Astronomer

D'awwww...here's a picture of one of our pups and one of the kittens, both about 1.5 years old in this shot. Still best buds. Go ahead, just try and have a negative thought after seeing this!

Hmm, a couple of folks with 397 days combined time on the server are passing judgment on humanity. Yet, they can't spend 30 seconds to wish fellow Canadians happy birthday.

Tough work being righteous.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

These were the majority of Killary/Obama voters and supporters.

Crazy shit these days. Not everything is meant to he "connected". Wtf are people thinking of. Oy vey...

 

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Google "teledildonics".

So, you prefer dictatorships? You look up to North Korea, Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, etc as models to be emulated?

You could have used better examples, say, democracies with refugee policies that you agree with. Or was that research too hard?

Says a lot for your coterie of trumped Harper-like head-nodders.

Glad to hear you're on the mend.

Congratulations to you and your family, Pete! Nothing else matters as much as family, and raising the next generation.

I have no problem with your play style @@Elvis9. Fuck the fucking fuckers, say "fuckity fuckity fuck fuck fuck!", click your heels three times, and don't bother defrosting the whiners!

Nice to see you back, Shamu! You're always a gentleman and a great guy to play online with. Looking forward to playing many rounds of WAW with you!

Here's a shot I took yesterday. I saw reports of a snowy owl spotted not too far from my home. I drove to the general area and within a few minutes, there it was sitting on top of a utility pole, completely unconcerned with my presence. It had been reported that it has a bad or missing left eye, and that report was correct, but there was no discharge and it was certainly healthy. Looks like it's an old injury and it's been thriving.

The camera is a Canon 70d, and the lens is a Sigma 150-600mm from their "Contemporary" line. The uncompressed image is finely detailed.

Theme song for the ad campaign?

"Build it and they will come". That's got some buzz to it...

In my personal belief i think alot of it is chem trails. When i was a kid here in st.louis you didnt see that shit, and winter was cold from november to February with snow fall and no temps over 20-30 degrees, Mid march-may was rainy and june-september was balls hot. Now within last few years ive seen large X markings and sporatic "chemtrails" and the weather here has changed noticeably. Last few years the winters have been mild ie: last week it was 60-70 for two days, then snowed in the 30s for 3 days then was 50 for 2 more, Spring has been very dry, which makes for a long hot summer and then it rains all fall. Shits fucked up man and im noticing it. I dont know if its chem trails or just the earth fucking with the seasons but i will admit something is very different then it was 15 ish years ago and so on.

There is no such thing as "chemtrails". Period. Codpiece provided good information. Instead of running down the conspiracy theory path, a path paved with bullshit, pseudo-science, and anti-science, people should educate themselves with...science. Science is merely a rigourous methodology applied to various facets of the natural world in order to properly understand it. Do some research on meteorology, atmospheric science, and what is a contrail? There are enough jaw-dropping wonders in nature without adding fantasy and paranoid conspiracies into the mix.

And, yeah, the climate (weather patterns over time) is changing. Every month and every year over the past several years have been setting temperature records. This affects wind patterns, the jet streams (atmospheric rivers of air), atmospheric moisture, storm intensity, drought conditions in one part of the country and flooding rainfall in another. and so on.

I have shot tens of thousand in both digital and analog. Nothing's compares to film. When I go back through and I look at my film work there is just so much more feeling and warmth in it. Have not been able to capture that same feeling yet with digital. I have a Nikon scanner that I have scanned my negatives with. Those when converted to digitel still look better than those shot with my D810. There but s just a better feeling with them and how it captures the image.

I agree. I have a number of photography books and the ones with images from film have a certain personality to them, for want of a better term. Digital can be almost clinical in it's reproduction. You can get filters for Lightroom, DXO, Photoshop etc. that mimic the looks of specific film types, but what's the point?

I got into photography fairly recently and later in life, but I'd like to get a good film camera someday and really learn to work it and get to know how to capture the best shots with various films.

I don't recommend joining that forum, it isn't pretty. The normal rules of decency don't apply.

No shit.

Love Leica gear! And Kodak and another brand have announced that they're bringing back film to market. It's seeing a resurgence.

We had a bit of a flood in mid-January:

From the river near my home

A phone booth near my office. I'm working on a series of a dozen images.

Thanks bro ! I appreciate it ! I mist ask, is CCNA the first step ? because I have zero exp in IT and was wondering where the basics start.

As in all things, the answer is "it depends". Start here: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/overview.html and I'd suggest asking at your school or even with local IT and large companies what track or skills are most in demand and forecast to be in demand over the coming years. Network security will always be hot, but so will most other areas too.  Routing and switching is the bedrock of networking and is a marketable track.

It's never too late to make a change. Good for you! Networking is where it's at. People with networking skills and certifications are in demand. Cisco's certifications are recognized everywhere; My $.02: start with a CCNA then pick your stream from the various branches from there.

Good luck!

I'm tired as fuck