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May the 4’s be with you
Did someone say Happy Hour?
This day is passing too fast.
I’ll take 29 of everything.
I have no idea if this picture is any good or of any interest to anyone but I like it so I’m posting it.
Beech leaf breaks out of its brown wrapper. Taken today.
This is what you were talking about earlier… I love it. It is so newly opened you can still see the fine folds.
Thank you, My Queen.
I thought it was almost like an insect coming out of a cocoon.
It’s wonderful Andi. You can still see the fine bits where it’s pulled away from the protective layer. Just like an insect… Spring Metamorphosis. 🙂
that were just starting to open. I wonder how fast/slow the opening process is — can we see it just by watching or would is time lapse photography needed?
Do you guys ever do that?
I’m guessing you haven’t either but it would be really nifty to have some of your flowers opening up.
That can be the next big BT experiment… 🙂 Does Jim have the tools at least?
Jim says you need to a good secure tripd, a way to protect the camera, and a way to take photos as set intervals. One way is just to stand there and press the shutter every few seconds/minutes. There ‘s also a company that makes an IR remote shutter release:
More toys! 🙂
you need to get the D70 first. Or did you decide on the Canon?
I’m getting in either this week or next (bday!!!). I can’t wait–I’m so excited I’m ready to burst, but no one wants to hear me go on about it so I’ve been bottling it up. 🙂
Olivia, I’ll always listen to you.
You’re my hero. 😉
You don’t know what kind of craziness you’ve unleashed… 🙂
you’ve said (well, in my presence anyway).
So let it all spill — including exactly when you’re birthday is.
The 350D Canon’s got a built in wireless remote, but the controllers are separate.
BTW, way cool that you knew who Tony Price was…:{)
Did your day improve any?
Kicking back and getting a fire started for dinner and will prob call it pretty early tonight. Mentally fatigued,,,
The early thing — my Monday is tomorrow. At the very least, you’ve got yours out of the way… {{{{dada}}}}
That’s cool Andi.
Reminds me of feathers on some exotic bird…lovely! 🙂
It does – it reminds me of a Bird of Paradise.
I had no idea what one of those looked like but having found a picture of one kind (wow, there are 43 kinds, 35 of which are in New Guinea) I see that they have a long sweeping tail.
Thanks for the info – but I meant the tropical plant bird of paradise. Oh well, always something new and exciting to learn in the lounge. 🙂
off to google again.
I’m so pleased when I send someone else off to Google, because so often I’m the one who does it instead of saying…um, WTF?
well that’s two times you’ve sent me googling today. But the results of my googling is that it makes me think more of the bird than the plant.
Ok, I’ll Google the bird because though I suspected the plant was named after a bird, I’ve never seen the bird. 🙂
I was thinking of it more like a butterfly but now that you say it I can see that it does have the elongated shape of a tropical bird.
Lovely interpretations one and all. But sometimes a leaf is just a leaf is just a leaf. (Can you tell I’m fed up and want to get out of work and get home???) Pardon any slight snark that may have been conveyed by that remark. Why on earth Freud and Gertrude Stein are invading my brain today, I have no clue.
I was of the insect coming out of the cocoon mind there. 🙂
Gotta run downtown.
See ya’ll later.
Don’t get lost in the massive crowds, FM.
Hmmm…
Sorry, I just love those pictures.
But I’m afraid my captions can’t be shared in mixed company.
We’re not mixed. We’re all completely nuts.
Well to confess, Andi, my first thoughts were very similar to yours, but since I’m springing myself from work right now, I’ll ponder them a bit further and get back to you all later. Yay, I’m fleeing my cube!
Rummy: I can only take it in the ass this far.
Bush: more bad news for us and you’ll take this as far as I can get it in.
That’s what I like about Andi… fearless snark mistress of the dark.
LOL! That is waay funnier than the ones I had in mind!
“I don’t care what that liar Rummy says, it’s more like this. You can ask Laura.”
Happy hour just isn’t the same with that lush, I mean maryb. Where is she?
Maybe her company is still visiting. Or maybe she doesn’t love us anymore ::sob::
Good afternoon Frogponders!
Well, I made it to Norwescon and back alive. Norwescon is a big four-day science fiction convention here in Seattle, but we only went for one day. It was kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing.
We had a pretty good time. Mrs. Omir got to hear an interview and reading featuring one of her favorite authors and this year’s Guest of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold. I spent some time in a poetry workshop and then went off to listen to some filk (science fiction version of folk) singing. I brought the Weapon of Music Destruction along but unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, we didn’t stay long enough for me to deploy it, but it did come in handy when I met up with a woman in the hall who was trying to tune an autoharp and I loaned her my tuner to get her started.
The poetry workshop was fun, although I think I was a bit more advanced than most of the rest of the group because I actually had some idea of how metric forms are used. So, to inflict my work on someone outside the workshop, here’s a couple of bits I put together.
For the first one, we were supposed to write a limerick about dancing. My humble effort:
We were also asked to do a sonnet, which I will post later, and some free verse based on what we’d seen at the convention. Well, no matter how much I tried, I couldn’t get the verse to come out without metering and rhyming it, so I guess I failed.
This is only a portion of a poem — it’s incomplete, but I’m not sure how to complete it yet. It’s based on some of the things my granddaughter saw at her first SF convention, and my response.
What can I say, I had about three minutes to put that together. I’m surprised it came out as well as it did.
