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PlanetCrap Photography Thread 2009
March 9th 2009, 00:29 MSK by Milan Brezovský Now that the spring is here, we've been lured outside by ubiquitous pheromones and a lack of good games to play, so we might as well take out our cameras and start talking about the mysterious art of stealing souls here. Other types of art are also acceptable, as long as there is some kind of stealing going on. |
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#56 by Jamie Yes, lots. I bought the f/1.9 first since it was like $50. It's still a fantastic value at that price (hence the nickname "the thrifty fifty"), but you can tell it's cheap relative not nicer lenses. More plastic, lighter (I assume because of the plastic and fewer optics), and the auto focus speed is S-L-O-W. Actually, jshj has the Nikon version, it's much more impressive looking than my Canon 50mm and feels a bit heavier (possibly sturdier?). Isn't it metal Josh? #57 by CheesyPoof #53 by jshj Is there any noticeable difference between the f/1.4 and the f/1.9 50mm? There's such a huge price difference. So we have a new lurker. Bill Powers and jh0, you better step up your game. That dude isn't new, he's been lurking forever. If I talk about having sex with his sister-in-law he may get embarrassed and go back to lurking. The photo thread must have drawn him out because he's a big photography fan. |
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Does anyone know if the new Facebook changes will let you do anything practical with friends lists? I really want a way to add PC nicknames to people. I have no idea who some of you are, just that you're friends with other crappers. |
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I'm TreeFrog. Hi. "If you watch the movie "Jaws" backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." - /b/tard
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gaggle (#55): There are so MANY good TED talks. I recently ran across this one as well. "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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#59 by jjohnsen Actually, jshj has the Nikon version, it's much more impressive looking than my Canon 50mm and feels a bit heavier (possibly sturdier?). Isn't it metal Josh? It feels more sturdy than my 70-300mm Quantaray. The pictures come out incredible. I wasn't sure that a 1.4 would improve upon. |
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jj - There's going to be an interface update soon that will make friends lists more prominent. I'm crossing my fingers that it has something like what you're talking about rolled in with it. \"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"
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#62 by Matt Perkins Hey that is interesting. Seems like a short excerpt from a longer presentation.. do you know if we can see a fuller version? But yeah TED talks are often amazing. Very inspirational and fascinating subjects and speakers. "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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An interesting coincidence, my coworker has just bought an 50mm f1.8 (canon) for her dad today. Of course, i didn't do anything other than hold it for a while, but it's still an interesting coincidence. Sh...shut up, it's a funny coincidence. |
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Milan Brezovský (#66): Sh...shut up, it's a funny coincidence. smiling, backing away... "If you watch the movie "Jaws" backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." - /b/tard
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TED talks are pretty good, but also pretty overrated. |
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Oh fiddlesticks, just enjoy them when an interesting subject is brought up. "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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I'm not criticising the talks I'm criticising the people who advertise them to me as life changing must sees. They're good. |
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Did you just say, 'fiddlesticks'? 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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gaggle = Butters. Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you pee on me Pooh Bear?" A few moments later, the witness heard the son say "Mama you done stabbed me."
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I'll raise you a Ned Flanders. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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I deliver to this thread: Dinner! No.
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That is one hideous knife. |
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#70 by lwf I'm not criticising the talks I'm criticising the people who advertise them to me as life changing must sees. Ah. Well that's fair. "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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#75 by Milan Brezovský That is one hideous knife. True dat. So you wrote that blog entry about the WoW torture quest Charles? "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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I also took notice when I played through it, it does seem like a weird, slightly creepy message to send. I kinda regret just pushing through it, but my Horde Death Knight probably thinks it was perfectly fine :) More to the point though: I was in grind mode, and didn't think about whether or not I wanted to do it until later. Which I half suspect/hope is Blizzard's message with the whole thing, that we're so used to doing anything for XP that we don't even stop considering our actions. I can appreciate the quest chain on those terms, as a provocative reminder of sorts. On the other hand, if it's there because they truly didn't think about it then that just sucks. (btw I don't think you'll suffer from not completing the chain, it leads to a place you can get to on your own iirc. Well, you'll lose out on the XP of course) "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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I deliver to this thread: Dinner! THIS is the kind of food a wealthy manager eats? My world is crumbling! You seriously need a female, man! "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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#74 by Charles I deliver to this thread: Dinner! Asparagus is overrated, but the mushrooms look pretty good. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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Mushrooms are way overrated, but the asparagus looks good. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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Mushrooms are the work of Satan. "If you watch the movie "Jaws" backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." - /b/tard
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Satan knows tasty. |
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Bring on the 'shrooms! Greenery-wise I'm more of a broccoli man myself. "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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My wife made bacon mac and cheese yesterday. I should have taken a picture. It was crazy good and cheesy. At first I though that there was too much cheese sauce for the amount of pasta, but the pasta soaked it up when it baked and the sauce firmed up real good. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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Just finished season 5 of The Wire. Fuck, what a damn fine show that was. It's not often that I get all emotional at the last episode of a season, but The Wire managed to do it 5 times. I even cried of happiness when Bubbles gave his speech saying he'd been clean for a year. And just like the show to conclude some storylines, but leave most of them wide open. It was great seeing all the old faces back in the last few episodes. "IT consultant of perfect lovemaking art."
