I made the same comparison to Lost to someone the other day! I never watched that show, but I watched people succumb to it. I hate shows like that. I really want this to be a nice clean one… like you say.

Bach. Anything after that’s pretty cheesy…

Wow, yeah, are we sure those aren’t just some 2025 Oregonians??

David Foster Wallace, shook hands and chatted at a book signing… He was very pleasant, shy-seeming, like you’d expect. RIP!

Philip Seymour Hoffman, shook his hand and chatted briefly, after seeing a play he was in. Oddly similar to DFW: shy, warm, very human. Also RIP!

(I guess, don’t shake my hand?)

Does peanut butter count? I eat it on carrots, dip dark chocolate bars into it, sometimes just scoop it with a spoon. Yum.

amazing pic!!

With Rattle and Hiss, the Slither brothers…

batten down the hatches!!

I don’t even have a basement, so… fingers crossed a tornado doesn’t come right to my place.

I basically read two types of books. One is lit-nerd stuff (Joyce, Pynchon…) where you can read and re-read and still find new things, find communities online of people discussing it, read it with a friend and share what you got out of each chapter, etc. The other type I do is more immersive sci-fi/fantasy (Rothfuss, Stephenson, etc.) which I read for totally different reasons… like you said, an escape into another world.

TV makes me feel like a spoonfed zombie. I’m trying to watch Severance, and it’s good, but I hate the feeling of being hooked, tied to it, and having to sit there and binge it. And they’re doing all the imaginating for me. I much prefer to spend that 50 hours with a good thick book. No judgment on how other people like to do it… I just prefer the quiet of paging through a book!

Same. Because of the halos, right?

I keep hearing about this thing. Does it really do all the photoshop things? adjustment layers, masks, dodge+burn, all that stuff? and I guess, does it do it well, with big files?

Yeah, that. Opaque means no transparency. Easier to read/work, or see a picture/video without background stuff mixing in with it. But for my non-focused windows, I’m not actively working on those, so rice it up, transparency all the way! (but still add blur to those, just so I can read them if I need to…)

I have my focused window opaque, the rest transparent+blur.

Ah, glad to hear it! I’ll definitely give it a whirl, thanks.

Dang, those are beautiful screenshots. I recently moved over to Linux and have only tried a couple of games on here, but I should see how that one works… haven’t played it in a few months, and I have ways to go in it. I don’t even remember what chapter I’m on.

peni

got any… grapes?

of the corn XD

I think because I’m kinda colorblind, this one’s tough for me. My eyes mainly see the geometric shapes, the squared wood and stones in the upper right and left. The plant in the middle kind of blends into the rest of the shot for me. Maybe if i could see green better…!

haha! awesome! I’m in the Nikon world, but I haven’t tried my builtin timelapse either. I do have a cable release thing that will supposedly take care of all that for me but alas I haven’t tried that yet either. You’ve inspired me though… would be a fun little project.