Pence: "We will put American boots on the face of Mars" https://t.co/FFu1IeWLoJ pic.twitter.com/seECTyLoyd
— The Hill (@thehill) July 6, 2017
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Apart from [all the facepalms], what’s on the agenda as we start the weekend?
They slipped the surly bonds of Earth, and kicked Mars in the face. https://t.co/Y2jwqt4JUt
— Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz) July 6, 2017
Is putting boots on the Martian ground covered by the 2001 AUMF?
— David Masad (@badnetworker) July 6, 2017
C'mon dude, really? pic.twitter.com/SqZZ43exxl
— Mike Rundle (@flyosity) July 7, 2017
Getty Images. It's real. Oh, it's real. https://t.co/iWWo3AnWju
— Jill Golden (@_goldengrams) July 7, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence vows to make space program great again https://t.co/seIylrZEjt
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) July 6, 2017
First we may need to start teaching science again in high school instead of creationism
— scott (@vtorion) July 6, 2017
Does he think the moon is where Noah left the dinosaurs?
— Lone Oak Capital (@Lone_Oak_Inv) July 6, 2017
Baud
PRESS RELEASE
Baud! 2020! Campaign Enters Into Strategic Partnership With Sierra Leonean Hackers For The 2020 Elections
The Baud! 2020! Campaign announced today that it had entered into a strategic partnership under which hackers from Sierra Leone will infiltrate the computer systems of Baud!’s priamry and general election opponents in exchange for favors to be named later.
“With this partnership in place, we take an important step in building a modern, state-of-the-art campaign operation that will use time-honored, sophisticated techniques to ensure that we can compete on an equal footing with our well-financed competitors,” said Candidate Baud!
Baud! also addressed concerns about the implications of this partnership for American sovereignty and possible violations of fedeal law. “We really don’t know who is responsible for the hacking that will occur pursuant to this agreement,” he said. “It could be the Sierra Leoneans, it could be the Chinese. We just don’t know.”
Reaffirming his commitment to resolute leadership, Baud! committed to using all the tools at his disposal as president to hold those responsible for interfering in the election fully accountable. To that end, Baud! announced his intention to move past the hacking on Day 1 of his presidency. He also promised to create a joint cybersecurity task force with Sierra Leone to ensure that future strategic planning such as this one are a thing of the past.
debbie
Sure, why not? At this point, what’s one more overly expensive, futile gesture?
I wish they’d focus on robotic exploration, which has been far more successful for far less money. ROI, dickheads!
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
I guess Pence read War of the Worlds and thought it was a first-hand account.
Major Major Major Major
Seems like a good time to link to my favorite Mr. Show skit. America can, should, must, and WILL… blow up the moon!
debbie
@Baud:
If I knew anything about hacking, I’d be signing up now!
Lurking Canadian
Do you want to imagine the future Winston? Imagine a boot, stomping on a Martian face, forever.
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
Is that Saul?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Not surprised Dense Pence touched the clearly labeled Do Not Touch material: reading is hard, you guys!
debbie
@debbie:
Blowing up the moon seems awfully violent. How about just stealing it?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
boots: Made In China
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
I would prefer that to reality, please.
Brachiator
Oh, the Internets has been having fun all day with That Touch of Pence.
Hungry Joe
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a Martian face — forever.”
— Late again. Damn you, Lurking Canadian!
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: Bob Odenkirk, yep!
Baud
@Brachiator: He does look like he’s laying hands on that thing.
MattF
“But my hands are clean! I just washed them!”
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major: Hey, David Cross before he ended up in those godawful Alvin and the Chipmunks movies
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Hungry Joe: I thought of it too, but figured it was low-hanging fruit
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Am I the only person here who’s watched Mr. Show?
jl
Trumpster boots, on the neck of Earth and the face of Mars!
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: I haven’t.
