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Deer fern (Blechnum spicant) in Asparvíkurdalur in NW-Iceland, among blueberries and other vegetation. The fern is common in Europe and western North America. It is rather rare in Iceland, but usually grows in areas with thick snow cover in the winter.
LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 11: Robert "Blaber" Huang of Cloud9 is seen backstage between matches at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Bracket Stage on May 11 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 25: --- during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on January 25, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
After typing a few words into ChatGPT it posted text for the back cover blab:
“Roots and Reveries: “Captivating Stories of Our Family” is a captivating anthology that ventures beyond the boundaries of Bill Irvine's renowned Irvine Trilogy series.
For decades, Irvine has chronicled the captivating tales of the pioneering Irvine Family. However, in this eclectic compilation, he unveils a trove of narratives that defy the conventional confines of his prior works.
Engaging, thought-provoking, and deeply resonant, this anthology ensures each page is a conduit to a world where the past, present, and future interlace harmoniously.
Wow! . . . ChatGPT makes it sound so good I can hardly wait to read it myself.
N.B. this image does not depict the completed cover
Los Angeles, USA - March 9: --- during the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Week 7 at the LCS Arena on March 9, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Oshin Tudayan/Riot Games)
Cause sometimes you just gotta wear a BEEG smile ☺ Enjoy the new week, make things happen!
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Well, here's my entry for BLaB's Ma.K Like a Boss building contest! I couldn't really think of what to build, until I saw my Batman minifig sitting on my shelf. Then it clicked. I would build a mecha Batmobile. So, here is the product of my labor!
Features include:
-Poseable legs
-Adjustable bat fins
-Smoke bomb cannon
-Opening cockpit
-Extendable ladder
-A Bat-SAFS (why not?)
You can check out the other views of the MOC here!
Check out the BLaB contest here!
Well, here's my entry for BLaB's Ma.K Like a Boss building contest! I couldn't really think of what to build, until I saw my Batman minifig sitting on my shelf. Then it clicked. I would build a mecha Batmobile. So, here is the product of my labor!
Features include:
-Poseable legs
-Adjustable bat fins
-Smoke bomb cannon
-Opening cockpit
-Extendable ladder
-A Bat-SAFS (why not?)
You can check out the other views of the MOC here!
Check out the BLaB contest here!
For those of you, who I haven't already blabbed about this to, the Huffington Post has asked me to do a regular blog about my Rust Belt photos and travels. In the future, the blog will also feature work and wisdom from some of the other wonderful photogs from the American Elegy site and such. The blog can be found here: www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-fox/welcome-to-the-rust-belt...
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I've been holed up in the house for about three days. Today I opened the bedroom curtains for the first time. It was sunny outside. I think that I know what sent me into this latest deep depression. I'll tell a little about it later. I've been having some face-to-face with a friend who has dealt with this kind of uncontrollable emotional paralysis in her own life. It's comforting to have someone to talk to that understands from first hand experience.
However, I'm not here to blab on about distress. I'm in the mood for a bit of humour. Let's see if I can pull it off. It's time to laugh a bit.
A week or so I was talking to someone about something difficult I had to accomplish and I was trying to make it sound light-hearted. I had intended to say, "How bad can it hurt me?" It came out, somewhat more ominously, "How bad can it kill me?" I took a mental note of that and proceeded to bore my friend with the details of my plan to conquer this horrible thing which was an everyday problem for many people, but made me feel as if I were a passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. When his eyes glassed over I relented. Later, I began to think about my Freudian slip.
I certainly don't recommend fooling around with fate and getting yourself in such a pickle as the one in which I'm presently fermenting. Nobody is stupid enough to bring such things upon himself. Nevertheless, I must admit that there is an upside. Regardless if it is true or not, there is a certain freedom in feeling that I have nothing to lose. Of course, I know that it is not true, but knowing is not feeling, knowing is not accepting. I have many things going for me. I'm healthy, if putting on a little too much weight. I'm reasonably sane and able to take care of myself day by day, though my bed only occasionally gets made. I have a job which I can still perform well enough for the time being and I'll improve as I get better. I have a nice house to live in, though I do rattle around in it like a cracked marble. I have friends to annoy. All in all, I'm likely better off than maybe eighty percent of the population of the planet.
I admit that I can't do a post without images. I'm sure that this stems from the fear that what I'm writing is so abominably rotten that nobody could possibly read it without becoming nauseous. If I throw in a few pictures, it might possibly be seen as a redeeming value. Here is the rather unusual sight of three Solitary Corals (Fungia fugites) cuddled up together:
Let me get back to what is passing for a train of thought tonight. As I was saying, perceiving a current state of life as being unsustainable over the long run and being not so nihilistic as to believe that there is no hope that it might get better is the starting point. So, it's pretty bad, but it could get better. Now add that what has happened is the worst thing possible that could have happened. Yes, it could have happened in a worse way, but there is nothing on the list that could possibly top it. And the list is exhaustive. Okay, throw into the equation that even if more bad things pop up, they can't make me much worse than I am now. My money all disappears - hey, money is not security. What good is it doing me now? I lose my job - well, that would be tough, but it would just force me into a change. The list goes on.
