sarbar
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Post by sarbar on May 1, 2020 22:10:58 GMT -8
I spend my days teaching my children and building a farm. I redid the end of Greenie today. I need a new hobby.But apparently the new banner is readable from the road, I got a customer within an hour
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Post by autumnmist on May 2, 2020 9:18:21 GMT -8
Some different at home activities during shutdowns, including segueing back in time: www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/style/victorian-era-crafts-coronavirus.html This is for people who like to work with their hands and who especially admire traditional hand crafts. FYI, the sweater with the diamond shapes is one I made when I was doing a lot of knitting decades ago. Flower pressing can be the basis for hand written cards or letters (remember those days when we sent birthday and holiday cards?), but I've found that some flowers (such as violets) just weren't thick enough to press easily. I ran across my old flower press when rummaging around in my "studio" (which sound more sophisticated than the "upstairs full of crafts stuff)." For those who might be snickering at Victorian needlework, some of those crafts such as tatting required a lot of skill. From what I've read, it was a diversionary successor to tying knots for fish nets. What really impressed me though was the handmade harp, by a man who wanted to learn to play it but had no harp. So he made one! Another offers a variety of suggestions for outdoor and neighborhood activities. ( gabby, thought you might be interested in this as a diversion to your "honey do" list. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/style/america-neighborhoods-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=moreIn&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=StyleI think it's interesting that folks are turning to nontechnical activities and/or getting outside, and are "coping in place" w/o traveling and/or challenging the distancing requirements. I've already seen some porch activity in my neighborhood. If we could get those triangle shaped megaphones, we can just sit on our porches and holler out our conversations, w/o even having to wear masks. People can be so creative when they really want to.
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Post by autumnmist on May 2, 2020 9:28:55 GMT -8
sarbar, you were born to be an entrepreneur, of the natural life style kind. I'm guessing you're living the life of your dreams?
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rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on May 2, 2020 17:38:49 GMT -8
I've already seen some porch activity in my neighborhood. If we could get those triangle shaped megaphones, we can just sit on our porches and holler out our conversations, w/o even having to wear masks. I love it! I can just see everyone hollering back and forth across the streets! (Too bad the houses in our neighborhood are totally turned inward. No porches, no stoops, only driveways).
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on May 6, 2020 10:42:55 GMT -8
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gabby
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Post by gabby on May 6, 2020 11:43:26 GMT -8
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rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on May 6, 2020 12:44:29 GMT -8
I have noticed lately a couple of our neighbors have taken to sitting out on their driveways, where they can greet people walking by. Too hot out there for me, but their house has a slightly different angle and some shade on the drive at least at some hours.
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sarbar
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Post by sarbar on May 7, 2020 6:25:04 GMT -8
As our farm sits on a lonely road that connects to other roads, we see a LOT of walkers, runners, bikers, etc go by. Our farming area sits at the road, so we get a lot of lookie loos who we wave to.
It passes the time.Lol......
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davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on May 8, 2020 19:28:40 GMT -8
Yesterday Thursday, was pretty active down along Los Gatos Creek beside highway 17 and at Town Plaza park. But at 8am yesterday, no one in the SJ city parks came by to open up the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden gates so after waiting an hour along with 2 or 3 dozen others, I drove the short distance home and made lunch.
Today, supposedly the warmest day so far this year up near 90F, I went back to the garden, and indeed as hoped it would be the calmest morning of this week until I bailed after 11am. Productively shot 11 subjects, since I didn't have to wait much between shots. Some calm periods, I fired at working speed. A slight variable breeze had come up after 10am.Will keep me busy multi days. I manually by perception of visual sharpness, choose which one frame of 20 to paint in each of the areas and elements of the image. At each point in Zerene Stacker I have side by side window comparisons of the up to that point composite image and the 1 of 20 current frame, both always displayed for the same area at the same magnification. Easy to flip back and forth through several frames. A game for those with industrially developed eyesight and delicate hand movement, as I spent years looking through stereo microscopes at printed circuit boards in order to test and repair them. Sort of like the guy doing Swiss watches. Painting an image in by what appears sharpest is actually similar to painting in terms of the calm smooth body movements.
The below is the first I processed from this morning, also my first subject, and was a subject I tried to shoot Wednesday but anything sticking up high is especially prone to bobbing about. Today used 20 shots in order to focus stack it's 3-demensionality with most at F5.6 or F8 and a few higher to fill in. To shoot this, my tripod was low enough that I was on my knee pads. The second image in order to show what focus stacking can do, is a narrow 600 pixel slice of the 6000 x 4000 pixel full image or 1/10 that has been downsized by 50% to 300 pixels. The left edge of the single bloom at center is in the slice.
Since 5pm have had enjoying fun for a couple hours with my daily street aerobic exercise and raiding the fridge and cupboards. I'm ready for a fun cool day along the San Mateo and Santa Cruz coast lines shooting shoreline smoothed conglomerate eroded out stones. (mouse select to enlarge)
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toejam
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Post by toejam on May 12, 2020 11:47:59 GMT -8
Been building replacement picnic tables for Silver Peak Wilderness camps.
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Post by dayhiker on Jun 13, 2020 13:24:13 GMT -8
I have so far listened to 6 or 7 of these, (loops referring to davesenesac post on video lectures on youtube) I can usually get his quiz question, if I am paying close attention. I kinda of knew how the body makes enzymes though I forgot many of the details. I think their several steps, something tells the cell to make a copy of part of the DNA to get mRNA, (or whatever suppresses this action is missing). It is then copied byRibsomes. And it repeats. I was wondering how a virus could take over all these steps, but listening to his lectures I realize they do so much more than make a copy of themselves, they have to be reassembled and coating put around each one etc. And all the kinds of viruses etc. ==== I just finished this book which became a page turner for me. It explained how the virus needs something that will let it into the cell and something that will let it breakout. If I understood it correctly this is the part that antibodies focus on, but it mutates so old anti-bodies don't work. Flu viruses need an enzyme to cleave their RNA which is only found in lung cells. They still don't know why the Spanish flu was so deadly, maybe it attacked more parts of the body than the lungs (how? - if it needs this enzyme , or how did it mutate so it could do without the enzyme). I wonder if any virus could attack any cell and parts of it could be replicated (many times) but not assembled without the enzyme so it might kill that cell but that would be it. For someone where the virus is out of control in the lungs that might mean allot of such attacks around the body? Flu The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 Kolata, Gina
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Jan 27, 2021 21:18:30 GMT -8
Well there is drinking beer .. Can - O - Bliss, a light tasting IPA Sounds like their cans make them happy too Then there a double dark chocolate beer ... Sex Panther Is it a dessert beer or a breakfast beer? Only time will tell ..
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Post by Lamebeaver on Jan 28, 2021 6:41:21 GMT -8
I may need to change my trail name...
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Post by bradmacmt on Jan 28, 2021 7:16:14 GMT -8
I may need to change my trail name.. LOL!
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