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David J Brooks wrote:

>very nice, Tony Sweet inspired.

Hey! No need to be insulting!
;-)

>> http://markrobertsphoto.tumblr.com/image/136389825136
 
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Steve Cottrell

On 1/1/16, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed:

>I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
>cultured and refined

That scene could be anywhere.

This scene, however, is (as you might say) awesome:



I wasn't there but the video itself is pretty amazing. Hoping this can
be viewed overseas

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Steve Cottrell

On 1/1/16, Malcolm Smith, discombobulated, unleashed:

>Photography is much like drains: what you get out of it, depends on what you
>put into it.

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Re: January PUG


so noted :-)
a

On 1/1/2016 8:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote:

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016, at 08:55 AM, ann sanfedele wrote:

  From the reports of what most of us did on New Years eve that deadline
extension wouldn't be necessary


...hence the quote marks around 'carousing'


Cheers

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On 1/1/2016 3:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote:

G'day all

Just a reminder that the closing date for the January PUG is Friday 8
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Theme: Reflection

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Re: PESO: Cabinet of Mysteries

2016-01-01 Thread Alan C


I wondered what happened to it.

Alan C

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A very strange, ancient piece of furniture:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18151254
K-5 IIs, DA 18-135 zoom
Comments are invited

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Re: OT: Wisdom for the New Year

2016-01-01 Thread P.J. Alling


I have to ask why is he your hero?

A few tweets down he states,

In the terminator, only living things can time travel.  But hair is 
dead.  So Arnold should have landed in LA not only naked but bald.


Lets parse this deep thought a minute.  No lets not, it's a freekin' 
movie.  You have to suspend disbelief, to enjoy it.


He completely misses the elephant in the room.  If only living things 
can time travel, Arnold should have arrived naked, bald and in the same 
condition as a boneless chicken, since his character, if you can call it 
that, is a machine wearing the simulation of a man fashioned out of 
living flesh.


So the terminator would have arrived sans skeleton, (metal), and brain, 
(computer) neither of which is technically alive.


At best he states obvious truths as if they were deep wisdom, with 
emphasis on the dumb...





On 1/1/2016 10:45 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

>From one of my heroes:

http://themetapicture.com/you-can-say-he-neiled-it-every-single-time/

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PESO - inspired by Boris

I dug out my own similar shot from last year:
http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~jcoyle/PESO_014.html

Comments and criticisms taken on board!


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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread John Francis

On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 05:04:23PM +1300, David Mann wrote:
> I think I must have had the most boring NYE of the lot of us.  I did 
> absolutely nothing special and went to bed at the usual time.  I haven't 
> bothered with the midnight thing for a few years now.  It'll be midnight 
> somewhere in the world throughout the whole day so there's no need to stay up 
> :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave

We pretty much match you for that.

I never work between Christmas and New Year (with one exception).
This year my wife chose to take a couple of weeks off to recharge
after a hectic last few months of the year, so we spent the whole
two weeks just lazing around the house doing nothing much except
playing games or watching movies.

We don't have any family out here (my brother lives in Texas, but
apart from that almost all our relatives are back in England), so
Christmas day itself isn't a big thing. We do still cook ourselves
a traditional turkey dinner, and we make lots of other nice items
(mince pies, veal ham and egg pie, Dundee cake, etc.) to snack on
during the off-work break.

On New Year's Eve we did consume a bottle of champagne-in-all-but-
name over the course of the evening, but we didn't bother to stay
up until midnight.

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RE: PESO: Cabinet of Mysteries

Years ago I nearly bought one of those - pharmacist's storage cabinet, I think 
- to store 35mm.
slides in - the dimensions were just about right!
Nice piece of furniture, too.


John in Brisbane


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A very strange, ancient piece of furniture:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18151254
K-5 IIs, DA 18-135 zoom
Comments are invited

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread David J Brooks

Liz was an accillary police officer from 1984 till 1999, pretty much
of Erin's formative years, and would always be out on a patrol New
Years Eve, so i would stay home with our daughter and in house
celebrate. Now that she has retired from that and our daughter has
moved on we continue the tradition of an early supper and bed.

Dave

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
>
> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
> is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
>
> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
> cultured and refined:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
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Re: PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)


Is it supposed to be all blurry like that?

On 1/1/2016 3:03 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:

David J Brooks wrote:


very nice, Tony Sweet inspired.


Hey! No need to be insulting!
;-)


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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher


Am 01.01.16 um 14:40 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola:

We stayed home, had some
good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.


Happy new year, one and all.

We're currently on holiday in Dunkirk, France. Had a decent lunch at a 
local restaurant yesterday at noon, before everything closed.


Strolled around the harbour and watched the local steel mill do its 
thing, then returned home and microwaved two tins of chicken tikka. Were 
in bed by eleven.


Thankfully, they do very little fireworks, over here.

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Mark C

We watched Hunt for Red October on TV, the local news, and then watched 
the ball drop. New Years Eve is a quiet night for us - we have family 
gatherings on Xmas Eve, Christmas day,  the  day after Christmas 
(nephew's birthday) and then on new years day (niece's birthday).  This 
year we hosted the Xmas eve and Xmas gatherings so we had leftovers from 
both of those dinners last night.


