Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

The thing that I learned from the Ansel books (I bought the series) was to know what you wanted the end product to look like before even touching the camera and then figure out how to go about accomplishing that image. Visualization is the key.

A pair of books about Weston includes photographs of the same place in Death Valley taken at the same time by Weston and Adams. My recollection is Weston pointed his "Weston meter" in a few dozen directions, and announced that the meter says this but what's needed is this, not that. You would think the two photographs entirely different — and they are

what all that pewp meant to me in the course of work is the ability to speak intelligibly to the photo department folks at a newspaper. It all feels very weird to me now. The responsibility's been lifted ...

Now instead of putting the boards on the flatbed camera to go to press, it is I who will be on the flatbed at radiology a week from now. Looked it up. Bone density scans for (I check all the boxes). That hospital is a 15 minute walk, if the weather's nice. The cafeteria there is very good, reasonably priced, and open to the public.

Of course nobody in their right mind says hey let's go out to eat at the hospital cafeteria
nobody

All the people at my client newspaper go across the street to eat lunch at the hospital cafeteria. I go with them, and they're right, it's very good. And very reasonably priced. Amazing. Discover the same thing at the hospital down the street.

Tuesday mornings is homemade biscuits and gravy.

 

[Charlie Tango]

The thing that I learned from the Ansel books (I bought the series) was to know what you wanted the end product to look like before even touching the camera and then figure out how to go about accomplishing that image. Visualization is the key.

See, that's where I come up short. I have a dearth of visual creativity, so I'm left with, "Oh, that's cool-looking...<click>."

 

[Winslow]

He had a card in his wallet...no one saw it.

Well, no wonder! Geraldo was wasting his time looking in that old vault!

 

[StereoPlayer]

Well, no wonder! Geraldo was wasting his time looking in that old vault!

I chuckled a little at that...thanks!

 

[Charlie Tango]

Well, no wonder! Geraldo was wasting his time looking in that old vault!

The trick is in not letting Geraldo waste your time. I've learned I'm quite successful at doing this by ignoring his very existence most of the time.

 

[Winslow]

The trick is in not letting Geraldo waste your time. I've learned I'm quite successful at doing this by ignoring his very existence most of the time.

Oh, I ignore all kinds of people. It's a great relief. Also makes naps easier.

 

[GwenOnBass]

The trick is in not letting Geraldo waste your time. I've learned I'm quite successful at doing this by ignoring his very existence most of the time.

Evel Knievel didn't invent drawing attention for profit. He always appeared to me at least aware of himself as his own show, unlike some who stand in the spotlight of fame. Some names do come to mind

 

[GonePlaid]

Your Mad I tell you!

 

[Charlie Tango]

Evel Knievel didn't invent drawing attention for profit. He always appeared to me at least aware of himself as his own show, unlike some who stand in the spotlight of fame. Some names do come to mind

Rhymes with "horse's patoot?"

 

[GonePlaid]

Don Martin special, right there!

 

[notJaco]

Well, no wonder! Geraldo was wasting his time looking in that old vault!

Who paid for all that I wonder?

 

[Winslow]

Who paid for all that I wonder?

 

[SoulReflection]

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Hype is Hype. The more they try, the more I am not interested .

 

[Winslow]

It almost seems like some folks took my using Geraldo as a punchline as some kind of indicator that I had taken him seriously.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I miss a day here and look at what all you GOF's have done to the place.

Carey has me on Spring Cleanup detail this and next week, as well as the next two weekends. We want to spic and span our little place for the summer. We're also getting ready to do some planting. We're trying to learn a bit more about herbal gardens, and I don't mean the kind you smoke... Basil, various baby greens, etc.

 

[StereoPlayer]

I miss a day here and look at what all you GOF's have done to the place.

Carey has me on Spring Cleanup detail this and next week, as well as the next two weekends. We want to spic and span our little place for the summer. We're also getting ready to do some planting. We're trying to learn a bit more about herbal gardens, and I don't mean the kind you smoke... Basil, various baby greens, etc.

Spic and Span, invented in 1926 by two housewives in Saginaw, Michigan. My hometown.

 

[StereoPlayer]

I miss a day here and look at what all you GOF's have done to the place.

Carey has me on Spring Cleanup detail this and next week, as well as the next two weekends. We want to spic and span our little place for the summer. We're also getting ready to do some planting. We're trying to learn a bit more about herbal gardens, and I don't mean the kind you smoke... Basil, various baby greens, etc.

I've already planted onions, radishes and leaf lettuce.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I've already planted onions, radishes and leaf lettuce.

We're wanting to do lettuce too. We better hurry up!

 

[StereoPlayer]

We're wanting to do lettuce too. We better hurry up!

I'm sure you got time. You're probably a little behind us weather wise.

 

[Charlie Tango]

It almost seems like some folks took my using Geraldo as a punchline as some kind of indicator that I had taken him seriously.

Nonono, not me. I mean, I don't know you, but I know you, and I know you mos' def would not take someone like that as anything more than a buffoon.