I should have added... to increase the lighting to use a faster shutter speed.
Carl S wrote:
and asked the helpful hardware man for the owners manual, and loved the look on his face!
I remember 30 or 40 years back, I was working for an engineering office in Edmonton... after work, we would sit back and have a few beers. It was the time of metrification in Canada. I called up Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) to find out when they were going to go metric for telephone numbers. The operator didn't know, so I asked if she could find out and let me know. I got a call back and was informed that AGT had no intention to convert their numbers to metric. There are other parts to his episode.
I remember the early days of computing. Hardware manuals were generally from offshore and written in some obscure form of English... There was a greater need for hardware manuals back then. Plug and play came a decade later. Some of it was so convoluted the text was like something from Kafka. You knew exactly what it said, but you had some doubts.
I'm not a pro... I don't have a studio, but, I prefer natural lighting and use artificial lighting to 'correct' for any shadows, etc.
Whenever I do a new computer 'build', I first download the motherboard manual and go over it before I proceed. My last three builds, my son has assembled the system. He loves the new equipment. He's been helping me with assembling systems since before he was 10, and he's now 40.
I try to do a new build every couple of years, and recycle my old ones to friends and relatives. I'm still reasonably technical, but am getting older and more wobbly.
Welcome... pull up a chair and sit back...
About 60 years back, we used to go winter camping with the Boy Scouts, 4 or 5 time a winter. Usually with tents and occasionally with a tarp 'lean to'. I've even constructed igloos. Temperature was often -20 (I assume F since C wasn't common at the time) Also 'trained' in arctic survival. Our scoutmaster was a retired British Commando. I recall one of the texts we had for reference was titled, "Down but not Out", it was an airforce winter survival manual. I was at one winter camporee where I showed the troop how to set snares and we caught a few rabbits. We did them up as a stew... it was great. Partway through supper, the 'camp commissionaires' (I don't know what their title was anymore) came through the camp and we invited them to supper. During the conversation, the commissionaires cautioned the troup that there were wild animals in the area and they didn't want us to disturb them. The fellows could barely restrain a laugh. Not done today, but scouts with .22s would generally bring them on camps. It was a very different time.
EVs are in their infancy... and there will be changes it the future to 'iron out the wrinkles'. With the reduction of the carbon footprint, EVs and renewable power will likely be the way of the future.
jerryc41 wrote:
We seem to have an abundance of mean people. I see nothing wrong with telling the truth. A mean person shouldn't be praised after his death. I never believed in that Latin saying.
My son's classic response 'about speaking ill of the dead' surprised me.
It might be the climate... weather is only short term, and the weather combined is climate. Cost of c*****e c****e is cumulative and as far as cost goes, the sky's the limit. I have no idea of where this will take us. In a worst case, the weather we've seen in the last year may only be the beginning of something a lot worse. I have no idea of how this will end. Take a look at the warming stripes for Arizona. The red at the RHS (right hand side) indicates how much it has heated up in the last few years. 2023 isn't shown, but it should be noticeably warmer.
https://showyourstripes.info/s/northamerica/usa/arizona
Did you ever stop and consider the problem is systemic? and not Democrat vs Republican? Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the US.
just coincidence, I guess?
That vehicle will soon be a vehicle of the past...