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This is "something" on an old motherboard. There are many things with "Lines" on a motherboard, so it was one of my first ideas. Since the motherboard photos also turned out best, I thought I'd stick with that subject. But please don't ask me what this "something" once did. I can identify a few things on a motherboard, but this...
Photographing with the Laowa 2x macro lens allowed me to get nicely close to my subject. I wanted an abstract look, and getting extra close helped. I have an even more abstract photo of this "something", with an equally lined background from a cardboard box, but I thought it was a tad too abstract (with even more bokeh) to work for the theme, so this is it.
Illumination-wise, I went all in and used almost every single lamp on my photo table. The two standard LEDs (the left lamp also equipped with the translucent red chocolate box lid) for a golden hue on the metal (aluminium, I'd say), the flat natural-light photo lamp from above, my new "pro LED", set to green, placed slightly behind the scene, and my small pocket flashlight (white light only), set on "spot" and handheld from the side. With that much coloured light, it's at least only a single shot, because I can't focus stack with the Laowa ;)
HMM, Everyone!
Looking more like a grow-op than a computer data center, this futuristic look facility utilizes chlorophyll as a more efficient memory storage medium and heat deflector.
Wait... is that Elon sneaking around the facility?
(A.I. image)
Computing whether I am a threat or not. Taken at the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge here in Idaho.
This photo appears in Popular Science
www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/today-dirt-tomorro...
Cool!
This is the hardware side of the NAS solution I was putting together before I came down with COVID. Will have that working shortly. This little computer compared with my very first PC here.
Shot with Sony 24-105mm f/2.8 macro lens on Sony a7r iii.
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I think I got this Petri around December 2017; thought it looked really cool. Running a roll through it now, maybe its third roll in the 8+ years I've had it, so it's finally having a turn again.
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That is some high tech right there.
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A customizable computing terminal with sound effects and holographic ui.
Out now at Mainframe: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mainframe/191/167/25
I made this picture for the Inria contest on "Computing: past, present, and future". The abacus is, to me, the birth of computing.
I borrowed a camera with a very fast lens, and went to the server room of our research center, where I played finding a spot for the abacus in the middle of the computing equipment. A large numerical aperture gave me a short depth of field, turning the lights in a nice bokeh.
I did fairly little post-processing, using darktable as always. I used a local contrast filter on the abacus itself, and pushed the colors in the top right of the photo toward green.
Taken from Noonamah area at about 0300hrs today. Clouds backlit by lightning which was probably about 50Km east of Acacia Hills.
Sunset at NTU's Clifton Campus, seen from the rugby field.
The buildings are Ada Byron King (ABK) on the left, which is mostly used for teaching education and teaching (if that makes sense), and the less personal Computing and Informatics Building (CIB) on the right, which while built later used the same architects and much of the same design as ABK.
Taken with a Pentax Optio S.
More of my photos can be found here.
Petri Computor 35, with CC Petri 2.8/40 lens.
Compact camera, produced from 1970 until 1974. Clearly inspired by the Konica C35, so it has the programmed shutter and rangefinder focussing, but it differs in details. The exposure metering in not controlled by a needle displayed in the viewfinder, but by two lights (green/orange) for acceptable or risky shutter speeds. They are visible on top and in the viewer.
The film speed is set with a ring around the lens and not with a fiddly ring inside the filter thread. As the camera has no dial for exposure compensation, you can manipulate the exposure very quickly here.
I have an iMoan.
……An iWorry to be more accurate. I have it playing all day every day in the forefront of my mind. I have ‘most played’ lists and ‘recently added’. I scroll through all my favourite worries and every so often I even play worries from someone else’s favourite playlist. I try not to save those to my iMoan as there isn’t enough storage left. At night it always plays on shuffle, just when I am drifting off to the familiar twangings in my mind of a familiar anxiety my iMoan will switch randomly to a totally different worry, one that perhaps I haven’t played for a while and I will experience that immediate sickening hot flush and stomach tugging dread. I will feel my face flush crimson and my armpits prickle whilst my poor blood rushes around my body wondering what the emergency is and what organ needs it most.
I sit up in bed, which is difficult in itself to do when I lie predominantly on my tummy; Imagine an exorcist type gyration as I realise I must be sitting up straight, staring pale faced, and blinking into nothingness in order to best address whatever colossal woe my brain has trawled out of the archives. In the end I can usually trump my brain into submission with one bigger worry after another until it simply can’t compute and I end up drifting off to sleep wondering who I would save if I saw a kitten and a little old lady drowning and could only save one.
So how does one go about combating one’s constantly regenerating worries?
They always tell you to write a list of everything that is troubling you down, that to get it out of your head and on paper will relieve some of the strain of remembering. Not so. I wake up in the middle of the night terrified that I have missed certain worries off the list. I then have to feel around the side of my bed in gummed-together-eyed panic trying to find a pen and THE LIST to write down my latest anxiety, ‘Why have they taken all of the magazines out of doctors waiting rooms? Have they discovered that this is how swine flu is being spread, through the thumbing of OK magazine?’ phew, lucky I got that one off my chest.
I have written out so many lists, so many plans of action, printed out so many receipts and letters and documents that represent miniature battles that I am having with various establishments that I now constantly carry with me a ‘bag of woes’. Piles and piles of photocopied pieces of paper with dates and names of random people who I have spoken to and scolded and threatened with sending more photocopied bits of paper to, or even going above their heads and sending said bits of paper to people in the ‘complaints’ department of the company (probably a desk just 3 ft away) who I am told ‘don’t take incoming calls or mail and who also don’t speak to customers, or deal with complaints.’ I am reminded of the woman who I once thought batty who staggered around the neighbourhood with carrier bags stuffed full of papers and documents; campaigns against this, protests against that and suddenly all becomes clear, she wasn’t batty, she was a worrier!
Worry beads have in theory always appealed to me, the idea of being able to hold a physical representation of your woes, to finger each one in turn and then cast it aside to move onto the next sounds as though you might be solving all the problems as you go. But unless you can write on said beads the proposed resolution to each problem each new bead is going to come back round on the string and you will have forgotten what worries you have fingered to death and what you haven’t and suddenly you have more beads than worries and have to make up some more problems to get yourself back to the beginning and then you can’t remember what you have even covered so you have to go through everything all over again. Perpetuators of the anxiety!!!
Why do our worries have to come out in physical ways? You need only look at my hands to see what state of mind I am in. If the sides of my thumbs look as though I have been thrusting them into a blunt ham slicer then I am having a bad week. I nibble and tug at the skin, pushing my luck until one chew too far and I have ripped a young and steadfastly rooted sliver of flesh out of its moorings so that it can flap and flail and get caught on everything and have bits of fluff clinging to its craggy, blood matted edge.
It is as though the sheer frustration of not being able to solve my problems on my own makes me turn on myself, I absentmindedly gouge and piggle and provoke until I’m stinging and raw and I feel like one of those parrots that spends all day plucking its own feathers out. Maybe it’s a deficiency in me; maybe I need to eat more cuttlefish.
Cloud Computing is a 12-1 entry for Saturday's Preakness Stakes
seen during this morning's Sunrise Tour of Pimlico racetrack - HMBT!
below: another horse getting a morning workout with all fours up!