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Post by Cornflake on Aug 17, 2024 7:04:26 GMT -5
Good morning. Happy Saturday. August is rolling along and we still haven't seen much of the monsoon rain, wind and storms.
Today I'll tend to a few odds and ends, too mundane to mention.
Enjoy your day.
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Post by drlj on Aug 17, 2024 7:08:55 GMT -5
Finally. It’s Saturday.
Rained overnight but not enough.
Enjoy the day.
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Post by paleo on Aug 17, 2024 8:24:22 GMT -5
A chilly, 68 degree morning.
The East Iowa Ski Club (snow) is having our annual sweetcorn roast this afternoon at one of the member's farm. Always a good time.
This weekend is also Irish fest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (not Minnesota). I chose not to go because I thought my Granddaughter would not be dancing, having retired from competitive Irish dance dancing. Last week her former coach called and asked her to dance with current and past World medalists.
She'll be dancing today, 12:30, on the
Lakefront Brewery stage.
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Post by howard lee on Aug 17, 2024 8:28:55 GMT -5
Good morning, everyone. I am enjoying my morning cappuccino, graced with lactose-free steamed milk. To my surprise, it tastes every bit as good as lactose-laced milk.
Plans are for some file organizing today, an a bit of dusting and vacuuming the common areas of the apartment. I may even wash the kitchen floor. The weather forecast calls for rain to begin sometime after two pm today and continue into tomorrow and possibly Monday morning. It is currently sunny and noticeably humid. The City has issued a warning for swimmers at the area beaches to stay out of the water possibly through Monday, due to extreme rip tides caused by the current tropical storm coming up the coast (pick a name).
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...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southwest Suffolk, Southeast Suffolk, Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties.
* WHEN...Through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The high risk of rip currents will likely continue into Monday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and yell or wave for help. —Alert from Accuweather.com
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For your entertainment, here's a very old video I resurrected, from 2009, playing out
with friends Deb and Jerry. This happened at the Freddy's Bar, in the Backroom, when
they were located in Prospect Heights and shoved out by the construction of the
Barclays arena. Freddy's is now in the South Slope. My wife shot this with whatever
iPhone was current then, and a fairly steady hand. Billie Holiday recorded this song decades ago.
(On Edit: I'm the guy at the left.)
Have a pleasant Sabbath.
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Post by PaulKay on Aug 17, 2024 8:35:45 GMT -5
The summer has been brutal again this year. The record for consecutive days of highs over 100 was broken again this year.
The "hundred degrees high" trend has been consistent from May - Sept. for the last several years.
What makes it considerably worse is that we just aren't getting much rain AT ALL from the monsoons.
So as a result we are losing a half dozen bushes in our landscape this year; even WITH drip-line watering every other day.
Our landscape guy who comes by once a month said they weren't going to make it.
We will eventually have to rip them out and replace them with something far more drought and heat tolerant.
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Post by Marty on Aug 17, 2024 8:38:20 GMT -5
Good morning.
66F-78F cloudy.
I'll hang around the shop this morning and probably do errands with DaWife this afternoon. We do need quite a bit more mulch for the front garden beds.
Also time to start thinking about packing for Key West next Wednesday.
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Post by kenlarsson on Aug 17, 2024 8:45:58 GMT -5
Good morning. I got up early and prepped the pool for this afternoon. Kelly, RJ and the grandkids are coming over for a family pool party. We've lucked into what looks like a nice weather weekend. Should be a good time.
Right now I'm kicking back waiting for the Arsenal/Wolverhampton Premier League game. Go Gunners!
Have a great day!
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Aug 17, 2024 9:13:05 GMT -5
Up coffee in hand, still a bit sleepy. Hard a fab dinner last night. A seafood boil prepared by one of Nita’s girlfriends. Dunginess crab, shrimp, clams, sausage, corn on cob. And on of the guys stopped at Rogue Distillery/brewery here in Newport and picked a bottle of there new chef Morimoto whisky. If you are a bourbon fan run and order some. Everyone was giving this one two thumbs up. I’ll pick up a bottle today, after a trip to Freddies. I’m on for gluten free blueberry pancakes tomorrow. One of the gals has celiac, but King Arthur makes a fab gluten free pancake mix. It’s so good we use it all the time.
Mike
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Post by Tamarack on Aug 17, 2024 9:17:54 GMT -5
Rain overnite, cool and moist this morning.
Celebrated son's birthday last night with mountains of takeout Chinese food. In his mid-30s, he has ended up with an odd combination of hobbies. For many years he has collected comic books, some 50s-60s vintage, mostly more recent manga and mysterious blood and gore graphic novels. He has recently taken up birdwatching, and texts us multiple times a day with the latest sightings (his daughters are a team with him on this). We gave him a copy of A Field Guide to the Birds by the famous Roger Tory Peterson, the very bird book his grandmother relied on.
Woke up with hip pain, so it's off to the gym to work it off. Workshop time later. Also gotta make some preparations for IdiotJam.
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Post by TKennedy on Aug 17, 2024 9:50:34 GMT -5
The Chicago crew lite are arriving later today for a week. Four bodies plus dog. They are high energy and there will be a definite recovery period after.
Good news is I’ll get some golf in as my son and one grandson are big time ball strikers.