Hey, those are good! I really like the limerick.
Thank you. I wish I had the discipline to do more of them. One of the panelists said that at one time he committed to writing 365 sonnets, one a day for a year. I was thinking, if I could do two in two days I’d be doing good!
Even so, one of the best ones I’ve ever done was done as a birthday present for my wife some years ago. I printed it up and matted and framed it, and even if someday I become rich and famous I am never going to allow that sonnet to be printed, because it’s hers.
I think writing a poem is about the most romantic thing a man can give to his wife. As long as it doesn’t start with ‘there once was a girl from Nantucket…
ROFL . . .
That’s funny. How romantic!
Your poetry workshop was a success — they are both wonderful, but like SN I like the limerick too.
Sounds like everyone had a grand time!
Yeah, we all had a good time. We might go again next year, but if we do I want to do it right and get a hotel room and stay for the weekend. This is somewhat problematic, since Norwescon is always held over Easter weekend and my wife seems to think we should be going to church on Easter.
It also depends on who the guest of honor is and a few other things. We have lots of time to decide.
I love Denver’s Starfest! In fact, I’m going this Sunday–there’s a “Firefly/Serenity” trivia contest I’ll have to get into.
My favorite sightings at past conventions have both involved Klingons. One was pushing a baby stroller. The other was in drag–a red satin teddy and fishnets–dancing to “You Sexy Thing.”
Anybody around?
No 🙂
How was your trip to the big city?
That was just into town. The big city will probably be in about an hour or so.
How’s it going here tonight?
how’s the ceiling?
how’s the ac?
how’s the carpet?
how’s George treating you?
how’s the relative infestation?
OK
Ceiling still the same, but drying.
AC still out. It’s now a comfortable 81F in the house.
Carpet still drying out.
George not as pissed. He’s at least sleeping on the bed without a knife in his paws.
Relatives still here and will be for a good while.
Oh and everybody decided it was too hot to cook, so I have to make a 70 mile round trip to the city to get some Arby’s roast beef sandwiches. My Mom likes those for some reason. We all get to go so we can cool off for awhile in the car.
Optimism – That’s my word for the day. 🙂
70 miles!
Yes it’s 35 miles one way to get to the city from here.
Oh joy, oh joy.
I’ve just been given a reprieve. My brother decided he didn’t want that so they’re going to a local fast food place.
Busy day? 🙂
Busy isn’t the word.
happy??
For the same reason abstinence doesn’t stop pregnancy.
Another, don’t ask me where that came from.
I can attest to that. Don’t know how exactly I ended up with four kids, but we sure weren’t having sex.
I should have added because it wasn’t filling enough. 😉
What?..the happy meal, or sex?
Great taste, less filling. Or something like that.
Your wisdom is beyond compare. Exactly! 😉
You’ve been alone too long, FM. You need to ditch those family members (except Mom) and find you a good woman.
I’ve been trying for 53 years.
Just can’t find one that appreciate my special sense of humor.
be better off finding a bad woman?
It’s a hermit I’ll be.
I’ll go off onto the sea.
I’ll slack and slack the days away
and only be with me.
It’s not Omir, but it’s the best I can do.
You should join the local Democratic group (if you’re not the only Dem. in Alabamd)…we already know that Dem. women are way more fun and great in bed. At least that’s what Sally Cat said. But I don’t know how many Dem. women she’s slept with.
She obviously has to like mud what w/ his mud thing… 😉
Lets see. Ya’ll want me to get a good/bad dirty woman.
Let me check the yellow pages.
Bad women are way more fun. Go for the bad ones, FM. I’m sure there are a few hanging around here if you look hard enough. Wait, that sounded bad. Oh well.
I’ve never met but the most charming, kind and wonderful women on this site.
I’m sure there’s some local bad women, but I’m feeling too old to have to go through all that.
Plus most bad women want men with money. I lost out on that one. 🙂
Ah, but you want a bad/good woman. And bad/good women want men who are funny and kind and know how to make them laugh. The bad/bad women want just the money.
SN’s right FM. You want a woman who is bad in all the good ways. 😉
but you need to move way over to left and give us that enthusing we were promised upthread.
Yes I agree with all of you.
I truly believe there is someone for everyone.
My timing just isn’t right. Maybe by the time I’m 72.
Then again, I could win the lottery and become a babe magnet. 🙂
The bad/bad women want just the money.
I have to agree. Been there, done that.
throwing myself at FM (don’t worry about the marriage — it’s the last 6 weeks of school; Jim is oblivious to everything) but I don’t know if I can deal with the South™. Maybe you can school me in adaptive behaviors.
Andi you make my heart soar.
As I said before, only charming and kind women here.
Uh Oh. I forgot. I threw a complement your way.
I forgot.:P
Now see – that kind of statement about your heart soaring, that’s just the kind of thing women like. You need to get out of the house.
Wow this conversation sure did take strange turn. And I’m not ARmando on steroids.
I know they just worry about me so much. 🙂
His poem up there too.
when we’re mean and bitchy — but always in most charming and kind way.
Not to puff up your ego but you, my dear southern sage, are exactly what we mean when we talk about a guy being a catch.
Why thank you Andi.
Yea I am a babe magnet aren’t I. 🙂
without a doubt
The same reason ‘fun size’ candy bars aren’t fun.
I’m going to open a new lounge and speed dating room. Be back in a sec.
new lounge open