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A belated Happy Birthday wish, Mikey!

Yes, they have an identical headband it's not as strong as the 007 arcs which can be bent back and forth.

I don't use FB any more than I have to do so. I looked at my own profile for the first time in ages today. When Trugoy the Dove died this past February, I posted this video: I just noticed Facebook "fact checked" it. I rate that a solid Zucc/10.

Might try Folgers with a Chemex.

Higher Chris Stapleton 2023 https://album.link/i/1697401120 Example: New Chris album just dropped. Happy to have another set of tunes from a master of crafting the most out all the words.

I was with the better half at one of her veg centric joints. Thank goodness they have a sister restaurant attached that allows for the rest of us... I have to say, they knocked the play on avocado toast out of the park... HS

Busy start to Sunday. Perhaps I'm not so lazy. Triple batch of banana bread. Brisket Chili

I just drink Folgers now. Life is easy.

I have another post identical to the one I just made, but first it's a detour into a nightmare. I've known two guys named Eddy and Jair for over 20 years now. Of all the photographers I know, Eddy is the one whose work is going to end up in a museum. He does one thing and does it well. He takes street portraits with medium and large format film. He's also bipolar AF, drinks and smokes heavily, and is morbidly obese. I like Eddy a lot, but I recognize he's not going to live forever. You should check out his work while he's still around. The January of 2007, Eddy and Jair were walking through the woods and stumbled upon some hunter's Bushnell remote game camera. Being they miscreant teenagers (they were actually 20 at the time) that they were, they ganked it. The trail camera produced really noisy, crappy 640x480 images. It also had some serious rolling shutter issues, which were not normally a problem on a camera that's not supposed to move. During that January, Eddy took, or more to the point, the CAMERA took a bunch of weird and very bad photos. There's no shutter control on trail cameras. Just a few settings, either motion activated or timed. I think one shot every 5 seconds was the fastest. I ran a select few of the images through Topaz GigaPixel AI and in a couple cases Topaz DeNoise AI as well, but did almost no other edits to them: This is the moment the pair stumbled on to the camera. It's like something out of a found footage horror film. That will be a recurring theme. Two self portraits Eddy took in the bathroom mirror after he got the camera home. There's a very strong rolling shutter effect on the second one. A triptych taken during one of their many visits to the remains of the infamous Belchertown State School. The grounds were very accessible in the mid 00s. These are demonstrably terrible photos, but there's something about the lo-fi horror movie aesthetic they have that I quite like. The testarossa in them is Eddy's younger sister Rosie, who is a bit of a nightmare herself.

Thanks. The pictures coming in from Grindavík are shocking, rips in the ground, houses pretty much broken in half, sinkholes all over the place etc.

Well things aren't good but it's just a waiting game for now. One town has been evacuated, has suffered a lot of damage and people were given 5-7 minutes to go into their homes and save what they could. If the town is wiped out, that is worst case scenario along with the Blue Lagoon and geo thermal powerplant just to the north of it. If it opens up in the sea just outside the town, it is also pretty bad as Keflavik airport is very close by so no flights in or out of Iceland... perhaps the whole of the northern Atlantic will shut down for a while at least. Let's just hope this thing moves and opens up somewhere in the wilderness where it won't do any damage. This is about 30 minutes away from me so yeah... pretty close.