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He was born by caesarean section on December 25th, 1918, in Madison, Wisconsin. Nearly institutionalized at an early age, he surprised doctors with his above normal intelligence, unusual in such cases. He attended public schools in Madison. His bizarre appearance led to his being ostracized by fellow students. Outside of school one day, he was struck by an open beer can flung from the window of a passing car by some high school bullies. Slowing down, they taunted him with jeers, insults and threats. Speeding off, the car unexpectedly veered to the left, and struck an ancient Oak, killing three of the occupants. A fourth occupant became severely agoraphobic, and confined himself largely in his bedroom closet for the next 41 years. After this, he was left alone by other students. Three days after graduating from high school, he forgot to turn sideways while walking through a door (as he was forced to do his entire life) at a local candy store and knocked himself out cold. He was in a coma for three weeks. When he recovered, he was able to speak fluent Swedish. Doctors never resolved this mystery. Although he had a multitude of eyes, he was blind in two of them, having shot them out with a bee bee gun as a child. As a young adult, he dabbled in painting, and was barely able to make a living by selling his paintings on street corners or at local festivals. People purchased his paintings out of pity or because they thought it was cool to have a painting by that weird looking guy. Unfortunately, no surviving paintings can be located, and no image was ever recorded of them. However, it is said they were all signed with a one inch brush, dipped in Cadmium Red Medium, in Swedish. Andy Warhol is said to have purchased one of his paintings. When he was 25, he inherited a large sum of money from an uncle. He lived with his eccentric mother until her death a few years later. At this time, 47 cats were removed from the home by local authorities. He continued to occupy the house, until his own death in 1972. After his death it was discovered that he had a collection of 1,756 vintage ladies compacts kept in a shopping cart in his bedroom. He had apparently collected them from the local St. Vincent de Paul’s thrift shop over the years. He also had accumulated another 17 cats, one of whom had two tails, and another one of whom was probably half-dog. His body vanished from the funeral home while it was being prepared. Years later, a bizarre skull, matching his unique characteristics, was confiscated during a drug bust in Madison, apparently having been converted into a bong. It wound up in the possession of a distant relative, who had it restored, and then tried to sell it on Ebay. However, the relative forgot to indicate that it was being sold for educational purposes only, and the auction was cancelled. It was later obtained by the Anthropology Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and added to a large collection of pathological specimens in the Social Sciences building. At this time it was photographed. When an inventory was conducted on the collection some years later, the skull turned up missing, along with the skull of the half dog/half cat. The skull clearly shows the ravages of his habitual candy consumption.
Hunting Hollows, Hunting Hollows (172, 110, 21) - Moderate
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SKEL ON A SHELF! The Christmas Skeleton! When this bonehead shows up you can be dead sure it's going to be a bare bones Christmas. A very grave situation indeed as Santa's workshop is running with a skeleton crew and working their fingers to the bone. The disembodied moans you hear are from the people reading all these really bad puns. I'm sure you can come up with a few of your own.
Early morning stillness at Rannoch Moor, Scotland. There's a busy road 180° behind this scene but it's still a tranquil place to enjoy the light and reflections.
I uploaded the three remaining photos I had queued (and letting flickr choose which one is on top), there's little difference between them, but I'm now done with uploads from Rannoch moor until if and when I go back there.
Congratulations to Scotland on the elections, fair and square way to resolve an issue, that's the way to do it, no one cut each others heads off, or shoot down a civilian airline, or bomb a market or form a rebel militia. A lesson for the boneheads living just a 3 hours flight away.
ODC - high
I was thinking about a sugar high for the challenge but I am feeling a little under the weather today. Nothing like a bump from an espresso to give a jump start on a blasé day. Plus it gave me time to work on my understanding of off camera flash a bit. I definitely need to put together a space for tabletop photography too. I also did a total bonehead maneuver on this photo. I forgot to check my ISO settings after yesterday's shots with Flea. Fortunately, I was able to compensate with post processing by dialing back the exposure two stops.
