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Whistle Blower
"I've got friends who have faded to aquaintences, and friends who ignore my existence. I'm recieving hate mail from a friend whom now loathes me. I've got a friend who is now my lover, and a friend who is no longer a friend. I have three dollars to my name and not a prospect. I've got a bungie cord for a belt, I'm living off of food stamps, devouring national newspapers like a junkie to pass the day, and I'm drinking my favourite beers in a freezing river half naked with an angel on the hottest spring day."
Caught By A In Southern Alberta
I'm just uploading this so I can have a rant about monitor calibration (nothing to do with this shot though).
Why do monitors need to be calibrated? Can't manufacturers just make them self-calibrating or something? I've only had mine calibrated for about a year, and some of the photos I processed prior to that now look a lot more saturated and contrasty than I intended. And I bet the photos I've processed in the last year look flat and dull on my old uncalibrated monitor.
Given the huge mix of calibrated and uncalibrated monitors out there, it seems you can't really win when it comes to displaying your photos online. It really bugs me knowing that my photos don't look as I intended on a lot of monitors.
What do you guys do???
Now, before I get to ranting, yes the picture it Rhett and Link. I made them a couple months ago on Lego Marvel Superheroes 2. Now, the rant:
In advanced I wanted to mention this happened a couple weeks ago, just forgot to post this then.
Okay. I use Facebook. I am on a member of a page called "Sounds bi I'm in" on Facebook. So... I know this page is to get bi people together and be friends and all... But some random guy messages me saying "hi" from that group. He then requests to call me like, 30 times. I then ask "what are you doing?". He never answers that question. He proceeds to keep calling me over and over, and then I'm like "FINE! I'LL ANSWER IT!" So, I try to. He doesn't respond. I try to call him back several times... He then says "can you please stop spamming me with calls?"! Later, he sends a message that is utter gibberish with no correctly spelled words, no proper capitalization, and no punctuation! I then state "sir, I don't know who you are. You keep spamming me with messages, and can you please repeat what you just said? I didn't understand it. Sorry." Sounds polite, right? Like, an easy request? Well, I guess he read it wrong! He then says "How do you live your life being so incredibly annoying and obnoxious."...That's when he blocked me. WHAT THE HELL?! AGHHHHHHHH
~Scarecrow
My rants ....
I'll try my best to speak nicely as I can on this subject.
Silence isn't good , it's confusing.
I have to share my odd rants here as I received 'annoying' emails from few flickr users these past couple of weeks, with the same email content : A link to their photo, a big picture of their photo, asking me to view the photo.
Two were my contacts in the past.
That's not difficult for me to do it, it's only one click away. But I find this very strange , and I don't like being emailed for it .
Checking up my past memory, I noticed the same flickr user emailed me few years ago requested me to check out his image . In a friendly manner, I did respond and left a comment on the image.
But I never got one back from the same flickr user, even a hidden fav . I think this person likes one way traffic for sure and "me " centered idea. Easy to psych up - hey, that's not how it works .
If you like views and favs, that's easy . My way is , don't email me. Rather visit my photo stream , leave a comment or fav on my latest postings, and I'll find your photos in flickr. I will count too how many you did lol. ( I'm not that vain ), but I will try and gladly reciprocate as much as I can ! Just don't clog up my emails.
In few days existence around flickr , you'll learn the simple dynamics, you earn views, comments/ favs on reciprocal basis mainly. Also put as many tags on your photos so it'll be found on online searches.
Joining and posting your photos in groups is another way your photos get noticed and get real people commenting / awarding. That's not bad for a starter.
If you're lucky having your photo on Explore, you boost up the number of views plus perhaps new people may leave comments. Although, I'm not sure if these EXPLORE views are real people ( I mean human beings ) viewing and astoundingly very impressed with our photos , but better than no views at all :)) . Sometimes I'm way convinced EXPLORE is simply a flickr configuration to boost up our individual egos and " feel better " factor and growing bonding attachment to flickr lol. Have you heard of FLICKR ADDICT ? It may give you a clue . I can't refrain from thinking maybe they have to used simple psychological tactics to get the hearts of people back in through EXPLORE mechanics .
I have number of photos on EXPLORE. Most of them aren't
"out of this world " impressive piece of work, just ordinary snap shots. I remember one boring flower photo I posted and in less than a day, it reached 6000 views. Hard to believe for a boring flower picture to catch so much attention / few thousand views in one day ? I wont complain though. However, for this reason , I can't avoid thinking slightly critical of EXPLORE .
