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🌸 Cherry blossoms!
I had a hard time narrowing down which of these to post, and finally settled on two from the a6000, one from my phone in portrait mode, and one from my phone in regular mode.
The simulated depth of field on the Pixel 2 still looks a *little* off in most pictures, but it’s always better than I expect it to be!
#photography #cherryBlossoms #sakura #spring #photos #flowers
More photos from this botanical garden
This shot looks OK at small sizes, but at larger sizes it just looks wrong to me. I was going for a view with the daffodils in focus and the coral tree behind them blurry, but unfortunately it’s not blurry enough to look intentional.
I took a shot with my film camera too, but I haven’t finished the roll yet, so I won’t know for a while whether that one came out better.
#fotofails #photography #garden
I stumbled on a reference to this story recently. Just as fascinating this time as when I first read it.
TL;DR: Apparitions & anxiety in a lab are traced to infrasound from a fan producing a standing wave resonating at the frequency of the human eye. Vic Tandy went on to investigate whether the same waves were present in at least some sites with haunted reputations.
He died in 2005. I couldn’t find much follow-up research in a quick search.
Ghost buster: Chris Arnot explains why Vic Tandy of Coventry University is doing time in a cellar
I am Grot.
A specialty furniture store that almost went out of business last year, but managed to stick around.
“Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are usually called “tropical depressions” (This is not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator ;-)).”
Sometimes I wonder, why is the Salton Sea worth saving? It’s not like the Aral Sea or Lake Chad. It was created in an engineering accident 100 years ago. Until then it was a low area in the desert.
This article makes the case for restoration, or at least remediation. A century’s worth of agricultural runoff (which has made the lake too toxic for fish) has settled to the bottom. If it dries out, all that toxic sediment becomes wind-borne dust.
@Alonealastalovedalongthe responds: Too Big To Fail : Lake Edition
Yeah, that’s…a pretty good description.
@mithriltabby wonders about bioremediation and just how salty it’s gotten.
Hmm, according to Wikipedia it’s currently around 56 grams per liter, which is saltier than the ocean, but not as salty as the Great Salt Lake. But it’s increasing by 3% each year.
Working from home to make sure I don’t bring my kid’s flu or wife’s cold to the office. Yesterday I had two visual migraines. Today I had a close call with an errant peanut in the leftovers I heated up for lunch. (Fortunately I didn’t crunch it, and I seem to have escaped any impact from it being on the same plate.)
Yeah, it’s been an interesting week…
A windmill in suburbia. Apparently it was built by one of Hermosa Beach’s city founders around 1900 and later moved to its present location, a small triangle of grass and trees in the corner of a grocery store lot next to Pacific Coast Highway. It’s no longer functional as far as I know, except as a historical landmark.
Gotta love when something that’s been on your back-burner to-do list for years turns out to only take 45 minutes.
I mean, on one hand, it’s done! And it was easy! And fast! On the other hand, why didn’t I get it out of the way years ago?
OMG. I’m going through a section of my personal website that I haven’t touched in ages and I found a file called, I kid you not, fixwebtv.js
I think it’s safe to delete that one.
Ordered pizza for pi day. Time estimate was 70 minutes. When I arrived to pick it up, it turned out they had a deal on $3.14 personal pizzas for the day. The entire rack was stacked with personal sized pizza boxes. That certainly explains the wait!
@DialMforMara I’m not sure, but I think this may be the first time I saw Twitter content on Mastodon first, then went over to Twitter specifically to retweet the original.
*sigh* “This is terrible” isn’t a _helpful_ review, even if you agree with it.
@sc My kid’s been watching lots of The Backyard Scientist and The King of Random lately.
He later told me that he was showing me the one on the lithium batteries to convince me not to replace my tablet battery myself.
Interesting: Google proposes to standardize the mix of emoji that have gender options & give each a gender-inclusive default.
Example: Person Shrugging can appear alone 🤷 or with a hidden character indicating a man 🤷‍♂️ or woman 🤷‍♀️.
Depending on character & platform, the plain version is sometimes a man & sometimes a woman. Future Android will show an inclusive version when gender isn’t specified & offer all 3 on the keyboard.
https://blog.emojipedia.org/googles-three-gender-emoji-future/
The UI below is not finalized.