Brachiator
I didn’t find out until late that Al Franken is appearing at the Alex Theater in Glendale, CA. Unfortunately, that event is sold out. So, apart from that the main thing will be trying to stay cool, since hot weather is predicted.
I may try to catch an early showing of the new Spiderman movie. Sad that some sullen boys have been waiting for this one because they just could not drag their butts to see the cool Wonder Woman movie. They desperately need a boy hero to relate to.
I also have been hearing good things about the movie, “Baby Driver.” Anything to beat the heat and get away from the Trumpian news cycle.
Baud
@zhena gogolia: Me too!
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
I hadn’t. I had to Google. /hangs head in shame/
Steeplejack
@Major Major Major Major:
I have. Apparently an even smaller audience than I thought.
germy
There’s got to be a story behind that touch.
Maybe Pence said “Wow. Do not touch, huh? Pretty serious stuff.”
And the NASA guy said “You can go ahead and touch it. The sign’s just a formality; when we have it on display at the museum. You can touch it if you want.”
Pence: “Are you sure?”
NASA guy: “Yeah, don’t worry about it.”
I mean, am I supposed to believe Pence just reached out and impulsively groped a critical piece of space flight hardware?
I’m trying to come up with a reasonable excuse, for my own peace of mind.
Uncle Cosmo
@Lurking Canadian, @Hungry Joe: OK , who had #6 in the pool?
Lurking Canadian
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Sadly, that’s the only kind I can reach.
Brachiator
Apart from being the newspaper we often love to hate, the latest internal moves by the New York Times are a bad sign for journalism.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major: Never heard of it. Judging by Cross’ appearance and the graphics, it looks like it aired either when I was very young or before I was born. Did it air on big time networks?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Sure beats collecting empties to fund the campaign.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Yes, no idea what you’re talking about. Now stop complaining about the onion on my belt skinkin’.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@germy: From the Gizmodo article linked in Brachiator’s comment above:
Still, why would you touch something with a sign telling not to? I guess Pence asked, but man is that a bad time to take a picture. His PR team, or whoever handled this should have never released that photo. Unless the photographer was independent
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: HBO, late 90’s.
ETA: Before you were born? David Cross is, like, 50, dude. I know you’re young but you’re not that young.
Heywood J.
@Major Major Major Major: Big Mr. Show fan here, underrated fun weirdness. John C. Reilly and Paul Tompkins came out of there as well. I miss that show a lot; HBO is running an Oz marathon tonight, but can’t find room to bring back some Mr. Show or Larry Sanders classics.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: Damn, wish I’d known the Senator would be in town*. The man is a Giant of the Senate.
*Though, looking at the ticket prices, couldn’t afford it anyway.
different-church-lady
OK, so Pence is officially Stimpy.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major: That explains why. Was alive, but did not have HBO
Baud
@Brachiator: They said subscribership was up.
jl
I submitted several suggestions for new rotating heads this morning.
But I saved the really important ones to hone and polish to perfection. These, of course, consisted mostly of insulting jokes about one John G Cole. Now the suggestions page says that it isn’t working.
Coincidence? I smell another blog ethics scandal.
Major Major Major Major
@Heywood J.: Netflix has W/ Bob & David now, if you count that.
different-church-lady
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Because assholes gotta asshole?
germy
@Brachiator:
Lurking Canadian
@Brachiator: They could probably cut some serious costs by laying off some of their stable of utterly worthless op-ed writers. I would start with Brooks, but Douthat, Stephens and Dowd are surely also all less important than copy editors.
Baud
@jl:
You sure you’re not smelling the last one?
zhena gogolia
@Major Major Major Major:
I’ve never seen it. I have a sneaking suspicion I wouldn’t like it.
germy
@Baud:
I found it puzzling. Ever since dolt45, the Times has been boasting about its “increased readership” and yet they’re laying off? They keep bragging about all the new subscribers.
