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I'm an artist, educator, militant anti-theist , and I write. I gamble on just about anything. And I like beer...but I love my wife. This blog contains observations from a funny old man who gets pissed off every once in a while.

Thursday, September 21, 2023

THURSDAY #5384

Oruvarukku iṉṟaiya nāai ciappāka ākkuka.

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 One Of My Very Own

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*Viewer Contribution

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I think that was a punchline on a party album a million years ago.

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I find myself posting some things just to piss off some of my more obnoxious anonymous commenters.
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And here's Putin taking no chances in the bunker.

Get it?

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Nothing says "Christian Values" like razor wire in the Rio Grande.

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"What would the Founding Fathers think?" Hell, buddy, I didn't even care what my regular father thought.


PICTURES RIGHT SIDE UP


I'm going to buy a camera and now I find myself studying quality photographs that might help me. Here is a collection of photographs that I can tolerate.

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Dark images hide a myriad of sins. I might need that.

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I'm not opposed to the whimsical.

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Since I don't have any more friends to use as subjects I may have to concentrate on still life.

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I was once granted access to the roof of a hotel at the beach and used a long lens to shoot bathers straight down. That reminds me of those photos.

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I wouldn't be averse to staging shots either.

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All things mural...


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Pebble Art

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I am never more focused in life than when I'm entering the code for a snack I want at the vending machine.

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The Bird is not THE word, it is just A word.


MISCELLANEOUS BLOG FODDER


Mathematicians find 12,000 solutions for fiendish three-body problem

The question of how three objects can form a stable orbit around each other has troubled mathematicians for more than 300 years, but now researchers have found a record 12,000 orbital arrangements permitted by Isaac Newton's laws of motion.

While mathematically describing the movement of two orbiting bodies and how each one's gravity affects the other is relatively simple, the problem becomes vastly more complex once a third object is added.

In 2017, researchers found 1223 new solutions to the three-body problem, doubling the number of possibilities then known. Now, Ivan Hristov at Sofia University in Bulgaria and his colleagues have unearthed more than 12,000 further orbits that work.

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That's an interesting read.

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I didn't know that they had to bring some of the pipes back to Earth for cleaning.

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And people are unwilling to do what has to be done to stop that.

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My wife's doctor called her from his home on Sunday on his day off to tell her that her biopsy was non-cancerous. They chatted about non-medical issues for a long while. Another time her lady parts doctor dropped some sample drugs off at my house on her way home from the office. My wife is not politically powerful, rich, or young and sexy, but she is a genuinely nice person who people like and respect. I am a very lucky man.

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Dog Dance - This made me smile

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Let's see a cat do that.

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Wolves Greeting

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It's a wang thingy but it has batteries in it.

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Google just turned 25 years old.


HUMANS ARE AN ODD LOT


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I blame Demon Rum.

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I would love to see a competition between two masters of whatever that is.

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The Bike Ride

And...

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Kabob

That looks absolutely delicious.

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Prison Prices1

Prison Prices2

*MNBT

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Proposal Mishap

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

D2 Max Fosh

https://youtube.com/shorts/-U1wbp64lz8?si=w-mp9EgkYaqOVpFK

billr said...

^^B2^^ I applaud your intention to get a camera. Given your penchant for dark images I suggest you look at cameras that let you edit the raw images. (Assuming you're thinking of digital and not analog film here.) You'll need image editing software, and the major brands, Sony, Canon, and Nikon, all provide basic software for this. The camera's software is designed to "optimize" the images but this may not be what you want the final image to look like, based on the ones you highlight here. There's also an open software program called GIMP that has most of the features of the expensive apps like Photoshop, if you really get into it. Be prepared for a steep learning curve. Or you can just take underexposed pictures and be done with it. Cameras are expensive. You can get a good used one pretty cheap because people (like me) who are into the expensive cameras tend to buy the new ones (they're like cars, or computers, or phones, new features coming out all the time.)

Anonymous said...

^^C10^^ Can you please reveal the entire link for the FEMA press release? I don't see it on their main page and I'd like to check it out if it's real.

MIKE HARRIS said...

C5-re tour wife's doctor; I live in England; I have 3 potentially lethal conditions. Under our famed NHS I have seen a doctor only three years ago. They are useless here, chocolate fireguards, ash trays on motor bikes. I'm glad you enjoy a better system. It is also 25 years since a doctor called at my house; he was a student getting to know the patients. The glorification of the NHS is the biggest con trick ever pulled off by any government...keep at it, thanks for your blog

Ralph Henry said...

Dear C10 Anon,
Sorry, that's all I have.
RH

Ralph Henry said...

Dear Mike,
I wish you nothing but the very best.
RH

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