The cats sat atop their cat towers and stared at us, but they do that 
every night...


Mark

On 1/1/2016 8:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.

It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.

I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
cultured and refined:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?


I used to go out, but I was always the "designated driver" which gets
tiresome after too many years.

Now I just stay home and if I want a drink I can take one.

On 1/1/2016 1:50 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:

Funny thing is, I've *never* been a big New Year's Eve celebrator.
We rang in the new year at home, just Dr. Lisa, myself and the cats.
Ordered take-out curry from a local Indian place (the cats did not
partake) and had a bottle of champagne (none of that for the cats
either) and had a nice evening reading books (I got "And Yet...", the
recent collection of Christopher Hitchens' essays and it's very good).




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January PUG

G'day all

Just a reminder that the closing date for the January PUG is Friday 8
January - the extra time being to allow us all to recover from the
"carousing" over New Year...

Theme: Reflection

Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html

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Cheers

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Re: January PUG

From the reports of what most of us did on New Years eve that deadline 
extension wouldn't be necessary


ann

On 1/1/2016 3:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote:

G'day all

Just a reminder that the closing date for the January PUG is Friday 8
January - the extra time being to allow us all to recover from the
"carousing" over New Year...

Theme: Reflection

Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html

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Re: PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)

2016-01-01 Thread Mark C


Nice! Lots of other good stuff there as well.

Mark

On 1/1/2016 10:52 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:

Doug Brewer got me started on Tumblr last year. Here's my first post
of 2016.
http://markrobertsphoto.tumblr.com/image/136389825136
  



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Re: PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)

Question for Mark R.;
Could you have done as well had
you not had all that "Whoopie"
champagne? 
J




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> On Jan 1, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Mark C  wrote:
> 
> Nice! Lots of other good stuff there as well.
> 
> Mark
> 
>> On 1/1/2016 10:52 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
>> Doug Brewer got me started on Tumblr last year. Here's my first post
>> of 2016.
>> http://markrobertsphoto.tumblr.com/image/136389825136
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Christine Aguila

A while back, I had seen a photo essay on the nightlife in Cardiff, and when I 
started to run through the photos in the link below, I quickly checked to see 
if I was in Cardiff, and as I moved along, I realized, yes, some of the photos 
captured the Cardiff scene!

Darrel & I spent the New Year like we have for years:  an extremely casual 
dinner with two other couples with great food, wine, and giggles.  We catch 
each other up on our lives and engage in great dinner-table conversation, 
teasing, jokes, and humor—and by the by, this year’s best christmas-cracker 
joke was:  What do you call a man with a seagull on his head?  Cliff!

Happy New Year, PDML!  I wish everyone Health, Joy, Peace, & Prosperity!

Big cheers, Christine & Darrel!

> On Jan 1, 2016, at 7:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
> 
> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
> 
> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
> is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
> 
> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
> cultured and refined:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
> 
> Dan Matyola
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Re: Google can be infuriating.

2016-01-01 Thread Larry Colen




Bruce Walker wrote:

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:16 AM, P.J. Alling  wrote:

They could have tried to guess my password, it wouldn't be impossible, as I
believe a weak password you remember is better than a strong password that
you have written down where it can be found.


Bad assumption. The number of folks who have access to the Post-it
notes you stuck to the bottom of your keyboard at home is very
limited. But a server-farm of hacked PCs running 24x7 can crack easy
passwords in seconds, anywhere on the net.


Although access to post it notes on your desk at work is a little harder 
to control.  What I did was come up with one solid password to remember, 
then I have a simple system that changes it for each site, like the 
first and third letters of the url.


For example the root might be t1h$7@e
and if I prepend the first and third letters of a url, I'd get

got1h$7@e  for google
yht1h$7@e  for yahoo
pmt1h$7@e  for pdml
rdt1h$7@e  for red4est

Someone that hacks several of my passwords would be able to figure out 
the rest, but that's not generally the way they do it.  They just steal 
the passwords from one site, then try applying them with the same email 
to every other site.


  >



So now I've changed it to
something that's not easily guessed.  I just hope I don't forget it.


If you easily forget passwords -- who doesn't? -- get one of those
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
> On 1/1/16, Malcolm Smith, discombobulated, unleashed:
> 
> >Photography is much like drains: what you get out of it, depends on what you
> >put into it.
> 
> Mark.


Yes - definitely worthy of Mark but I'm pretty sure Tom Lehrer said it
first - although he substituted 'sewer' for 'drain'.


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On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:16 AM, P.J. Alling  wrote:
>
> They could have tried to guess my password, it wouldn't be impossible, as I
> believe a weak password you remember is better than a strong password that
> you have written down where it can be found.

Bad assumption. The number of folks who have access to the Post-it
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limited. But a server-farm of hacked PCs running 24x7 can crack easy
passwords in seconds, anywhere on the net.

> So now I've changed it to
> something that's not easily guessed.  I just hope I don't forget it.