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It was indeed a great show. I'm probably going to watch the whole thing again with the new gf. Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you pee on me Pooh Bear?" A few moments later, the witness heard the son say "Mama you done stabbed me."
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I've also been thinking about re-watching it sometime in future, maybe in a year or so. I think it might be about time to re-watch Arrested Development too. |
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Hey hey hey now, no spoilers. I only just finished Season 3. I know, it's an old show and it's hard to prevent spoilers. I'll just try and ignore posts that talk about it. |
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I was really sad when that one guy died, but less so when that other guy died. Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you pee on me Pooh Bear?" A few moments later, the witness heard the son say "Mama you done stabbed me."
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I had a tough time making it through season 2, but it's a great show. |
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It wasn't until season three that I started understanding the love for the series. One and two were fine, but I kept wondering why there was so much hype. |
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Yeah, it's a slow build. It wasn't till at least episode 4-6 that I liked the show at all, and I didn't start loving it till the second season. Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you pee on me Pooh Bear?" A few moments later, the witness heard the son say "Mama you done stabbed me."
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gaggle - So you wrote that blog entry about the WoW torture quest Charles? Yeah. It stuck out like a sore thumb. And so far, that kind of crazed right-wing rah-rah mentality is all over the expansion. It's kind of gross. Both mushrooms and asparagus are awesome, and anyone who disagrees must have licked too many flagpoles in the winter. No.
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Thinking... No.
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That's not a euphemism. No.
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#92 by Caryn It wasn't until season three that I started understanding the love for the series. One and two were fine, but I kept wondering why there was so much hype. I have to say it grabbed me right at the very first episode because of the documetary-like approach to filming. It also lacked most of the stuff I hate about TV (foreshadowing, the obligatory happy endings, thick morality,...). The hardest part to watch was the second half of season four. So goddamn depressing. "IT consultant of perfect lovemaking art."
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There is no God in a universe where the Wire doesn't win major awards. Simply the best television of the last several years. Funk. |
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You must not be watching breaking bad! |
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You must not be watching Mad Men! "THE FUCKING KITTY LITTER FUCKING BOMB GHRHGURHGUHGRUGHRUGHURHGURHGHHGHUAHUHU KITTY" -- greg
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I miss Deadwood. Seriously though, it is hard to choose between The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Deadwood. All so good. Breaking Bad does run the risk of screwing it up in the coming seasons(s), though. |
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[blog] So, freaking TiVo. Last night I get home and find out that my Series 3 HD TiVo is frozen up. I call customer service and after leading me through some troubleshooting the guy tells me sorry, it'd dead. Not gonna work. But they'll replace it for just $150! I get pissed and tell the guy that this thing is not even 2 years old and cost me $300 --on sale! It's ridiculous that a high-end piece of electronics like this should die and that they should charge me $150 to fix it. He says there's nothing he can do and no way he can lower the price, so I tell him I want to suspend my subscription while I investigate getting a DVR from my cable provider and that I'd probably be calling him back soon to cancel outright. He transfers me to one of their "cancellations experts" and I sit on hold for 10 minutes getting more and more annoyed. When the cancellation guy comes on the line he looks over the notes on my account and tells me if I don't cancel he will replace the TiVo unit for $50. I ask him why the first guy tried to get me for $150 and he pleads ignorance. But while I'm still pissed that this expensive thing broke so quickly, I can live with $50 and tell him to ship me out the replacement. It's a classic case of price anchoring --getting you to anchor your perception of value on an inflated number, then make the lower number look like less than it is because you started out so high. It's transparently manipulative, but I like the TiVo product. Bastards. And just to add one more insult to injury, they have to charge my credit card the value of the new unit until they receive my broken one back in the mail, at which time they'll refund the charge. Fine, except the charge they put on my card is over 800. If I have to pay that off to avoid paying the CC interest rate, I'm gonna be even more pissed. And I can't even watch HDTV right now because I have no cable box to put the cable cards into. [blog] TL;DR! blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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800? The hell? "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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Yeah, the prices that Tivo/Dish/DirecTV charge for their DVRs is robbery. "THE FUCKING KITTY LITTER FUCKING BOMB GHRHGURHGUHGRUGHRUGHURHGURHGHHGHUAHUHU KITTY" -- greg
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Yeah, an HD DVR here is $800 bucks too. And they won't skip commercials. Apparently you can kind of get Tivo here now. Not HD though. No.
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Jaime- I had a Series 2 TiVo die on me once, and all I did was buy it a new hard drive and format it with Instant Cake. I've used the software to put bigger drives in my 2 TiVos, and it's worked fine. The software is 20 bucks. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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I got a Tivo HD for 300. And they make a larger one for 600. I have no idea where the 800 comes from. Is Jamie Canadian? "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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