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I took this shot a few days ago but never got around to uploading it because of school work:( Anyway here it is now, I have a ton of stuff to upload+ I will be going abroad soon enough so there is plenty still to come!!!!!!!!!!!
Shankill, Co.Dublin,Ireland
Oh and a like never goes a miss on my facebook page!
Sometimes, it’s just best to leave everything else out and focus on the sky.
Nikon D5100 -- Nikon 18-55mm
555mm
F8@1/8th
(DSC_9143)
©Don Brown 2014
Just working out my new camera - an oldish, totally stylish Olympus micro four thirds. I just worked out that they have image stabilisation on as default. Which actually smooths out the sharpest zoomed in texture. Good for hand-held but no good if u use tripods and want it super clear as I do. I like the subtle and even noise too.
: ) Epic off-tangent comment!!! Noise in the images. That makes me think of... We have lots of noise in our own vision and our own image stabilisation and noise reduction programs in the brain's image processing department. We are so used to it we hardly notice it (or remember that its even just an image - that it can be edited and filtered). But like a camera, it is increasingly noticeable in low light or totally dark conditions. Our vision then becomes very grainy and noisy like an old movie.
Our conscious mind is not us, it is the operating system of what are really "virtual reality" meat-bots being used for infotainment by what are known as "souls" in human speak (its a very loaded word, dont get derailed by it) outside of this physical reality. Maybe on higher than the "highest" energy electromagnetism so they are effectively on another channel undetectable to us or maybe as encoded info on top of more regular scale light waves. Or some other way. Im not a highly advanced non-physical "alien" (or at least dont have access to the full info from here as a human) so I dont know.
Its like driving an "intelligent" "smart" AI car (which are actually very limited and heavily programmed and monitored. They just do their job). But you are not sitting in the car, you are in another room far away. Controlling it virtually. And it partly controls you too. You have driven it so much you forget it started as something like a game. (Having no memory of outside was a condition of entry agreed to and was supposedly part of the "learning experience" or whatever was said to dupe you into agreement). Your actual real non-meat-bot "mind"/self has also reconfigured so that it identifies and re-routs perception to the vehicles AI conscious mind perspective. It started as a game or a "learning or training experience" but actually there was a hidden agenda (*rolls eyes*) or that hijacked system is still part of the game.
One one level/perspective, it was really all about manipulating you into agreeing to donate your "time" and energy (same as debt money and work here, oddly enough) and building and maintaining a "virtual" false reality that is run by energy being siphoned off its participants' soul/energy-body things... who then are being corrupted and subverted into identifying with the "virtual reality" physical body (its more advanced than that) and forgetting you ever came from somewhere else. These "souls" are actually a second layer and are actually "virtual" bodies themselves. So its at least three layers. Its a very slick, well honed, very advanced, corrupt? system. As above so below. But in a very fractal, exponential and "multi-dimensional" way.
i.e. Working with big-picture, complex full-system management, specifically "beyond human comprehension". Just as humans control and use animals "beyond chicken/cow/sheep comprehension". Unless you begin to think big-picture. Not so much on details or on a narrow field of expertise but on broad, big systems, patterns and time scales.
I know anyone that reads this will be too locked up in layers of educated or otherwise-indoctrinated preconceptions to really see it as more than a little story. Or like its some movie or religion or whatever. The Matrix... Scientology, Mormons, Freemasonry etc etc. It is much like early Gnosticism and the archons (authority, bureaucracy, hierarchy), in essence, but that label also invokes preconceptions and is subverted like every world view becomes. Whether its a religion or an anti-religion, politico-economic systems, scientific or philosophical ideology... they are all compounded as a synthesis into each personal world-view. Differences and similarities managed on very large scales. Im trying to break out of preconceptions and break out of personally identifying with what are broken-system world views. Well thats out-there rant for today. I dont care if its not really relevant to the photo.
What is a nuance? Defined by Webster, "of subtle distinction or variation... nicety!"
This is what keeps me hiking during the winter months... looking for 'gems' like this among the ordinary dull colors! Note the slight crown of frost at the top.
Copyrighted 2012 ( Really nice on black )
This is a VINTAGE Japanese Komon. Komon are informal kimono worn at home and about town. They are essentially the jeans and t-shirt combo of the kimono world. This kimono likely originates in the mid to late Showa Period (1926 - 1989), likely the 1970's. This piece has a very subtle woven pattern. The detail photos show the actual colour of this kimono best.