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Stanley Halpin


> On Jan 1, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Bob W-PDML  wrote:
> 
> On 1 Jan 2016, at 13:41, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
>> 
>> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
>> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
>> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
>> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
>> 
>> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
>> is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
>> 
>> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
>> cultured and refined:
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
>> 
> 
> I celebrated in the traditional manner shown in the article.
> 
> B
> — 

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Re: Geso: photos taken with Pentax mount glass on full frame camera

2016-01-01 Thread Mark C

Nice collection of images, Don. I really like the first set - the snowy 
scenes.


In many ways I like the effect of the crop factor but will be interested 
in seeing how the FF works. I wonder if APS-C will still be the way to 
go for macros and telephoto work, while full frame would have the 
advantage with landscapes and general shooting. In any case, it's good 
to see that the old FF pentax glass seems to hold up well.


Mark

On 12/30/2015 4:17 PM, Donald Guthrie wrote:
As rumors of a Full Frame camera are getting closer to fruition, I 
wondered how my pentax mount glass would work. Borrow Lenses offered 
me 17 days for a 7 day rental price over the holidays. So I rented a 
Sony A7II. My full frame lens collection consisted of Pentax 28mm, 
28-70 & 70-200 Tamrons, a 50mm Pentax 42 screw mount Sears labeled 
50mm, A Tokina 70 to 200, a Sigma 28mm and Rokinon 14 mm. These photos 
are the results of my shooting. I did not take notes on which lenses I 
used for the pix and of course the exif is no help. If there is a 
specific one of the above lenses you want me to test, let me know and 
I will post that one. Most are non or slightly cropped except the one 
of all colored glass which is maybe a 90-100% crop. Used a $15 
adaptor. I had no Sony native lenses to use.


My general impression of FF is nice bokeh and low noise even even 
after pulling the shadows up from black. The biggest surprise for me 
was how wide a 28mm  is and how short a 200 mm is.


Here are the links to two sets; would be happy to get your opinion on 
the photos and to answer any questions you might have.



http://adobe.ly/1TqeEeb

And a second one on an afternoon in a Botanical Center with butterflys 
& Plants. .


http://adobe.ly/1MyGuit




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RE: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

Dinner with two of our children and the children of one of them, thirteen in 
all, a couple of
bottles of ersatz champagne, two of decent Australian reds, roast lamb with the 
trimmings,
city-organised fireworks display at 8.30, then games and conversation until 
1.00am.  All-in-all, a
pretty good night!

John in Brisbane




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Pretty much Ditto...Stayed home, had a nice dinner and some wine, a little 
Netflix watching, wished
each other a Happy New Year.

-p

On 1/1/2016 7:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some 
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the 
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and 
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
>
> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing 
> is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
>
> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained, 
> cultured and refined:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-nigh
> t-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
>
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Steve Cottrell

On 1/1/16, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed:

>Mark!

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Larry Colen

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 08:40:15AM -0500, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.

I was asked to do a photo booth at a NYE party.  I set it up using 
an eyefi to post previews to an android tablet. I also used my 
YN radio triggers to trigger the camera and also to trigger the 
strobes.

This allowed me photobomb all sorts of photos by absent mindedly
wandering into the line of sight:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157662886250152

Lesson learned, mark a "do not go" area on the floor.

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Re: PESO: Cabinet of Mysteries

2016-01-01 Thread Paul Sorenson

Hmmm.  Looks like a library card catalog. Nice piece of furniture. 

Sent from my iPad

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> A very strange, ancient piece of furniture:
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Re: PESO: Cabinet of Mysteries

It's beautiful! DAn Were you inspired to post the photo after I 
mentioned what I kept my prints in? :-)
I wish I owned this one, although not sure about the scale, those 
drawers may only be 5 inches wide -

but better looking than what I have


ann

On 1/1/2016 11:32 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:

Hmmm.  Looks like a library card catalog. Nice piece of furniture.

Sent from my iPad


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A very strange, ancient piece of furniture:
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K-5 IIs, DA 18-135 zoom
Comments are invited

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Re: Google can be infuriating.



On Sat, Jan 2, 2016, at 01:24 AM, Bill wrote:
> On 12/31/2015 11:51 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
> > Today Google informed me that someone tried to access my Google account
> > using my password, (nice of them to notify me, scary that they deduced
> > the issue from analyzing my activity).  So I changed my password and
> > upped the security on the account.
> >
> > So of course my e-mail client, (Thunderbird), could no longer log in
> > using the POP server.  Google's new security protocol breaks standard
> > email login.  Who the hell do they think they are Microsoft?
> >
> > So I had to lower the security settings, and of course, (once again),
> > it's all or nothing.  I'm wondering how they got my password.  It isn't
> > something that I'd put on the internet.
> >
> 
> They do that to me if I log in with a new device.


Ditto.


Cheers

Brian

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Re: PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)

More like a jilted bride, in my experience.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 3:52 PM, knarf  wrote:
> "A good tripod is your best friend."
>
> Cheers,
>
> frank
>
> On January 1, 2016 3:27:38 PM EST, John  wrote:
>>Is it supposed to be all blurry like that?
>>
>>On 1/1/2016 3:03 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
>>> David J Brooks wrote:
>>>
 very nice, Tony Sweet inspired.
>>>
>>> Hey! No need to be insulting!
>>> ;-)
>>>
> http://markrobertsphoto.tumblr.com/image/136389825136
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Re: Google can be infuriating.

