Russian, but he was actually quite sane ;-)
Cheers,
Cotty
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a read of his book by the River)
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voting...
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On 6/23/05, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They're taking entries for their gallery and competition at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/apictureofbritain/competition.shtml -
These tend to be fishing expeditions for free publicity stuff. Sure
minutes...and I
got the wrong day and was on my way to work when they sold out. So no
premier for me...
Next week...
Billy
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be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cowfish/sets/343208/)
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on the screen on my admittedly aged PS digi - the
viewfinder isn't great, but using it's a habit I can't get out of.
billy
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On 5/16/05, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 07:32:04PM +0100, Billy Abbott wrote:
But anyway, I grabbed this:
http://www.cowfish.org.uk/paw/jedis.html
Which I liked. But then again, I am a Star Wars geek.
In my view the best thing about this isn't
://www.joneslanglasalle.co.uk/en-gb/properties/lease/Moorhouse.htm
Not quite so tall and thin, but still very modern looking and
different to the old brick buildings up and down Moorgate.
billy
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when it was
being built, and I heard about this the other day:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1470617,00.html
Billy
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during manufacture...
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be the reason why the Nikon Scan
software cannot see the scanner?
Thanks,
Joe
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having
lived here for 9 years now and living a 10 minute bus ride from Kew...
Thanks to Cotty for sorting it out - it was nice meeting you all. Now
I may have to start trying to read all the list messages again...bye
bye work productivity...
billy
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and body, but a small child was chasing all the
birds and ran at him every time.
billy
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_
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On Apr 7, 2005 3:58 PM, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/4/05, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed:
What about the DUKWs? Need any commitment funds?
Nope - it needs booking but I think you pay once submerged .
As soon as you can't get away without scuba gear...
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rather aged 2Mpxl Olympus digicam. It
also spans from my first picking up of a camera again about 2 years
ago until recently.
Comments always welcome. Please validate my existence :)
billy
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a mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED] would probably be a better
mail than this gmail account...this mailbox is full of PDML mails :)
billy
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together a gallery of my london pictures as
well...bah all this effort :)
billy
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man yet?
billy (who now returns to his previous state of lurking)
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=Windowscategory=Developer%20Toolsnumpg=10id=249
looks like it might do what you're after.
I'm going to install it now and have a play myself.
billy
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Just saw this on the BBC Website: The World Press Photo Awards.
Well, some selections anyway.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/in_pictures_world_press_photo_award_2004/html/1.stm
billy
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.
This was late last summer.
I just counted up the most recent PUG, and 13/27 entries with shot
with a D or DS (2 DS iirc) - so about half. Make of that what you
will.
I've got a DS if anyone's still keeping count.
And very tiny and shiny it is too.
billy
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only foudn out when I tried it on my work machine and
found out how much faster it was with USB 2. Now i've got to reconnect
stuff inside my home pc.
billy
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on the buckets around around, but i think i fixed, stopped and
then tried to develop. A wonderfully uniform clean film base was the
result.
I didn't do that again though. Or use that darkroom again.
billy
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*istDS for this purpose.
That seems to be the only change.
billy
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,
not passed through civit style] and is now bouncing off the walls)
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:37:16 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have never heard that coffee has ANY medical benefit.
Outside of the fact that most medical research wouldn't have got done
without it?
:)
-billy
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restriction as far as I have seen
so far.
billy
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it ourselves it's served to us with great
reverence on a small raised podium at the end of an altar by someone
in an aproned uniform...a link to masonic ritual maybe?
:)
billy
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similar...
http://www.infinitecat.com/
warning, contains cats.
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maybe 3 or 4 years
old?).
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died very
quickly.
Avoid Genius, they suck :)
I'm still looking for my ideal trackball...until that day I shall keep
using my keyboard as much as poss, and only resort to my mouse when
i'm forced.
billy
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and Jessops price matched it for me.
although after buying a memory card and some gubbins it was back up to
£799 again
billy
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:17:12 +, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Billy Abbott wrote:
that was the cheapest i found and Jessops price matched it for me.
although after buying a memory card and some gubbins it was back up to
£799 again
What's the kit lens like?
Seems okay so far
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:36:48 +, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Billy Abbott wrote:
What's the kit lens like?
Seems okay so far. Manual focus is a bit loose but you can use it
without having to flick any switches. It does do a bit of distortion
at the wider end:
http
I went a-wandering this morning to try and find a tree that would look
nice for next months PUG. Today's the first sunny day that I've had a
chance to go out with my new *istDS so I thought I'd have a bit of an
experiment. Suffice to say, the experimentation didn't go too well and
my tree shots
As soon as I mentioned to people here in London that I was shocked to
find parrots everyone told me about the mysterious breeding
populations with a surprised didn't you know that? i thought everyone
did.
We've got a puma in Surrey though, why not parrots in Ealing? :)
billy
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:55:35 -0800 (PST), Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Billy,
Nice catch! Fortunate general lighting, to say the
least.
Did you note the focal length setting? Cropped?
Anticipating possible surprises always enriches the
hunt even when working a particular theme.