My thoughts are, we should not expect a THOUSAND COMMENTS without giving away approximately the same. If I get 8,000 views, I would only hope they're real people, not 'GHOST' views manufactured by a flickr machine.
The Front Lawn Of My Private Mansion In Urumqi (The One Next To The Loud Next Door Nightclub With The Rowdy Noisy People Ranting Out Loud Until Two O'Clock In The Morning, (Just Like The One In San Francisco...))
it's an odd counterpoint to this morning news from US.
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Russell waterfront
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my micro rant, yet another one, goes like that:
nobody , and I mean NObody, should have ever expected anything from Donald but getting on a podium and calling thugs to overturn things. It was predetermined with 100% certainty. Not much has to be said there.
Nobody , and I mean NObody should have expected anything remotely resembling sane behaviour from the gang in Senate and Congress, including Democrats in there who totally failed to display any hint of brain or courage.
what I am exercised about is Ben Shapiros and Megyn Kellys of the world and many loaded business people who donated to DT because he "did good things for business" , i.e. so called intellectuals who want to justify DT just a little bit because some of "his policies" counter balance leftist extremes and help grow business.
Two points I'd love to make to these folks if I ever had a chance to meet them:
a deranged con man does NOT have any policies, he's incapable to have any policies, he has no idea what policy is, he's not in the business of policies , he's in the business of grift, that is as simple as that
being a "sometimes Trumper" makes as much sense as being "just a little bit healthy" or " ever so slightly honest" or " just a touch beautiful"
these "intellectuals" and "business people" really make me angry
That artist ...?
People who are struggling in the arts, are always able to be a magnet for others. In addition to his abilities, this person who is usually called an artist can anesthetize many people through his thoughts, creativity, work, voice or even life. Artists can also change the world, through everything they have.
Indeed, this opinion can never be strong without other supporting factors. But rest assured that the majority of people will argue the same. "Artists are not jobs, even just professions." More precisely is a way of expression, pouring thoughts that accumulate in the brain. Being an artist, is not necessarily based on always looking for money. But satisfaction. Yes, inner satisfaction, which is priceless by anything. Money, will flow along with the satisfaction of others who enjoy, watch, listen, feel and do it.
Artists never want to be far from their world. He never likes to stop working. He always wants to make others feel that they are all in the arts environment, also feel it together. Artists also always say that the world is art. Art that can finally make the world beautiful, not far from what is in the mind of the artist.
Sometimes, an artist is not much different from a crazy person. That's because his thoughts are not as logical as sane people in many communities. But thanks to his thinking, artists can create crazy things that are not thought of by many people. Also sometimes, sorry, like "tramp" and "scavenger". Because he often does not look "neglected", by maintaining what he was wearing at that time. Sometimes he doesn't eat, thinks of his work that is about to end, so that no one can block him. Sometimes he also "picks up" things or things that are no longer useful to many people, just to let them know that nothing is useless and can be used in this world, through the intellect that they have
Remember, "artists are not work". Artists want to tell that there is another world in the human subconscious, which so far has not been known and used by humans. But the majority of artists know and use it.
"Artists are not just a profession either." He just wants his voice, his work, his creativity, his abilities and all what he wants, to be appreciated by others. Nothing more than that. The rest, they want to be understood that an artist is also a human being, who also needs life.
Artists are not "beggars", who only hope for the mercy of others. Picking up rupiah by bowing your head without shame. Artists are also not willing to get compassion from others, because what is needed is nothing more than an appreciation and understanding.
Try to examine, what would life be like without artists as God's intermediaries to create musical instruments? Also dances, painting strokes, a beautiful poem and so forth. It's just, has the public examined it? The public's view of artists is like the wind. They just watch and listen, after that they go home and eventually they will forget. Or they are only limited to want to take part while as connoisseurs of art, after which disappeared no news.
Do you know what life is like for an artist? For one of his works, sometimes he needs a lot of food, to prop their stomachs for days. For one ability, sometimes they also need the same time as a baby to refer to standing alone, walking and running. For one appearance, he also always needs half of his life by risking his mind and endurance.
"Time". Yes, that's the life of an artist. That's also the essence of everything that an artist needs. But it is also time that artists can never have. Time always runs away leaving the artist so fast.
Do you know what will be the end of an artist's journey? The answer is still the same. "Time". The mass for an artist will be exhausted when his mind is full of millions of imaginations, which he will no longer have the chance to carry out. When his fingers are no longer able to write beautiful poems. When his voice began to discord unheard. Also his feet could not support his thin body. At that time, the mass of an artist was fairly over.
