little_old_man

Here are two more shots of the comet. Not bad for no tripod. In the wider angle shot the comet is far upper left opposite side of picture from Pleiades.

I have a Nikon D40 that I've been playing around with for years. I miss 35mm but digital is nice for instant results. This first picture has you in mind Astronomer. I took it in December of 2007. Something caught my eye in the night sky so I took a 20 second exposure of the stars with my camera balanced on a fence post. The end result is a small smudge that turned out to be comet Holmes and I've added an arrow so you can see it. Here are just some random shots that I took over the last few years.

Welcome admins. The zoo can always use some new zookeepers. Congratulations.

He's been trying to watch it since yesteday, but his AOL dial-up account is taking a while to download the movie.

Unfortunately they can do more damage than we gave them credit for as can be seen by the Sony fiasco. The next time it might be our power grid, or any number of things that could really mess things up here. We rely too much on electronic data for everything and it really wouldn't take much for North Korea or any number of countries to mess things up here. Of course if North Korea did do that, it would be just the excuse we needed to bomb them back to the stone age, which is what that pudgy little fuck and his cronies deserve.

Sorry if it caused any problem Hemps. The most it should have done was try to open up a new email. Maybe you have some malware that caused it to freak out. Glad it's ok now.

Congratulations Devildog.

1. I made it up 2. It's not a link to a web site, it's a fake email address. 3. Lighten up

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I just heard on the news that Joe Cocker died from lung cancer at age 70. His music will live on forever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wG6Cgmgn5U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlDmslyGmGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnjWLVyMps

For all of you who enjoyed playing on the Fallen Hero's server, please remember that we have a COD2 DM and TDM server with a great bunch of regulars. DM is usually busy late afternoons and evening, and the TDM generally early Saturday and Sunday. We always enjoy seeing new victims friends in our servers and everybody is always welcome.

You'll feel a lot better doing your make-up on something you refinished yourself.

I finally got in and had a great time. Rugger and Loader, thank you for putting this together. I'm certain that Killa, Casper, RustyRifle, and Dolphin were egging us on from heaven.

I would have loved to show you how it's done Beer, but this is what my internet connection has looked like all day (green good red bad). Spent 3 hours on the phone with Comcast for nothing. Looks like I'm stuck with this until Tuesday when the service rep comes out.

Waaaaaaaa, my freeking internet has been out most of the morning and I can't get in to play. Sometimes I hate technology. I hope it went well guys, sorry I can't join you.

Happy birthday Johnny. Make it a great one.

Try it again. Loader and Rugger have been working on it and I was just able to connect.

Happy birthday Theodore.

My deepest condolences for your loss.

It reminds me a lot of where I grew up in Portsmouth Ohio only on a smaller scale. At the turn of the 20th century the town was a busy commercial hub on the Ohio river with over 100,000 people. When my parents moved there in 1963 it was down to 49,000 and when we left for California in 1977 it was around 25,000. Now I think it's somewhere less than 20,000. Growing up there I saw the steel mill close down, a major shoe manufacturer left and a uranium enrichment plant closed as well. Pretty much for the same reasons as Detroit, unions demanding higher wages until the factories said fuck you and moved overseas. All of the schools I went to as a kid are gone. Now it's mostly retired people with no place else to go and people on welfare. Lots of big beautiful victorians and estates that can be bought for cheap, but nobody around to buy them. It was a great place to grow up but it's not the same place now. Ironically Portsmouth had one of the first professional football teams called the Spartans. They moved to Detroit and became the Lions. The stadium they played in is still there and my brother played HS football there. It's sad to see how the US has gone from the manufacturing leader of the world to a nation of consumers. It's only going to get worse.

Sounds like you've experienced that first-hand.

All of the prayers I can think of are heading your way.

Shit happens.

I think it's our best one ever.

Bullet should probably just stay away from the servers that day. He'll be on rage quit overload and won't last 5 minutes.