It
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:10:14 +, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Billy Abbott wrote:
However, I randomly spied a couple of birdies up in a tree and got a
few shots. http://cowfish.org.uk/paw/birds.html is my favourite (270kb
I'm afraid...)
Ringnecked parakeets, breeding
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:58:46 +0100, Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RS It's strange that the Japanese seem not to have embraced PS CS RAW though
RS Silkypix is a pretty cool little package. I followed the link to the
SILKYPIX
RS Developer Studio yesterday and installed it. It has a whole
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:00:18 + (GMT), Kostas Kavoussanakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, you know that. I visited http://www.ffordes.com/ and their
banner includes the *ist-Ds and 18-55. Who would have thought!
Jessops are stocking them at £799 with the 18-55. They also (if you
find a
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:03:32 +0100, Frits Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I look at their webpage and see £733.96
Not your £343, where did you find that on their site?
That would be me mistyping...
I did of course mean £733 + postage (I thought it was 743, but looking
at the page I printed
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:27:53 +, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sometime UK PDMLer Billy Abbott has bought one - don't know if he's
still subscribed? He was supposed to bring it to a pub to let me fondle
it, but the monkeys stole his legs (he claims) and he never made it.
Monkeys
saing hello clouds
hello sky hello big green mouse-hed thing that etes people etc
Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
, made possible by
the unique way in which the bbc is funded.
billy
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but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and
let the problem solve itself?
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also like the way that noones allowed metal cutlery - i once ate in the
poshish restaurant in the corner, paid almost 20quid for my meal and ate
with a plastic knife and fork. So very refined.
The whisky shop is good though.
billy
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Mosquito repellant? I thought you said jam...
Billy Abbott
old child dragging her mom thru Toys'R'us will
now be saying, Don't buy me THAT mommy - her manufacturer supresses free
speech by threatening to persecute adult parodies of it on the web!
Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
to accept that I'm in denial
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Keith Whaley wrote:
Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:
Billy Abbott wrote on 09.09.04 16:57:
http://www.cowfish.org.uk/paw/mirror.html
Taken this weekend when I accidentally wandered into the Regent Street
festival while trying to find some people trying to find a lost river
flowing
that
people who would already have a digicam would be attracted by, which is
probably not what they want...
billy
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of the
window and watch the parking meters earn more money per hour than you
Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
her son (my stepdad) was still living at home she provided a steamed
pudding for dessert every day of the week. This scares me.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mspotteddick.html
billy
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pleased with himself...and hasn't stopped grinning since...
billy
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Can you believe the encyclopedia doesn't have an entry for hotwire?
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Toralf Lund wrote:
Billy Abbott wrote:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, J. C. O'Connell wrote:
35mm Film is EASIER than digital, that's why a lot of people still use
35mm. Take the pix with autoeverything camera, drop off the film, get a
bag full of prints.
Or take your digital PS
a puddin supper.
Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
that digital is
easier, but for the average user who doesn't want to faff with the options
it is as easy as film.
billy
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of intelligent venereal worms
remains safe for another horrible day
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you by example
to change your tactics :) I like metaphor, you can sometimes twist them to
mean anything...)
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Tarantino is, of course, his chin.
He's like an evil moon.
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and watch the parking meters earn more money per hour than you
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Frog, http://www.cabq.gov
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the ever so almost black it was before.
comments/critique welcome.
billy
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Look, let's not argue about who stuck soup to whose head, or who
stuffed who full of pork products. Let's just focus on the good.
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high :)
billy
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Leffe, Duvel, it matters not a jot what they are called;
what they mean is :- 4am, in a doorway, trousers round you
ankles, shouting come back ET, I want to go with you
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to keep around than
lots of prints.
which reminds me, i really should clean up my hard drive
billy
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in a Cadillac with the both of us
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of time!
Pinky: Narf, Brain. Wake me at the noon of time.
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the Pentax system is looking like an even
more attractive proposition as an entry into SLR photography
Which sounds encouraging.
billy
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Clearly, the Teletubbies are cyborgs. - Adam Roberts
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the Pentax system is looking like an even more
attractive proposition as an entry into SLR photography
Which sounds encouraging.
billy
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Clearly, the Teletubbies are cyborgs. - Adam Roberts
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on my me super yet,
so don;t have any evidence either way of my own.
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...
thanks
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the new Epson scanners coming out next month -
I now have one of them on my shopping list, and my scans should become better
after that...
Comments/advice much appreciated.
billy
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When you say things like that, do you actually believe other people know what
you mean?
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to find greenness and open space, rather than my close friend mr
concrete.
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Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.
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,
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is enough for a rival distillery to steal
the secret of its shape and the whisky's flavour...
Thanks for posting your photograph.
thanks,
billy
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SUVs are not inherently evil; the fact that they use so much gas,
and that are constructed to be killer machines is evil.
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a link)
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Kid: Isn't that a bad thing?
Borg Queen: No, no, it's fun. All the cool kids are getting
assimilated. You know you want to.
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I was watching,
but just wandered around trying to use it as a large, rather soft club for
attacking his mates. It's nice to think that it has a proper use :)
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THAT mommy - her manufacturer supresses free
speech by threatening to persecute adult parodies of it on the web!
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