit can always be faked. They could enter an original, uncut roll of film into an official court record and these people would be claiming it was a hoax.

At a glance everything about that photo looks genuine to me. Nothing stands out as a red flag. The shadows are entirely consistent with a flash mounted slightly camera left on a bracket, which isn’t all that uncommon.

18 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 3:36:43pm
19 Shazam  Jan 5, 2015 3:37:53pm

These photography experts are the people he reaches out to to do his journalism for him daily.

20 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 3:43:53pm

We will maintain the status-quo that is profitable for us, or we will bankrupt the country!

21 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 3:44:26pm

CES 2015: What the Heck Are Quantum Dots?

Why can’t I stop laughing?

22 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 3:46:36pm

I don’t have any degrees or any o’ that high-falutin’ stuff, but I’ve been working with digital images almost as long as I’ve worked with computers, and when the wingnuts start ranting about “pixel sizes” and “pixelation,” especially in 14-year old highly degraded photos made into JPEGs, all I can do is laugh to keep from crying.

23 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 3:46:43pm

re: #20 FemNaziBitch

We will maintain the status-quo that is profitable for us, or we will bankrupt the country!

We’re the pro-America party! Until America turns against us, then fuck America because we’re really in it for ourselves!

Evening Lizardim from the bitterly cold wild north country.

24 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 3:46:43pm
25 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 3:50:04pm
26 WhatEVs  Jan 5, 2015 3:50:10pm

re: #13 #FergusonFireside

Why the fuck is he even concerned with Prince Andrew?

He could give a shit about the who (when it is male). It’s all slut shaming to UpDog Chuck. Anytime he can be against a women, he’s all in.

27 #FergusonFireside  Jan 5, 2015 3:50:56pm

re: #26 WhatEVs

He could give a shit about the who (when it is male). It’s all slut shaming to UpDog Chuck. Anytime he can be against a women, he’s all in.

sick

28 Ace-o-aces  Jan 5, 2015 3:51:55pm
29 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 3:52:07pm

This is horrible news for anyone who travels by plane:

If you’ve ever used Gogo Inflight Internet, you should change passwords on everything ASAP. They were in yr computer, stealin yr codes.

30 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 3:52:43pm

I was messing around with Chuck C’s tweet image he is currently using and damn, there sure is some pixelization going on.

Conclusion: Charles C. Johnson is a fake!

31 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 3:53:17pm

re: #26 WhatEVs

He could give a shit about the who (when it is male). It’s all slut shaming to UpDog Chuck. Anytime he can be against a women, he’s all in.

Also, in high school he worked in some unspecified capacity for Alan Dershowitz. Pool boy perhaps? Probably some degree of self preservation involved.

32 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 3:53:53pm

HEAT MAPS

33 wrenchwench  Jan 5, 2015 3:54:32pm

I love the name ‘Josh Earnest’.

34 makeitstop  Jan 5, 2015 3:54:46pm

re: #30 ObserverArt

I was messing around with Chuck C’s tweet image he is currently using and damn, there sure is some pixelization going on.

Conclusion: Charles C. Johnson is a fake!

Embedded Image

Quite an improvement.

35 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 3:55:05pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

This is horrible news for anyone who travels by plane:

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If you’ve ever used Gogo Inflight Internet, you should change passwords on everything ASAP. They were in yr computer, stealin yr codes.

Yeah, I just saw your Page on that before I joined the thread. Truly astounding. Thankfully, I’ve never used in-flight wifi, but wow. How do people think they’re going to get away with this? To say nothing about the big question… WHY?!?!?

36 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 3:55:31pm

re: #30 ObserverArt

I was messing around with Chuck C’s tweet image he is currently using and damn, there sure is some pixelization going on.

Conclusion: Charles C. Johnson is a fake!

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You went all big average pixel on it.

37 WhatEVs  Jan 5, 2015 3:57:14pm

re: #31 goddamnedfrank

It’s his MO to rail on all da blax (until he is called on it over and over, then he posts some WHITE GUYS KILL TOO!!11!! bullshit) and the wimmens. I have never seen him go after a white dude (he always doxxes women, black men or someone he thinks is anything but a teabagger).

This dude has some serious issues.

38 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 3:57:15pm

Also, CNN’s new site sucks.

39 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 3:57:39pm
40 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 3:58:48pm

re: #38 Varek Raith

Also, CNN’s new site sucks.

FTFY

41 WhatEVs  Jan 5, 2015 3:59:08pm

re: #38 Varek Raith

Also, CNN’s new site sucks.

I quit going to CNN when they decided that video was virtually the only way to disperse news. I don’t like to watch videos I have to watch. Can I please just read the freaking news?

42 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 3:59:20pm

re: #39 goddamnedfrank

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Lol, who are these clowns?

43 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 3:59:22pm

re: #30 ObserverArt

I was messing around with Chuck C’s tweet image he is currently using and damn, there sure is some pixelization going on.

Conclusion: Charles C. Johnson is a fake!

Embedded Image

The truly horrible thing is that you can still see the bastard in it.

44 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 4:01:14pm

re: #39 goddamnedfrank

Their show of digital imagery expertise sounds startlingly like Sarah Palin on any subject.

45 b.d.  Jan 5, 2015 4:02:36pm

re: #13 #FergusonFireside

Why the fuck is he even concerned with Prince Andrew?

Because his “mentor” Alan Dershowitz is also implicated by the same source and if he can prove that the Prince’s photo is bogus then it vindicates his buddy too. He can hardy say that the prince may be guilty but they totally set up Alan.

46 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 4:03:28pm

re: #37 WhatEVs

It’s his MO to rail on all da blax (until he is called on it over and over, then he posts some WHITE GUYS KILL TOO!!11!! bullshit) and the wimmens. I have never seen him go after a white dude (he always doxxes women, black men or someone he thinks is anything but a teabagger).

This dude has some serious issues.

Speaking of racism, I finally had to confront my denial as concerns the fishfolk yesterday. My dad and I were talking about the NFL and he made a horrible remark about the NFL turning into a sport that’s got all black players and is only watched by black people because it’s all about thugs. So in addition to being wingnuts of the highest degree, my parents are also officially racist. Ugh. My delusions just keep shattering and I don’t like it.

47 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 4:04:25pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

The truly horrible thing is that you can still see the bastard in it.

Yep.

48 WhatEVs  Jan 5, 2015 4:04:54pm

re: #44 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Their show of digital imagery expertise sounds startlingly like Sarah Palin on any subject.

I wish I knew the lingo. I want to write some complete bullshit “proving” the picture is fake. “You can tell by the ringrondels surrounding the aperture that the flugal contrast is running at 14x instead of 7x - PROVING!!11!! that this is a fake!” Just to see how many people RT it.

49 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 4:05:20pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

The truly horrible thing is that you can still see the bastard in it.

It looks like he has his middle finger extended in the “improved” version. Which, given his complete lack of fucks to give as concerns basic human decency, would be entirely appropriate.

50 b.d.  Jan 5, 2015 4:06:30pm

I heard that Chuck C. Johnson pixeled on the 7th floor of Stark Hall.

51 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 5, 2015 4:06:33pm

re: #41 WhatEVs

I quit going to CNN when they decided that video was virtually the only way to disperse news. I don’t like to watch videos I have to watch. Can I please just read the freaking news?

Same here. Having to wait for someone to slowly read the news to me, when I could read it much more quickly myself is annoying.

52 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 4:07:40pm

re: #48 WhatEVs

I wish I knew the lingo. I want to write some complete bullshit “proving” the picture is fake. “You can tell by the ringrondels surrounding the aperture that the flugal contrast is running at 14x instead of 7x - PROVING!!11!! that this is a fake!” Just to see how many people RT it.

Do it. And by the way, I played a flugal contrast during high school in the jazz band :0

53 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 4:07:43pm

re: #51 No Country For Old Haters

Same here. Having to wait for someone to slowly read the news to me, when I could read it much more quickly myself is annoying.

True, but then your news wouldn’t be blow dried.

54 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 4:09:04pm

re: #48 WhatEVs

I wish I knew the lingo.

All you need to know is “middle out.”

Youtube Video

55 WhatEVs  Jan 5, 2015 4:09:24pm

re: #52 Eventual Carrion

Do it. And by the way, I played a flugal contrast during high school in the jazz band :0

That’s too funny! I thought I completely made that word up.

56 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 4:09:28pm

re: #50 b.d.

I heard that Chuck C. Johnson pixeled on the 7th floor of Stark Hall.

Bet he let out a gif right before.

57 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 4:11:01pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

All you need to know is “middle out.”

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Video

I wish that video played in the frame. I love that scene.

58 WhatEVs  Jan 5, 2015 4:12:11pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

All you need to know is “middle out.”

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Video

Bummer…didn’t work.

I was looking for that conference where these people throw together a bunch of really big words together to make scientific papers which are all nothing but bullshit…but sound like they are real.

59 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 4:12:29pm

re: #55 WhatEVs

That’s too funny! I thought I completely made that word up.

Ha. It was really a flugelhorn I played, but the made-up word made me think of it.

60 BlueGrl21  Jan 5, 2015 4:12:33pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

It’s all about the kerning.

61 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 4:13:34pm

re: #46 thedopefishlives

Speaking of racism, I finally had to confront my denial as concerns the fishfolk yesterday. My dad and I were talking about the NFL and he made a horrible remark about the NFL turning into a sport that’s got all black players and is only watched by black people because it’s all about thugs. So in addition to being wingnuts of the highest degree, my parents are also officially racist. Ugh. My delusions just keep shattering and I don’t like it.

I have a brother that is much the same. I do stuff like ask him why the “white master race” no longer can compete in many of the sports they created.

All I get for an answer is a harrumph type of noise, or a “what do you mean” statement.

62 Romantic Heretic  Jan 5, 2015 4:14:08pm

re: #4 nines09

Don’t you just think it’s about time the Democratic Party just got pissed off? I think it’s a bout time. Hit them. Then hit them again. Then really hit them. Then hit them again. Grow a set. Stand for something. Represent who votes for you.

Unfortunately the ideas of ‘liberal’ and balls has grown as far apart as ‘conservative’ and ethics.

63 Ace-o-aces  Jan 5, 2015 4:14:26pm
64 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 4:16:26pm

Man, Youtube really doesn’t want to share one of the greatest dick jokes ever told with other websites.