Does Dean need a second summer home?
zhena gogolia
@Brachiator:
I’m shocked to learn they have any copy editors still on staff. You couldn’t tell by reading it.
jl
@Baud: I’m sure the page will be working when I submit the Baud rotating headers. What brand of beer do you want to plug?
Edit: Note to self, remember to submit ‘We still have time to mess this up’ With slogans like that this blog will pay for itself. In no time.
Brachiator
One more item before I take off for the weekend. I don’t know if this story had been mentioned here before. I am saddened, infuriated, filled with hate for the craven and stupid over this one. From the Guardian:
Major Major Major Major
@jl: Try again… did you get an error?
debbie
@germy:
He also accused the press of lying about his leaving Maine during the shutdown, but then they discovered a voicemail message from the governor saying he’d be out of the state for 10 days. What a lunatic.
jl
@Major Major Major Major: Nope, I’m done for now. Baud has taken the wind out of my whatever.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Brachiator: That’s fucking disgusting. The El Salvdorians should overthrow those fuckers
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: jl is error prone.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
I’d consult a medical professional about that.
jl
@Brachiator: The situation on human rights for women have been a nightmare in El Salvador for years. So, another nightmarish story from that country. Have been so many.
debbie
@Brachiator:
Pigs.
Suzanne
@Major Major Major Major:
Absolutely not. Good Lord.
Let’s send Dense to Mars and leave him there. Maybe with one of those suicide pills.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You’re a bully.
different-church-lady
NBCNews.com: “Trump, Putin Had ‘Very Robust’ Talk on Election Hacking”
TRUMP: “Vlad, tell me what we can do to make your election hacking more robust.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: You should speak to Mrs. Trump about that.
Gravenstone
Hey, he just said boots – nothing about having anyone inside of them. Toss a pair into a rover, shouldn’t take up much space.
Brachiator
@Baud:
A few more signs of the coming death of newspapers…
The LA Times
The New York Times is responding badly to all kinds of problems
Papers are losing key people and eliminating important positions as they desperately try to stay afloat.
Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch is trying to increase his media empire in the UK and Australia.
LosGatosCA
It belongs in the Smithisonian collection that includes Sarah Palin pardoning the wrong turkey
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxn2vlhtWo
Gravenstone
@West of the Rockies (been a while): To be fair, that “clean room” was anything but once they let the goobers in their street clothes through the door. Betting it was a show piece. Still doesn’t absolve Dense of giving into the temptation. Willing to be he tests out “Wet Paint” signs, too.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
” You should speak to Mrs. Trump about that. ”
She tells me that you’ve been doing great work lately. Women are noticing your big hands more and more.
Brachiator
@jl:
I look at this as a precursor of what may happen here as conservatives do everything they can to do away with women’s reproductive rights.
Major Major Major Major
Another TV favorite, Tina Fey and Buzz Aldrin yelling at the moon.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gravenstone:
It’d be irresponsible to not speculate if he gives into other temptations and if ‘Mother’ knows about this.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
That’s unlikely. (sobs)
Gravenstone
@Brachiator: Pretty much. That horror sounds like a Talibangelical wet dream.
Rms
@Baud: and that is the number one post too. Well done.
eclare
@Major Major Major Major: I haven’t but I LOL’d at the skit. Thanks! I am familiar with Bob Odenkirk as Porno Gil from Curb Your Enthusias.
p.a.
Pretty ballsy moving on Mars when they haven’t finished fucking up Earth yet.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Here’s my work from last night.
eclare
@eclare: Dammit! Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Mike J
ThresherK
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Cross got so much material out of working on those movies it hasn’t tarnished him. They shoulda made him sign an NDA.
Anyone attached to one of the Beethoven movies, however…
PS If you haven’t seen The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, you’re missing something.
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
Doesn’t look like there’s anything left in Australia for him to buy.
Feathers
What, the Chappelle Show is forgotten?
“MARS BITCHES!!!”
