slow night, let's chat

[back alley]

the last 2 lines have a different margin.

i thought the guy was funny.

internet explorer.
i faer changing to anything else.
i have a theory that bill gates knows when we are not using his software and he sends bad things to our computers to piss us off.

 

[back alley]

my best travel holiday was riding my silver wing to new york and back.

oh man!

 

[XAos]

Developed a roll of overexposed on purpose shots on the rb67. Trying to learn to overexpose without remorse - it's therapy. They're a little dark, but I dont think I overexposed by more than 2 stops (I added 3 to my calculated exposure in quite a few of them).

I did nearly drown my Stylus Epic tonight, had it in my pocket filling fire trucks (training). Someone shut down the wrong line, told me twice it was shut down even though I could feel it was still charged . kaWOOOOSH pond water everywhere. The lens seems to be clear but the viewfinder is foggy. I had a feeling they weren't thinking about the fire service when they called it splash proof.

 

[FrankS]

I did do a couple of motorcycle trips, but never THAT far, and always in too much of a rush because I was leaving a wife and 2 kids at home. When to Tennesee once, and PEI another time (from Toronto).

 

[rbiemer]

http://www.kofc4660.org/test/index.html


I browsed through a book this evening which I just got in the mail from Amazon today:

Legal Handbook for Photographers: The Rights and Liabilities of Making Images By Bert P. Krages, Esq.

Had a beer, kicked back and watched MythBusters blow stuff up while I wrote code

Wrestled with the dogs a little bit, said "No!" about ten thousand times, and ate some pizza.

Bill,
That sounds like a pretty good time to me! I can't have pets where I'm living and I do miss having a dog around 🙁
Can't change my living situation for a while but I will when I can. And then off to the SPCA to find me a new friend.
Gonna get my local booktsore to order that book for me.
Mythbusters is one of my favorite shows! I found a new one you might like:
Master Blasters--2 teams each build a rocket powered something(different challenges each week) and then launch 'em to see which team answered the challenge better. And I thought those Estes rockets I used to build were cool.
The website looked good to me but I'm using Firefox so I didn't expect any surprises there.
Rob

 

[back alley]

my first bike was a suzuki 400 gs.
i bought it, rode to the airport (just outside of town) for a coffee.

that was the warm up - i then rode to victoria where i had a lovely little lady stashed away.
i used to love riding.

 

[glenbarn]

It's a hot night in Baton Rouge and just gave my brother a digital camera - an Olympus Camedia something or other - for his birthday. He doesn't understand why I don't have one. My family doesn't understand why I just bought my 8th or 9th rangefinder (Canonet QL 17) or why I keep buying film and processing.
I love photography and I suppose I have a comfortable fondness for loading 35mm and 120 rolls of film. I know all the rationales for digital and it's evident that it's the future if not the present. I don't care. It's what I've gotten excited over since the mid 60s and it's what I'll enjoy doing for as long as I'm able.

Anyway, that's what I'm thinking on this hot Baton Rouge night.

 

[ChrisN]

big news here - gas is now 102.9 A LITRE

Damn - that's cheap! Wish I could get it for that. I'm now paying about $1.20 a litre, somes a bit more.

 

[bmattock]

The best vacation I ever had was when I was asked to drive a car from Florida to Toronto one summer. I stayed off the interstates, and just travelled north. I slept in the back seat most nights. Whenever I got to a town I'd look at a map to see where I was. I was able to do a side trip to New Orleans because I'd always wanted to see it. The whole trip took about 2 weeks. I rushed because I had a new girlfriend back in Canada (it was her parent's car).

When I was single and in my mid twenties, just out of the Corps, I used to take my vacation and get get in my old Toyota pickup truck and start driving. I'd throw a sleeping bag and a cooler in the back, grab my 44 mag for self-defense (never needed it) and head out into the Colorado Rockies for two weeks. Those vacations were the best I ever had. I wish I'd been a photographer then - I saw things that you would not believe.

