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holocaust bloopers posted:Hey crabman, refer me some crabs to hire I’m pretty grumpy before my morning coffee. I’m not cheap though.
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There are free bagels in the kitchen area twice a week.
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joat mon posted:Cool. The technique I used for those pictures is also used to make redeye/Replicant eye pictures. Would you like a spergpost on soapfilm? Seconding out of curiosity
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Feb 1, 2019 20:55
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holocaust bloopers posted:There are free bagels in the kitchen area twice a week. You had me at free.
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Feb 1, 2019 21:09
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Soulex posted:Nice. Yeah you think you have the show figured out then it loving does some crazy left field poo poo on you. Season 2 is supposedly gonna happen also. Ok, just finished this. What a mindfuck, season 2 needs to come out soon.
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https://twitter.com/marmastry/status/1090974489578356736
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Ricky Larkin, His Lover’s Son.
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Feb 2, 2019 01:25
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"You can imagine where it goes from here" "He becomes the father figure that's been absent from the younger ones life and helps him break into minor league baseball?" "Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey"
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Feb 2, 2019 02:50
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Kirk should've done the needful and killed Khan when he first woke up
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Feb 2, 2019 07:15
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Wtf then we lose the best trek film
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Feb 2, 2019 08:03
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 So, what/how is this beautiful deviltry? Thin film interference. How to make soap bubble pictures: Bubbles: Mix up your own bubbles with dish or laundry soap and water, or use kids' blowing bubbles. Make about a half cup. Add a tablespoon or two of glycerin. This makes the bubble last for minutes, rather than seconds. It also slows down the shifting patterns of color a bit. You're not going to blow bubbles, just let them sit there - technically they're soap film, not bubble, pictures. Make a soap film holder from a pipe cleaner or a bit of wire coat hanger with paper towel or cloth or foam around it to hold more soap. Figure out a way to hold the bubble holder up. Camera: DSLR or a point and shoot that can do macro shots. Lens: some way to do macro - you can probably do it without a macro lens, but you're going to lose some detail blowing it up. Most of these pictures were taken with a 50mm lens and 68mm of extension tubes. The first and last were taken with a 18-270mm zoom at 270mm with a Raynox DCR-150 clipon lens (the Raynox gets you 95% of a macro lens for 10% of the price and takes a second to take on and off - get one!) Don't worry about a fast lens, you won't need one because you'll need to set your f-stop high (small aperture) to get a bigger depth of field. Light: either a remote flash or continuous lighting or an aimable desk lamp Optional: a tripod for the camera a tripod or stand for the light A diffuser for the light. If you've got a small soft box, fine, but a piece of printer paper stood off on front of the light source will work too. A focusing rail for the camera. Setup: You've essentially got to bounce the light off the soap film into the lens.  What angle AC is doesn't matter, only that angle AB and BC be equal and that line B is perpendicular to the soap film. Everything (lens, light, soap film) needs to be in the same horizontal plane.  Start out with the light a little bit back because you're going to be moving it around at first. Scoot it in closer once everything gets set up. Get some soap on the holder and set it in place. Now try to get your angles set up. Focus the lens on the soap holder and then angle it down to look at the soap film. You can use a flashlight or smart phone light to get in the ballpark for the angle for the light. Look through the viewfinder. If you see something like this, you're getting close:  Put your light source (and diffuser if you're using one) in the same place and check it by looking through the viewfinder if using light, or taking a picture of you're using a flash. If it looks like this, you've lost the angle, try again:  Getting there:  Just right:  The difference between the light in this picture and the harsh, ragged 'ballpark' picture above is mostly the difference between the LED light on a phone and diffused light. Reload the holder with soap and put it back in the same place. Check again for good reflection. Now set your focus on the edge of the bubble holder, somewhere near the top. If you're using a light, autofocus might work (?) but you'll probably need to use manual focus. Live view might work too, which will ease focusing. Wait and watch. If you're using a flash, take a picture every few seconds. It'll start small and slow  And you'll wonder why you went through all this trouble. This is at about 2 minutes in. Just wait a few more seconds.         