John Revolta
@Suzanne: Let’s send Dense to Mars and leave him there. Maybe with one of those suicide pills.
We could put it in a bottle that says “Do Not Swallow”.
LosGatosCA
@p.a.:
They are leaving Venus alone since it’s the role model for their climate change denialism.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks. High energy!
Edit: I’d type more but am busy submitting pro Baud 2020 slogans for the new BJ rotating headers.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: oooh, cool.
JGabriel
@Lurking Canadian:
Mars isn’t even colonized yet, and already the Trump administration vows to end terrorism there.
Visionaries, I tell you. Visionaries!
Mike J
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Good on ya.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Brachiator:
Karol Wojtyla and Joe Ratzenberger are two of the most evil cocksuckers on earth.
Mike in NC
Jesus. Anybody remember the nonsense from Gingrich about having a colony on the moon before the end of his second term. Nuts!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks, the photography group that I’m a member of did a photo shoot at Echo Park yesterday evening. It’s really a great setting for shots of the city. I’ve shot there before but only in the afternoon. Lots of folk were out and about and one guy did a lot of people pics, they turned out really well.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike in NC: a suicide mission to mars is way more feasible than a moon base to be fair.
Emma
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I love your work. And I have a question: do you carry any sort of portable storage device? Any you can recommend?
Anyone else please feel free to jump in.
TenguPhule
@germy:
Yes. SATSQ.
CZanne
You know, if NASA used “quotation marks” properly, instead of “subbing” them in for scare-quote “emphasis”, maybe Pence would have behaved like a grown-ass adult. That sign is irritating.
I don’t expect better of Pence. He’s not a toddler, but he clearly needs remedial kindergarten since Mother has to make ridiculous rules for him. He clearly and obviously regularly fails keeps hands and feet to himself. But NASA? Seriously, I expect better.
But hey, let’s take him to Los Alamos and put him in a room alone with some of those rods Cheryl showed us recently.
ColoradoGuy
@CZanne:
Maybe Los Alamos could put a “Do Not Eat” sign on the Pu rods.
TenguPhule
@Brachiator: Saw it, got depressed by it and declined to bring it up here on the grounds that it would just be yet another downer article.
TenguPhule
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Those fuckers are just the face of the general public there. Catholicism has a lot to answer for.
zhena gogolia
@CZanne:
Yeah, that really is strange. Whom are they quoting? Or is it “ironic”?
Frankensteinbeck
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Normally, I look for this kind of explanation first. Pence is a world-class ‘Ted Cruz’ level asshole, and dumb as a stump, so while I would accept a reasonable explanation, I have no problem taking this at face value.
Gravenstone
@CZanne:
True story – early 80s, I’m among several physics and engineering students from my tiny college making a visit to Argonne National Labs. As we’re touring through one of the labs featuring a glovebox, one of the other students walks up to it and starts manipulating the waldoes inside. The staff member was not amused …
Cheryl Rofer
@ColoradoGuy:
They are much more deadly rolled together. Unless you persuaded him to eat them all. Heavy.
efgoldman
@Emma:
Cargo pants with REALLY BIG pockets
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Frankensteinbeck: No argument from me. Pence is a moron. But is his PR team idiots too? Why the hell would he (or PR) try to make some lame ass meme to counter this? Him photoshoped from the above touching a a porcupine or something. Was the picture taken by WH staff? If so, they’re stupid
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: you can cram a lot of flash drives in there!
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: in some schools of magic, like attracts like. Maybe that happens in insane fundamentalist Christianity too.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
ETA: And of course CZanne and others got there first.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Baud, you’re doing it wrong. You’re not supposed to tell us up front that you’re in league with hackers and you’re supposed to use White hackers. Duh!! WRONG!!
Kathleen
@different-church-lady: “Robust” is term favored by HR personnel as they’re rolling out the new benefits plan that raises your insurance premium and deductible.
TenguPhule
@Kathleen: And slash benefits.