2016-01-01 Thread steve harley


On 2016-01-01 12:48 , Bruce Walker wrote:

If you easily forget passwords -- who doesn't? -- get one of those
apps like 1password that keep them safe for you.


i have been using 1Password for many years now, and it has saved me 
uncountable time and worry


when i have helped few people to get started with 1Password they have been 
really happy with it after getting over the hump; others have strongly 
resisted the effort, yet within a few months they have clearly spent far 
more effort resetting passwords, trying to remember the obfuscated way they 
wrote them in their address books, etc.





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Re: January PUG

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016, at 08:55 AM, ann sanfedele wrote:
>  From the reports of what most of us did on New Years eve that deadline 
> extension wouldn't be necessary


...hence the quote marks around 'carousing'


Cheers

Brian

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> On 1/1/2016 3:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
> > G'day all
> >
> > Just a reminder that the closing date for the January PUG is Friday 8
> > January - the extra time being to allow us all to recover from the
> > "carousing" over New Year...
> >
> > Theme: Reflection
> >
> > Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html
> >
> > 7 submissions so far.
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Re: Google can be infuriating.

2016-01-01 Thread steve harley


On 2016-01-01 16:51 , John Coyle wrote:

I use a password-locked encrypted Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet - should be harder to 
crack?


do you mean password-locked, plus separately encrypted? if just 
password-locked, there is commercial software that will crack it



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Re: Google can be infuriating.


I've tried several times to set up a TrueCrypt thumb drive. There's
supposed to be a way to encrypt the entire drive so that when it mounts
it will automatically prompt for a login ID & password.

So far I haven't even been able to create an encrypted volume on the
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The volumes are there, but I can't get to whatever is inside them.


On 1/1/2016 6:51 PM, John Coyle wrote:

I use a password-locked encrypted Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet - should be harder to 
crack?

John in Brisbane



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I have a journal with all of my passwords

Dave

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Bruce Walker  wrote:

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:16 AM, P.J. Alling  wrote:


They could have tried to guess my password, it wouldn't be
impossible, as I believe a weak password you remember is better than
a strong password that you have written down where it can be found.


Bad assumption. The number of folks who have access to the Post-it
notes you stuck to the bottom of your keyboard at home is very
limited. But a server-farm of hacked PCs running 24x7 can crack easy
passwords in seconds, anywhere on the net.



So now I've changed it to
something that's not easily guessed.  I just hope I don't forget it.


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apps like 1password that keep them safe for you.


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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

Not a lot different to the rest of you - other than Bob... We really
must be an 'old farts' list!

We watched The Big Bash (20/20 cricket) from Adelaide - great fun, even
if the Sydney team lost - then stayed up to midnight to watch (again on
TV) several million dollars go up in smoke (the Sydney fireworks).


Cheers

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On Sat, Jan 2, 2016, at 12:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
> 
> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
> is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
> 
> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
> cultured and refined:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
> 
> Dan Matyola
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Re: PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)

2016-01-01 Thread knarf

"A good tripod is your best friend."

Cheers,

frank 

On January 1, 2016 3:27:38 PM EST, John  wrote:
>Is it supposed to be all blurry like that?
>
>On 1/1/2016 3:03 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
>> David J Brooks wrote:
>>
>>> very nice, Tony Sweet inspired.
>>
>> Hey! No need to be insulting!
>> ;-)
>>
 http://markrobertsphoto.tumblr.com/image/136389825136
>>
>>

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Bob W-PDML

On 1 Jan 2016, at 20:52, Brian Walters  wrote:
> 
> Not a lot different to the rest of you - other than Bob... We really
> must be an 'old farts' list!
>> 

I didn't really celebrate like the article. Just a couple of aperitifs with my 
guests and a meal out, with more drinking, but nothing Cardiff-like, and an 
early night for an early morning start. I'm too old, like everyone else here...
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread David Mann

I think I must have had the most boring NYE of the lot of us.  I did absolutely 
nothing special and went to bed at the usual time.  I haven't bothered with the 
midnight thing for a few years now.  It'll be midnight somewhere in the world 
throughout the whole day so there's no need to stay up :)

Cheers,
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> On Jan 2, 2016, at 2:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
> 
> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
> 
> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
> is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
> 
> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
> cultured and refined:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
> 
> Dan Matyola
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

Ironically, as one of the more introverted list members, I would
normally spend NYE at home. But a few years ago our street gained an
gregarious young couple who invite their family and all the neighbors
over each year.

So my wife and I spent the first three hours of the evening nibbling
fabulous food -- we contributed crockpot chili -- drank some red wine,
and caught up on neighborhood gossip.

Then we went home and were in bed by ten o'clock. :)  The whole
midnight thing is a big yawn for me.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
>
> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
> is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
>
> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
> cultured and refined:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
>
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?


Yours sounds about like mine except I don't have a dog or Amaretto, so
Southern Comfort had to suffice and the cat doesn't do walks.

On 1/1/2016 9:08 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:

Your night was positively sybaritic compared to mine.  I watched a
couple of episodes of a popular series on Hulu, checked the PDML, dealt
with my gmail issues, drank a celebratory Amaretto and Coffee, then took
the Dog for a walk sometime around midnight.  Oh, and I pretty much
ignored the Times Square thing.