And so on. These shots were taken over 4 minutes. The picture will change continuously, and you can also pan around the rest of the bubble to look for different patterns. You'll need to continuously fiddle with the focus, particularly if you're panning around. Advanced technique: Unfortunately, you'll notice you aren't getting good focus across the whole picture. Take a look at the angle of the soap film in comparison to the focal plane of your camera. They're not parallel. That means that parts of the soap film are closer to the camera than other parts, and when you're shooting macro, fractions of a millimeter matter for focus. So how to fix it? In the ABC angle picture, angle AC is about 60°. The more you can shrink that angle, the more of the soap film you can keep in focus. Once you get that angle to zero, you're golden. Unfortunately, because gear takes up space, it'd be hard to get that angle down to 45, let alone 0. You can still get that angle to zero, but you'll need one more piece of equipment.  A sheet of glass. 5x7 inches will be plenty. The glass from a cheap picture frame is perfect.  This setup is where yesterday's and the bookend pics in this post came from. You need to up the light intensity a little, but it gets you that (optically) 0° angle between light and lens. Downside: if you're using extension tubes, you're probably going to run out of working distance because of the space the pane of glass takes up.  (This bubble is getting ready to pop) joat mon fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Feb 2, 2019 |
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Neat, I need to pick up a vintage macro lens. Dunno what's good though, probably either Minolta MD or Canon FD. I have a set of Minolta MD extension tubes somewhere.
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Feb 2, 2019 16:15
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gently caress imposter syndrome.
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joat mon posted:
Way too good. Thanks for this.
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did my taxes this is probably the last year i do them myself
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So has anyone every used a lithium iron phosphate battery in their vehicle before? I needed a new battery for my bike and the polaris one is just pure garbage, 140 bucks, and unavailable because the cold killed a bunch of them. So I went to the local boat store and found something close enough in size, and they call it a LiFePo4, so a lithium iron phosphate I suppose. I plug the new battery in and the bike has never started so fast before, and the lights have never been so bright without the engine actually running. Being that the battery sits directly underneath my balls I probably should've researched this a little but I was determined to not buy the OEM and here I am. Just wondering if anyone has used them before and if there's any particular oddities to expect. The only downside so far is that it's about an inch shorter than the OEM and so it's not held in properly by the retention bracket so I'l just 3d print a spacer block to go in there. Oh, and the thing is about a third the weight of the lead acid, which is nice.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:gently caress imposter syndrome. Best way to beat it is find a career where you're never going to be a superstar and you're always challenged.
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not caring here posted:
Just get a 1"x1" and cut your spacer from that. Or use a small spring. There's a million things you could MacGyver a fix with, and you're gonna 3d print the equivalent of a hockey puck? Just seems like the longest way around.
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Oh, I thought about that, but I can just model up the exact geometry of the top of the battery and make a seat in the spacer for the retention bracket so it just doesn't move. Printing it is easy as poo poo. If I had taken a photo of it when it was still light it'd make sense. It's a real lovely setup, I assume because ~motorcycle~. The bracket itself doesn't even clamp properly. The bolt to tighten it down is perpendicular to the clamping force you want, so...
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apparently lithium ion phosphate batteries are very good for automotive things they don't catch fire like traditional batteries so you won't charbroil your nuts off if you puncture a cell while riding good job
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Okay, I gotcha on the whys now. Farm kid in me has a hard time rationalizing anything beyond simple solutions or haphazarding poo poo together.
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Well that's cool to know that I'm not driving around a VBIED aimed at my nut sack so that's pretty neat.
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i mean that's a pretty metal way to go but yeah they're probably the safest batteries you can have upon a bit of research
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What hole do these idiots crawl out of? quote:Tesla fan and Model 3 owner. Please consider using my referral code: http://ts.la/#%23%23%23%23%23 Oh.