Kathleen
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Agreed.
Kathleen
@TenguPhule: And salary.
Roger Moore
@Mike J:
This would have been square on topic a few posts back.
jl
@Patricia Kayden:
” Baud, you’re doing it wrong. ”
Baud believes actions speak louder than words, and refuses to peddle misleading campaign promises.
Felanius Kootea
@Brachiator: To my surprise, I really enjoyed “Baby Driver.” My husband’s pick but for once I didn’t have to shield my eyes through half the movie like with John Wick (I don’t deal well with movie/TV violence and have to be in another room when “Game of Thrones” is on).
Major Major Major Major
@jl: if Baud really wants to do it wrong he should just hire me already.
TenguPhule
@Kathleen: That’s “performance based.review”
jl
@Major Major Major Major: This is Balloon-Juice. Outstanding screw-ups from around the world are just run of the mill ordinary mediocrities here. Get in line with the rest of us for choice positions on the Baud 2020 team.
TenguPhule
@Patricia Kayden:
That’s what she said!
stinger
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Nice pic. All your shots are so great.
TenguPhule
@Baud: Got your mustard and mop ready?
Roger Moore
@Emma:
I’ve largely given up on portable storage beyond memory cards. Even on a week-long vacation, I’ll just make sure to have enough cards to save all the pictures I’m going to take. It helps if you’re disciplined about how you use them. I learned a few tricks from Thom Hogan’s site:
1) Get a good card wallet; it’s much better than trying to keep a bunch of cards in their individual cases
2) Format all your cards before you start out.
3) Organize your cards so you can easily tell which are empty and which are full. Thom recommends putting newly formatted ones label side out and full ones label side in. This lets you tell at a glance which are which.
I tend to make sure I have one card per day of shooting and buy cards that are bigger than I can easily fill in a day. At the beginning of each day, I take out the old card, put it back in the wallet (label side in!), and put a fresh one in the camera. I’m instantly ready for a day of shooting, and I don’t have to worry about accidentally overwriting good pictures. Cards are cheap enough now- especially compared to good cameras and lenses- that cost is never a good reason to run out of space, and they’re small and light enough that lack of physical space is never a good excuse not to carry enough.
tobie
I’ve been out of the loop today but turned on the tv this evening and twice on MSNBC saw people praising Trump’s meeting with Putin to the skies. One was David Ignatius and the other was a retired CBS Moscow reporter named Jonathan Sanders, I think. Who is this guy? He was smug, rude, condescending to the host, and repeatedly sung Tillerson’s and Trump’s praises for turning over a new leaf in our relations with Russia. WTF? Did Vlad order his minions to go on all the cable news broadcasts this evening?
Keith P.
First thing’s first. Before we curb stomp Mars, we’re gonna blow up the moon (You don’t mess around…with God’s America!)
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Ausgezeichnet! Vielen dank.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: I use 64gb cards, I can generally shoot a month of pics on them.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Word.
TenguPhule
I welcome our new Disease overlords.
Shit is fucked and our disaster response is going to the dogs.
Shalimar
@Major Major Major Major: I didn’t have HBO back then but saw a few episodes in repeat and later watched most of them. Great show.
lurker dean
@Emma: not sure what you mean? sd cards are cheap enough and large enough nowadays that common practice seems to be to just carry a few of them. there are specialized hard drives for storing photos (which are handy if you don’t have a computer with you and want to backup the cards), but they’re pricey. i’ve never used one, i just carry a few good quality SD cards :o)
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Stand-Alone-Data-Storage/ci/3369/N/4000227848
@efgoldman: LOL!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@stinger: Thanks, I put a good deal of time in post getting the shadows and highlights as well as the color right.
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Thanks.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It all depends on what and how much you shoot. I have a D800 and I like to shoot raw, so cards fill up quickly on a busy photo vacation. Still, one 32GB card will do for even a very busy day of photography. I have a wallet with 6 of them, which has been plenty for my recent vacations. If I ever get a camera that takes bigger files, or if I go on serious photo vacations that last longer than about a week, I’ll have to look at getting more.
