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AnotherFairportfan wrote:High thin clouds, moon slightly past full, 200 mm lens (320 mm equivalent for 35 mm camera), ISO 1600, various exposures (hand held - the first was 1/1600 @ F 8, others were slower):
 

I like that second one best, though they are all very nice.

Catawampus wrote:I get to attend a three-hour seminar on "feelings". My feelings on the situation do not include eager anticipation and excitement.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:High thin clouds, moon slightly past full, 200 mm lens (320 mm equivalent for 35 mm camera), ISO 1600, various exposures (hand held - the first was 1/1600 @ F 8, others were slower):

I managed to snap a quick picture in the morning.

That is a very neat shot!

Catawampus wrote:I get to attend a three-hour seminar on "feelings". My feelings on the situation do not include eager anticipation and excitement.
I managed to snap a quick picture in the morning.

Damn, I actually Use Photobucket and I still cant believe how many sites I need to let past the script-blocker to even just see the picture...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:High thin clouds, moon slightly past full, 200 mm lens (320 mm equivalent for 35 mm camera), ISO 1600, various exposures (hand held - the first was 1/1600 @ F 8, others were slower):

I switched Hard Drives and I see I needed to re-add the pix-from-Fairport folder all over again.

(I only need point to my Avitar to explain why it resides under /Pictures/Astro/Luna ...)

'tank you.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Oh i like that.

A while back (i posted this once before, i think) i came home in the early evening and spotted this opportunity:

Sometimes, without any planning on your part, the planets and the sub-planets align just right and make for interesting scenery. And sometimes you even have a camera on you, and so you end up able to take pictures of phoenix nests in pine trees or the moon emerging from its hiding place or just really weird magic trees.

My brother's ex-wife had him arrested for not paying child support for the short couple of years before she remarried.

He had been going to welding school so he would be able to get a job that would let him pay it, but he failed. So, he went to get a decently paying job with the intent to give her almost everything he could. Apparently, our mom was going to handle the child support issue for him, but she told my mom not to worry about it. And then she pulls this shit.

What's messed up is that her lawyer happens to be her employer, and he had the amount raised from ~$7k to $13k.

I also bet she's doing this just to fuck with his new family.

I think Devyn came out pretty well:

Another quote, spewed out by my wallpaper changer, with no attribution:

TV is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.

Looking for a source, I found that it can be either attributed to comedian Fred Allan, or to Ernie Kovacs. I found more sites that seem to attribute it to Ernie Kovacs, but this site claims that there is no evidence that he used that phrase before Fred Allen.

I found some other amusing quotes about TV, on this site:

"I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read a book."
-- Groucho Marx

"I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence.
There's one called brightness, but it doesn't work."
-- Eugene P. Gallagher?

The main attribution i've heard is Newt Minow.

I'm gonna have to remember the one about television being a medium, for use at work...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:The main attribution i've heard is Newt Minow.

Minow originated the "vast wasteland" quote.

Which is supposedly why Sherwood Schwartz named Gilligan's boat the Minnow.

lake_wrangler wrote:TV is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.

Then there is the mystic, chef, and guru by the name of Medium Rare′.

Hansontoons wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:TV is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.

Then there is the mystic, chef, and guru by the name of Medium Rare′.

Mystic Midget Escapes - Small Medium at Large!

Yeah, and he (or she) is gonna stay that way, because the police have bigger fish to fry.

The escapee does seem to be of little interest to anybody.

Last night was my ten year high school reunion. The first part was at the homecoming game, and when I bought a ticket, the lady at the ticket counter asked me if I was a student or an adult...

Also, apparently several others want to do them every five years instead, or even do smaller events , like cookouts and bonfires, every year or so.

Ugh. You'd have to pay me a considerable sum of money to get me to go to a HS Reunion.

Heh. Never been to one. Don't know it there's gonna be one next year - if there is, i might attend, just to see how many of us have lasted fifty years.

Most people who I know haven't shown any interest in their own high school reunions, even when they live within walking distance of it. Maybe four years of having to see the same people over and over was more than enough.

I'd imagine that all of the people who you wanted to stay in touch with you already do, and so why go back to see the people who you don't care about?

HS reunions... some of us have old ties that were lost in the shuffle-

Sgt. Howard wrote:HS reunions... some of us have old ties that were lost in the shuffle-

There's help available for that...