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Imagine logging on to a social network populated by a world of people and summing up your entire personality as "Tesla fan"
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Oh man, yesterday I was driving out to the range and some jackass in a new Tesla aggressively passed me in a no passing stretch of road. I was going 65, he was easily going 80+. Then 10 minutes later, I see that he's been pulled over by the cops. Sometimes it's the small joys in life.
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gat dang my year-long funk appears to have (hopefully not temporarily) broken and i found a rare burst of motivation, i need to take advantage of this poo poo so it doesn't just turn into a fluke going to spend some of my dragon's hoard of money to begin a self improvement cycle with the end goal of hopefully finding a woman i haven't seriously dated in 2+ years and i wasn't any good at it in the first place, this should be comedy
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Feb 3, 2019 16:17
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We both know you’re going to do another FO4 run.
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Feb 3, 2019 16:35
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Well yeah probably, unless another video game appears and occupies my time. But I've been putting off A LOT of poo poo, both actually important and also trivial bullshit for a long time because I've just had no motivation to do anything. I work, I eat some frozen junk from Trader Joes, I play video games, I sleep, repeat. For about a year, ever since my fiance and I parted ways. Depression is a motherfucker. Vasudus fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Feb 3, 2019 |
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I know how you feel, vas. I interviewed for a business development/sales type position for a software company. They’ve been around 26 years and a friend works there so I know it’s not a fly by night type thing. I left a good impression, and may have a gig. Seems like it would be a good fit.
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I may be in town again soon and I’ve been told I make the worse wingman ever.
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not caring here posted:So has anyone every used a lithium iron phosphate battery in their vehicle before? I needed a new battery for my bike and the polaris one is just pure garbage, 140 bucks, and unavailable because the cold killed a bunch of them. So I went to the local boat store and found something close enough in size, and they call it a LiFePo4, so a lithium iron phosphate I suppose. Well we have an LiFePo4 on our FSAE car cranking an R6. It’s a Full Spectrum Pulse P2 and handles it easily. Never had any overheating problems.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I know how you feel, vas. A legal background can progress into compliance/oversight/process improvement without *too* much difficulty, as in subject matter expertise is secondary to management/legal responsibilities. Look into the concepts of "Change Management" if you want to try and jump on the next big corporate buzzword. You would be surprised at how many organizations across every discipline imaginable need someone to say 'hold the gently caress up, what are we doing, why are we doing it, and how are we getting there' LingcodKilla posted:I may be in town again soon and I’ve been told I make the worse wingman ever. I'm not nearly at a level where I'm comfortable interacting with random women in a bar, but let me know if you're in town.
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M_Gargantua posted:Well we have an LiFePo4 on our FSAE car cranking an R6. It’s a Full Spectrum Pulse P2 and handles it easily. Never had any overheating problems. Yeah, today I went out and I always thought my starter to be a little anemic, but it fired up hard as hell no problems. I haven't even charged it, it just came out of the box like that. I don't think they'd bother charging it much just to ship. Got back, cool as a cucumber. A+++ would spurn OEM batteries again.
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Vasudus posted:Well yeah probably, unless another video game appears and occupies my time. Little things help. I gave up coffee back in December after having way too many anxiety attacks. No caffeine helped me a lot keep a clearer head.
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Vasudus posted:Well yeah probably, unless another video game appears and occupies my time. I’m just razzing you dude. I genuinely and earnestly wish you luck, you (and this applies to all you mother fuckers itt) deserve to be happy.
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Vasudus posted:
Me neither! Mostly because I’ve been married for 20 years and plan on staying that way. However talking about the finer points of a FO4 survival run and eating fine food is my jam.
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Lingcodkilla wouldn't come rescue me from honey boo-boo. Instead he thought the whole thing was hilarious. Horrible wingman.
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