On 1/1/2016 8:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.

It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.

I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
cultured and refined:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html


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Re: PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)


this is the one Mark took after the New year's imbibement?

ann

On 1/1/2016 3:52 PM, knarf wrote:

"A good tripod is your best friend."

Cheers,

frank

On January 1, 2016 3:27:38 PM EST, John  wrote:

Is it supposed to be all blurry like that?

On 1/1/2016 3:03 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:

David J Brooks wrote:


very nice, Tony Sweet inspired.

Hey! No need to be insulting!
;-)


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Re: PESO - New Year, New Hope

knarf wrote:

>I took this last weekend down by the lake. It was sunset but I was looking 
>southeast; the clouds caught a tinge of the sun.
>
>As I looked at it this morning I thought, simple as it is, it says something 
>about the hope of this day:
>
>http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/12/early-winter.html?m=0

Great photo.

But I think you should change the name of your color photo blog from
"Knarf Does Kolor" to "Ethically Raised Rasberries". It just seems
like that ought to be a name of *someone's* blog and it might as well
be yours.

 
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PESO: Cabinet of Mysteries

A very strange, ancient piece of furniture:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18151254
K-5 IIs, DA 18-135 zoom
Comments are invited

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RE: Google can be infuriating.

I use a password-locked encrypted Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet - should be harder to 
crack?

John in Brisbane



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I have a journal with all of my passwords

Dave

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Bruce Walker  wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:16 AM, P.J. Alling  
> wrote:
>>
>> They could have tried to guess my password, it wouldn't be 
>> impossible, as I believe a weak password you remember is better than 
>> a strong password that you have written down where it can be found.
>
> Bad assumption. The number of folks who have access to the Post-it 
> notes you stuck to the bottom of your keyboard at home is very 
> limited. But a server-farm of hacked PCs running 24x7 can crack easy 
> passwords in seconds, anywhere on the net.
>
>
>> So now I've changed it to
>> something that's not easily guessed.  I just hope I don't forget it.
>
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> apps like 1password that keep them safe for you.
>
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Re: PESO: Happy birthday to her

2016-01-01 Thread WILSON MICHAEL

> On 01 January 2016 at 05:53 Paul Stenquist  wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks Ann. Roberts still missing after half a dozen posts since Marlene died
> . Maybe I'm being  oversensitive, but I find it odd and disturbing. Thinking
> about calling it quits.

I don't understand significant parts of the above but the end is slightly
disturbing.

Get a good night's sleep, then head up and onward into another day.  It's the
human way.  I'm sure there are planty of people here who would be happy to
converse with you about your troubles, either on or off list, if that will help
you find your way.

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Re: PESO: Happy birthday to her

2016-01-01 Thread Paul Stenquist

It was meant to be off list. I've had a rough time of it lately. I'm not 
contemplating suicide, just thinking the PDML may not be a good place for me 
now.

Paul via phone

On Jan 1, 2016, at 3:55 AM, WILSON MICHAEL  wrote:

>> On 01 January 2016 at 05:53 Paul Stenquist  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks Ann. Roberts still missing after half a dozen posts since Marlene died
>> . Maybe I'm being  oversensitive, but I find it odd and disturbing. Thinking
>> about calling it quits.
> 
> I don't understand significant parts of the above but the end is slightly
> disturbing.
> 
> Get a good night's sleep, then head up and onward into another day.  It's the
> human way.  I'm sure there are planty of people here who would be happy to
> converse with you about your troubles, either on or off list, if that will 
> help
> you find your way.
> 
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> swine
> trying to micromanage the world.
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Re: PESO: Happy birthday to her

2016-01-01 Thread WILSON MICHAEL

I find this place to be a good place to be when things are not going well.  It
reminds me that it's me that's out of kilter.  Sometimes it reminds me right
between the eyes but that's good, too.

> On 01 January 2016 at 10:49 Paul Stenquist  wrote:
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> 
> It was meant to be off list. I've had a rough time of it lately. I'm not
> contemplating suicide, just thinking the PDML may not be a good place for me
> now.
> 
> Paul via phone
> 
> On Jan 1, 2016, at 3:55 AM, WILSON MICHAEL  wrote:
> 
> >> On 01 January 2016 at 05:53 Paul Stenquist  wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thanks Ann. Roberts still missing after half a dozen posts since Marlene
> >> died
> >> . Maybe I'm being  oversensitive, but I find it odd and disturbing.
> >> Thinking
> >> about calling it quits.
> > 
> > I don't understand significant parts of the above but the end is slightly
> > disturbing.
> > 
> > Get a good night's sleep, then head up and onward into another day.  It's
> > the
> > human way.  I'm sure there are planty of people here who would be happy to
> > converse with you about your troubles, either on or off list, if that will
> > help
> > you find your way.
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread P.J. Alling

Your night was positively sybaritic compared to mine.  I watched a 
couple of episodes of a popular series on Hulu, checked the PDML, dealt 
with my gmail issues, drank a celebratory Amaretto and Coffee, then took 
the Dog for a walk sometime around midnight.  Oh, and I pretty much 
ignored the Times Square thing.


On 1/1/2016 8:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.