65 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 4:19:09pm

re: #64 goddamnedfrank

Man, Youtube really doesn’t want to share one of the greatest dick jokes ever told with other websites.

Bastards.

66 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 4:20:55pm

re: #4 nines09

Don’t you just think it’s about time the Democratic Party just got pissed off? I think it’s a bout time. Hit them. Then hit them again. Then really hit them. Then hit them again. Grow a set. Stand for something. Represent who votes for you.

i say old man it’s hardly cricket what? what? here do be a good fellow and get me some more gin i say thenkyaw

67 BlueGrl21  Jan 5, 2015 4:21:36pm

And seriously, the debates on Shop vs. Not Shopped and anything else related to images drives me FUCKING INSANE. Because it’s so very rarely experts who are doing it. It’s morons who used Paint when they were 17 and now think they’re qualified to make factual statements about the legitimacy of an electronic image. I mean, FUCKING INSANE. I will hurt people on my development teams if they even start it. It doesn’t fucking matter. Please go write some tests or clear out the pile of technical debt in the backlog or make something actually work. I don’t care if the shadow on her leg proves she’s actually a guy in drag. Go fix your shit!!!!!

It’s been a long day.

68 Sionainn  Jan 5, 2015 4:23:41pm

re: #30 ObserverArt

I was messing around with Chuck C’s tweet image he is currently using and damn, there sure is some pixelization going on.

Conclusion: Charles C. Johnson is a fake!

[Embedded content]

Looks like something my kid made on Minecraft.

69 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 4:24:05pm

re: #67 BlueGrl21

And seriously, the debates on Shop vs. Not Shopped and anything else related to images drives me FUCKING INSANE. Because it’s so very rarely experts who are doing it. It’s morons who used Paint when they were 17 and now think they’re qualified to make factual statements about the legitimacy of an electronic image. I mean, FUCKING INSANE. I will hurt people on my development teams if they even start it. It doesn’t fucking matter. Please go write some tests or clear out the pile of technical debt in the backlog or make something actually work. I don’t care if the shadow on her leg proves she’s actually a guy in drag. Go fix your shit!!!!!

It’s been a long day.

Engineers seem to be the most prone to succumb to the whole “speculating on things outside their expertise” line of folly. I don’t know why that is; maybe just that our logical brains lock onto a problem and we fancy that we’re smart enough to learn the lingo and be passably expert at the subject matter. But it’s aggravating how many engineers I know who hold some truly idiotic beliefs or spout similarly stupid opinions.

70 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 4:25:47pm

re: #63 Ace-o-aces

I just took a look at that photo with my Scanning Transmission Electron Holography Microscope (Resolution: 35 pictometers) and the atoms in it are all stamped “Frank’s Fake Fotos.”

71 Sionainn  Jan 5, 2015 4:26:31pm

re: #46 thedopefishlives

Speaking of racism, I finally had to confront my denial as concerns the fishfolk yesterday. My dad and I were talking about the NFL and he made a horrible remark about the NFL turning into a sport that’s got all black players and is only watched by black people because it’s all about thugs. So in addition to being wingnuts of the highest degree, my parents are also officially racist. Ugh. My delusions just keep shattering and I don’t like it.

I found out my beloved grandpa was racist when I was about 18. He said something and I was sickened and horrified. I told him that and that I expected never to hear such a thing from him again. He never said another racist word in front of me.

72 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 4:27:05pm

re: #63 Ace-o-aces

Even at the original magnification, you can see that Vyacheslav Molotov has been removed from the image.

73 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 4:27:20pm

re: #70 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I just took a look at that photo with my Scanning Transmission Electron Holography Microscope (Resolution: 35 pictometers) and the atoms in it are all stamped “Frank’s Fake Fotos.”

Fuck man, ya’ caught me.

74 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 4:28:29pm

re: #73 goddamnedfrank

Fuck man, ya’ caught me.

Was hoping you’d catch that.

75 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 4:32:52pm

I just enjoyed a very good dinner. One of the Publix Market recipes, rustic salmon with pasta. Short version, cubed up salmon filet coated with olive oil, rolled in smoked paprika, garlic and onion powder. quickly cooked off in fry pan and reserved. Some sliced mushrooms, greens (kale for me), onion and thyme tossed in the pan for a couple of minutes.

Handful of already cooked pasta (in my case, cheese tortellini) tossed in the pan with a small splash of the pasta cooking water, salmon tossed back in, everything bubbles away happily for a minute or two to finish off the salmon and reduce the sauce down.

That and some crusty garlic bread and I’m a happy camper this evening. First time I’ve fixed that, but it sure won’t be the last time.

RBS

76 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 4:33:16pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

I don’t have any degrees or any o’ that high-falutin’ stuff, but I’ve been working with digital images almost as long as I’ve worked with computers, and when the wingnuts start ranting about “pixel sizes” and “pixelation,” especially in 14-year old highly degraded photos made into JPEGs, all I can do is laugh to keep from crying.

I can show you some really awful pixels taken by my iphone when I should have had a decent DSLR with a wide-angle lens.

The only way to salvage them is to photoshop them with the watercolor filter.

77 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 4:34:09pm

I had a couple of Sony Mavica digital cameras around the time that Prince Andrew photo was taken.
The photo looks like it was taken with a point and shoot disposable camera, the kind some people back in the day carried with them for vacations or family parties and such.
The Mavica took better pictures (but not by much when it came to indoors in artificial light plus the flash). And the Mavicas used floppy disks for storage. If you wanted to take a high resolution photo, it filled the disk.
I’m going to say it was just a casual spur-of-the-moment party picture shot with an inexpensive and easy film camera. The film was developed, pictures were printed, digital scanner used at the newspaper, someone at the paper tried to fix the color and contrast balances.
The photo really isn’t good quality for even a fly-by-night paparazzi, much less a professional photographer.

I still have at least three or four Mavicas collecting dust here.
These wannabe forensic photo idiots don’t have a freaking clue what they are talking about.

78 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 4:34:20pm

christie makes a good nominee for the wingnuts branch for the sole reason that when he wants to he can display the true ugliness of the soul necessary to appeal to that segment

79 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 4:35:05pm

re: #48 WhatEVs

I wish I knew the lingo. I want to write some complete bullshit “proving” the picture is fake. “You can tell by the ringrondels surrounding the aperture that the flugal contrast is running at 14x instead of 7x - PROVING!!11!! that this is a fake!” Just to see how many people RT it.

oh, do it!

80 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 4:35:29pm

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

I remember the Mavica with the floppy disk storage. Is that seriously what they’re suggesting?

81 Skip Intro  Jan 5, 2015 4:36:12pm

You know why the economy got better over the last 6 years.

Well, as Laura Ingraham was telling Fox News the other day,

Republicans have been successful and the economy has been improving with two things: gridlock and opposing Obama. The economy has been getting better!”

It’s just so obvious.

82 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 4:37:12pm

re: #81 Skip Intro

You know why the economy got better over the last 6 years.

Well, as Laura Ingraham was telling Fox News the other day,

It’s just so obvious.

hmmm, the banks were called on their shit?

83 WhatEVs  Jan 5, 2015 4:37:13pm

re: #79 FemNaziBitch

oh, do it!

I can’t bring myself to enter the fray. These people are nuts. I’d feel as nutty as they if I chimed in.

84 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 4:38:03pm

re: #81 Skip Intro

You know why the economy got better over the last 6 years.

Well, as Laura Ingraham was telling Fox News the other day,

It’s just so obvious.

obviously, if we had only had gridlock and opposing obama in 2008 we would never had had the recession

obviously!

86 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 4:41:11pm

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had a couple of Sony Mavica digital cameras around the time that Prince Andrew photo was taken.

That is what I got the hospital I was working at during that timeframe. It was for baby pictures. I wrote a frontend that the nurses could use to grab the pic off the floppy, fill in some child information, and then save it to a database. Every 20 minutes I had a task that read the tables for photos and rebuilt the .html page for the hospitals’ maternity site.

The camera was simple to use and took good baby pictures. Like you said, in nice indoor, controlled light.

87 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 4:42:11pm

re: #80 thedopefishlives

I remember the Mavica with the floppy disk storage. Is that seriously what they’re suggesting?

I have no idea what they are suggesting other than basing all of their “expert” opinions on the basis that the photo is originally a digital format, and believing that digital quality today is exactly the same as 14 years ago.

As I said earlier…they are idiots.

88 WhatEVs  Jan 5, 2015 4:43:13pm

Well kiddies…off I go. Enjoyed the chit chat! Cheers all around.

89 BlueGrl21  Jan 5, 2015 4:43:50pm

re: #69 thedopefishlives

I love engineers. I am an enterprise agile coach and our agile practice leader for all software engineering at a Fortune 50 company. I could not do the job if there was not a ton of love and respect there.

But our engineers asked me a long time ago to just shut them down if they start this. Just tell them to STOP and go do something useful. All of our managers and execs have that same mindset so they ask me to tell them to shut up too.

The worst are when I’m working with our architects and they get into fights over things like the difference between a Customer and an Account or a Location and an Area or Address. I will let it go until it becomes a total masturbatory conversation and then I ask what exactly we’re trying to accomplish here. Um. Accomplish? Yes. And we’ll be prototyping this too.

Again, long day.

90 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 4:45:37pm
91 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 4:47:51pm

re: #89 BlueGrl21

I love engineers. I am an enterprise agile coach and our agile practice leader for all software engineering at a Fortune 50 company. I could not do the job if there was not a ton of love and respect there.

But our engineers asked me a long time ago to just shut them down if they start this. Just tell them to STOP and go do something useful. All of our managers and execs have that same mindset so they ask me to tell them to shut up too.

The worst are when I’m working with our architects and they get into fights over things like the difference between a Customer and an Account or a Location and an Area or Address. I will let it go until it becomes a total masturbatory conversation and then I ask what exactly we’re trying to accomplish here. Um. Accomplish? Yes. And we’ll be prototyping this too.

Again, long day.

agile, eh?

can you tell me what the agile development methodology is like in practice in your shop that makes it different from regular *iterative* development?

(hint: i said ‘iterative’ - i can’t remember the last time anybody made me do development waterfall style)

by ‘agile’, do you mean scrum? if so, does scrum in your shop consist of anything more than daily standups?

