Re: OT: Damn computers!

[John]

On 1/3/2019 14:49:36, Steve Cottrell wrote:

On 3/1/19, John, discombobulated, unleashed:


... and damn Spectrum/Time Warner/Cablevision too.


John is this you?



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Hah! If I carried the computer out into the ocean and got salt water inside it 
then the problem would be my fault.


It's NOT my fault.

There's something freaky going on with my internet connection. The modem keeps 
crashing my router. Just all of a sudden no internet. I can still see the rest 
of the network, but the connection to the modem is gone, and I can't log into 
the router.


I think Spectrum is doing something that's causing the modem to hiccup. It's 
happened three nights in a row right after midnight.


I have to shut down my computer, then the router, then the modem; wait a minute 
or so and restart the modem. Wait until the modem is on line then restart the 
router. Then I can restart the computer and log into the router.


I think I've got another modem about to crap out on me and that's the ISP's 
problem because I have to use their modem to get internet + phone. This is the 
fourth modem. It's lasted the longest of any of the modems they've provided. 
I've had it since November 2015.


First one lasted maybe a month, second one lasted 6 months and the third one 
lasted about a week. Between the second & third ones the cable guy came out and 
ran new cable from the junction box on the pole to the junction box on the side 
of the house and I ran a new cable from that junction box to the modem.



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Re: OT: Damn computers!

[Steve Cottrell]

On 3/1/19, John, discombobulated, unleashed:

>... and damn Spectrum/Time Warner/Cablevision too.

John is this you?



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OT: Damn computers!

[John]

... and damn Spectrum/Time Warner/Cablevision too.

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Re: OT: Pentax Spotting -- Welcome to Marwen

[Daniel J. Matyola]

They Become "know nothings."

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On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:10 AM John  wrote:

>
> What are people who don't have my advantages going to know?
>
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Re: My Mood Is Changing ... Again

[Rick Womer]

Boris, this is a wonderful gallery! There are too many “favorites” to list!

Where you have both color and B&W renditions, I tend to favor the latter.

Rick


> On Jan 1, 2019, at 12:18 PM, Boris Liberman  wrote:
> 
> It does not work for me this way, Stan.
> 
> Normally, when I go on a trip abroad, I would take more consistent
> pictures, but less interesting or less inspired, if you will.
> 
> If you're inclined to go through 25+ pictures - have a look here:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H7burQbgc8DiRi5SPYFheKR11tcBBRPN
> 
> I've just returned from a business trip to China. I had few evenings and
> one full day where I could take pictures and generally not be in the state
> of work. All pictures are taken with Oly EM-1 and Oly 25/1.8 - nifty fifty,
> which is very nifty indeed, as far as technical quality is concerned.
> 
> They are ok-ish, but they are not spectacular. I am still trying to find a
> different rendering of this or that photo, but...
> 
> I don't have any particular issue with my muse. She is just ever so
> slightly bored, as always and she lets me keep on going like this.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 5:17 PM Stanley Halpin 
> wrote:
> 
>> Dan, I’ll borrow your thought: changing latitude as a way to change
>> attitude.
>> 
>> When I travel, I take pictures. When I am home, the cameras mostly sit
>> unused. However I find that I can nicely scratch my photographic itch in
>> two ways.
>> 
>> First, I try to be observant, looking for photo ops. Doesn’t matter that I
>> don’t have a camera along, I’ll see something happen, and will think about
>> how to capture that scene.
>> 
>> Second, in between trips I have the joy (chore?) of reviewing all of the
>> images, keywording, rating, selectively processing, sharing… I do this in
>> small batches, trying to be quite deliberate, thinking about what I could
>> have done to improve each image when I shot it. Sometimes trying to discern
>> why I had bothered.
>> 
>> For me, each of these approaches helps maintain photography as a learning
>> experience for me, which makes it interesting and challenging, which keeps
>> me going through the doldrums. And if nothing else works, then I research
>> my next destinations and try to previsualize the images I hope to bring
>> back next time. Back to South America in a couple of months, Iberian
>> Peninsula and Western Med this fall, NZ and Australia Feb-March 2020, back
>> to Alaska in August 2020 - I have many upcoming opportunities for
>> inspiration. Sooner or later my health or financial resources or both will
>> run out and I will fall back to careful reviews of past adventures. Until
>> then, I intend to keep on changing latitudes.
>> 
>> stan
>> 
>> 
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Re: 2018 faves and chasing the muse

[John]

On 1/3/2019 01:43:12, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:

Am 02.01.19 um 16:39 schrieb Bruce Walker:

I think the secret to making sure it's a joy and not a duty is to
firmly resist the temptation to make photography a vocation.