But not for his heart. He was still able to feel what was happening around him. He is still able to hear what beauty is. And finally, he will continue to feel happy even though in reality, the end of the mass of an always marginalized artist is also forgotten. An artist's happiness arises, when what he is doing, can make other people happy, "fuck" with himself. He will continue to wear his mask of happiness, and will continue to try to create it, until time no longer allows artists to keep breathing.
Then, what do you think about artists? Fill in the answers according to what you want about him, what you think about him, and what you think is all worthy of him. Obviously, artists are human ...
author: Panggih S.P
Lovely to see this family of longtails doing well, there was a third young one on another branch.
This is a collection of shots showing how even the parents feed the young, both the male and female were making sure all the babies were fed evenly. In this shots you can see how the chicks are larger than the female.
Hello All
Sorry for the large update tonight, having not been on flickr much of late I have loads to upload.
Do not feel you have to look through or comment on them all.
Sadly I’ve had a recent problem where contacts comments looked like they may have been altered.
There was slightly derogatory comments placed which they reckon they never posted.
Not heard of this happening before,
In the past I have had some abusive comments placed on my stream and sadly one imbedded link to a site that installed a virus on your computer if not protected. Luckily that morning I was online when they put the link up and my virus protector blocked the virus and I was able to remove and block the contact before anyone else looked at it.
Anyway…….I haven’t the time of late to keep up with all contacts…..the good and the unsavoury ones. So in a few days’ time I will be removing a large number of the pointless ones, like the girls looking for a man……or even the couple of guys looking for a man also. So sorry guys and girls use a dating site!
I’ll also be removing all the ones that have just added me because they’ve seen my shots on explore but have no intention of really following my stream. Also the people who add you then use your captures for their Galleries without asking me will also be deleted and blocked. People who have no photos and only list of favourites from other flickr members will be deleted and blocked
The list goes on……basically I’ll be keeping people who have a real love for nature, be it wildlife or the landscape around us. Anyone who loves their equipment more than nature itself may remove themselves. My stream was first and foremost about trying to show how wonderful the natural world around us is.
Sorry for the rant and hope you enjoyed the Otter vids, Grey wagtails mating , Brown Hares, Male Redstart and Long tailed tit family.
LIFE
The deep, deep sea is
Always beating
To test the strength of our dikes -
Always beating
Till all is annihilated.
The blessing of god
Is a little heap.
It's useless to protect,
It's useless to nourish.
Chairil Anwar Dec. 1942
God, this community acts like shit sometimes. Especially in regards to trolls. You see a troll, you block and move on. BLOCK AND MOVE ON. SERIOUSLY! Some of the best just start arguing with them, acting as if these accounts are real. And the best part is that you're only wasting your time! The Troll has succeeded! Do you feel like an Internet Vigilante now?
It's really easy to tell a troll account apart from the rest. Here's how.
1) Uses the name of a known troll account
2) Uses the name of a known troll/terrible internet personality from other parts of the internet
3) Only has 1 picture up and all it includes is racism, language etc...
4) The only few pictures are from someone else.
5) Links to porn or other shock sites deceptively.
6) Uses the name of a person who is not a troll, and has no pictures on their account
6) Adds many people as a contact and has no pictures up themselves and then does any of the above.
No need to argue with them, because at that point the troll has succeeded. There's a reason so many fake troll accounts keep popping up lately is because you guys are feeding them, and encouraging that kind of fucking rude behavior.
And to those who operate the troll accounts (More than one, or regularly). You're not funny, you're not cool, you're insane and need some serious psychiatric help because you don't know how to act in society, even on the internet.
A rolling steel massacre, locution exucuition date: A correcation to strife boild up spite,kill by night raged on a drinken biter haze. my mind is fragile. my reality delayed. my memory survives now only as a surreal. I catch glimpses of the thoughts and connect then backwards and forwards to the end of the night, constantly suspicious of including a dream. my mind is saturated with alcohol, acid build and forms, weighing around my organs, destroying my liver and decaying my bones. if i send out corres -pondence in good times, am i bragging or arrogant? in bad times,and desperate? the fact is, those ive loved i will always love no matter what, or else i would have never made the initial mistake of loveing them in the first place. i live my life careful and conscious,aware of my actions now and forever,yet my passion, and restraint. I would so hate to be indebted to regret. that past associations can manifest to ruin relationships before they begin is something i cannot be responsible to, i just want to stay in touch so that ten years from now im not still wandering where they are un-fortuntely it seems easier to ignore someone not...........................so bold and so tend that way i can acknowledge my past, talk about it rather than ignore large swaths that have evolved into mistakes.look maim lonesome but i know who i am
i wasnt going to rant on the nick and lucie pictures because i could careless but everyone was spazzing out on twitter.