92 b.d.  Jan 5, 2015 4:49:08pm

re: #90 RealityBasedSteve

Image: What this war needs is more cowbell

Investigators searched Faal’s home in Texas and found a manilla folder with the words “top secret” handwritten and underlined in black.

npr.org

93 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 4:49:35pm

re: #89 BlueGrl21

I took an Enterprise Agile coach from Midlands to San Antonio. Worst 73 hours of my life.

94 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 4:51:36pm

re: #93 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I took an Enterprise Agile coach from Midlands to San Antonio. Worst 73 hours of my life.

Isn’t that like 300 miles or so?

RBS

95 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 4:53:07pm

WOOT!!!!!

96 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 4:53:25pm

re: #92 b.d.

Investigators searched Faal’s home in Texas and found a manilla folder with the words “top secret” handwritten and underlined in black.

npr.org

I only use hand written stuff in the house for FOUO level stuff. Secret and above get Avery Security Classification Labels printed up. (Template 007)

RBS

97 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 4:55:02pm

re: #91 dog philosopher

agile, eh?

can you tell me what the agile development methodology is like in practice in your shop that makes it different from regular *iterative* development?

(hint: i said ‘iterative’ - i can’t remember the last time anybody made me do development waterfall style)

by ‘agile’, do you mean scrum? if so, does scrum in your shop consist of anything more than daily standups?

My shop has been playing with it. We do sprints, with standups along the way :)

98 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 5, 2015 4:55:21pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

This is horrible news for anyone who travels by plane:

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If you’ve ever used Gogo Inflight Internet, you should change passwords on everything ASAP. They were in yr computer, stealin yr codes.

Oh shit.

99 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 5, 2015 4:55:55pm

re: #78 dog philosopher

christie makes a good nominee for the wingnuts branch for the sole reason that when he wants to he can display the true ugliness of the soul necessary to appeal to that segment

He’s been losing the South Jersey vote the last few weeks by visibly palling around with Jerry Jones and openly being a Dallas Cowboys fan.

100 Bubblehead II  Jan 5, 2015 4:56:41pm

re: #95 FemNaziBitch

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WOOT!!!!!

Great. Just what I need.

101 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 4:58:07pm

re: #94 RealityBasedSteve

Isn’t that like 300 miles or so?

RBS

Yes it is. Like so many other places in Texas “You can’t get there from here.” My real transportation while in Texas was a 1961 Plymouth Valiant 4 door. It was known as The Module. I bought it from another sailor when he goi his orders and I sold it to another sailor when I got my orders. For all I know it’s still running. Hell of a car.

102 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 4:58:19pm

re: #96 RealityBasedSteve

npr.org

I only use hand written stuff in the house for FOUO level stuff. Secret and above get Avery Security Classification Labels printed up. (Template 007)

RBS

Yeah, there was a round bomb with a fuse sticking out the top in the corner of the room. Did I just see a black crow looking creature with a cape on peeking through the window?

103 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 4:58:27pm

re: #95 FemNaziBitch

[Embedded content]

WOOT!!!!!

I understand that they are letting them sell them online this year.

RBS

104 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 4:59:04pm

re: #97 Eventual Carrion

My shop has been playing with it. We do sprints, with standups along the way :)

do you plan out every task for the next two weeks down to the 1 to 4 hour granularity, write them up on yellow stickies, post them on the whiteboard, and then try to hew to this schedule, explaining why every morning at standup if you haven’t completed the tasks assigned for the previous day?

105 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 4:59:52pm

re: #104 dog philosopher

I get the feeling there is some underlying bitterness here.

106 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 5:01:17pm

re: #104 dog philosopher

do you plan out every task for the next two weeks down to the 1 to 4 hour granularity, write them up on yellow stickies, post them on the whiteboard, and then try to hew to this schedule, explaining why every morning at standup if you haven’t completed the tasks assigned for the previous day?

Agile has its problems just like every other developmental methodology, but that’s mostly because of the stupidity of managers and their propensity for buzzwords.

107 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:01:47pm

re: #105 klystron

I get the feeling there is some underlying bitterness here.

correct, but actually it is merely a completely factual description of the operation of agile/scrum in a software shop i worked at once

108 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 5:02:21pm

re: #106 thedopefishlives

Agile has its problems just like every other developmental methodology, but that’s mostly because of the stupidity of managers and their propensity for buzzwords.

And managers who seem to believe it’s all some sort of magic fix, while refusing to understand the underlying concepts to make it effective.

109 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 5:02:22pm

re: #107 dog philosopher

correct, but actually it is merely a completely factual description of the operation of agile/scrum in a software shop i worked at once

oh, I figured that part too. ;)

110 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 5:02:37pm

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

And managers who seem to believe it’s all some sort of magic fix, while refusing to understanding the underlying concepts to make it effective.

Which is exactly where my current project finds itself.

111 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 5, 2015 5:04:12pm
Food Bomb!

And for tonight’s “Thank you Wegman’s” dinner:
- Frozen grilled chicken breast
- White potatoes
- Steamed vegetable mix

Chicken put in roasting pan with potatoes after both were rubbed with a bit of olive oil. Heaps of rosemary, thyme, minced garlic, minced sage, salt, and pepper added. Add 1/2 cup of red wine and cover with foil. About an hour in the oven, uncovered for the last 10 minutes, while the vegetables are steamed.

Served with a caberet franc / lemburger blend from the Finger Lakes.

< 10 minutes prep. 1 hour cooking. Could have worked to brown the potatoes more, but oh well.

112 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 5:04:34pm

re: #104 dog philosopher

do you plan out every task for the next two weeks down to the 1 to 4 hour granularity, write them up on yellow stickies, post them on the whiteboard, and then try to hew to this schedule, explaining why every morning at standup if you haven’t completed the tasks assigned for the previous day?

Sprint is 2 weeks of time, with tasks put on or taken off depending on what happened the last sprint and available resources.

Standups happen every morning. Just a quick hit from all the members of the team (I happen to be on an integration team, but in my own little world from the others). We tell what we accomplished the previous day and what we are tackling that day. If anyone has input that may help your day they will offer, or you can inform someone that you are blocked from a task because of something they need to resolve/code.

113 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:04:53pm

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

And managers who seem to believe it’s all some sort of magic fix, while refusing to understanding the underlying concepts to make it effective.

i was told that its purpose was to fix the rigidity of waterfall

i never work waterfall

114 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:05:41pm
115 lawhawk  Jan 5, 2015 5:06:12pm

re: #38 Varek Raith

Also, CNN’s new site sucks.

In defense, CNN’s old site sucked too.

116 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:06:14pm

re: #112 Eventual Carrion

Sprint is 2 weeks of time, with tasks put on or taken off depending on what happened the last sprint and available resources.

Standups happen every morning. Just a quick hit from all the members of the team (I happen to be on an integration team, but in my own little world from the others). We tell what we accomplished the previous day and what we are tackling that day. If anyone has input that may help your day they will offer, or you can inform someone that you are blocked from a task because of something they need to resolve/code.

no stickies with specific tasks and the hours estimated for a schedule that you are supposed to stick to strictly?

117 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 5:07:22pm

re: #116 dog philosopher

no stickies with specific tasks and the hours estimated for a schedule that you are supposed to stick to strictly?

I think if my husband’s office did this, there would be a massive outbreak of workplace violence.

Some of it might not even be him.

118 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 5:08:32pm

re: #116 dog philosopher

no stickies with specific tasks and the hours estimated for a schedule that you are supposed to stick to strictly?

We use a program called JIRA for that. Log work items against tasks/bugs, story’s as they like to call them.

119 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:09:52pm

re: #118 Eventual Carrion

We use a program called JIRA for that. Log work items against tasks/bugs, story’s as they like to call them.

what happens if you don’t finish the tasks within the by-hour estimates you made at the beginning of the sprint?

120 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 5:11:08pm

re: #118 Eventual Carrion

We use a program called JIRA for that. Log work items against tasks/bugs, story’s as they like to call them.

I use ‘It’ll be done when it’s done’.
/

121 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 5, 2015 5:11:15pm

re: #117 klystron

I think if my husband’s office did this, there would be a massive outbreak of workplace violence.

Some of it might not even be him.

I’ve already had 2-3 loud fights with past managers about how much work time the estimating can start sucking up. Plus asking him how I should be handling my day-to-day support work when the daily fire-fighting starts running past its “estimated” time and eating into project work time.

I’ve yet to have one tell me to tell the end-users to take a leap.

122 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:11:30pm

re: #118 Eventual Carrion

We use a program called JIRA for that. Log work items against tasks/bugs, story’s as they like to call them.

i found myself in the ridiculous position of saying things like, “and then, between 2pm and 5pm on teusday of next week, i will design and code an algorithm to make that calculation”

123 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 5:12:23pm

re: #122 dog philosopher

i found myself in the ridiculous position of saying things like, “and then, between 2pm and 5pm on teusday of next week, i will design and code an algorithm to make that calculation”

Okay, when it gets to that point, that’s taking it way too far.

124 b.d.  Jan 5, 2015 5:12:23pm

re: #96 RealityBasedSteve

npr.org

I only use hand written stuff in the house for FOUO level stuff. Secret and above get Avery Security Classification Labels printed up. (Template 007)

RBS

Keeping all your stuff in a manila envelope marked TOP SECRET is at safer than letting the NSA read it

125 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 5:13:59pm
126 No Country For Old Haters  Jan 5, 2015 5:14:10pm

re: #122 dog philosopher

i found myself in the ridiculous position of saying things like, “and then, between 2pm and 5pm on teusday of next week, i will design and code an algorithm to make that calculation”

I’d go crazy in that kind of environment. I have to estimate completion dates, but that’s about it, and the world doesn’t end if I miss a target. I’m very lucky to have found the job I’m in. When I joined the company I worked for a lunatic, so I thought it was a mistake to work there, but she left, and it’s been awesome ever since.

127 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:15:37pm
128 3eff Jeff  Jan 5, 2015 5:15:42pm

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

And managers who seem to believe it’s all some sort of magic fix, while refusing to understand the underlying concepts to make it effective.

From my adventures with agile development, my take away is that the failure modes are managers thinking it’s a work-around for the “Mythical Man-Month”. It isn’t, Brooks’ observations are still in full effect. You never get to skimp on testing and debug time.