Kenneth Kohl
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
Evidently, comprehension isn’t easy, either…
divF
@jl:
Baud should be a defender of blue-collar regional brands, such as
National Bohemian
Iron City
Genesee
(None of the faux-blue-collar PBR for Baud!)
Major Major Major Major
@divF: wait, who’s going to represent us coastal elites?
Aleta
Well election hack solved! And no worries now about letting his infrastructure spies back in. But you think this will save you from poisoning?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: My NX500 shoots 28mp and I shoot RAW, I can still get a month on 64gb.
divF
@Major Major Major Major: Fritz Maytag can be Baud’s big-money Sheldon Adelson.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
You need to take more pictures! I can get 400-500 in a busy day.
Keith P.
@Major Major Major Major: Oh, damn, I posted my own link to that link 120 posts later. Bad on me for not noticing someone beat me to it. That’s one of my favorite Mr Show skits (along with Wycked Sceptre and Buddhists vs. Fat Kids’ Camp…EDIT forgot It’s Insane, This Guy’s Taint)
Major Major Major Major
@Keith P.: the entire episode that culminates with The Joke: The Musical is my favorite.
That and the one with the ad for Bag Hutch.
“My great great great grandfather founded this company with nothing but one leaky, rickety, hand-built slave ship and a simple motto: people selling people to people. So don’t call me fat!”
BC in Illinois
@divF:
National Bo! The beer of my youth!
“And while we’re about it, we’re proud to say, it’s brewed on the shores . . . of the Chesapeake Bay!”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: How do you deal with that many? I generally also shoot using exposure bracketing, so each shoot I take is 3 exposures. I shot 166 last night(some weren’t bracketed).
Emma
@Roger Moore: I do that now. But I am always curious about equipment.
divF
@BC in Illinois: Indeed.
When I was growing up in the DC area in the 1960’s, there was a weatherman on WMAL, Louis Allen, who was sponsored by National Beer. He drew his own weather maps as he was giving the weather report, and would occasionally (IIRC) do drawings advertising National Beer.
(He would open the weather segment by saying “getting ourselves oriented, here’s Washington”, and draw a little circle in the appropriate location on the map.)
Emma
@lurker dean: Yes, that’s what I wondered about. I have a nice travel wallet with space for 10 cards and I use 32gbs so I have plenty. It just makes me paranoid to put too many images in one card without duplication.
hueyplong
@divF: The sight of those three beer names might knock me off the Baud bandwagon. Leaderless, adrift, I hope I don’t fall prey to the siren song of right wing politics in my despair.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
What I usually do is to shoot raw+jpg. Then I look through the jpgs to find the ones that look worth investing more effort in. I find that’s the slowest part of editing, since I can only look through a hundred or so pictures before I need to take a break. For the pictures that are worth further effort, I go back to the raw and process them carefully. It’s not really hard; it just takes some persistence to get through them all.
Jeffro
@BC in Illinois:
Say what? Who calls it “National Bo”? I’ve always heard “Natty Bo” here. Must be a regional nickname thing.
(doesn’t really matter – it’s still worse than Schaefer, or dog help me, Schaefer Light)
Jeffro
Quick note: I’m heading up to Philly tomorrow and staying a couple of nights. Already checked out what music clubs I could find and didn’t really see any acts that appealed to me (but then again my knowledge of Center City music joints is pretty limited. Anyone have any recommendations in that regard?
Another Scott
@Roger Moore: Zooks.
I think I took about 2200 shots on our trip to eastern Canada a few years back. In 2 weeks. And I did almost no post-processing. Even just running them through “I’m Feeling Lucky” in Picasa would be a huge time sink for me. ;-)
I admire you folks who can do all that digital magic and have a life besides.