SO.
lucie and nick and a few other cast mates, went to an amusment park and i guess now everyones all like "OMG NUCIE" -.- for one,
i think every person should be aloud to have a friend of the other gender.
second, hes lonely probably in london. he knew like no one, he cant go out?
third. im not going to worry, because when nick comes back to america we wont hear about this couple or anything.
but if she comes down or something for him. ill worry.
thats all(:
p.s. not saying the pictures arent cute, because they are. he looks happy. but why wouldnt he be happy?
I am not for sale. Not my body. Not my thoughts. Not my industry. Not my affection, commitment, or loyalty. And I'm not buying what they're selling anymore, either. I want things that aren't advertised on TV or in magazines. I want a world where everyone has a meaningful opportunity to decide what s/he wants on his or her own terms, with out all the static. I want girls (& women) to look in the mirror and love what they see. I want boys (& men) to feel free to feel.
**Note: The other day, I was bitching with a good friend (who will undoubtedly mock me for this post), and we both had the urge to rant about "society," "mass culture," "the media" etc., but he pointed out that such diatribes have a distinctly undergrad feel to them. I suppose he's right -- we are supposed to grow out of such broad-brush criticism and get a bit more nuanced in our arguments.... But today I feel like ranting like its 1999. :P
for hhnsifowm (I cheated a little. But this is a half-naked me, taken near a window, and photoshopped with two other windows. Hopefully Rebecca is too distracted by her new UK pals & won't be too annoyed with this cheater-cheater-pumpkin-eater.)
Broken Glass Texture by: Sick Little Monkey (Thx!)
The Swedish air force will usually do a fly-by over Stockholm this time of the year. They fly in a Christmas tree formation with either JAS Gripen, or SK50. Bad weather prevented it for a few days, but then yesterday the sky cleared up. I decided to wait for the fighter jets at Skogskyrkogården where there is free sight in every direction. I gave up after fifteen minutes. The only thing in the sky was this ambulance helicopter. But a few minutes later, after warming up indoors, before jumping on the bike again, I could hear the jets, but I never saw them...
"there is a world next to us that contains only spirit energy, demons, and people who are stranded between two worlds. the world of the living and the world of the dead" sometimes we have to give light (help) from some of those trapped in that world
--- a world that only certain people know----
LIFE
The deep, deep sea is
Always beating
To test the strength of our dikes -
Always beating
Till all is annihilated.
The blessing of god
Is a little heap.
It's useless to protect,
It's useless to nourish.
Chairil Anwar Dec. 1942
This probably happened to you:
1. Receiving a part order with a crucial part missing.
2. Pay all your part orders then you modify your design.
3. Receiving non LEGO parts.
4. Getting a message saying the part you wanted was no more available hence not shipped (but you get a coupon fuck yeah)
5. Carefully registering your wanted list and ordering, figuring out later some parts were missing on your studio model (hence your wanted list was wrong from the start)
6. Removing from your wanted list the parts your already had but fucking up the part count.
7. Not being selected as Staff Pick's in Studio gallery.
8. ...While that Mecabrick model remained a Staff Pick for like 2 months.
9. Buying a single part more than 10€ because you absolutely want it.
10. Getting coupons, never getting opportunities to use them.
11. Part order is 20€ before shipping/handling fees, 35€ after.
12. Trying to be a patriot by ordering all parts in your country, ending up with 20 different part orders.
13. Trying to buy all parts from a single shop but this costs 320€ instead of 80€
Additional notes:
Bricklink made LEGO part orders so much easier but everytime I work on a new model, one of the above will definitely occur. I never blame people for this (only myself) because it is so easy to make mistakes with all those tiny parts!
I made 106 part orders so far, all went good. Never had a serious problem with any shop (those above are not really problems, it's me ranting).
I am so incredibly angry right now, I just need to write this down before I lose my mind. How can someone hate an entire race/country based on their ethnicity? How can hatred be justified by the country they live in or the colour of their skin? I don't understand how such terrible actions and words against another person can be based on something entirely out of that person's control. How does one live with the knowledge that they've hurt someone for no reason? I've been on the recipient side of these kinds of things, being part Chinese, and it's not a pleasant feeling. It hurts on such a deep level. And it hurts so much because it's something I can't help. Genetics are set from birth and not by choice. What's the point of making someone hate who they are when there is nothing wrong with being Chinese or French or Greek or African? I just don't understand. I really don't.