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Poorly Purple Parking/Q-Park Heathrow Scania Fencer F1 shuttle bus YN72ZPR gets a helping hand back to the Pits from J&A Recovery's very smart 2017 Scania 6x2 (+2) NR05WAP, fitted with NRC Quick-Swap breakdown equipment.
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti swapping the shell of a laptop aboard the International Space Station during her Minerva mission. She posted these images to her social media on 22 August 2022 with the caption:
When IT hardware fails on you… some things are the same, in space or on Earth! Laptops seem to fail more frequently up here, though. We are all proficient at shell swaps by now!
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Credit: ESA/NASA
Luna and Lenovo. Something about the way she was sitting on the keyboard was causing the desktop icons to cycle through their various sizes and re-arrange themselves. I should have taken a movie.
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As I wrote in another Flickr set a few years ago, you can be reasonably sure that there will be lots of interesting people to photograph in Central Park if you happen to visit when on a weekend when the weather is nice. My typical plan, on such photo expeditions, is to walk through and around several different parts of the park -- in order to see different groups of people, and also to take advantage of different scenes and backdrops. But it means that I don't spend very much time in any one place, and most of my shots end up being "ad hoc" in nature, with almost no planning, preparation, framing, or composition.
On this particular weekend in mid-April, I decided to restrict my wandering to just one area -- the "Great Lawn" that's more-or-less in the center of the north-south expanse of the park. I walked around the sidewalk perimeter of the large grassy area, starting at the north end (because I had entered the park at 86th Street), heading down to the south end by the Delacorte Theater and the Belvedere Castle, and then back north again to my starting point. Actually, I went around the same loop two or three times before I got bored and went home ...
I had a 24-200mm zoom lens on my Sony RX-10 camera while I was walking, and while that made it relatively easy to capture some interesting scenes of people out in the middle of the lawn, as well as people just a couple feet away from me. Normally, I would just shrug and mutter to myself, "Well, that's the way it goes". For most of the walk,I set the lens to its maximum wide-angle setting, and take advantage of quick, unfocused, wide-angle "hip shots" whenever there was something interesting nearby that I had to shoot quickly.
When I got home, I decided to take a quick look at the Wikipedia article about the Great Lawn, to see if there was anything special that I needed to mention in these notes. I didn't expect to find much, because -- as far as I knew -- it had always been part of Central Park, and had always been the same. To my surprise, I found that that was definitely not not the case. Indeed, today's Great Lawn is situated on a flat area that was occupied by the 35-acre "Lower Reservoir" that was constructed in 1842 to supply water to the residents of the city. After the Croton-Catskill reservoir system was completed, the Lower Reservoir became redundant -- but political battles ensued for several decades before the city finally settled on a plan for an oval lawn.
That plan basically fell apart because of the Depression, and the open area was filled with a "Hooverville" of improvised shacks for quite some time. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia finally brought in the legendary Robert Moses (the visionary force behind so many other parks around New York City and the rest of the state) to implement the plan -- and it was essentially finished in 1934.
And there's more to the history, too, but I'll let you read that on your own if you're interested. (You might be interested to know, for example, that in 1995, Pope John Paul II held an open-air mass for 125,000 on the Great Lawn. Yes, it is that big!)
In any case, I finished my third loop around the park, went home and uploaded several hundred photos, which I've winnowed down to the ones you'll find in this set...
Monk's Tomb in Pagoda Forest Shaolin Buddhist Monastery Henan Province China
CoF109: Habitat & Low Contrast
Futaba’s laptop has character. She has customized it both outside and inside.
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Created for the We’re Here look at Middle Class Tech and Foreground Distraction.
A laptop computer with software including Powerpoint is intended primarily for use with the Viewsonic projector.
I love my new MacBook, and Widgets are too much fun (although the flickr one isn't working today, grr). Here are the specs for my new baby, for those of you who care:
13.3-inch widescreen display
1280 x 800 resolution
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor
1GB memory (2x512MB SODIMMs)
60GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
SuperDrive (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Yay!
.. Rashi got this new Laptop on her 11th B'day and I thought I will do a selfie with it :)
Strobe:
SB700: At 1/64 power, strapped with a green gel behind and facing the laptop screen
SB910: at 30 degree, camera right and 1/32 power, bounced
My old dell M1210 (3 years old now) has slowed down to a crawl. For the past few weeks it has been freezing every time it tries to run multiple applications, such as anti-virus, backup, spotify, etc.
This has been getting on my nerves now, so I spent a few hours today changing computers temporarily until my new Sony S 13" with the Intel Core i5 chip arrives. I can't wait!
Asus Mini laptops
Processor : 1.6ghz
Ram : 1gb
Hard Drive : 160gb
Display Screen : 10. inch,
wabcam
Modem, Lan, Wifi, Plus Charger, Battery Backup 2:30 Hour
Finally-- after 2 years of using the craptop-- i can afford a new laptop. It's a Turion64 because everybody knows that Intel sucks.