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@thraeryn Have you read any Julie Czerneda? Her Species Imperative trilogy is my favorite.
One of the cool things about her writing is that she’s a biologist, so she comes up with all kinds of interesting aliens and how their biology impacts their societies and their ability to interact with other species. (ex. ship design for a species that communicates by scent.)
She’s also got several other sci-fi series and a fantasy duology that are absolutely worth checking out.
@dansup The thing that most infuriates me when I’m on Instagram is when I have to set my phone down for 5 minutes, then when I pick it up again, it decides to automatically refresh my feed and jump to the top so I can’t find the cool photo I had glimpsed just as I’d set down the phone.
@FiXato @sohkamyung Nice! I had never seen that! I wish it wasn’t buried under the GIF search that I never use, but now that I know it’s there, that’s going to be a huge help! Thank you!
@FiXato Yeah, that’s what I usually end up doing. Even then it runs into the didn’t-tag-because-i-uploaded-my-entire-sd-card-and-who-has-time-to-label-all-that problem.
Some mash-up #cosplay at #WonderCon2019: Punk #Supergirl, Fast Food #Avengers and #Borg #Batman. Full album at
@sohkamyung Google’s keyboard for Android doesn’t have arrow keys, unfortunately…but based on your comment I tried switching to the Samsung keyboard on my tablet. It has left & right arrow keys! And they work with shift for selecting! This is going to be a huge improvement! Thanks for the idea!
Finding cosplay pictures of a character on Instagram: Good luck with that, because you can only search by one tag at a time, and people post so many screen grabs, scans, memes & spam that you can’t find the costumes.
Finding cosplay pictures of a character on Flickr: Good luck with that, because even though you can do a full-text search of the title, tags & description, people upload all 400 photos from the weekend as DSC8764.jpg to DSC9163.jpg and only tag them with the convention name.
Also, it doesn’t help much to search for “Flash” on a photography site, particularly one where the people who *do* tag their pictures often add the settings they used for each photo.
Argh. Editing text with a touchscreen keyboard is still a huge pain.
Typing new text has gotten a lot better over time (even as auto-correct, auto-complete & predictive text have introduced entirely new and fascinating classes of typos!), but trying to position the cursor with a fingertip tap, select exactly the right span of text that you want to replace or format or link, etc. is still SO. DAMN. CLUNKY.
Mouse-click. Shift+arrow keys. So much easier.
Just a few Flashes (and a Rainbow Raider) who I saw at WonderCon this year. There were a bunch more, including a TV Barry/Iris couple, a Jedi Flash, and more.
These are just the ones who slowed down long enough for me to take a photo! 🙂 Check out my full cosplay gallery on Flickr:
#Cosplay #WonderCon #WonderCon2019 #TheFlash #KidFlash #RainbowRaider #BlackFlash
@Wolthera I suppose it depends on whether basilisks or volcanoes are more common, right?
But yeah, Sauron certainly had a lot more experience to draw on!
Sauron was better at making horcruxes. He only needed to make one since it was so durable.
Voldemort needed to make the equivalent of a RAID array.
#LOTR #HarryPotter
Took the new camera to #WonderCon for #cosplay #photography.
1. I finally have a camera that can really handle inside lighting at a convention center!
2. I’ve gotten too used to just capturing costumes, instead of composing interesting shots.
2a. My 8YO took 1 photo all weekend (#InsideOut) & it ended up being the best that day. I took the lesson & improved my shots the next day, including the other 3 here.
#HarryPotter #BeautyAndTheBeast #LittleShopOfHorrors
Successfully completed watching The Fellowship of the Ring with the 8YO. And he wants to continue to the next movie!
1 hour at a time seems to have worked well.
#LOTR
We’ve had a wet winter, so the seasonal marsh has actually filled up a lot more than it has for the last few years. In addition to the full ponds (including two on either side of a road that was still muddy) I saw a lot of birds, including a crane that was swaying back and forth until it took flight, lots of ducks and geese.
A few more photos on Flickr if you’re interested
#marsh #nature #birds #photography
On the whole, it wasn’t the glowing rectangles that were unhappy.
Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles
On the plus side, everyone at home is recovering from colds and flu. (Yes, both). We even all got *out* over the weekend!
On the minus side, that means getting up early on weekdays again, and it’s going to take a while to adjust.
Got a message from an online store asking if I could help answer someone’s question about a bluetooth audio receiver I bought a year ago.
The question:
“What kind of flavors are there?”
What is this, iPod Shuffle?
I took this with my phone to use as a reference for a photo I took with another camera. I wasn’t intending to do anything with it, but I find it *fascinating* that the phone’s digital zoom function makes it look like it’s made up of brushstrokes instead of pixels.
(Though personally, I’ve never understood why digital zoom is implemented as a resize instead of just cropping to a lower resolution.)
Spring at the local botanic gardens. Cherry blossoms, an artfully arranged “living wall” of plants, an aloe with its flower stalk, and some poppies.
More photos on my Flickr account if you’re interested.