Nothing that I can think of really threatens me. This seems to create some kind of weird super-power. Call me Sticks-and-Stones-Can-Break-My-Bones-But-Nothing-Can-Really-Hurt-Me-Man. No, that's too long a name for a super-hero.
Ah, now I remember what set off my hiding-under-the-covers period - the second coffin-building incident in less than two weeks. I won't go into the details. It suffices to say that it was another time of grieving:
It does strike me that I look terribly angry in that shot. I was going for "resigned". It came out much differently. By the time I came into the office to discover that it needed to be built, a friend had already been recruited, so at least neither of us had to face the job alone. I am getting rather good at knocking together a coffin. I don't plan to take it up professionally, but one never knows.
Feeling this freedom of relative invulnerability, however, it not a safe thing. It can make one reckless. I find myself thinking outrageous thoughts about what I might conceivably do. I fantasise. I make astonishingly stupid plans. I catch myself dreaming of selling everything and scuttling off to Bali or Rio and living off my photography and writing. Then I'm brought up short by the realisation that I've found no way to live off it yet and the fact that I might starve trying to is not an improvement on the present situation. Not a bit.
No, I'm better off now staying here and doing what I was sent here to do. That's where my security lies now. In some ways that's a hard pill to swallow, but that is only because I'm not exactly ecstatic about life at the moment.
This horrible thing, looking for all the world like "The Small Intestine from Outer Space" is a Prickly Sea Cucumber:
It's not a great picture of one. Possibly you can see the hideous frilly arms that wave around engulfing whatever seems edible. I'll have to try feeding a banana to one.
Yes, fantasies sustain me these days. I've always been an exceptionally good daydreamer. Walter Mitty has nothing on me. I've dreamed up several schemes lately, none of which have proved, upon the most cursory consideration, to be remotely feasible. Most of the difficulty lies in where, I might go. Except for Papua New Guinea and the USA, any place I might choose to go would present considerable difficulty. You must have permanent residency to work in almost any country worth living in. That is a high hurdle.
I had a passing fancy for Costa Rica until I began to look at the residency problem. I'm not sure I'll live long enough to jump through all of the hoops. The same goes for Canada, which I would like to be able to think of as my final "home" when I'm so broken down that I need to crawl into a hole and wait for the end. I'd probably have to do it as an illegal immigrant. Wouldn't that be an interesting way to end up? I'd have to start a new journal and make it anonymous.
I met a friend at the Madang Lodge and Restaurant last Friday evening for some light conversation. I noticed that the big storyboard on the back wall had been decorated for the Christmas season:
I got this storyboard along with four others about the same size while on a trip to the Sepik River quite a few years ago. They were among the largest I have seen. I don't know how much they would be worth now - probably quite a bit, as they are very hard to come by now. I have two of them about the same size hanging in my house.
Much of the future is too fuzzy for me to think about with any clarity. I wish I had something like this:
Yeah, a big brain - that's the ticket. I need a huge Platygyra lamellina.
Then again, I probably spend far too much time pondering the future. When I consider that, I feel silly, but I've always been that way. Yeah, a thinker about the future and silly. I admit to both. It's painfully obvious that the future is the thing over which I have the least control. How delusional it was to believe otherwise. It was all planned out . . .
Look what all that planning got me. Best simply to plan to brush one's teeth in the morning. If that works out, then begin to plan what to have for lunch. Anything beyond that is getting risky.
====Blackgate Penitentiary====
Drury- Hey, um Hazard, right?
Hazard- For you sugah? Call me Becky. Becky Sharpe
Drury- Sharpe.. You wouldn't happen to know Chancer would you?
Hazard- You kidding Sweetheart? Why he's ma baby brother he is.
Drury- Oh, wow. Cool. He never mentioned you.
Hazard- Well let's be honest, most of the time you've known him he's been comatose or dead. Not that I hold nothing against you, heck he was always hankering for a kick up the rear y'know?
Drury- Oh sure.
Hazard- Sorry, I'm blabbing again... What can I do ya for honey?
Drury- Well I was looking for Meister? You don't know where he is do you?
Hazard- As a matter of fact, he was telling me he had some business with the other chiefs... Why, something botherin' you?
Drury- You could say that yeah.
Hazard- How's about you tell me all about it?
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Penguin- You're causing quite the controversy around here Mr-?
Meister- Meister, The Music Meister.
MoM- We're just wanting to know what you have planned. After all, we have heard an odd rumour or two...
Meister- All good I hope?
MoM- A well executed prison break is always good. Of course, the operative phrase is "well executed"
Meister- Meaning?
Penguin- Quite frankly we're not sure whether you have the skills to achieve something so grandiose...
MoM- Precisely.
Meister- Well, I wouldn't worry. You see I got myself allies everywhere, inside and odd. Friends on the other side, as it were. You do as I say and it will run like clockwork.
MoM- Really?
Meister- Mum's the word.
