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by Tim F|  November 11, 200911:00 am| 27 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Photo Blogging

phillybits, Coming up fast.

coming-up-fast

Montysano, Sipsey Wilderness, northwest Alabama. Shot on medium format film with a Minolta Autocord camera.

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Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one.

Two helpful notes: Click each picture for a link to the photographer’s own site. To see all of our photo threads on one page, click on the ‘photo blogging’ tag at the bottom of the post.

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Tuesday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  November 10, 20098:50 pm| 264 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

Couple of quick things:

1.) Not sure what is going on with Daylight Savings, and maybe my memory is just fading, but I don’t recall it getting pitch black at 5 pm in previous years. Am I just not remembering?

2.) I’m a big fan of fruit, and every fall I am more and more turned off with apples. They just don’t taste as good as they once used to- red delicious are red as hell, but gone is the sweetness I remember as a child. I’m working my way through some Braeburn’s and some Sonya’s, but I would kill for something that tastes like the Red delicious I had as a kid.

3.) My macbook has a cd stuck in it. Do any of you have experience with the geniuses at the Apple Store (and that is there name, genius, and not an insult). Will I have to pay or is it covered by the warranty (the macbook is only a few months old). Are they allowed to take the laptops apart on site, or will I have to go without for days? IF I have to pay, how reasonable are their prices?

4.) On a side note, the current version of Dreamweaver from Adobe is just awesome. Really like some of the changes and the additions from GoLive, now that Adobe and Macromedia are one and the same.

5.) Still really enjoying Dragon Age. Such a great game. I’m losing two-three hours a night and staying up too late.

6.) Need a new caffeine free tea for night. I’ve temporarily lost my taste for the Stash Peppermint I used to have every night, and I’m bored with chamomile.

Finally, a pet pic:

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Enjoy.

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Happy hour open thread

by DougJ|  November 10, 20095:35 pm| 36 Comments

This post is in: Music, Open Threads, Good News For Conservatives

A friend just emailed me a YouTube of “Lovely Day”; I was going go to with that and write “may the headwinds be always at your back”. But this is by far the finest Bill Withers video on the internets.

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Open Thread

by Tim F|  November 10, 200911:05 am| 27 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Photo Blogging

RedKitten, Cape Breton.

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Royston Vasey, Lake Wairarapa At Dawn.

lake-wairarapa-at-dawn

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It’s Never Too Early

by John Cole|  November 9, 200911:42 pm| 45 Comments

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28-10, Steelers over pretenders.

One of the better halves of football in recent memory.

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Give ’em enough thread

by DougJ|  November 9, 20095:20 pm| 58 Comments

This post is in: Music, Open Threads, Good News For Conservatives, We Are All Mayans Now

Does this after ever happen to you? You step away from American politics and political media for a few days, you forget how nuts it is, then you get back into it and feel the stupidity and possibly doom all over again, as if for the first time?

Anyway, this song has been my happy place recently.

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Open Thread

by Tim F|  November 9, 200911:30 am| 38 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Photo Blogging

Jeroen, Below the waterline.

below-the-waterline

toujoursdan, Senegal.

senegal

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