Take a picture once a day, whether you need to or not

[rattran]

Found my old Kodak camera, and some photos were still on the memory card.

Otto is using Fess as a pillow.

[Sky]

There was a good lolcat like that. "Iz not ur butt....iz mai pillow!"

[Bunk]

One of a couple hundred pics I took of my friends' daughter yesterday.



Background still needs cleaned up.

[Lantyssa]

Nope, just a model I hired to help with a project for a photgraphy class - and alas, I no longer have her contact info - sorry guys.

FAIL.

[voodoolily]

Background still needs cleaned up.

Yeah, it's definitely not white enough.



Yay! Fresh beets from the garden! (WAP, don't hate)

[WayAbvPar]

If I had the skilz (and the software) I would 'shop those vile things into a giant pile of dog crap.

[voodoolily]

But these were grown in pure compost, and don't taste like dirt! And they're candy-striped on the inside!

[Bunk]

Background still needs cleaned up.

Yeah, it's definitely not white enough.


Yay! Fresh beets from the garden! (WAP, don't hate)

I actually had the lighting set up perfectly for a nice solid white backdrop. Then I discovered that babies don't tend to stay where you put them...

[SnakeCharmer]

But these were grown in pure compost, and don't taste like dirt! And they're candy-striped on the inside!

I made the mistake of clicking your blog whilst hungry.

My wife is trying to become the culinary queen, but God bless her heart, she just doesn't have it.  I'll give her credit though, she's trying.  We recently switched back to gas stove instead of electric and it's been an adjustment.  That said, she has never been a good cook.

[Sky]

Next year I really really want to get some grub growing. I just had some fresh garlic from a friend's garden that we pass on our nightly stroll. ZOMGYUM I'll definitely need a fence, since my visiting menagerie includes such friends as rabbits, deer and woodchucks (I think the ducks, turkeys and squirrel would be ok). Maybe that paintball turret thingy.

Making a list of garden goodies will be fun. Definitely tomatoes, garlic, peppers, maybe onions; all my staples. Some leaf lettuces would be nice. Have to get an herb garden, too. I was also thinking of growing some hops vines, even though I don't like hoppy beers. Because I want to start brewing next year too.

All this assumes I have money and time next year.

[SnakeCharmer]

Screw the paintball turret.

Kill the deer and rabbit and eat them.

[Brogarn]

Screw the paintball turret.

Kill the deer and rabbit and eat them.

That!

Also, beets are yicky. BLECH! They're almost as bad as brussel sprouts (aka Satan's Testicles).

[Nebu]

Bah.  Beets are a wonderful thing when prepared properly.  The tops are just as wonderful as the bottoms just in different ways. 

If I weren't so lazy busy, I'd grow some myself.

[rattran]

Plant something that takes little work to keep going on the outside of a small fence, and the beasties won't bother with the stuff inside. Kale, leaf lettuce, and radishes work pretty well. If you have neighborhood or feral cats around catnip works too.

<edit: spelling is hard>

[Brogarn]

About an hour ago there was a loud bang and the lights went out for about 10 seconds. Apparently lightning hit the electric lines right out in front of our building. Here's a picture of the aftermath:




Was pretty cool. Every time the line would flare up, you'd hear this really loud hum. Some dumb ass from our warehouse was heading out to move it for some inexplicable reason.  Luckily, someone with at least 1 IQ point more than he had yelled at him. Anyways, was quite exciting. Took National Grid 30 minutes to cut power to the line, though. Don't know what the heck took them so long. The grass is still smoldering.

[Engels]

Here's a picture of the aftermath:

Sure that wasn't Snakecharmer's wife's cooking?

[SnakeCharmer]

 

[Endie]

I've not posted in this thread for a while, so I'm making up for my bandwidth deficit:

I've been climbing in the Ben Lawers range a lot for the last couple of months.  This is Bheinn Ghlas, the week after I climbed it, from another, nearby summit called Meall Corranaich, looking across the headwaters of the Allt a Chobhair.



And the next is the view north from the summit of Bheinn Glass, a kilometre and change up, down into a high glen below the place where the first picture was taken (which is just offscreen, left).  The Scottish hills are lower than the ones elsewhere, but with long vertical ascents compared to many of those in the middle of continents.  They are also truly deadly: in late June I had to show a group of three people off the Meall nan Tarmachan ridge, just west of there, who had started in bright sunshine and found themselves above 700 foot cliffs, on a 6-foot wide ridge, in 20 foot visibility in a snowstorm and force ten winds, only 90 minutes later.  I love the Scottish hills  .



