Excellent set - and the monkey's first shot is a winner as well! But remind him to get Frank's waiver before publishing it.

I doubt many people measure. I would assume they simply put on a CPL and twirl it to see if it helps. Still, he DID take the time to establish there was a specific angle for complete polarization - so let's give him credit for adding a his drop to the catalog of human knowledge.

Yay! And Bravo!

And before DOS, CP/M and ALC; with punched card decks of 6000 cards. Yep, dropped a couple of times. Not me, I had to certify that they were back in proper order. And before that we wired boards.

I remember the introduction of the Megabyte, and the "unbelievable" space available on the early disk drives. We had a rep tell us (and we all believed him) "who will ever need more than 10 Megabytes?" Gives a lot more real context to Vizzini saying "inconceivable!!"

We always talked about the day when the Dick Tracy watch would be real. I never thought the world would look this way when it finally happened.

For basic manual mode functionality. You might need 2-3 shots to dial in your exposure, but you won't have all the issues that come with TTL exposure.
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These hold camera, extra lens, water bottle, and have room for small notebook, extra battery, and Magic/Miracle/Wonder cloth. Wear as waistpack or toss it over a shoulder. $I think I found this on Craigslist for $10-15. Don't pay more.

Great adventure! Great images.

Oh yeah? Well MY phone has 64 megapickles. My old camera only goes up to 40 MP, and wants to be stabilized for that. Marketing can say anything and tell us it's important.

Hmmmm, are Marketing Departments made up of retired congresspeople?

Lovely!

The spice cabinet was filled with Old Spice, really OLD Spice. ;)

It looks like you have clipped the highlights of the first joke. If you post the raw version, I'm sure some valiant soul will process it through 20 glorious (and highly detailed) steps that will show you why jpeg is adequate for most everything we can distinguish at normal viewing.

No snow yet here near the southern tip of Baja California, but it was down to 55°f last night and everyone had heavy jackets on the beach this morning at sunrise.

Thank you for suffering so the rest of us can have a good laugh. Glad you were able to write your "tale of woe" and not have a serious disfiguring injury.
And you already have the bones down for your memoir later. These are the stories that all humans recognize.

Ooh! I hope to be in Arizona in December! Yay! If I make it, I will definitely try to stop by for the show. Thanks for letting us know. 👍🏼

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