It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.

I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
cultured and refined:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html

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Re: Google can be infuriating.

2016-01-01 Thread P.J. Alling


On 1/1/2016 2:03 AM, John wrote:


On 1/1/2016 12:51 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:

Today Google informed me that someone tried to access my Google account
using my password, (nice of them to notify me, scary that they deduced
the issue from analyzing my activity).  So I changed my password and
upped the security on the account.

So of course my e-mail client, (Thunderbird), could no longer log in
using the POP server.  Google's new security protocol breaks standard
email login.  Who the hell do they think they are Microsoft?

So I had to lower the security settings, and of course, (once again),
it's all or nothing.  I'm wondering how they got my password. It isn't
something that I'd put on the internet.



Did Google say someone had actually gained access to your account?

Could be someone tried to guess the password.




According to their e-mail they knew my password, but google blocked 
access because, they tried to log in with a device I never used before, 
from a location I never logged in from before, using an app I'd never 
run before.


They could have tried to guess my password, it wouldn't be impossible, 
as I believe a weak password you remember is better than a strong 
password that you have written down where it can be found. So now I've 
changed it to something that's not easily guessed.  I just hope I don't 
forget it.


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Re: Google can be infuriating.

2016-01-01 Thread Bill


On 12/31/2015 11:51 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:

Today Google informed me that someone tried to access my Google account
using my password, (nice of them to notify me, scary that they deduced
the issue from analyzing my activity).  So I changed my password and
upped the security on the account.

So of course my e-mail client, (Thunderbird), could no longer log in
using the POP server.  Google's new security protocol breaks standard
email login.  Who the hell do they think they are Microsoft?

So I had to lower the security settings, and of course, (once again),
it's all or nothing.  I'm wondering how they got my password.  It isn't
something that I'd put on the internet.



They do that to me if I log in with a new device.

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PESO - New Year, New Hope

2016-01-01 Thread knarf

I took this last weekend down by the lake. It was sunset but I was looking 
southeast; the clouds caught a tinge of the sun.

As I looked at it this morning I thought, simple as it is, it says something 
about the hope of this day:

http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/12/early-winter.html?m=0

Happy New Year. May you have happiness and peace in 2016. May the world see 
happiness and peace in 2016.

Cheers, 

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Re: PESO - New Year, New Hope

That is a very fine image, Frank!

The bird completes the scene, and you caught it in just the right
place and right posture.  I really envy your eye for these things,
Frank.

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On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 10:16 AM, knarf  wrote:
> I took this last weekend down by the lake. It was sunset but I was looking 
> southeast; the clouds caught a tinge of the sun.
>
> As I looked at it this morning I thought, simple as it is, it says something 
> about the hope of this day:
>
> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/12/early-winter.html?m=0
>
> Happy New Year. May you have happiness and peace in 2016. May the world see 
> happiness and peace in 2016.
>
> Cheers,
>
> frank
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PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)

Doug Brewer got me started on Tumblr last year. Here's my first post
of 2016.
http://markrobertsphoto.tumblr.com/image/136389825136
 
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Re: PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)

It doesn't look like something I'd
want to repeat! ;-)
J

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> Doug Brewer got me started on Tumblr last year. Here's my first post
> of 2016.
> http://markrobertsphoto.tumblr.com/image/136389825136
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Re: PESO - Happy New Year!

An interesting image indeed, and a real attention grabber.

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On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Bob W-PDML  wrote:
> On 1 Jan 2016, at 03:16, Rick Womer  wrote:
>>
>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18150786=lg
>>
>
> Wow! Same to you, and to everyone here!
>
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Re: PESO: Happy birthday to her

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:
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> the PDML may not be a good place for me now

The PDML would not be the PDML without you, Paul.  You are a centrel
member of this community, as ragged and disorganized as it is, and not
just because of your photography, but because of your endearing
humanity ability to share your feelings and respond to the feelings of
others.

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Paul

Pretty much Ditto...Stayed home, had a nice dinner and some wine, a 
little Netflix watching, wished each other a Happy New Year.


-p

On 1/1/2016 7:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.

It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.

I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
cultured and refined:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html

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Re: PESO: Happy birthday to her

2016-01-01 Thread knarf

That's a beautiful photo, Paul. I'm sure you must have such bittersweet 
feelings this, her first birthday since she left.

Memories of joy and beauty and happiness, mixed with anger, loss and grief.

I'm glad you have a few photos and I feel honoured that you shared this one 
with us. She was beautiful, and from what you told us over the years, a 
beautiful human being.