The trick is building test development in on the front-end, having solid coverage, being sticklers about always increasing coverage with each task and having a great test automation system. Then when you iterate small tasks, the debug and testing portion is efficient, because any given engineer is only dealing with a small swath of code and gets fast feedback on regressions.

I currently work in a shop that does daily stand-ups, small iterations, continuous deployment and uses a ticketing system for tracking tasks (sticky notes sound like something a 20th century tie wearer would insist on). It works pretty awesome. The key to it is having good review tools and being sticklers about maintaining the test infrastructure.

129 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:15:52pm

re: #115 lawhawk

In defense, CNN’s old site sucked too.

how is that defense?

130 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 5:16:20pm

re: #122 dog philosopher

i found myself in the ridiculous position of saying things like, “and then, between 2pm and 5pm on teusday of next week, i will design and code an algorithm to make that calculation”

Yeah, that’s why people go postal.
/

131 gwangung  Jan 5, 2015 5:17:47pm

re: #114 FemNaziBitch

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Hanauer has been saying this for quite some time (came from money, gave it a couple orders magnitude push with Amazon). He says that VCs and a lot of the other 1% are pretty much sociopaths (and he doesn’t except himself from that)…..

132 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 5:17:55pm

re: #119 dog philosopher

what happens if you don’t finish the tasks within the by-hour estimates you made at the beginning of the sprint?

It can roll over to the next sprint or be backlogged until resources are available to complete it. There is always a backlog of tasks that are not part of the sprint, but need accomplished at some point.

If someone seems to have some downtime coming in their future they might get a task from backlog that isn’t really need immediately but will be needed eventually. That might be put on their sprint, but something else more important comes up (or they are needed elsewhere) and that task will still be there at the end of the sprint. It will get backlogged again, or left on in case the person has the time during the next sprint.

I was always more of a RAD developer. I am just starting to get sucked into this. I pretty much avoided the ISO900x stuff at my last position, for which I was extremely thankful.

133 3eff Jeff  Jan 5, 2015 5:18:52pm

re: #130 Varek Raith

Yeah, that’s why people go postal.
/

Which is exactly why we just mark down t-shirt sizes for tasks, make sure the blocking order is tracked and then when you resolve a ticket, you mark down how much time it actually took you (in days, and we don’t use a resolution higher than about a tenth of a workday). It gets done when it gets done. And if things are taking longer than expected, calm discussions about time estimation skills happen.

134 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 5:19:35pm

re: #125 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs

LGF’s ObserverArt noticed that if you zoom in and examine the pixels, @ChuckCJohnson’s profile image is clearly faked

Ha! Thanks for tweeting that Charles.

135 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 5:19:38pm

re: #120 Varek Raith

I use ‘It’ll be done when it’s done’.
/

Oh how I miss those days. But new management 2 years ago is trying to change that. They had been leaving me alone, now I am being assimilated.

136 freetoken  Jan 5, 2015 5:20:57pm

re: #95 FemNaziBitch

Doesn’t the selection of the rainbow colors for the text characters prove that the Girl Scouts really are Lesbians-in-training?

137 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 5:21:02pm

re: #122 dog philosopher

i found myself in the ridiculous position of saying things like, “and then, between 2pm and 5pm on teusday of next week, i will design and code an algorithm to make that calculation”

That’s crazy. But I do have friends that are contractors and they take it that far.

138 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 5, 2015 5:21:34pm

MLK Day is coming up, I’m already seeing the swarm of wingnuts claiming HURR HURR MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN & TEH DEMOCRATS WAS ALL TEH KKKS!!!!1!!!!!
Here’s the rebuttal, shove it down their throats.

139 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:21:52pm

re: #135 Eventual Carrion

Oh how I miss those days. But new management 2 years ago is trying to change that. They had been leaving me alone, now I am being assimilated.

if you reward working quickly and attention to finely grained schedules, that’s what you’ll get

my idea is to reward taking the time to deliver quality

140 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 5:22:24pm

re: #137 Eventual Carrion

That’s crazy. But I do have friends that are contractors and they take it that far.

We are nothing more than machines to some.

EXTERMINATE!

141 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:24:15pm

re: #131 gwangung

Hanauer has been saying this for quite some time (came from money, gave it a couple orders magnitude push with Amazon). He says that VCs and a lot of the other 1% are pretty much sociopaths (and he doesn’t except himself from that)…..

yeah, just trying to keep the meme out there.

142 Jenner7  Jan 5, 2015 5:26:32pm
143 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 5:28:44pm

And now I am watching Bruce Campbell play Santa Claus. Television has jumped the shark.

144 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 5, 2015 5:29:54pm

re: #140 Varek Raith

We are nothing more than machines to some.

EXTERMINATE!

When Kindness In The Workplace Is A Winning Strategy

145 gwangung  Jan 5, 2015 5:30:14pm

re: #143 thedopefishlives

And now I am watching Bruce Campbell play Santa Claus. Television has jumped the shark.

SMIIIIIIILLLEEEE when you say that, heathen!

146 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 5, 2015 5:30:52pm

re: #143 thedopefishlives

And now I am watching Bruce Campbell play Santa Claus. Television has jumped the shark.

Is he being chased by zombie or demonic reindeer?

147 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 5:31:10pm

re: #146 Feline Fearless Leader

Is he being chased by zombie or demonic reindeer?

Not yet, but he did just get kidnapped by some evildoers.

148 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 5:34:53pm

Everything stopped.

149 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 5:35:33pm

re: #148 Gus

Everything stopped.

GO.

150 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 5:36:02pm

re: #149 klystron

GO.

Do not pass, do not collect $200.

151 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 5:36:06pm

re: #148 Gus

Everything stopped.

Hammertime.

152 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 5:36:09pm

re: #148 Gus

Everything stopped.

It’s too cold.

153 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 5:36:13pm

re: #149 klystron

GO.

Tried that. Even squinted really hard. No dice.

154 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 5, 2015 5:36:46pm

re: #111 Feline Fearless Leader

[Embedded content]

And for tonight’s “Thank you Wegman’s” dinner:
- Frozen grilled chicken breast
- White potatoes
- Steamed vegetable mix

Chicken put in roasting pan with potatoes after both were rubbed with a bit of olive oil. Heaps of rosemary, thyme, minced garlic, minced sage, salt, and pepper added. Add 1/2 cup of red wine and cover with foil. About an hour in the oven, uncovered for the last 10 minutes, while the vegetables are steamed.

Served with a caberet franc / lemburger blend from the Finger Lakes.

< 10 minutes prep. 1 hour cooking. Could have worked to brown the potatoes more, but oh well.

Let’s see, for my day off? Banquet Frozen Chicken, cheap local beer (Leinenkugel’s) and cheaper whiskey. Whee! :)

155 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:37:05pm

re: #143 thedopefishlives

And now I am watching Bruce Campbell play Santa Claus. Television has jumped the shark.

OMG, the Holiday Season is officially over!!! Why are you watching when you don’t have to?????

156 3eff Jeff  Jan 5, 2015 5:37:37pm

re: #69 thedopefishlives

Engineers seem to be the most prone to succumb to the whole “speculating on things outside their expertise” line of folly. I don’t know why that is; maybe just that our logical brains lock onto a problem and we fancy that we’re smart enough to learn the lingo and be passably expert at the subject matter. But it’s aggravating how many engineers I know who hold some truly idiotic beliefs or spout similarly stupid opinions.

Physics departments always hate getting letters from retired electrical engineers. It’s always the engineers that send in the letters (sometimes manifestos, occasionally thousand page exegesis) espousing some bit of quackery and expecting the physicists to be dumbfounded at their brilliance and hand him a Nobel Prize for his efforts.

(If not clear from the above: I’m an engineer.)

157 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 5:37:49pm

While I was sleeping here in the Middle Kingdom, UpChuck was apparently getting all kinds of advice from his so-called photo experts on that image. Here’s what I think, and I know most of you would agree.

* It’s real. (OK, there’s a tiny chance it’s not, but it would take a mastery of fakery to do it.)
* It was taken with a common P&S digital or film camera.
* If it was a film original, the image was later scanned.
* The shadows around Ms Roberts are caused by the flash.
* The flash shadow would also explain the dark area between her left hand and hip.
* The flash reflection in the window tells me the photographer was an amateur.
* The positioning of the subjects is natural, if photographically not ideal. A more skilled photographer would have shot from a different angle (no reflection in window) and moved the three subjects into the same plane.
* In other words, it was a quick “OMG, take my photo with Andrew! Quick!!” snapshot.
* Some photo editors have ‘shopped the original to remove the reflection and the red eye.
* They also adjusted the white balance and/or gamma channel to correct the original color balance.

Have I got it right?

158 Belafon  Jan 5, 2015 5:40:06pm

re: #153 Gus

Tried that. Even squinted really hard. No dice.

I don’t believe you need dice to play Go.

159 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 5:40:53pm

re: #156 3eff Jeff

Physics departments always hate getting letters from retired electrical engineers. It’s always the engineers that send in the letters (sometimes manifestos, occasionally thousand page exegesis) espousing some bit of quackery and expecting the physicists to be dumbfounded at their brilliance and hand him a Nobel Prize for his efforts.

(If not clear from the above: I’m an engineer.)

Some of the fringy-est “theories” in physics and genetics have come from engineers and medical doctors.

160 Bubblehead II  Jan 5, 2015 5:41:31pm

For those Lizards on the East coast and those of us who get up real early elsewhere. There is going to be a Space X launch in the morning.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for first launch of 2015

This launch has a real cool twist to it though.

X MARKS THE SPOT: FALCON 9 ATTEMPTS OCEAN PLATFORM LANDING

Elon is predicting a 50/50 chance of success. But that they are even attempting to do it is way cool.

161 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 5, 2015 5:42:42pm

Party like a pussy cat.

Smack My Bitch Up Cat Style HD

162 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:43:14pm

re: #156 3eff Jeff

Physics departments always hate getting letters from retired electrical engineers. It’s always the engineers that send in the letters (sometimes manifestos, occasionally thousand page exegesis) espousing some bit of quackery and expecting the physicists to be dumbfounded at their brilliance and hand him a Nobel Prize for his efforts.