The two dogs are Seileighe and Sunny, my smart little border collies.  This is them after two of five Munro peaks that day.   Annoyingly, even after the next three, a snowstorm and a total of nine hours climbing, they were still sprinting around.  Then they slept for two days.

Edit: almost none of those Gaeilc words sound like they look when written.  Their spelling system is daft.

[Ookii]

Did you catch a haggis?

[Endie]

Did you catch a haggis?

Season doesn't open til the Glorious 12th.  I'd be in deep trouble if I tried.  Try persuading the dogs of that, though.

[Signe]

Isn't it easier to catch haggis with three legged dogs?

[Endie]

Isn't it easier to catch haggis with three legged dogs?

Heh.. that and the "the legs on one side are shorter than the other" thing are myths told to (American) tourists.

[Engels]

Manzanita, Oregon taken last week on vacation.

[bhodi]

I was up hiking in the Shenandoah two weekends ago

[Der Helm]

Did you catch a haggis?

Great, now I am hungry.

[apocrypha]

Edit: almost none of those Gaeilc words sound like they look when written.  Their spelling system is daft.

Oh god this is the truth. When I first moved to Glasgow I tried to get a bus to Milngavie. After much confusion and indecipherable mocking by the bus driver it was patiently explained to the stupid English boy that it was pronounced "mull guy"   

[photek]

I has a new cheesburger(pet)! Iz only baby.





Or it is my girlfriends, I just love it

[Sky]

Thank Soggoth bhodi showed up with some damned trees. You people live in place mankind was not meant to live in.

On broken power lines: Once when I was coming back from a train journey (buy an open ticket, go where you feel like going, sleep on trains, like being an official hobo), I was walking through a parking lot. A semi pulled into the lot. It was about a foot higher than a low-hanging power line. I started running away and heard THWAP...BZZZT as the line shot past me, sparking like mad. Guy across the street came running out of his house yelling "HOLY SHIT YOU ALMOST DIED!" It was pretty cool. Because almost die is what I used to do regularly. Truck kept going, clueless.

Here's another addition to my local menagerie. Also visible is the back end of the atrociously massive and clear-cut yard some guy built behind the neighbors places. His yard spans the rest of my block from the edge of my yard over (I'm at the end of my block). It's disgusting. He just added a new wing for his daugher. Indoor basketball court. Anyway, illustration of the importance of owning the paper alley discussed in the remodeling thread (and I'm shooting for the patch of woods to the left of that clear-cut).



A beautiful CNY day in my front yard (not green text, love the rain):

[apocrypha]

Trying to work out how to do panoramic images and have got as far as this:



Some nasty mis-alignments in there still which I think are due to the camera not being precisely levelled when taking the images. This is stitched together from 24 seperate photos btw. Once I get hold of a hot-shoe spirit level I'll find something more interesting than my living room to try this out on 

[SnakeCharmer]

Jebus, Sky.  Grow a small garden and you'll never have to buy food again. 

[Signe]

Isn't it easier to catch haggis with three legged dogs?

Heh.. that and the "the legs on one side are shorter than the other" thing are myths told to (American) tourists.

Well, I know that.  I'm married to a man from Glasgow, after all, but you didn't have to tell everybody else!  I don't like haggis.  It's nasty.  I won't cook it, either.  Poor Righ.

[Salamok]

Trying to work out how to do panoramic images and have got as far as this:

Some nasty mis-alignments in there still which I think are due to the camera not being precisely levelled when taking the images. This is stitched together from 24 seperate photos btw. Once I get hold of a hot-shoe spirit level I'll find something more interesting than my living room to try this out on 

can 1 shot that with a 360 lens or if you need high resolution you can do it in 2 or 3 shots with a fisheye lens, 24 photo's is a whole lot o stitching...  I've been thinking getting into this myself.

[JWIV]

Took some photos last week sometime this month for the various birth announcements and like.

[apocrypha]

can 1 shot that with a 360 lens or if you need high resolution you can do it in 2 or 3 shots with a fisheye lens, 24 photo's is a whole lot o stitching...  I've been thinking getting into this myself.

Yeah totally, but it was really just a proof-of-concept exercise for myself, I want to do much bigger and more interesting things with it :p

As for the stitching, well, after fiddling with settings and testing things out for a while I just went away and let the software do the stitching all by itself 

[Samwise]

Are you using Autostitch?  That thing is rad.

(edit) Here's something I put together with 16 photos from my cheap little camera.  Not inlined because it's goddamn huge.