Cheers,
Scott.
Roger Moore
@Another Scott:
I only do this for one or two trips a year, and it takes longer to go through the pictures than the trip did. Besides, who ever said I have a life?
divF
@hueyplong: Actually, if those were my only choices for beer, the one place it might keep me is on the wagon.
Tazj
@tobie: I did not see David Ignatius, but I caught the end of the conversation with Jonathon Sanders and it shocked and depressed me. He thought Trump did great today and Tillerson was masterful or something? Sanders thought that Trump and Putin were going to bring an end to the Syrian war. He dismissed Russian’s hacking(not a big deal they’ve been trying this for years, move on) and thought it was proof of Russia’s superiority in math? Disturbing.
I wasn’t familiar with him, but he has an impressive resume from what I read from doing a quick internet search. He was a CBS reporter in Russia for years and won awards for his story on the terrorist hostage crisis in Beslan.
Yes, what he said was quite upsetting and certainly not my takeaway form what happened today between Trump and Putin. Hopefully, Sanders and Ignatius are outliers and their opinions won’t carry much weight. Richard Engel was on Maddow shortly after, and him seemed to think Putin came away the big winner today.
BC in Illinois
@Jeffro:
I won’t defend the taste — no one in my family ever did – – but “National Bo” came from some of the commercials of the ’60s. During the era when the spokesbird on the commercial was one “Chester Peake,” a seagull.
efgoldman
@BC in Illinois:
I believe (but am not sure) that Natty Bo (on the Orioles’ network), Narragansett (the original, not the current curated version. on Red Sox stations) and probably other regional breweries, used crudely animated commercials featuring two young, fresh comedians for voice overs –
Mike Nichols and Elaine May. All they did was change the tag lines.
lurker dean
@Emma: oh, i see. i know what you mean, i tend to use smaller cards because i don’t like having all images on one sd in case it goes wonky. although knock on wood in 10 years i’ve never had an issue with sandisk cards, purchased from b&h so i know they’re real – there are a lot of fakes out there. and then at night i save the images to a laptop, but ideally don’t erase the sd card, so i have a duplicate. but you need enough sd cards for that, which, for like a week long trip, can be quite a few, esp if you save both raw and jpeg, and maybe shoot some video.
lurker dean
@Roger Moore: lol, totally know the feeling. i try to get to vacation pics quickly to leverage the vacation excitement motivation, but the day-to-day stuff really piles up for me. i’m always impressed by how quickly billinglendale processes.
Uncle Cosmo
@Major Major Major Major: FTR “Natty Boh” was originally brewed in Baltimore, izzat coastal enough, hon? A friend visiting from Newcastle UK (epicenter of ale) some years ago liked it best of all the American beers he sampled. Genny 12-Horse Ale is pretty decent. Never had IC. When I was a kid it used to appear on the billboard across the street from my aunt & uncle’s house in Fairmont WV, alternating months with the long-gone Duquesne. (Any of you Pittsburgh types old enough to remember “Duke”?)
sukabi
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: judging by the picture I’d say reading and reading comprehension should be the first subjects pence takes. Pretty sure science is well beyond his grasp.
Robert Sneddon
@lurker dean: If you don’t back up your images soon after you take them then eventually you’re going to lose a bunch of images. Professional photographers say one backup is no backup and two backups is a start (but only a start). Offsite backups mean that even a fire won’t cost them their life’s work. Cloud storage is convenient but I wouldn’t trust it as my only offsite backup for work and photos so I keep a couple of spare hard drives in a store room a few kilometres from here and cycle them through my local/cloud backup procedure every few weeks.
I’ve seen small boxes that will duplicate SD cards, it might be worth investing in one of those. If you’re travelling post the dupes back home every few days via snailmail.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Lurking Canadian: Given what those jewels in the Gray Lady’s crown are paid, losing them would probably pay for at least three copy editors apiece, maybe four.