(If not clear from the above: I’m an engineer.)

I’ve found that engineers and physicists differ in that physicists must use the right as well as the left side of their brain to function.

Engineers are all left side —if it can’t be proven by math, it can’t be.

Physcists are more like philosophers - or artists in their ability to think creatively.

163 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 5:43:48pm

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s too cold.

Sleuth,

Are you seeing snow down your way? My local weather map makes it seem like you may be seeing the snow. I see the forecasters have backed off from the earlier 3-5” to a lower 1-3” overnight accumulation for Columbus.

164 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:44:48pm

It’s freakin’ cold where I am.

OFFICIALLY

165 BlueGrl21  Jan 5, 2015 5:45:03pm

Hehe, I opened a can of worms. :)

First, “agile” is just a set of tools and techniques. Which ones you use depends on your team and your environment, and you CANNOT get stuck in non value-add BS. Your organization has to be willing to allow a team to change things that don’t work.

My infrastructure teams, data warehousing teams, integration frameworks teams, data management/MDM, and the core architecture teams do best with Scrumban or pure Kanban.

My business applications teams do best with “lightweight” Scrum. There is some waste in core Scrum we don’t do.

My back-end financial
systems do best with “agile RUP,” which for me is traditional iterative development. This is because financial/accounting rules do not change often and they are in a very controlled environment. Scope is not flexible.

And my mobile and web tech teams are what most people think of as traditional agile. That’s where you have to be able to turn on a dime in that world, as Charles knows well.

We have some hard and fast practices everyone has to follow:

1. We have the same monthly release window for everyone. That’s so the business can consume the rate of change. This rule does not apply to WebTech.

2. Every team has development, QA, and any other roles embedded. Cross-functional.

3. QA has to be comfortable before a user plays with it so we don’t make asses out of ourselves.

4. We deploy to Production after the business accepts it, no exceptions.

5. We build backlogs. We have to be able to know how much work we’re looking at and how to organize it.

6. If developers and/or QA can’t write a test case we don’t understand it enough to start building it.

7. Tasking. We do large ones…design, Dev, QA. That maps to Kanban if my teams decide to switch anything. But, if we’ve got a story with more than a week of time planned we need to break down the STORY, not add more tasks.

8. We demo and we prototype to show progress. Paper doesn’t count.

9. PMs don’t tell us how to work. That was huge. We will show them at any time where we are in finishing stories but we will not do 500 line project plans.

10. If teams time box, they have to be 4 weeks or less.

11. We always look to automate wherever it makes sense.

12. No compromising on quality. We will not deliver crap, we will think, we will not be idiots.

13. We respect introverts and extroverts and organize for both.

14. We have fun. A lot of it.

15. Daily standups. 15 mins or less. Discuss impediments or needs only. No status report, no design, just let the team know what you need.

That’s it. It’s rare we don’t deliver very well. But it takes discipline and a full-time lead like me so teams can work different ways and we can still hold all of the teams together on massive projects. It works, but we’ve been doing this for 8 years and I have been since 1997.

And I’d NEVER be in a car that long with someone I didn’t know very well and I would be very quiet and respectful of the other person. I read mostly. Introvert.

166 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 5, 2015 5:45:09pm

re: #114 FemNaziBitch

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This is what the Koch’s want. Only instead of infeudating to the local warlord (now called baron, count, or whatever) we will be infuedated to the corporate CEO who buys us out of our “education”. After all, being a serf was simply having an exclusive employment contract with the local noble…

167 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 5:45:32pm

re: #164 FemNaziBitch

It’s freakin’ cold where I am.

OFFICIALLY

Try again.

168 ObserverArt  Jan 5, 2015 5:45:55pm

re: #156 3eff Jeff

Physics departments always hate getting letters from retired electrical engineers. It’s always the engineers that send in the letters (sometimes manifestos, occasionally thousand page exegesis) espousing some bit of quackery and expecting the physicists to be dumbfounded at their brilliance and hand him a Nobel Prize for his efforts.

(If not clear from the above: I’m an engineer.)

Damn. That’s sounds as bad as guys that grew up building model rockets and then thinking they are great journalists.

169 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:46:31pm

re: #167 thedopefishlives

Try again.

We have wind.

170 3eff Jeff  Jan 5, 2015 5:46:39pm

re: #159 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

It’s not unheard of. But…

Pathological Physics: Tales from “The Box”

(Talk starts at around 00:01:50 if you want to fast forward.)

171 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:47:07pm

re: #166 William Barnett-Lewis

This is what the Koch’s want. Only instead of infeudating to the local warlord (now called baron, count, or whatever) we will be infuedated to the corporate CEO who buys us out of our “education”. After all, being a serf was simply having an exclusive employment contract with the local noble…

hmmm, I got the impression he wasn’t into government doing such. Maybe I missed it.

172 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 5:47:24pm

It’s cold.
It’s going to snow.
Sigh.

173 GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 5, 2015 5:47:24pm
174 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 5:47:48pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

Sleuth,

Are you seeing snow down your way? My local weather map makes it seem like you may be seeing the snow. I see the forecasters have backed off from the earlier 3-5” to a lower 1-3” overnight accumulation for Columbus.

Not yet, but the radar looks like the snow should be here any minute. We’re only supposed to get about an inch, but it looks like the storm isn’t tracking the way it was predicted.

175 FemNaziBitch  Jan 5, 2015 5:49:32pm

I’m off.

bbl

176 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 5:50:12pm

re: #169 FemNaziBitch

We have wind.

And we have snow.

Though, to be fair, I think I’ll keep the snow and say screw the wind.

177 Bubblehead II  Jan 5, 2015 5:50:14pm

re: #164 FemNaziBitch

It’s freakin’ cold where I am.

OFFICIALLY

re: #167 thedopefishlives

Try again.

We had that shit last week and you are more than welcome to it. :-) I can live with this just fine.

178 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:50:18pm

re: #162 FemNaziBitch

Engineers are all left side —if it can’t be proven by math, it can’t be

um i disagree with that - software engineers, at least, by and large don’t do much math, and there is a large creativity aspect

(game programmers - now, they use a lot of serious math)

having said that, i do indeed meet a number of perfectly good software engineers who are stupid wingnuts when it comes to politics

179 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:53:30pm

re: #165 BlueGrl21

overall, i like it, and i wish the shop i was working in wasn’t so focused on the hour by hour

however

Daily standups. 15 mins or less.

is this really true in practice? in this shop i was talking about, they would swear over and over that standup should be 15 mins, but it was never less than 40 and often an hour or more

this would be made clear to us since the meeting rooms were scheduled by the hour and we were often thrown out by the next team

180 Bubblehead II  Jan 5, 2015 5:53:48pm

Night Lizards. See you in the morning.

181 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 5, 2015 5:53:53pm

re: #173 GlutenFreeJesus

Embedded Image

Meh. Tomorrow’s high will hopefully be 1 degree above. Currently it’s -4/-22, dropping and my furnace doesn’t seem to stop running for long…

182 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 5:54:03pm

re: #165 BlueGrl21

but let me ask you this:

why is it needed?

183 3eff Jeff  Jan 5, 2015 5:56:20pm

re: #179 dog philosopher

Your stand ups are too big, or someone(s) like to talk too much. 15 minutes are a long standup, and when I’ve had them go for ~20 min regularly, the team got broken down a bit further.

184 lawhawk  Jan 5, 2015 5:56:21pm

re: #143 thedopefishlives

And now I am watching Bruce Campbell play Santa Claus. Television has jumped the shark.

The Librarians?! Yeah, guilty pleasure right there. Much better than it has any right to be.

185 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 5:57:10pm

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #176 thedopefishlives
re: #169 FemNaziBitch

It was 85°F here today.

186 Belafon  Jan 5, 2015 5:57:41pm

re: #91 dog philosopher

(hint: i said ‘iterative’ - i can’t remember the last time anybody made me do development waterfall style)

Go work for a defense contractor, because, even though CMMI Level 5 shouldn’t imply waterfall, it’s sort of like winner-take-all Democracy leading to a two party system. I’m kind of torn. I’ve decided to get heavily into compiler and interpreter design, but I would like to be fluent in the techniques before I find a new job, but waterfall and the other annoying things my company does are driving me nuts.

My purpose for the compiler-interpreter stuff is for design and development patterns, though I will probably try to write my own language at least once.

187 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 5:57:44pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

Sleuth,

Are you seeing snow down your way? My local weather map makes it seem like you may be seeing the snow. I see the forecasters have backed off from the earlier 3-5” to a lower 1-3” overnight accumulation for Columbus.

I’m seeing we might not get much snow at all here in PA once it reaches us. Upper single digit temps, but no snow. So we have that going for us.

188 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 5:59:20pm

My Twitter timeline stopped over an hour ago.

189 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:00:01pm

re: #185 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It was 85°F here today.

GET HIM!

190 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 6:00:05pm

re: #188 Gus

My Twitter timeline stopped over an hour ago.

So did mine.

191 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 6:00:30pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think Twitter is having issues.

I just tweeted, so if you follow me that can be a checkpoint to see if it is working again.

192 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:01:02pm
193 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:01:30pm

re: #192 Gus

[Embedded content]

Flip it!

194 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 6:01:38pm

re: #192 Gus

Well, if they can’t see their tweets just like the rest of us…

195 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:02:11pm

re: #194 klystron

Well, if they can’t see their tweets just like the rest of us…

Mentions are working on my end.

196 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 6:02:45pm

re: #195 Gus

Mentions are working on my end.

Hardly anyone mentions me, so I can’t check. :(

/not really sad. I prefer my twitter existence dramafree.

197 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:03:27pm

...

198 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:03:56pm

re: #193 Varek Raith

Flip it!

When a problem comes along,
You must flip it…

199 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:04:03pm

Yup, Twitter’s going through another mid-life crisis.

200 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:04:34pm

re: #196 klystron

Hardly anyone mentions me, so I can’t check. :(

/not really sad. I prefer my twitter existence dramafree.

Yep, same here.
Then I dissed gamersgate fools.
Oh my.

201 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:04:46pm

re: #169 FemNaziBitch

We have wind.

Try Beano

202 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 6:04:52pm

re: #199 Charles Johnson

Yup, Twitter’s going through another mid-life crisis.

That mean it’s gonna buy a Ferrari and start trying to pick up women half its age?