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Post by drlj on Aug 17, 2024 9:56:28 GMT -5
Up coffee in hand, still a bit sleepy. Hard a fab dinner last night. A seafood boil prepared by one of Nita’s girlfriends. Dunginess crab, shrimp, clams, sausage, corn on cob. And on of the guys stopped at Rogue Distillery/brewery here in Newport and picked a bottle of there new chef Morimoto whisky. If you are a bourbon fan run and order some. Everyone was giving this one two thumbs up. I’ll pick up a bottle today, after a trip to Freddies. I’m on for gluten free blueberry pancakes tomorrow. One of the gals has celiac, but King Arthur makes a fab gluten free pancake mix. It’s so good we use it all the time. Mike After a few shots, two thumbs up will look like four thumbs up. |
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Post by coachdoc on Aug 17, 2024 10:43:58 GMT -5
I’m flabbergasted. I have not had a sip of alcohol coming up on 6 months except once a mont or so my wife slips me a small glass of a milky dessert drink (Bailey’s). Not enuf to catch a buzz.
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Post by John B on Aug 17, 2024 10:52:56 GMT -5
The City has issued a warning for swimmers at the area beaches to stay out of the water possibly through Monday, due to extreme rip tides caused by the current tropical storm coming up the coast (pick a name). I found the rip currents in the NYC area to be the worst. I'd be walking along, minding my own tourist business, when suddenly a rip current would sweep me into another vintage guitar shop or Broadway theater. Brutal, I tell you, brutal. |
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Post by paleo on Aug 17, 2024 11:31:48 GMT -5
Good morning, everyone. I am enjoying my morning cappuccino, graced with lactose-free steamed milk. To my surprise, it tastes every bit as good as lactose-laced milk.
Plans are for some file organizing today, an a bit of dusting and vacuuming the common areas of the apartment. I may even wash the kitchen floor. The weather forecast calls for rain to begin sometime after two pm today and continue into tomorrow and possibly Monday morning. It is currently sunny and noticeably humid. The City has issued a warning for swimmers at the area beaches to stay out of the water possibly through Monday, due to extreme rip tides caused by the current tropical storm coming up the coast (pick a name).
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...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southwest Suffolk, Southeast Suffolk, Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties.
* WHEN...Through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The high risk of rip currents will likely continue into Monday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and yell or wave for help. —Alert from Accuweather.com
___________________
For your entertainment, here's a very old video I resurrected, from 2009, playing out
with friends Deb and Jerry. This happened at the Freddy's Bar, in the Backroom, when
they were located in Prospect Heights and shoved out by the construction of the
Barclays arena. Freddy's is now in the South Slope. My wife shot this with whatever
iPhone was current then, and a fairly steady hand. Billie Holiday recorded this song decades ago.
Have a pleasant Sabbath.
At one of the resorts I used to frequent on the island of Bali, they had boats they would take people sightseeing in. When not in use the boats were anchored a few hundred feet off shore, directly were a big rip current went out. When a boat was needed, one of the young men from the resort would dive into the rip current and let it take them out to where the boats were anchored. Never a flotation device of any kind. It was fun, interesting and a little scary to watch. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Aug 17, 2024 12:10:17 GMT -5
Two people I knew personally--one a high school classmate, the other a music-camp friend--drowned while swimming in rip-current waters, both off Carolina shores. Both were healthy middle-aged guys. And another classmate drowned in Italy back in 1965, in what was probably a rip tide. It was a beach party at Ostia, and the rest of the kids could see him out beyond the breakers but couldn't get to him.
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Post by John B on Aug 17, 2024 12:49:04 GMT -5
For photographers and/or lovers of music that was popular in August, 1969, here's Woodstock head photographer Jim Marshall at the festival in a picture taken by Life magazine's Bill Eppridge. I can't tell what cameras he's sporting.  |
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Post by howard lee on Aug 17, 2024 13:08:29 GMT -5
For photographers and/or lovers of music that was popular in August, 1969, here's Woodstock head photographer Jim Marshall at the festival in a picture taken by Life magazine's Bill Eppridge. I can't tell what cameras he's sporting.
Are you being facetious? They all look like Leica M bodies and lenses (from wide-angle, with a hot-shoe-mounted viewfinder, to short telephoto) to me.
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Post by John B on Aug 17, 2024 13:40:25 GMT -5
For photographers and/or lovers of music that was popular in August, 1969, here's Woodstock head photographer Jim Marshall at the festival in a picture taken by Life magazine's Bill Eppridge. I can't tell what cameras he's sporting. Are you being facetious? They all look like Leica M bodies and lenses (from wide-angle, with a hot-shoe-mounted viewfinder, to short telephoto) to me. Nope! I suppose it's a little like seeing a pic of Jimi Hendrix at the same festival and asking what type of guitar he's playing. To be fair, I was approximately -1 days old when this pic was taken. I assumed Leica - he had been a professional for a while by then, I think, so they wouldn't have been copies (high quality or otherwise), right? The top one with the add-on viewfinder threw me for sure. |
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Post by david on Aug 17, 2024 14:06:11 GMT -5
Dogs exercised, coffee drank, smoothy consumed, wordle wordled in 3, hour long phone visit with older brother, and now off to a family reunion of sorts.
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Post by howard lee on Aug 17, 2024 14:06:45 GMT -5
Are you being facetious? They all look like Leica M bodies and lenses (from wide-angle, with a hot-shoe-mounted viewfinder, to short telephoto) to me. Nope! I suppose it's a little like seeing a pic of Jimi Hendrix at the same festival and asking what type of guitar he's playing. To be fair, I was approximately -1 days old when this pic was taken. I assumed Leica - he had been a professional for a while by then, I think, so they wouldn't have been copies (high quality or otherwise), right? The top one with the add-on viewfinder threw me for sure.
On the old Leica film M series, when you click a lens onto the camera body, it sets the proportional frame lines in the viewfinder. The widest auto frame line is for a 28mm lens. Anything wider (24mm, 21mm, for example) requires an accessory viewfinder that slips into the hot shoe. So I would take a wild guess and say he had a 21mm lens mounted on that camera body.
Photograph by Philip Dygeus, from Flickr
The white lines in this view through a Leica M4 viewfinder are
50mm frame lines, for example.
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