Ugly Hedgehog - Photography Forum
Home Active Topics Newest Pictures Search Login Register
Posts for: bw79st
Page: <<prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 43 next>>
Nov 9, 2023 16:31:56   #
For me, the problem is where did they send it, email, message or Authenticator app? I have to read the notice carefully to see where I can find it!
Go to
Nov 9, 2023 16:04:30   #
If you still cut yourself you are cleaning your razor wrong. Rinse it in HOT running water, shake it out until no more drops of water hit your hand, then dry it with a towel. The retained water on the blades is what makes them corrode and lose their edge, not the residue from shaving your face.
Go to
Nov 9, 2023 15:53:57   #
I grew a mustache in early 1967. Then I got drafted so the mustache had to go. On leave around Christmas I grew it again and had it for 6 months until I got sent to Saigon and after a couple of days felt it was a pain in that weather, so off it came. When I got home the mustache came back and I had it until 1989 when I felt it was too much trouble trying to keep it trimmed, so off it came, again!
Today I shave every day and have not had a cut on my face in years. Remember guys with little pieces of tissue on their shaving cuts? The razor blades today are light years away from those in 1989.
I saw a piece on "CBS Sunday Morning" on the proper way to clean your razor to get extra life out of it and it was revealing! I think it may still be on their website. I have gotten 5 months out of Gillette blades but I am currently using Harry's blades from Costco and getting up to 6 weeks per blade. Shaving now is so much smoother than it was years ago.
I have a suspicion about Gillette blades. The ones that come packed with a new razor handle may be specially selected, and the ones that come in bulk packages are whatever came off the line. This may account for my varying results with those blades.
Go to
Oct 24, 2023 14:40:30   #
I'm willing to accept the Big Bang Theory. What most don't seem to notice is that it may not have been the only Big Bang! If there was nothing (or complete compression) before the Big Bang then what circumstances created that? If the universe can expand then maybe it can compress. Maybe ours will compress and lead to a new Big Bang that will some day have some beings pondering the same question.
Go to
Oct 9, 2023 10:51:29   #
I always enjoy the Andrews sisters who I happened to see live at the Roxy in NYC when I was about 7 or 8 years old! My favorite version, though, is by Will Bradley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7MKWzLtdNc
Go to
Oct 9, 2023 10:39:39   #
I recently had that problem with a card slot that hadn't been used for a while. I ran a card in and out 5 or 10 times and it came back to life.
Go to
Sep 11, 2023 13:16:14   #
Alyn Wolf wrote:
I went to the search bar and searched for using a camera without a viewfinder. The search brought up this post which gave me some useful information. I don't care how old the post is. Anyway, the really useful part for me was the discussion about using the camera at waist level. I had never thought of that before. I noticed that using my thumb on the shutter release instead of my finger worked better at that level. 😉


Then I'm glad I mentioned shooting at waist level! I found it to be akin to using my old TLR Minolta of years gone by.
Go to
Aug 23, 2023 05:02:38   #
JimH123 wrote:
I played that game for awhile and got frustrated at the slower focus speeds using the EM1 and EM1ii. And with the EM5ii which couldn't do phase detect, it wasn't even possible to get good focus.


Ditto!

But the one good use for the 4/3 to m4/3 adapter is it is a lot more accurate than any of the legacy lens to m4/3 adapters which all seemed to not let me focus to infinity. I put a C/Y to 4/3 adapter on my Zeiss lenses as they are smaller and more accurately machined. That then is attached to an Oly or Lumix 4/3 to m4/3 adapter to use on my m4/3 bodies. Works fine!
Go to
Aug 22, 2023 15:51:23   #
I have a couple of 4/3 to m4/3 adapters that I picked up when they were a lot cheaper than today. I was going to use them with 4/3 lenses but found it wasn't worth the extra weight on the lighter bodies. What they are good for is adapting legacy lenses to m4/3. I have a set of Zeiss C/Y mount lenses and use a C/Y to 4/3 adapter (much cheaper) instead of a C/Y to m4/3.
As for my 4/3 lenses: I bought a used Oly E30 body for $125, sent it Oly for a checkup ($100) and it takes wonderful photos with my Leica Lumix 14-150mm. That Kodak sensor has really nice colors!
Go to
Jun 22, 2023 19:39:28   #
gpc wrote:
Thanks to the ionosphere, at night AM radio frequencies experience skip. I could listen to WINS from NY while living in the Boston area.