203 lawhawk  Jan 5, 2015 6:04:53pm

Well, nearly an hour my twitter feed is quiet. A beautiful thing. Ah, the sound of silence.

Doubt it will last.

204 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:05:01pm

I’m assuming he zoomed way in and analyzed the pixels, because that’s how right wing forensic science works.

205 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 6:05:29pm

re: #179 dog philosopher

overall, i like it, and i wish the shop i was working in wasn’t so focused on the hour by hour

however

is this really true in practice? in this shop i was talking about, they would swear over and over that standup should be 15 mins, but it was never less than 40 and often an hour or more

this would be made clear to us since the meeting rooms were scheduled by the hour and we were often thrown out by the next team

We usually get through ours in 15 minutes or so. If someone starts going on, “take it offline” as they say. (Buzzwords board square covered).

206 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 6:05:33pm

re: #200 Varek Raith

Yep, same here.
Then I dissed gamersgate fools.
Oh my.

There’s a reason there are topics I absolutely will not engage in whatsoever on Twitter.

207 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:05:49pm

TweetDeck is still sorta working.

208 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:06:18pm

re: #200 Varek Raith

Yep, same here.
Then I dissed gamersgate fools.
Oh my.

Gamergate people are basically wingnuts. Might even be crazier. Not sure yet.

209 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 6:06:41pm

Why does he put that stupid stamp on photos everyone knows he doesn’t own?

210 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 6:06:42pm

re: #184 lawhawk

The Librarians?! Yeah, guilty pleasure right there. Much better than it has any right to be.

Mrs. Fish mentioned that it would probably be canceled. I think it’s possible, but I am going to enjoy the hell out of it until that happens.

211 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:08:30pm

re: #208 Gus

Gamergate people are basically wingnuts. Might even be crazier. Not sure yet.

I felt like I had blocked half the planet when I was done.
Crazy indeed.

212 lawhawk  Jan 5, 2015 6:08:34pm

re: #199 Charles Johnson

Yup, Twitter’s going through another mid-life crisis.

Just what we expect from a company with a $22.2 billion valuation that doesn’t take abuse cases seriously, has frequent blackouts, and lets trolls run the asylum.

213 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:08:40pm

re: #209 jaunte

Why does he put that stupid stamp on photos everyone knows he doesn’t own?

He can’t figure out how to configure the Wordpress plugin that automates it.

214 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:09:31pm

re: #209 jaunte

Why does he put that stupid stamp on photos everyone knows he doesn’t own?

So…
He altered a jpeg with his logo then passed it on for ‘analysis’?
Lololol.
Lossy ftw!

215 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 6:09:46pm

re: #214 Varek Raith

So…
He altered a jpeg with his logo then passed it on for ‘analysis’?
Lololol.
Lossy ftw!

Image processing, how does it work?!

216 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 5, 2015 6:09:58pm

re: #203 lawhawk

Well, nearly an hour my twitter feed is quiet. A beautiful thing. Ah, the sound of silence.

Doubt it will last.

Hello darkness, my old friend?

217 lawhawk  Jan 5, 2015 6:10:46pm

re: #210 thedopefishlives

Same here. Binge watched it while I was sick, and it was so worth it.

John Larroquette is awesome. And Mystique isn’t half bad either.

218 Eventual Carrion  Jan 5, 2015 6:10:46pm

re: #216 William Barnett-Lewis

Hello darkness, my old friend?

Old friends.

219 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:11:41pm

Javascript/ECMAScript tip: when you dynamically insert an image into an HTML page, and then need to adjust other things based on the width and height of the newly inserted image, your code will fail because the width and/or height of the image hasn’t been set yet when you check. That’s because images require a separate HTTP request to the server, that takes a variable amount of time. Sometimes it’s not finished loading when you check the width and height.

So here’s some jQuery-based code that completely solves the problem:

var images = $('img'),
	img;
if (images.length) {
	images.each(function() {
		img = new Image();
		img.onload = function() {
			/* do what you need to do when the image is loaded */
		}
		img.src = $(this).attr('src');
	});
}
220 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 6:12:10pm

re: #217 lawhawk

Same here. Binge watched it while I was sick, and it was so worth it.

John Larroquette is awesome. And Mystique isn’t half bad either.

To be honest, not a big fan of hers. The girl that plays the redhead, though, I think her character has definite potential and she plays it well.

221 gwangung  Jan 5, 2015 6:12:58pm

re: #184 lawhawk

The Librarians?! Yeah, guilty pleasure right there. Much better than it has any right to be.

Not when John Rogers is the show runner…

222 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:14:43pm

re: #211 Varek Raith

I felt like I had blocked half the planet when I was done.
Crazy indeed.

Did you use the hashtag?

223 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:14:44pm

We found out today my wife’s 12yo cat has heart murmurs and stage 2 kidney disease.

Sigh.

224 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 6:15:02pm

re: #223 b_sharp

We found out today my wife’s 12yo cat has heart murmurs and stage 2 kidney disease.

Sigh.

{{{b_sharp}}}

And a hug for your wife, too.

I am sorry to hear that.

225 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 6:15:28pm

re: #223 b_sharp

We found out today my wife’s 12yo cat has heart murmurs and stage 2 kidney disease.

Sigh.

dammm

226 gwangung  Jan 5, 2015 6:15:42pm

re: #217 lawhawk

Same here. Binge watched it while I was sick, and it was so worth it.

John Larroquette is awesome. And Mystique isn’t half bad either.

Still don’t buy her as a military badass…but she has a surprisingly good sense of timing (and has that harried babysitter feeling down pat….)

227 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:15:54pm

...

228 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:16:07pm

re: #222 Gus

Did you use the hashtag?


..
.
Blast it all.
/twitter noob

229 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:16:45pm

re: #223 b_sharp

We found out today my wife’s 12yo cat has heart murmurs and stage 2 kidney disease.

Sigh.

{{{{b_sharp}}}} {{{{V}}}}

230 gwangung  Jan 5, 2015 6:17:14pm

re: #220 thedopefishlives

To be honest, not a big fan of hers. The girl that plays the redhead, though, I think her character has definite potential and she plays it well.

Yeah, she’s REALLLY good (and a good chance her character bats for the other side….)

231 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 6:17:45pm

re: #223 b_sharp

Both of you in our thoughts here.

232 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 5, 2015 6:17:47pm
California Aqueduct at Sunset

Gotta love late light. Full size

233 TedStriker  Jan 5, 2015 6:18:01pm

re: #209 jaunte

Why does he put that stupid stamp on photos everyone knows he doesn’t own?

For much the same reasons dogs mark their territory.

234 lawhawk  Jan 5, 2015 6:18:08pm

re: #220 thedopefishlives

Well yeah, Lindy Booth is pretty cool too. There’s lots of room to work with her character.

235 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:18:16pm

Twitter embeds are failing. They’re having some serious issues. Interesting that TweetDeck is still kinda working, although it does seem a lot less active with the web version down.

236 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:18:57pm

” Twitter Support ‏@Support
40 minutes ago
San Francisco, CA

Some users are currently experiencing problems posting Tweets. Engineers are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution.”

237 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 6:19:24pm

re: #204 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

I’m assuming he zoomed way in and analyzed the pixels, because that’s how right wing forensic science works.

Because the name @FlippingOffCats is a watchword in forensics.

238 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:20:08pm

...

239 b.d.  Jan 5, 2015 6:20:18pm

re: #204 Charles Johnson

Embedded Image

I’m assuming he zoomed way in and analyzed the pixels, because that’s how right wing forensic science works.

And Chuck credited the wrong guy. The guy who did that “work” doesn’t have an s on the end of his twitter handle.

Way to go award winning journalist.

240 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:20:20pm

Still waiting for the third hammer to fall.

241 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:20:26pm

Embedded tweets are still FUBAR.

242 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 6:20:51pm
243 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 6:21:30pm

re: #234 lawhawk

Well yeah, Lindy Booth is pretty cool too. There’s lots of room to work with her character.

And of course, the cameo appearances by the ACTUAL Librarian crack me up to no end. I’ve always loved his character.

244 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 6:21:31pm

re: #232 Rightwingconspirator

Link is broken.

245 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:22:37pm

re: #240 b_sharp

Still waiting for the third hammer to fall.

You’re pregnant.

246 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 5, 2015 6:23:00pm

re: #244 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Thanks, fixed I think.

247 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:23:40pm

re: #245 Varek Raith

You’re pregnant.

That could be a problem at my age. I better check into having an abortion.

248 b.d.  Jan 5, 2015 6:24:33pm

Chuck C’s expert pixel whisperer has a grand total of 1 Twitter follower

@FlippingOffCat

249 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:24:47pm

When I quote a comment I lose my centring.

250 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 6:24:54pm

re: #247 b_sharp

That could be a problem at my age. I better check into having an abortion.

Or buy a dingo.

251 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 6:25:11pm

Well the half chicken for tomorrows dinner is prepared. Made a paste of olive oil, smoked paprika, garlic and onion powder, some finely ground oregano and thyme. Salted it, rubbed the goo all over it, and now it’s in the fridge till tomorrow, then into a 500* oven it goes.

Got a call today to go down to nashville, help some friends set up a display at the Nashville Boat Show. Don’t have anything else to do, so tomorrow, can me Manual, as in Manual Labour.

Not working is weird, I’m already bored, and I’ve just started my Sabbatical.

RBS

252 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 5, 2015 6:25:30pm

re: #236 Gus

” Twitter Support ‏@Support
40 minutes ago
San Francisco, CA

Some users are currently experiencing problems posting Tweets. Engineers are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution.”

And the engineers have picked out a real nice and wacky conspiracy theory to explain the issue as well.
///

253 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 6:25:40pm

re: #249 b_sharp

When I quote a comment I lose my centring.

Close your eyes… Take a deep breath… Focus. FInd your center.

254 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:26:03pm

re: #252 Feline Fearless Leader

And the engineers have picked out a real nice and wacky conspiracy theory to explain the issue as well.
///

Electrogravitic waves.

255 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:26:26pm

re: #250 Gus

Or buy a dingo.

Poor thing would freeze up here.

256 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 6:27:18pm

re: #240 b_sharp

Still waiting for the third hammer to fall.