05-4104
95th Fighter Squadron (95 FS) "Boneheads"
Red Flag 16-1
Nellis AFB, NV USA
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One and only time i saw this at Raf Lakenheath Home of the 48th Fighter wing. TY 05-101. AN unrestricted climb.... Great to see!!
has the dust cleared? all the pike and axe swinging over? the kool aid all drunk up?
we've all tipped hats to the ludicorp crowd for their hard work and apparent success: good good good.
weve all heard the 'yahoo as corporate vampire to suck the vitality from young damsel Flickr' war cries
weve all heard the 'lets give Yahoo and peace a chance' faction.
Yahoo bought Ludicorp technologies. they filled a quality gap in their services. this is what businesses do - create or assimilate.
but...
Yahoo didnt buy Flickr.
sacre bleu!.
Flickr is you and me - and everyone in this community. Flickr is the addictive magic that fires up when really smart and very cool people gravitate to each other, share their images, their histories, their experiences - share, support, and inspire. we make the community, we build the bonds, the groups, the discussions. its our photography that fuels the site. the fotolog exodus proved to me that the community was platform independent. as fotolog suffered service outages and performance lapses, that rock solid talented core of fotologgers spread out, found a home with flickr and sent word back to their friends still in fotolog who later joined. they became us and we became them. i cant imagine a flickr now without Zen, Watturm, or Sabinche. they are flickr, you are flickr. its the people, not the platform.
Now look what we get from this acquisition: service will stabilize - forget Yahoo branding and marketing for a moment - Yahoo knows how to maintain a global web service, improvement cycles will increase because S & C & E and their great dev team will be able to focus on the app rather than bad power supplies, failed disks, fritzy networks. just a week ago we were critical of the frequency of maintenance outages. they will be less and less frequent until they are a faint 'back in the day' memory. there is no risk of ludicorp financially folding over and taking our work with them. stability and service are now assured.
yahoo will make some great moves that surprise all of us. yahoo will make some bonehead moves that tick off all of us. those are both guarantees. but will yahoo destroy flickr?
no. they cant.
you will. you can.
flickr is the community. its not the technology. flickr is what happens when you get your first great comment, your first testimonial, your first invitation to join a group, the first time you start a group and your people fill it up and it thrives - flickr is what happens when your contacts become friends and your friends become your family. the technology under flickr will change in the next year - it will certainly stabilize, we may see branding and marketing issues that offend our web aesthetics and sense of cool, but those are issues we can process and harangue through - but yahoo can learn from flickr and try to earn some street cred (i remem' when yahoo was hosted on akebono.stanford) which translates into loyalty from the early adopter smart set which guide the trends that the others will follow. if they maul things here over too bad (we know how bad things can get) the community will migrate to another hot, smart responsive site. thats the nature of the game here - yahoo knows this, ludicorp knows this, you and i know this.
yahoo will now have to earn the loyalty of this community if they want their investment to work. that means listening, cajoling, being responsive, being real. Stewart and Caterina have already won our loyalty time and again - and we have earned theirs.
But we are Flickr - we give spirit to this great machine, we give energy to this collection of great personalities and photographers - and we grow and strengthen and evolve with each new member.
in my humble opinion...
"My remedy for Arthritis pain"
Take your bone tablets!
Glucosamine sulphate tablets.
It's great medicine for your cartilage & bone health.
"Well, go on pop some of these ..... or you may pop-off!"
That wouldn't be good now would it?
You certainly wouldn't want to end up like the patient in the photograph now would you!
For him it was, .... Too little too late!
So don't be like Mr Bone-head .... take the pills.
These capsules may contain allergens ... made with crustaceans ..... so read the label.
Just a little fun, photographed using a little toy skull, from last Halloween, and a small Glucosamine capsule, photographed in macro, oh yes a led light inside the skull for effects.
The whole image is less than 3 inches square.
The Glucosamine Sulphate 500mg capsule only measures - under 1 inch, the width across the image is only 2 inches across .... so well within the MM guidelines of 3 inches ... I have only stated these measurements because the image seems to look quite big, but in reality it's not!
Love & Peace everyone .... Sean 💖