"Hey pal, can I borrow your llama a second?"

b1-66er: https://petapixel.com/2024/01/19/the-awesome-winners-of-the-2023-ocean-art-photography-competition/

b1-67er: The monkey image is surprising, but it does create the uneasy possibility of just chucking wild animals in the ocean and taking pictures of them. 

The future penalty of dodging

b1-66er: En El Ocho they just said, "Dodgeball is all about integrity. About honesty."

b1-67er: I thought it was all about humiliation.

Oddly dodgeball was a game I could play ... I was very good at dodging. But, as you know, I could not throw worth a damn. So I'd last until the end, then the Casa Diver would destroy me with a 100 mph fastball.

66: That's just weirdly funny....In a "watch your little brother fall into the slush pool he just tried to push you in" kind of way.

Magically delicious apes

Special K: "The special charm of the first follow-up, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, is that the entire movie is out of its mind from start to finish."

Any colour you like (./?)

b1-67er: Interesting cell phone camera effect.  

This picture is with no flash. <blue moonrise>

Same sky a few minutes earlier with flash <purple moonset>

I think the camera bumps up the reds when you use the fash.  There is probably insufficient red in the flash led, so the software tries to make up for it.

b1-66er: That is interesting.

What make/model is that phone?

67: Samsung galaxy a53 

It takes nice landscapes

66: Sure as hell does.

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Holding the GFI steady

b1-66er: Remember this number

-> 0.392 <-

{The exact number doesn't matter ... The only thing that's important is it's

"... About 0.4..."

This'll come up in a medium-term face-to-face conversation at some point.

You'll think it's funny.

{Unless the Russians start WW III. Then it might not be so funny.}

b1-67er: Ok. I think if www3 starts, general funniness may be down.

The word isn't, "fornever"

b1-66er: https://petapixel.com/2024/01/12/the-millennium-camera-will-capture-arizonas-landscape-for-1000-years/

b1-67er: That's a really interesting idea, but I damn sure would want something that I could verify that I was getting an image within my lifetime. I'd also like a bigger negative. And the camera shouldn't be butt welded to a handrail on a slope that will be eroding across that much time. There should be a single piece of steel all the way to bedrock. I think they should imagine a little more.

66: Great comments.

D4rw1n: b1-67er out long-now-ing the millennium guys 

b1 series Sky Battle!

b1-66er: <desert neighborhood>

b1-67er: <not>

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