Queen - Hammer To Fall (Lyrics)

257 lawhawk  Jan 5, 2015 6:27:47pm

re: #243 thedopefishlives

Yup. They’ve got some interesting writers and directors too including Jonathan Frakes (Riker from ST:TNG, who’s done a bunch of directing of sci-fi) and Dean Devlin (Independence Day, among other sci-fi).

But love the cameos they have, including Rene Auberjonois, Tricia Helfer, Jane Curtin, Bob Newhart, and Matt Frewer.

258 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 6:29:58pm

The fact that the photo dimensions are square, exactly square, supports the notion that the flash was placed on a left hand bracket mount. That’s really common in cameras that can shoot that way, because most of them are medium format, modular, and designed to work with a waist level (look down) view finder. You can put a 90 degree prism on them to hold them at eye level, but the older ones generally never had a flash mount on them. If you did want to use a flash it got mounted to one side, usually on camera left. Like so:

Now maybe the photo was cropped from a larger rectangular image, but so far I haven’t seen it. So the question becomes does Epstein seem like the kind of douchebag who would keep a Hassleblad around to try and impress people, take shitty photos with it? Seems plausible enough.

259 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 6:31:43pm

All the people inviting Duke to their shows are helping him and should be ashamed.

260 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 6:33:03pm

re: #246 Rightwingconspirator

It is fixed. Thank you. Great photos as usual.

261 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:33:33pm

Why has nobody bought me an octocopter yet?

With camera.

262 thedopefishlives  Jan 5, 2015 6:35:17pm

re: #261 b_sharp

Why has nobody bought me an octocopter yet?

With camera.

Sorry. Spent all my money selling my soul to the iGods.

That doesn’t seem to make sense - if I sell something, shouldn’t I be receiving value for it?

263 Charles Johnson  Jan 5, 2015 6:36:15pm

A former friend of Chucky.

264 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 6:38:38pm

re: #261 b_sharp

Why has nobody bought me an octocopter yet?

With camera.

What would you do with a flying octopus?

RBS

265 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 6:39:02pm

re: #263 Charles Johnson

I see a little silhouetto of a man…

266 lawhawk  Jan 5, 2015 6:40:34pm

re: #265 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I see a little silhouetto of a man…

Scaramouche! But will you do the fandango!

267 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality  Jan 5, 2015 6:40:58pm

re: #258 goddamnedfrank

The fact that the photo dimensions are square, exactly square, supports the notion that the flash was placed on a left hand bracket mount. That’s really common in cameras that can shoot that way, because most of them are medium format, modular, and designed to work with a waist level (look down) view finder. You can put a 90 degree prism on them to hold them at eye level, but the older ones generally never had a flash mount on them. If you did want to use a flash it got mounted to one side, usually on camera left. Like so:

[Embedded content]

Now maybe the photo was cropped from a larger rectangular image, but so far I haven’t seen it. So the question becomes does Epstein seem like the kind of douchebag who would keep a Hassleblad around to try and impress people, take shitty photos with it? Seems plausible enough.

Well, whoever took the photo is a crappy photographer, no matter what equipment they used.

268 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:41:43pm

re: #264 RealityBasedSteve

What would you do with a flying octopus?

RBS

Challenge Cthulhu

269 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 6:42:15pm

The weather radar lies.
It shows that it’s snowing here but there is nothing.
nothing!!!

270 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 6:42:36pm

re: #265 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I see a little silhouetto of a man…

Let’s cut right to the chase…

Brian May - Bohemian Rhapsody Solo (Live in Budapest)

Not a bad guitar player for an astrophysicist.

RBS

271 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:42:46pm

re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth

The weather radar lies.
It shows that it’s snowing here but there is nothing.
nothing!!!

Probably not making it to the ground.

272 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 6:43:28pm

re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth

The weather radar lies.
It shows that it’s snowing here but there is nothing.
nothing!!!

Are you disappointed?

273 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 6:43:28pm

re: #271 Varek Raith

Probably not making it to the ground.

That sneaky virga…

274 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 6:43:50pm

re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth

That sneaky virga…

I misread this as “viagra.”

What goes up…

275 Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 5, 2015 6:44:22pm

re: #270 RealityBasedSteve

Let’s cut right to the chase…

[Embedded content]

Not a bad guitar player for an astrophysicist.

RBS

I’m sure Upchuck will reveal that he wasn’t that close to NdT shortly in a breaking exclusive with double secret pixelated watermarks.
//

276 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 5, 2015 6:44:47pm

re: #272 klystron

Are you disappointed?

Not really. Snow would cover the ice patches in the road to the barn so I can’t see them.
I’m getting too old to be falling down anymore.

277 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:49:21pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not really. Snow would cover the ice patches in the road to the barn so I can’t see them.
I’m getting to old to be falling down anymore.

I used to bounce right up when I fell. Now I just lay there and take the opportunity to sleep.

278 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:50:25pm

re: #274 klystron

I misread this as “viagra.”

What goes up…

At least you didn’t see it as vagina.

279 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 5, 2015 6:51:06pm

re: #253 thedopefishlives

Close your eyes… Take a deep breath… Focus. FInd your center.

Somebody tried to get me to meditate once. I’m calm on the outside but solid fury inside. Didn’t have the desired effect!

280 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 6:51:44pm

re: #277 b_sharp

I used to bounce right up when I fell. Now I just lay there and take the opportunity to sleep.

That is because it’s a little known fact that the earth has gotten colder and harder over the last 30+ years. I know this because I used to be able to toss a poncho liner down on the ground, roll up in it, and get a good nights sleep and be fine in the morning. Now I need a tent, an air mattress and a good sleeping bag. Proof that the earth has changed.

RBS

281 Varek Raith  Jan 5, 2015 6:52:03pm

re: #274 klystron

I misread this as “viagra.”

What goes up…

Shouldn’t stay up for 4 or more hours.

282 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jan 5, 2015 6:52:41pm

re: #270 RealityBasedSteve

Let’s cut right to the chase…

[Embedded content]

Video

Not a bad guitar player for an astrophysicist.

RBS

I think that guitar’s homemade too.

283 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 6:55:21pm

So you invite Duke to your show. You think you’re so clever, you will mock the shit out of him, nobody takes him seriously anyway and it’s your chance to look all anti-racist and righteous. 10,000,000 people watch him on your show. Let’s assume that he doesn’t convince 99.9% of them. But he does convince 0.1%. Do the math and see that Duke is the winner.

284 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:55:24pm

re: #279 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Somebody tried to get me to meditate once. I’m calm on the outside but solid fury inside. Didn’t have the desired effect!

I did find both meditation and relaxation therapy useful to control my anger.

Not perfect, but useful.

285 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 6:55:28pm

re: #258 goddamnedfrank

Ah, Hassleblad. Before I die I want one of these:

Even a non-working one just because it’s a beautiful machine.

286 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:56:03pm

re: #280 RealityBasedSteve

That is because it’s a little known fact that the earth has gotten colder and harder over the last 30+ years. I know this because I used to be able to toss a poncho liner down on the ground, roll up in it, and get a good nights sleep and be fine in the morning. Now I need a tent, an air mattress and a good sleeping bag. Proof that the earth has changed.

RBS

I’ve heard this type of logic before.

287 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 6:57:28pm

re: #280 RealityBasedSteve

That is because it’s a little known fact that the earth has gotten colder and harder over the last 30+ years. I know this because I used to be able to toss a poncho liner down on the ground, roll up in it, and get a good nights sleep and be fine in the morning. Now I need a tent, an air mattress and a good sleeping bag. Proof that the earth has changed.

RBS

I just said fuck it and convinced the husband to get a teardrop.

Nice and snug with the furnace in our mid-30s overnight this weekend.

288 b_sharp  Jan 5, 2015 6:57:34pm

re: #283 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

So you invite Duke to your show. You think you’re so clever, you will mock the shit out of him, nobody takes him seriously anyway and it’s your chance to look all anti-racist and righteous. 10,000,000 people watch him on your show. Let’s assume that he doesn’t convince 99.9% of them. But he does convince 0.1%. Do the math and see that Duke is the winner.

How about the 0.1% who suddenly realized Duke is a fool?

289 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:00:46pm

re: #288 b_sharp

How about the 0.1% who suddenly realized Duke is a fool?

They play no role since they weren’t his followers anyway.

290 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 7:02:12pm
291 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 7:03:44pm

re: #289 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

They play no role since they weren’t his followers anyway.

New fans!

292 RealityBasedSteve  Jan 5, 2015 7:03:58pm

re: #287 klystron

I just said fuck it and convinced the husband to get a teardrop.

Nice and snug with the furnace in our mid-30s overnight this weekend.

I was building a wooden teardrop before a set of events outside my control made me sell it off 2/3rds complete to somebody who would be able to finish it. I do like them.

RBS

293 bratwurst  Jan 5, 2015 7:04:21pm

Nice that Billo is “fair and balanced” enough to hear David Duke out. /

294 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:05:06pm

re: #291 Gus

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New fans!

Yes, without jokes.

295 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 7:05:47pm

re: #292 RealityBasedSteve

I was building a wooden teardrop before a set of events outside my control made me sell it off 2/3rds complete to somebody who would be able to finish it. I do like them.

RBS

The skills to build one would take me a long time to master.

We just talked to these lovely people instead.

296 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 7:06:03pm

re: #285 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Ah, Hassleblad. Before I die I want one of these:

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Even a non-working one just because it’s a beautiful machine.

I have a Horseman 4x5. I’d love it if Linhof made a digital Technika but that ain’t going to happen anytime soon. The only full frame digital backs I’ve used for 4x5 are the Betterlight scanning backs, and they don’t work too well for live subjects or even a lot of landscapes. Gotta make sure nothing is moving during the exposure.

297 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 7:06:35pm

re: #294 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

Yes, without jokes.

Wingnuts who never heard of him will think “well he don’t seem that bad.”

298 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:08:02pm

re: #297 Gus

Wingnuts who never heard of him will think “well he don’t seem that bad.”

That’s how it works. There is no bad publicity for the likes of Duke. There’s nowhere to go but up.