I wish you peace,

frank



On December 31, 2015 5:53:35 PM EST, paul stenquist  
wrote:
>Had not cancer claimed her some 7 weeks ago, Marlene, my wife of 44
>years, would have been 66 today. I spent the morning searching old
>negative files for photos of her. She didn’t like to be photographed,
>so there aren’t very many, and those I shot I usually didn’t print.
>This is one of those. Never printed, never before scanned. I shot it
>during the second week of December, 1975, which I know to be the case
>since the envelope was labeled “Erik at 10 weeks.” Erik, our first
>child,  was born on September 30, 1975. Undoubtedly, with my Mamiya
>1000TL and the corresponding normal  lens — a Mamiya Sekor 50 1.8 I
>think. Scanned it this morning. Made me feel better, although I miss
>her much today. 
>
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Re: PESO - New Year, New Hope

The sincerity gives me hope, knarf!
J


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> On Jan 1, 2016, at 7:16 AM, knarf  wrote:
> 
> I took this last weekend down by the lake. It was sunset but I was looking 
> southeast; the clouds caught a tinge of the sun.
> 
> As I looked at it this morning I thought, simple as it is, it says something 
> about the hope of this day:
> 
> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/12/early-winter.html?m=0
> 
> Happy New Year. May you have happiness and peace in 2016. May the world see 
> happiness and peace in 2016.
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> frank
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How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.

It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.

I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
cultured and refined:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html

Dan Matyola
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Re: PESO: Happy birthday to her

Ditto!! You're encircled by friends, Paul.

J

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> On Jan 1, 2016, at 5:19 AM, WILSON MICHAEL  wrote:
> 
> I find this place to be a good place to be when things are not going well.  It
> reminds me that it's me that's out of kilter.  Sometimes it reminds me right
> between the eyes but that's good, too.
> 
>> On 01 January 2016 at 10:49 Paul Stenquist  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> It was meant to be off list. I've had a rough time of it lately. I'm not
>> contemplating suicide, just thinking the PDML may not be a good place for me
>> now.
>> 
>> Paul via phone
>> 
>> On Jan 1, 2016, at 3:55 AM, WILSON MICHAEL  wrote:
>> 
 On 01 January 2016 at 05:53 Paul Stenquist  wrote:
 
 
 Thanks Ann. Roberts still missing after half a dozen posts since Marlene
 died
 . Maybe I'm being  oversensitive, but I find it odd and disturbing.
 Thinking
 about calling it quits.
>>> 
>>> I don't understand significant parts of the above but the end is slightly
>>> disturbing.
>>> 
>>> Get a good night's sleep, then head up and onward into another day.  It's
>>> the
>>> human way.  I'm sure there are planty of people here who would be happy to
>>> converse with you about your troubles, either on or off list, if that will
>>> help
>>> you find your way.
>>> 
>>> If I'm out of place over this, just think of me as yet another imperialist
>>> swine
>>> trying to micromanage the world.
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Bob W-PDML

On 1 Jan 2016, at 13:41, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
> 
> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
> 
> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
> is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
> 
> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
> cultured and refined:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
> 

I celebrated in the traditional manner shown in the article.

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PESO: The Promise of Spring

In the dead of winter, my magnolia trees hold out the promise of s[ring:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18146632=md
K-5 IIs, DA 18-135 zoom
Comments are invited.

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:08 AM, P.J. Alling  wrote:
> our night was positively sybaritic compared to mine.

Age my age, I have to be a bit self-indulgent;  no one else will indulge me.

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OT: Wisdom for the New Year

>From one of my heroes:

http://themetapicture.com/you-can-say-he-neiled-it-every-single-time/

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Alan C

A quiet poolside braai at a friend's house with my wife & younger daughter. 
In bed by 10pm. The running club really let us down this year.


Alan C

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Subject: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.

It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.

I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
cultured and refined:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html

Dan Matyola
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Jostein Øksne

Hi folks, 
Thought i'd de-lurk to wish you Good Light for 2016. :-) 
Up here in the less-than-usually-frosty Frostpit, we had guests over for a long 
and relaxing dinner of my making, watched the crackers at midnight and split a 
bottle of bubbly cider.
Nobody fell ill to anything, neither cooking, cider nor crackers, so it must 
have been good...
Poor cat remained behind the wood stove for a couple of hours tho. And she 
didn't touch the leftovers. 

Happy new year everyone.
Jostein 

Den 1. januar 2016 14.40.15 CET, skrev "Daniel J. Matyola" 
:
>Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
>good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
>broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
>polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
>
>It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
>is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
>
>I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
>cultured and refined:
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
>
>Dan Matyola
>http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

Funny thing is, I've *never* been a big New Year's Eve celebrator. 
We rang in the new year at home, just Dr. Lisa, myself and the cats.
Ordered take-out curry from a local Indian place (the cats did not
partake) and had a bottle of champagne (none of that for the cats
either) and had a nice evening reading books (I got "And Yet...", the
recent collection of Christopher Hitchens' essays and it's very good).
 
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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Rick Womer

Mark!

On Jan 1, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Malcolm Smith wrote:

> Photography is much like drains: what you get out of it, depends on what you
> put into it.
> 
> Malcolm
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Re: PESO: Birches (getting abstract for the new year)

I love it, Mark.

And your Tumblr is a good read too. You should have let us know before this. :)

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> Doug Brewer got me started on Tumblr last year. Here's my first post
> of 2016.
> http://markrobertsphoto.tumblr.com/image/136389825136
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Re:PESO - New Year, New Hope

2016-01-01 Thread Donald Guthrie

That's a great photo to start any day.

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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 10:16:02 -0500
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I took this last weekend down by the lake. It was sunset but I was looking 
southeast; the clouds caught a tinge of the sun.

As I looked at it this morning I thought, simple as it is, it says something 
about the hope of this day:

http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/12/early-winter.html?m=0

Happy New Year. May you have happiness and peace in 2016. May the world see 
happiness and peace in 2016.

