Silly me, I should have guessed this, but I didn’t know what TGIF stood for. Diamond on #linux suggested, “Toes Go In First”, but that just confused me. Thankfully Google came to the rescue with the above link!
Moments later Kevin came up with the correct, “thank god it’s friday!” but then qualified his remark with, “well, not really, i’m an atheist. why would i thank some figment of mass hysteria about some arbitrary designation of time?”
Ann replied, “‘thank the anglo-saxons for the use of the phrase friday plus thank society for organising around a weekend’ just isn’t as catchy.’
Hmm.. I can’t repeat what Pron /msged me but the conversation degenerated quickly after that…
Death in the Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon – bullfighting still persists in some areas of Spain, and while I don’t agree with it, it’s a huge part of Spanish culture. Michael Reichmann, the author, has posted some great photos in this article, but please don’t read it if the subject at hand bothers you!
I do love this photo however, and it’s safe material to view!
May Day Photos – Part 3!
Kerry, Kerry, Kerry..
and in other news, Robert Fisk writes about an attack on wounded Iraqis by US helicopters.. Here’s the unreal, shocking video of the event.
“there’s a wounded one, get him”
Stoppies, Again!
A few months ago a guy biked up and down outside the office here doing stoppies and basically making a lot of noise and destroying his bike! Well, here’s a much better photo of a stoppie from a great angle. Owen – want to oblige sometime?
National Archives of Ireland
The National Archives of Ireland were talked about on Radio 1 this morning in a very interesting conversation retelling stories about Maud Gonne, Patrick Kavanagh and others. Kae noticed that the Javascript on the site doesn’t work in Mozilla, but there’s an ugly text only interface that is fully functional so we’re not left in the cold entirely!
May Day Photos – Part 2!
Tell them I’m here too!
Micha, from Slovakia
The Slovaks Went Mad!
Fred – Tomorrow!
From the Deadly to the Bizarre!
This guy had a lucky escape! Builder survives nailgun accident – see the xray! 6 nails in his head! Wow!
And then there was the woman who bought 10,000 Mars bars.. Won’t need to worry about breakfast for a while! hehe.
And it seems IRC is under attack!
Still, I.R.C. perhaps most closely resembles the cantina scene in “Star Wars”: a louche hangout of digital smugglers, pirates, curiosity seekers and the people who love them (or hunt them). There seem to be I.R.C. channels dedicated to every sexual fetish, and I.R.C. users speculate that terrorists also use the networks to communicate in relative obscurity.
Sounds like a really bad place. Maybe Bosco lovers congregate there or something? 😛
Lensbabies – distorted images?
I must admit I haven’t a clue what the author of this article means when he says, ‘Ever wonder how to turn your $1500 DSLR into a $10 Holga? Well a “lensbaby” is one way!’ but I presume he meant to ask if you want out of focus, soft, photos that show ugly defects? To each his own, and I have to admit the photos of the flowers are pretty! 🙂
Determining Exposure – too bright?
I tend to over-expose my photos, especially in bright light as I use the LCD At the back of the camera more than that digital viewfinder. What looks like a dark image there turns out to be a beautiful exposed portrait of a scene!
This article is going to be useful, although I don’t know if I’d have the patience to follow everything there!
I’ve already started shooting at -1 EV and it helps. Many over-exposure problems can be solved in post-processing but when it’s way over-blown, well, bye bye detail!