299 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 5, 2015 7:08:11pm

re: #258 goddamnedfrank

The fact that the photo dimensions are square, exactly square, supports the notion that the flash was placed on a left hand bracket mount. That’s really common in cameras that can shoot that way, because most of them are medium format, modular, and designed to work with a waist level (look down) view finder. You can put a 90 degree prism on them to hold them at eye level, but the older ones generally never had a flash mount on them. If you did want to use a flash it got mounted to one side, usually on camera left. Like so:

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Now maybe the photo was cropped from a larger rectangular image, but so far I haven’t seen it. So the question becomes does Epstein seem like the kind of douchebag who would keep a Hassleblad around to try and impress people, take shitty photos with it? Seems plausible enough.

Well, I did use a Canon T90 for awhile with a similar flash rig so that _could_ get that rectangle but I think you’ve got the point with the hassy.

300 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 5, 2015 7:08:23pm

re: #293 bratwurst

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Nice that Billo is “fair and balanced” enough to hear David Duke out. /

Has David Duke had botox or facelift?

301 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:08:59pm

He was a state rep. Hundreds of thousands voted for him. He knows how to play the conservative crowd.

302 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:10:05pm

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

Has David Duke had botox or facelift?

When he gave a talk in Moscow in the beginning of the 2000s some Nazis were complaining that he looked like someone from a Jehovah’s Witnesses brochure.

303 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 5, 2015 7:10:50pm

re: #285 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Ah, Hassleblad. Before I die I want one of these:

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Even a non-working one just because it’s a beautiful machine.

They’re sweet. When you get one, make sure it has the classic 127/4.7 Ektar. There are other good lenses for it (my 135/3.5 Tessar is exquisite) but to get the old newsie look you want the wider 127mm lens.

304 dog philosopher  Jan 5, 2015 7:11:45pm

re: #302 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

When he gave a talk in Moscow in the beginning of the 2000s some Nazis were complaining that he looked like someone from a Jehovah’s Witnesses brochure.

currently it seems he sports a white beard and ends up looking like an elderly teenaged elf

305 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:12:22pm

re: #304 dog philosopher

currently it seems he sports a white beard and ends up looking like an elderly teenaged elf

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He’s a washed up Nazi Ken.

306 The Vicious Babushka  Jan 5, 2015 7:13:16pm

re: #304 dog philosopher

currently it seems he sports a white beard and ends up looking like an elderly teenaged elf

Embedded Image

He has the same nose as Michael Jackson. Think they have the same surgeon?

307 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 7:14:40pm

re: #293 bratwurst

Funny watching O’Reilly pretending to push back against Duke’s ideology.

308 Lancelot Link  Jan 5, 2015 7:16:22pm

re: #300 The Vicious Babushka

Duke apparently had plastic surgery back in the ’80s

309 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 7:18:06pm

re: #299 William Barnett-Lewis

Well, I did use a Canon T90 for awhile with a similar flash rig so that _could_ get that rectangle but I think you’ve got the point with the hassy.

Or it was a scanned Polaroid. I mean, a dude who was reportedly into fucking underaged girls might well be advised to use an instant camera.

Or it was cropped. It’s a bullshit jpeg, this shit is fucking tea leaves. The idea that it can be “proven” either way it ridiculous without more evidence. But there are no obvious red flags. If someone can find identical captures of any of those people in different images through TinEye or something I might reconsider, otherwise the burden of proof is on those trying to make conclusive statements about authenticity.

310 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 7:22:29pm
311 Gus  Jan 5, 2015 7:23:39pm
312 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:23:49pm

So I watched the O’Reilly-Duke clip. Relative to the goals Duke wanted to achieve, he was a clear winner. Lots of TP folks were nodding in agreement sitting before their TVs. I expect Duke’s group to grow quite a bit. “Thanks”, O’Reilly.

313 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:26:19pm

re: #310 jaunte

OK, this criticism was passable in the first hours of the controversy when it was repeated by lots of folks, but it’s been long since clear that he didn’t deny knowing who Duke was. His story about not knowing what EURO was is problematic enough, we don’t need to use this strawman argument against him.

314 klystron  Jan 5, 2015 7:27:51pm

re: #313 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I think that was someone paraphrasing the Republican line of thought on this.

As in that’s what the Republicans are seriously saying. Still. Not as a criticism but as a defense.

315 goddamnedfrank  Jan 5, 2015 7:28:43pm

re: #296 goddamnedfrank

The other problem with the Betterlight backs is that they’re fucking retarded expensive, because there’s no economy of scale. They don’t work for damned near anything but studio product shots and still life, and who the hell wants to spend that much on a mostly useless back when they can still shoot on film, be able to use strobes and then get a drum scan made.

So the end result is the few ponces out there who really feel they need a 600 + Mb file of their glass dildo or whatever in stunning 48 bit color end up paying $15K or more for the privilege.

316 jaunte  Jan 5, 2015 7:29:00pm

re: #311 Gus

“But there are also limits to how helpful she might be. So far, she has been unwilling to directly address the perception problem that many of her fellow Republicans are raising in discussions about Scalise.”

…..

“I just think it is an untenable position to have a person in the leadership of the Republican Party in the House who has spoken to a white supremacist group,” Wehner told the New York Times.
Love, in her defense of Scalise, largely avoided this key question.”

The ostrich defense.

317 Higgs Boson's Mate  Jan 5, 2015 7:34:39pm

re: #303 William Barnett-Lewis

They’re sweet. When you get one, make sure it has the classic 127/4.7 Ektar. There are other good lenses for it (my 135/3.5 Tessar is exquisite) but to get the old newsie look you want the wider 127mm lens.

Wow! Now I know exactly what to look for. I’m particularly fond of that camera because it was a staple fixture in so many old movies - and I loves me some old movies.

318 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:36:20pm

OK, here’s a former Klansman Thomas Martinez on how he was converted by David Duke (Brotherhood of Murder, pp. 20ff.):

It was in that frame of mind that, a month or so later, I happened to turn on Tom Snyder the night David Duke was interviewed. Duke was a young man—only a few years older than me—and ruggedly handsome, looking like a young Robert Redford in the way Bob Mathews looked like a macho version of Donny Osmond. As Duke was talking of how the government had money to bus black kids to school but not a penny for the working-class white man, I thought: “Damn, this guy is right. This guy is right! Who is this guy?”
He was, he told Snyder, the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In school I’d learned that Klansmen were vigilantes, an image that was favorable to me from the cowboy movies I had seen at the Midway Theatre when I was a child. I also knew, whether from school or elsewhere, that they wore robes and hoods, took secret oaths, had secret rites, which meant to me that they possessed a secret knowledge. That attracted me, and so did Duke, so smooth and articulate; and when he told Snyder he had an IQ of 173, I thought: A person that bright has to know what he is talking about.
The following day I called the television network and was connected with a member of Snyder’s staff, who readily gave me Duke’s address in Metairie, Louisiana. I wrote him immediately, asking for information. By return mail he sent me his magazine, The Crusader. It was nicely packaged, containing none of the ranting about “kikes” and “n*****s” that are the common coin of most racist publications. Rather, the articles focused on my pet bugaboos, affirmative action and busing. It met my needs. It explained why I wasn’t getting any where. I had been right all along. It wasn’t my fault.
I sent him a check. About a week later I called him, asking for more literature. He sent it, along with an application. By then I was in a state of awe that someone so important, who’d been on national television, would take the time to speak to me. I filled out the application and mailed it, and that was all there was to it. I was now a full-fledged Knight of the Ku Klux Klan.

319 Targetpractice  Jan 5, 2015 7:40:00pm

re: #311 Gus

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Shorter article: “Mia Love serves her duty well as a token female minority in the GOP ranks.”

320 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Jan 5, 2015 7:40:02pm

re: #318 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

From the same book, pp. 241 ff:

Another free speech issue that presents itself is not one for which I would suggest any change in the law, but rather the application of common sense. It concerns the media. For the most part, I think both the print and the electronic media act properly and responsibly in their coverage of the actions of extremists. It is, however, also true that I probably never would have joined the Ku Klux Klan were it not for the David Duke interview on Tom Snyder’s show. Alan Berg gave huge amounts of airtime to racists so that he could satisfy his ego by responding to them and ridiculing them. The racists know they will
be ridiculed when they go on such programs, and assume they will be despised by more than 99 percent of the people who hear them spout their venom. But none of that is of any matter to them. The fraction of 1 percent is. There they will find the malcontents, the embittered, the bigots, and the sincerely concerned but ignorant people like I was. The numbers are in their favor, and they know it. Snyder’s program may have reached 2 million listeners; if only one tenth of 1 percent of them respond favorably, they have recruited 2,000 people, no doubt swelling the ranks of their group ten- or twentyfold.
One-hundredth of 1 percent would make them happy. Perhaps there’s
some legitimate reason—other than ratings—for giving these hate peddlers free air time, but I’m at a loss to think what it might be.

321 BlueGrl21  Jan 5, 2015 8:20:20pm

re: #179 dog philosopher

re: #179 dog philosopher
is this really true in practice? in this shop i was talking about, they would swear over and over that standup should be 15 mins, but it was never less than 40 and often an hour or more

This is an endemic problem in so many companies. Yes, it can and does work but some things have to happen to control it at first, especially if traditional PMs run it.

1. Time it. At 15 minutes, we’re done, period.
2. Strong agile coach facilitates it until the team can run their own to prevent loss of focus.
3. If people INSIST on a 1-hour meeting, do the first part as the 15 minute or less standup, then ask the people to leave who have no involvement or interest in what they heard. That leaves 45 minutes of designated time for people to problem solve, vent, etc. you will eventually see those meetings go down to 15 minutes.

I get asked to deal with this all of the time. A team will come to me and ask me to please stop the madness. I’ll take those stand ups until we can get them under 15 minutes, every day.

322 BlueGrl21  Jan 5, 2015 8:32:24pm

re: #182 dog philosopher

but let me ask you this:

why is it needed?

Which part? Agile is just industry best practices that go back to the 1950s with military jet development. Nothing magical about it. It’s been around forever. Where we really see benefits today are where requirements are changing very rapidly and/or people don’t know what they want. We use it where there is a lot of uncertainty so we can handle the amount of change responsibly without discouraging that kind of innovation.

We are more linear/iterative when we have a very established domain with known requirements and locked scope. Financial systems are an example I use….unless Lady Elizabeth Warren overhauls everything. Then, I will gladly work in any way needed to get her what she wants because she is a goddess. :)


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