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I have to remember that skirt-wearing does not define me. I can wear skirts when I want and not wear them if the occasion doesn't lend itself, or if I would feel uncomfortable. I don't have to be "the guy who wears skirts". I'm a guy who likes to wear skirts when I feel like it. This, &qu...

Well no, there's no brightness or focus on this converter, but that would indeed be good. "Game over", then. If the slides aren't in precisely the focus plane for the sensor then there's no way that thing should have ever been brought to market (save to the "great unwashed"). [....

It's not that I'm afraid of taking action is that sometimes she mentions the D.I.V.O.R.C.E. word and that's something I don't want and I don't think that she does either. Is she just saying it for effect? If she's doing it "for effect" then it's lame at best and outright coercion at worst...

I believe that it's worth reiterating at this point that we cannot overcome an irrational thought or fear with logic or intellect -- it just doesn't work. We can work out what the potential consequences of us being -- or at least appearing -- different from others may be, and we can work on tactics ...

Yes, I also noticed the Ektachrome was not as colourful as Kodachrome. That was the one where you paid for the processing with the film, and posted it in. Yes, that was the stuff. The process was very complex as the dyes were actually embedded during the processing phase not as part of the original...

Another point where digital has it over film is colour rendition of unique colours. Something we may be forgetting here is that photography -- be it chemical or digital -- is a poor substitute for human vision. Chemical processes are limited by the chemistry and dyes they work with, and digital is ...

This (if working) starts out with insanely huge brightness, and by the time one dimms it down it still looks wierd. This sounds like a sensor-sensitivity issue and you might consider turning the gain on the scanner's sensor down a bit. The reason it's looking strange once you've tried "correct...

Thicker fabrics are one way to "cover up", but cut can be just as effective. If you're wearing something full and flowing then the odds of anything "sticking out" noticeably will be low and the general motion of all that fabric will draw folks' eyes away from "that spot"...

Looking through the slides I did come across a nice sunset one, so I'll put it up when back in action. I have no idea whether it's survived the ages, but at one point back in the mid 1980s I took an absolutely spectacular photograph on Kodachrome of a sunset from Boston's Hancock Tower (the new one...

Over the years, I've found that underwear usually keeps things under enough control to not attract a lot of attention by the bystanders -- and this holds true with even my fairly light and tight skirts. Sure, there'll be some bulge there, but that's nature in action and can't be avoided (save by &qu...

Don't forget "Pigs in Space" from the Muppet series :mrgreen: :alien: :bom: Pigs in Space was also a term for the police air wing. especially when, in the late 70s, they timed cars between two lines, a couple of km. apart, on the road and radioed a patrol car ahead to book speeding offend...

I hate to throw water on the party, but I've always been fairly skeptical about prodigies. Yes, they can put on splendid technical performances, but how well do they fare when they get off their beaten path? And how well are they adapted to a life that may have to be lived off the path that their pa...

I think I found -- and changed -- the relevant bits, one line each in three files to add a "target=_blank" option to an HTML anchor statement.

If this doesn't work, or causes unexpected and incorrect behavior, please gripe here or directly to the 'barista" address.

Cheers!

Ahh yes - does anyone remember the languages that preceded Cobol and Fortran like SadSam and Midget? Now there are two languages I'd never heard of! I've learnt (and forgotten) more assemblers over the years than I can necessarily recall (different computer architectures require different assembler...

I think I "fixed" that at least once in the past, but it involved a change to the code that got overwritten by the last update. The main drawback is that it affected all URLs, not just external ones.

I'll see what I can do.