I have inspected this kimono in detail, and it has a few minor stains on the interior, but the exterior is clean. Overall, I would rate this kimono in good vintage condition. There are no tears or seam separations. This garment can be worn. I believe this garment is 100% silk. The exterior seems to be omeshi silk (a high quality ikat textile), while the lining is likely habbotai.
MEASUREMENTS:
151cm - Long (Collar to Hem)
124cm - Arm span
59cm - Width across the back
137cm - Total width of skirt
49cm - Sleeve drop
SIZING:
If you are unsure of how to interpret the kimono's size it is important to know that the length (collar - hem) should be approximately 10cm longer to 10cm shorter than the wearer's overall height (longer is better). This is because the excess length will be folded up at the waist. Meanwhile, the skirt should wrap around the hips a full 1.5 times. The armspan should also reach wrist to wrist on the wearer. In this case, the kimono will ideally fit a woman about 141cm (4'8") - 161cm (5'3") tall, with hips about 91cm (36") around. There is some give and take in these measurements though.
This shortbread type of cookie is buttery and crunchy with subtle matcha flavour. The recipe yields 20 cookies.
INGREDIENTS:
l 60g butter, softened at room temperature
l 30g (1/8 cup) caster sugar
l 1/2 teaspoon matcha
l 90g (3/4 cup) cake flour, sifted
l 30g (1/4 cup) almond dice
l Baking chocolate
METHOD:
1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 160° C (320° F).
2. Cream butter and whisk until the mixture becomes pale white.
3. In another bowl, combine flour, matcha and almond
4. Mix the dry ingredients into the butter. Mix well. User a rubber spatula to gather the dough together.
5. Roll the dough into 2cm balls. Place the balls on the baking sheet about 1 – 2cm apart. Put the baking chocolate on top of the ball as decoration.
6. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove cookies from the oven and cool.
I was scrolling through my archives and stopped on this picture and converted it to B&W -- its a bit grainy and a bit off centre, but I liked the end result
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The error on this screen is more subtle than the previous whoopses.
If you decide to put a pretty bullet next to the active - linked - element which is text here then make that bullet active as well.
(Links should be blue and underlined, but hey...)
If you think about it in mechanical or electrical equipoment terms, people are still used to seeing a button that _does something_ when pressed, next to a legend, some text saying what it does. SO this screen neatly goes away from both the interface standard of the Web, and the interface standard of everything from coffee-makers to elevators in the office.
What does it conform to if anything? Bad Powerpoint slides perhaps?
And then consistency.
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10 green glowing things on the page.
(Very pretty, well chosen, my red-green colour discrimination is fine, thanks and of course the colour isn't a signal here.)
7 of them don't work.
1 of them is an arrow, which as we know should be called "previous".
It has a legend that isn't a live link.
2 of them are active - an interface correctness, and have a legend next to them which is also live. So someone knows what to do here...
(There's a comment facility here, by all means say why this is just the way it ought to be)
Screenshot-Safeguarding Adults E-Learning - Iceweasel-3
And then, not subtle, is the error in blue.
If yo make a link, don't make it on the words "Click here". World+Dog now knows what to do with it. Make it with the words that say what it leads to.
The scallops on both the roof panel and the hood match the stripe between the body tones. The thin black scallop stripes add a '60s flavor without being too gaudy. They follow all the factory body lines to enhance the car's shape.
It seems that most establishments of this sort proclaim to be "gentlemen's clubs", in an attempt to portray an air of sophistication.
Jake's had no such pretense. It laid it right out there.
Located in the tiny (population 163 in 2000) town of Coates, Minnesota, on the southern fringe of the Twin Cities Metropolitan area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Jake's had an - ahem - entertaining history.
After years of battling the town's attempts to shut it down, Jake's was finally closed by court order in October, 2002. The day after the court order, 89 people, many of them strippers, registered to vote in the Coates mayoral contest, each using Jake's as their home address. Later in the month, Dakota County prosecutors charged 95 people, including the owner of Jake's, with voter fraud. The owner was acquitted and, as far as I know, no one else was convicted.
Jake's remains closed.
I think part of the problem may be the changer, which is for the Pedersen hub.
I have altered it slightly to allow a fourth position - shown above - which seemed to allow all three gears in a stationary test, but not on the road.
Observe also the ingeniously-contrived barrel adjuster, using parts from a Sturmey-Archer changer, and the surprisingly effective method of attaching the control cable, which is passed through the hole where the indicator chain used to go, doubled back and whipped into a loop using wire.