I used to pick up WWVA, Wheeling West Virginia, at night in the 1950s listening from NYC. But I was usually listening to Jean Shepherd followed by Long John Nebel on WOR!
When I was in the Army in 1968 I introduced some pretty astute guys to Shep when I tuned him in on my Panasonic portable radio in the barracks at Ft. Gordon, Ga.
Go to
Jun 22, 2023 06:19:21   #
mr spock wrote:
Big Dan Ingram was part of the WMCA Good Guys


No, Dan Ingram was on WABC-AM, 770kh. He called his show The Ingram Flingram.
Go to
Jun 21, 2023 21:13:54   #
jerryc41 wrote:
Murray Kaufman. 1010 WINS NY. It was the radio station for rock and roll in the 1950s. Unfortunately, it switched to all news - doubly depressing.


Before WINS Murray was on WMCA in the 1950s. He did a show every night and played mostly MOR, songs like "Patricia" or "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White." He played at least one Sinatra song every night, something he carried over to his RR days. He was the guy who played "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" for his whole show one night. That song worked in with his schtick which was that he was from the South and always talked about Atlanta and Peachtree Street. He had a faux contest where the winner would get his recipe for hushpuppies! Yet even then he was collecting bits and pieces that he would take to his R&R shows later. Remember him playing "One of these days someone's gonna jump out the bushes and gra-a-ab you! Grab you! One of these days." He was using that clip from a novelty song back then!
Go to
Jun 7, 2023 20:26:08   #
Carl S wrote:
The book is well worth reading, and it was one of the first anti-war novels written, with humor. If you have ever served in the military, especially the Army, you will identify with several of the characters in the book, especially the antics of the trading that goes on in the military. During the Vietnam conflict, I was the company commander of a signal company supporting the 1st Air Cav in An Khe, and our trading commodity was electrical power which we traded for all sorts of goodies from various officer and non-com clubs on base. We were always well stocked up with good beer, whisky, and steaks: you always had to pay your bill for electrical service!
The book is well worth reading, and it was one of ... (show quote)


At Ft. Gordon, GA, it was referred to as the "Clerk's Mafia." In Saigon I was at an Info Office that was overstocked with Polaroid film for some reason. I had a friend at Long Binh who worked for the sgt who was in charge of the gear taken from GI's going home. He was hungry for Polaroid film so we traded for bags full of poncho liners which were a scarce commodity in Vietnam at that time. We then took them across the base to an Air Force film unit and traded them for huge amounts of Kodak High Speed Ektachrome. The clerk there said he was sending the poncho liners home to his wife to line his finished basement! I can't imagine what that looked like! We all got liners as our EM quarters in Saigon were air conditioned but there were no blankets. Poncho liners were ideal as a blanket in those circumstances.
Go to
Jun 6, 2023 08:01:42   #
JayemCO wrote:
Catch 22 comes from Section 8 Paragraph 22 of the military regulations in effect in the 40's or 50's. Section 8 explained how a person could proven to be crazy and be discharged. Paragraph 22 stated that if an individual claimed to be crazy then they were not crazy and could not be discharged as crazy. A book and a movie were made with that title.


Actually the title is fictional. There is no Paragraph 22. The number was suggested by the editor Robert Gottlieb when they decided that Catch-18 was too similar to the recently published "Mila 18."

Check the "Title" section of the Wiki page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
Go to
Jun 6, 2023 07:33:09   #
My only known blood relative to have died in World War 1 was William Kennedy of Dumbartonshire, Scotland, who was shot by a Turkish sniper while preparing his tea on the beach at Gallipoli. That's the story that has been passed down in the family. William was an older cousin to my mother.


Go to
Page: <<prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 43 next>>
UglyHedgehog.com - Forum
Copyright 2011-2024 Ugly Hedgehog, Inc.