Cheers,

frank

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RE: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread Malcolm Smith

Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

> Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
> 
> It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing is
> that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
> 
> I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
> cultured and refined:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-
> night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html

A belated Happy New Year folks.

I spent most of the Xmas and up to the new year period in bed. Not great.
Whilst the bells were ringing in the arrival of 2016, I had the access
covers up for the drains in the drive, clearing a blockage. 

Photography is much like drains: what you get out of it, depends on what you
put into it.

Malcolm

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Re: PESO - New Year, New Hope


I agree
ann

On 1/1/2016 11:34 AM, Donald Guthrie wrote:

That's a great photo to start any day.

On 1/1/16 9:41 AM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote:

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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 10:16:02 -0500
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I took this last weekend down by the lake. It was sunset but I was 
looking southeast; the clouds caught a tinge of the sun.


As I looked at it this morning I thought, simple as it is, it says 
something about the hope of this day:


http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/12/early-winter.html?m=0

Happy New Year. May you have happiness and peace in 2016. May the 
world see happiness and peace in 2016.


Cheers,

frank






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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

2016-01-01 Thread WILSON MICHAEL

> On 01 January 2016 at 15:25 Bob W-PDML  wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1 Jan 2016, at 13:41, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
> > 
> > Folks my age can't take much celebration.  We stayed home, had some
> > good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
> > broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
> > polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.
> > 
> > It seems half the planet descended on Times Square.  What is amazing
> > is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.
> > 
> > I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
> > cultured and refined:
> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html
> > 
> 
> I celebrated in the traditional manner shown in the article.

Dropped your handbag, puked in a fountain or fornicated with a Police car - or
all three?  The "crack down" quip had me lolling - it's going to be a good year.

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Re: How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?

Made Garlic Shrimp with brown rice and spinach for dinner - and also
sweet potato pie for dessert later.. Ashley got one shrimp,

a favorite treat but a bit rich, so only one.
Then watched "Milagro Beanfield Wars" (borrowed from a friend's library)
only had seen it once before - lovely film! and lovely New Mexico

scenery that I was very familiar with.

Played Words with Friends online with several friends, including Jostein...
Watched Perry Mason and McMillan reruns until I finally fell asleep -
rpobably about 2 am..
No sense in trying earlier as the "thump thump" music from neighbors and
the revelry on the street was especially intense.

Have preferred staying home quietly , with or without partner, for the
last 40 yearsor so... but have a few outstanding memories

from my youth of eve and New Years Day..

ann

On 1/1/2016 8:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Folks my age can't take much celebration. We stayed home, had some
good food, watched parts of "It's a Wonderful Life," tuned in the
broadcast from Times Square for 15 minutes each side of midnight, and
polished off a bottle of champagne between the two of us.

It seems half the planet descended on Times Square. What is amazing
is that it is an entirely alcohol-free zone.

I understand that in Britain the celebrations of more restrained,
cultured and refined:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/12077199/A-heavy-night-New-Years-Eve-revellers-in-pictures.html

Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola

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Re: Re: Geso: photos taken with Pentax mount glass on full frame, camera

2016-01-01 Thread Donald Guthrie

Thanks for the look & comments, Alan. These were very informal tests. 
Many variables go into sharpness. None of these was shot on a tripod for 
example. Glad you saw some familiar plants; I just love greenery. Yeah 
it's the math of APSC. that gets to me sometimes.


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Some splendid shots there. Can they really get that much better? The old
glass can still do OK for most people. Several of the shots in the
greenhouse look like parts of my garden, butterflies & all (but different
species). Of course, the "wideness" or "shortness" of the lenses is just a
perception - a 28mm is still a 28mmm - we have just become trapped in APSC
crop factor mode.

Alan C

-Original Message-
From: Donald Guthrie
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 11:17 PM
To:pdml@pdml.net
Subject: Geso: photos taken with Pentax mount glass on full frame camera

As rumors of a Full Frame camera are getting closer to fruition, I
wondered how my pentax mount glass would work. Borrow Lenses offered me
17 days for a 7 day rental price over the holidays. So I rented a Sony
A7II. My full frame lens collection consisted of Pentax 28mm, 28-70 &
70-200 Tamrons, a 50mm Pentax 42 screw mount Sears labeled 50mm, A
Tokina 70 to 200, a Sigma 28mm and Rokinon 14 mm. These photos are the
results of my shooting. I did not take notes on which lenses I used for
the pix and of course the exif is no help. If there is a specific one of
the above lenses you want me to test, let me know and I will post that
one. Most are non or slightly cropped except the one of all colored
glass which is maybe a 90-100% crop. Used a $15 adaptor. I had no Sony
native lenses to use.

My general impression of FF is nice bokeh and low noise even even after
pulling the shadows up from black. The biggest surprise for me was how
wide a 28mm  is and how short a 200 mm is.

Here are the links to two sets; would be happy to get your opinion on
the photos and to answer any questions you might have.


http://adobe.ly/1TqeEeb

And a second one on an afternoon in a Botanical Center with butterflys &
Plants. .

http://adobe.ly/1MyGuit



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