Steam coming off elks' bodies in the early mountain winters of the high country as they stole feed from the horse trough and the horses ignored the big interlopers. Bacon and egg breakfasts at dirty little diners that smelled good enough that you'd swear you could live off the odor alone, and fresh maple syrup that would make you cry, just a little. A hawk swinging low over your truck and keeping pace as you got closer and closer to Mesa Verde and Gordon Lightfoot on the radio singing "Sumertime Dream" (schmaltzy but true) and sleeping in fields in Mexican Water, Arizona and waking up surrounded by tipis - everyone going about their business but ignoring you politely while you got the hell of their sacred lands. Seeing more stars from the bed of your truck staring straight up than you ever saw at one time in your life before - you'd swear it was a different sky you were looking at. Driving past the deserted 'company town' of Uravan, Colorado, where all the workers brought uranium out of the ground for our national defense and then all died of radiation sickness and were ignored by the courts and the people they died for and thinking about what justice really means in a country like that anyway. Seeing the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde and wondering how anyone could call native Americans 'primitive' after seeing that.

I know, I know - I could have just gone to Vegas and pulled a shiny metal handle for a few days. What's the matter with me, anyways?

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[back alley]

gas prices are getting rediculous!!

who can we invade?

 

[aizan]

yay, death to frames and tables!

sooo...as far as photography goes, i've gotta sit down and scan things on my shitty minolta dimage scan dual. first version. which is now worth $40 if you're lucky.

 

[FrankS]

I had a Suzuki GS650 several years ago which I sold to my neighbour who still rides it. Then I got my used BMW's. Back in highschool I had a 175 Honda twin. I really wanted to buy the 350 Honda twin, but my dad wouldn't let me becasue the biggest bike he had back in Germany was a 250 BMW. I remember the 500 and 650 Honda Silver Wings and considered getting one (after the 175 in highschool).


Bill M. I love reading your posts.

 

[back alley]

mine was the 650 (674) in real life.

first was the 400 then the 650 and then a honda custom 900 and then back to cars.

the 650 was great except that the fairing was off the goldwing and was a mite too big for it.

 

[back alley]

gotta get ready for sleep.

see ya guys in the morning!

joe

 

[rbiemer]

big news here - gas is now 102.9 A LITRE

And the folks that I work with wonder why I don't sympathize when they bitch about how much it costs to fill up their gas guzzlers.
My math makes your gas about twice as much as we are paying around here, joe.
Think I'll stick to my bicycle for a while longer yet.
Rob

 

[FrankS]

Nighty-night!

 

[bmattock]

And the folks that I work with wonder why I don't sympathize when they bitch about how much it costs to fill up their gas guzzlers.
My math makes your gas about twice as much as we are paying around here, joe.
Think I'll stick to my bicycle for a while longer yet.
Rob

Nah, Canadian dollars. You can pile them up and sleep on them for about a sawbuck American.

LOL!

Gotta get some sleep myself.

Best,

Bill

 

[bmattock]

It's a hot night in Baton Rouge and just gave my brother a digital camera - an Olympus Camedia something or other - for his birthday. He doesn't understand why I don't have one. My family doesn't understand why I just bought my 8th or 9th rangefinder (Canonet QL 17) or why I keep buying film and processing.
I love photography and I suppose I have a comfortable fondness for loading 35mm and 120 rolls of film. I know all the rationales for digital and it's evident that it's the future if not the present. I don't care. It's what I've gotten excited over since the mid 60s and it's what I'll enjoy doing for as long as I'm able.

Anyway, that's what I'm thinking on this hot Baton Rouge night.

Man, I can hear the Zydeco! Stay cool, brah. The temp has dropped a bit here in NC, due to some storms we got last night.

G'night,

Bill

 

[Little Prince]

Nice colors and sharp pics Jorge.

It's bad when you have to spend money on car repairs. Feels very wasteful, like it just needn't have happened, right? Acceptance is a hard lesson to learn...

Me? I'm writing my doctoral proposal. Working full time internship also. That means work at day and work at night. Horrible. I'm sapped of energy and it feels endless. Gotta crash...

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Gas here hasn't hit 3 bucks yet. It gets close downtown at 2.95 per gallon. I have o stop driving at 80 mph.

We Americans have been spared the worst gas prices. But still, it's higher than I want it to be.

Went out for a walk before meeting the family at dinner and took shots of the "Gas Lamp" downtown near my office. Grabbed a few shots of the architecture. Also tried to sneek a shot of Mexican sailors (the Mexican Navy is in town, as they often are). Snappy uniforms. Similar to Russian Seamen.

Went out to dinner after that at the restaurant my stepson serves at. Had excellent seared tuna in a crispy phylo (filo) crust. Delicious.