In my book, this goes for turning any hobby into a profession. I've done so with 
audio engineering, many moons ago, and it took me almost 20 years afterwards to 
find some fun in doing audio as a hobby again.


Ralf



Photography was an avocation for me until I ran out of future prospects.

Fortunately, sometimes when one door closes another one opens.

I came home from Iraq to demob with no job in sight. My former employer had gone 
out of business, so they couldn't give me my job back. My skills in that field 
were years out of date anyway.


A nearby community college offered degrees in photography & I could afford 
tuition. With the eventual help from the GI Bill I managed to get an Associate 
Degree in Portrait Studio Management (aka professional wedding photographer).


But just as I was getting started in my new vocation, life closed the door on me 
again and once again I'm back to amateur status.


I'm still looking for that new door life was supposed to open for me. In the 
meantime I've got enough housework to keep me busy.



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Re: OT: Pentax Spotting -- Welcome to Marwen

[John]

That's not my point.

A movie like the new Mary Poppins film got a multi-million dollar ad campaign 
that began before they even started shooting. Welcome to Marwen didn't.


A film like Welcome to Marwen appeals to me more than the new Mary Poppins.

Not having kids or grand-kids may bias me, but that didn't stop me from enjoying 
the Harry Potter books & then the films, but ...


Thing is I don't get *ALL* of my news from facebook, twitter et al and I like to 
think my tastes are slightly more discerning. But if it hadn't been for "Pentax 
Spotting", I probably wouldn't know about the film.


What are people who don't have my advantages going to know?



On 1/3/2019 00:56:37, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

I saw the preview some months ago. I also knew something of the real life
story from which the movie was drawn. So yes: I would have gone to see it
regardless.

The reviews on various sources like Rotten Tomatoes are bimodal between like
and dislike, and the overall score is low. But I never gauge what movie to
see by the reviews, just like I never gauge what camera to buy according to
the reviews.

G


On Jan 2, 2019, at 8:53 PM, Daniel J. Matyola 
wrote:

I would have gone.  I saw several interesting reviews, and I like Steve 
Carell.


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


On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 11:31 PM John  wrote:


Would you have gone to see it if it hadn't been for the "Pentax
Spotting" post? I probably wouldn't even have known about it.

On 1/2/2019 15:37:44, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

It does not have the mass appeal of a Mary Poppins movie or a
superhero movie.  Those are the films that draw audiences today.

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

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Re: 2018 faves and chasing the muse

[Bruce Walker]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 1:43 AM Ralf R Radermacher  wrote:
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> Am 02.01.19 um 16:39 schrieb Bruce Walker:
> > I think the secret to making sure it's a joy and not a duty is to
> > firmly resist the temptation to make photography a vocation.
>
> In my book, this goes for turning any hobby into a profession. I've done
> so with audio engineering, many moons ago, and it took me almost 20
> years afterwards to find some fun in doing audio as a hobby again.

Yeah, I hear you. But I guess it depends on the disposition of the
person as well.

I was a computer hobbyist before I entered the workforce, first as a
hardware engineer, later transitioning into software. Throughout my
career I kept on tinkering with hobby side projects, folding many of
them back into my professional work. Of course to the untrained eye it
appeared that I was merely a workaholic doing 12 to 14-hour days for
30 years.

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Re: 2018 faves and chasing the muse

[Bill]

On 1/3/2019 12:43 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:

Am 02.01.19 um 16:39 schrieb Bruce Walker:

I think the secret to making sure it's a joy and not a duty is to
firmly resist the temptation to make photography a vocation.


In my book, this goes for turning any hobby into a profession. I've done 
so with audio engineering, many moons ago, and it took me almost 20 
years afterwards to find some fun in doing audio as a hobby again.


Ralf



I did that very thing with my darkroom. I turned my darkroom from a 
retreat where I could be undisturbed to produce fine art prints into an 
assembly line for developing and printing customer films.
I did that for a few years in the mid 1990s, and when I decided I had 
enough of it in 1997 I never went back into the darkroom for pleasure. 
By rights, it's been more than twenty years since I used my darkroom. I 
took it down and put the equipment in storage in 2010 after not using it 
for over ten years, and finally disposed of all of it when I decided to 
stop paying for outside storage a couple of years ago.


bill

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Re: OT: Pentax Spotting -- Welcome to Marwen

[Daniel J. Matyola]

MARK!

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On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 12:57 AM Godfrey DiGiorgi 
wrote:

>  I never gauge what movie to see by the reviews, just like I never gauge
> what camera to buy according to the reviews.
>
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