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What I saw offline today.
#21
RE: What I saw offline today.
I took this on the way home from a walk with the pup yesterday. This is the street and block where we live. On the left side of the street are warehouses. The ones you see here are all work/no-live spaces. In the middle of the block we have the smallest of the warehouses. The extra space is mostly for the wife's weaving equipment. But living in a warehouse means never having to give or throw anything away.

My last principal charitably described my neighborhood as "sketchy". I think that is fair. The next block is all low income subsidized houseing (fourplex's) and noted as the second worst drug area in town. People say it looks like we live in a compound surrounded by high walls, which adds a little mystique to the garden. Don't you think the utility poles add a little .. something to the allure of the neigborhood?

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#22
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@Whateverist, thanks for the pics, the flower looks really cute when it blossoms too.

@walking void, not embarrassed, just ... flummoxed. Mainly because it's a plant and that I didn't know people had urges to breastfeed things.
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#23
RE: What I saw offline today.
We had rain the past two days and tonight was incredibly windy. We got out for a walk with the dog.

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Then we stopped at a gallery in Monclair where our friend had an exhibition open. These are all extremely complex woven forms, most are in the kimono motif.

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#24
RE: What I saw offline today.
(November 17, 2013 at 3:09 pm)whateverist Wrote: I thought it might be a nice way to get the flavor of each others' surroundings and life to post a picture of something we see. Maybe it will be a favorite room or bookshelf or a storefront or someone's front garden. You're going to see some shots from walks with the pooch and the garden here from me. But I'll have to get you some shots from out and about my sketchy neighborhood too. Might throw in a look at my school's garden and Lia's studio.

Here is a picture I just shot in the garden on a cool, fall morning with some cloud cover.

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Same general direction from further back in the garden.

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Damn your good with macro
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#25
RE: What I saw offline today.
Agreed. We should start a photography thread for things other than seen today Wink There's a lot of photographers on this site..




I forgot to take a picture while I was out. So here's something I see everyday on the fridge Tongue My neice came up with that when we were making pumpkin pictures and spooky halloween things on her own and I almost fell over laughing, I love it! And it glows in the dark Thinking
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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#26
RE: What I saw offline today.
Oh goody! That's the spirit. I'm seeing what you see whenever you go to the fridge. Those are hands coming out of the ground of zombies? Cool. A Halloween thing? Or maybe inspired by a video game.

I like the way the stars sit in a nice shiny glob of glue. Please pass my compliments on to your niece.

(November 22, 2013 at 12:24 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Damn your good with macro

You're very generous, thank you. I wish my camera phone would let me do extreme closeups too. But what you see here is about as close as I can get and stay in focus. In the first one I posted here the one head of the 'Cyclops' Aeonium in the foreground is in about as good a focus as the background. In the second one the Greyia flower and its leaves are pretty much in focus but the background is decidedly out of focus. I don't seem to be able to dial in either outcome. So my solution is to shoot a bunch and look for the diamonds.
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#27
RE: What I saw offline today.
New Rules: what you saw doesn't have to be 'today' today, just more or less todayish. Here is a little video I took of the dog on that same walk. It shows her climbing a tree, something she does to please me. I think it helps her develop her agility and it's a lot of fun to watch.

She climbed a couple tree's on today's walk but I forgot my phone. So here is a fairly todayish video:


http://flic.kr/p/hMa3Rk
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#28
RE: What I saw offline today.
This is the view out toward the Golden Gate bridge from the Point Isabel dog park, which is a couple miles north of Berkeley. I went there for breakfast with Heidi this morning but got this photo there just before sunset recently. I hear it is one of the biggest dog parks in the country at 23 acres. When the tide is out, it becomes larger as the dogs can run around on the bay floor.

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#29
RE: What I saw offline today.

Arizona sky, again. I'm excited to travel at least for different daytime clouds and nighttime stars.


More Arizona sky. Poofy clouds.


Fawn, the pup. One ear sticks up a lot and the other lacks any stiffness to stand.


A friend's son. Cute kid. He fell asleep on me during a somewhat lengthy car ride across town.
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Thanks to Cinjin for making it more 'sig space' friendly.
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#30
RE: What I saw offline today.
You're welcome to come tour Colorado with me the week after Christmas, Owlix Wink Plenty of skies and things to see there!

also Fawn is freaking adoreable! More pictures in future please!!!!

PS its nice to see the desert sky again ..I miss it : *(
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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