Penguin- Well I'm not quite convinced. "Friends on the other side" indeed! No one's coming for you Meister, least of all any friends of yours.
*To the tune of "Friends on the other side"*
Meister- Don't you disrespect me, little man!
Don't you derogate or deride
This ain't your world now, it's my world,
And I got friends on the other side
Inmates- He's got friends on the other side...
Meister- That's an echo, gentlemen. Just a little something we have here this side of Blackgate, your mind's playin' tricks, don't worry...
Come into my quarters,
Sing along, if you'd please,
maybe dance, maybe prance, just
put your minds at ease
I can see your future
Maybe change it 'round some, too
I'll look deep into your heart and soul
(You do have a soul, don't you Oswald?)
Make your wildest dreams come true
Call it hoodoo, call it poodoo
Call it lies, I'll never cry.
But I got friends on the other side
Inmates- He's got friends on the other side...
Meister- It's time, it's time, it's time to tell
The past, the present, and the future, as well
It's time, it's time, time we see.
Take a little trip into your future with me
*Meister turns to the Monarch of Menace*
Meister- You sir, crime's own royalty...
Gotta settle down, let's have some tea...
(Earl grey baby, that's the stuff)
What once was high, is sadly low
You gotta break outta prison an'
steal some dough.
The Brat and the Bat sure pulled a number on you eh?
MoM- Eh. Sad but true.
Meister- Now y'all gotta get rich, but prison's tied ya down. You just wanna be free, rule this stinkin' place. But freedom...takes green!
It's the green, it's the green, it's the green you need
And once you're out of Blackgate Prison, it's the green that I see!
*He turns his attention to Oswald*
Meister- On you, little man, I don't want to waste much time
You been pushed around all this time...
You been pushing around by batmen and by catmen and by ratmen,
You been pushed around so long, you could say it were a crime...
But outside prison, the you I see
Is exactly the man you always wanted to be!
Shake my hand. Come on, boys, won't you shake an old singer's hand?
*They do so*
Meister- Yes...
MoM- So... We're good?
Meister- Oh no, I didn't like the implications your midget friend threw my way.
*His goons grab the Monarch of Menace and Penguin*
Meister- Take them to the sewers. Maybe you can feed them to the crocodile man...
MoM- You can't do this!
Meister- Yes. I can. We shook. I did say you'd see green didn't I? I never said money...
Penguin- Bastard!
Meister- The times are changing! First Blackgate, then Gotham!
*they're carried off*
Meister- They're changing, they're changing, they're changing alright, I hope you're satisfied...
But, if you ain't, don't blame me,
You can blame my friends on the other side!
Inmates- He got what he wanted! He got what you had!
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 05: Robert "Blaber" Huang of Cloud9 poses at the League of Legends World Championship Groups Features Day on October 5, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
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Day 2 at the 2018 World Championship Quarterfinals Stage at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center in Busan, South Korea, on 21 October 2018.
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Day 2 at the 2018 World Championship Semifinals Stage at the Gwangju Women's University Universiade Gymnasium in Gwangju, South Korea, on 28 October 2018.
Day 2 at the 2018 World Championship Quarterfinals Stage at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center in Busan, South Korea, on 21 October 2018.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: Robert "Blaber" Huang of Cloud9 appears backstage at the League of Legends World Championship Groups Stage on October 7, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: Robert "Blaber" Huang of Cloud9 (R) competes at the League of Legends World Championship Groups Stage on October 7, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
Day 2 at the 2018 World Championship Quarterfinals Stage at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center in Busan, South Korea, on 21 October 2018.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: Robert "Blaber" Huang of Cloud9 prepares to compete at the League of Legends World Championship Groups Stage on October 7, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 25: --- during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on January 25, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
Los Angeles, USA - February 29: --- during the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Week 6 at the LCS Arena on February 29, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by OSHIN VILLA TUDAYAN/Riot Games)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 09: Robert "Blaber" Huang of Cloud9 is seen backstage at the League of Legends World Championship Groups Stage on October 9, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 09: Robert "Blaber" Huang (L) and Kim "Berserker" Min-cheol of Cloud9 are seen backstage at the League of Legends World Championship Groups Stage on October 9, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 25: --- during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on January 25, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
for 365 and FGR invades Mask Fans and Me and My Appliances
Technically speaking, this image sucks hairy donkey balls. I'm okay with that. I have lame excuses that involve my cat going missing for two days (still not found... :( )
On a happier note, this image cracks me up because in about 5 years my son is going to see this and go "Um, mom, was that my halloween costume that year?" and I'm going to go "yes, that's what I did while you were at school." and he's going to say "how did you fit into that thing? I was SIX?!" and I'm going to say "Lycra is your friend. and sacrifices must be made in order to protect the cookies!"
Happy Halloween, Fuggers! I'm taking a much needed vacation-like trip for this weekend. I'll catch up with ya'll next week!
Los Angeles, California - February 8: --- during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on February 8, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
Los Angeles, California - February 22: --- during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on February 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Oshin Tudayan/Riot Games)