Photorat

Film and digital photographer. Analog and digital artist. Pacific Northwest, USA.
#photography #photographer #nobot #nobots #noindex #nobridge

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Favorite color: Kodachrome Red
Current home: Dystopia
Pronouns: he/him

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2024-10-15 18:42:21

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Do they have a space theme this year? One of the other furcons also had a space theme.

2024-10-15 07:16:06

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That must have a big effect on attendance. There must be some other venue they could get.

2024-10-15 07:11:44

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Happy Birthday is finally out of copyright. It probably had been for decades, but the copyright holder kept suing everyone. They finally lost in court a few years ago.

2024-10-15 06:50:48

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Yes. I had saved that quote to my hard drive.
https://cdn.masto.host/photog/media_attachments/files/113/310/101/835/972/022/original/05d46cca77dacb07.jpeg

2024-10-15 04:11:38

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Why is it running during the week?

2024-10-13 07:36:13

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I assumed that you're approximately correct.
I guess the brightness of the lights were many stops brighter than the surrounding space, so the non-lights didn't have a chance to register.

2024-10-13 03:47:56

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OK. That's the standard way of doing it. Somehow it looked more convincing than normal. Maybe the B&W helped sell the illusion.

2024-10-13 03:16:18

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What if he's playing possum?

2024-10-13 03:00:58

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Give him a 128K Macintosh. He'll stop complaining about the bandwidth.

2024-10-13 02:59:21

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Do you need fiber? Isn't that faster than your 8MHz 68k CPU?

2024-10-13 02:57:37

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That surprises me a little. I'm not seeing motion blur from other objects. I would have guessed that the zoom was no more than a third of the entire exposure time.

2024-10-13 02:55:19

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Is that Photoshop trickery? It looks too high for a normal jump.

2024-10-12 21:25:35

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Shot 3 is my favorite. The alt-text said that you zoomed in. How long was the exposure overall and how much of that time was the zoom?

2024-10-12 03:34:59

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"Breaking" will be the headline of the next Boeing air mishap story.

2024-10-12 03:28:47

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Looks a bit dystopian. Those people look worried.

2024-10-12 03:19:20

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Interesting that it says "GIANT WAR ISSUE!"
At some point during the war, paper was rationed. Some or all of the pulps cut back on issue size and/or frequency. WWII was one of the body blows that the pulps never fully recovered from.

2024-10-10 19:10:40

This is a new web series about Portland. I haven't decided whether I like it yet. The second episode just dropped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscZ75aRFs0
#Portland #PDX #Oregon

2024-10-10 18:09:11

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Don't you give the tree limbs to the goats first so they can eat the leaves?

2024-10-10 06:34:43

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Oh. Hopefully that will be as bad as it gets.

2024-10-10 06:15:35

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Kind of weird how I paid insane amounts of money for primitive computers back in the day. Now you can just stroll along and pluck something 1000 times more powerful out of the Free bin!

2024-10-10 06:10:29

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I'm late to the "party". It sounds like you already know this, but the internal temperature of ice absolutely can be colder than 0°C. If the ice has been sitting for a while in air that is >0°C, the surface of the ice will be at 0°C.
If the surrounding air is <0°C, then the surface of the ice should be at air temperature (assuming it has had enough time to equilibrate, etc.).
In the age of Google, however, how can your argument last two days?

2024-10-10 06:02:48

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Wow. That takes me back! Not that exact slide, but that duck and his hammer.
Back in the early days of the IBM PC, my dad had a PC clone with a CGA monitor (yes, 320 x 200!). He had an animation of that duck hitting a computer.

2024-10-10 05:57:03

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Oh! You mean "electric co-op"! I thought you meant 33% of your chicken coop was without power!
Of course it's much worse that 33% of homes don't have power, but I was sitting here fretting about your critters!
I hope everyone affected by the power problems is in a shelter and their homes survive.

2024-10-09 19:01:55

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I hope you all fare well!

2024-10-08 06:01:05

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So they're zombies.

2024-10-07 05:50:34

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So the Cold War was fought in a constant state of inebriation.

2024-10-05 21:45:59

Come by the Swap Meet at Ctrl-H Hackerspace in north Portland before 4:00 PM today. I’m selling my Atari 800!
#atari #atari800 #portland #RetroComputing
https://cdn.masto.host/photog/media_attachments/files/113/256/984/806/977/592/original/a0e455586def3d60.jpeg

2024-10-05 06:40:53

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I just assumed that everything was some sort of digital packet-switched fiber thingy or something by now.

2024-10-05 06:38:35

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Is that even still available?

2024-10-05 06:32:31

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These are all Sinclair stations. They are forced to read the political commentaries written by the head honcho.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#Must-run_segments

2024-10-05 06:13:49

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When the waiter clears the table before you're done.

2024-10-04 05:31:40

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The U.S. Army taught my dad how to do that in the 1950s.

2024-09-30 04:18:03

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I'm tall, so I long ago got used to helping normal-sized able-bodied people get things off of the high shelves.
When I see someone in a wheelchair who is looking at the shelves in a store, I always ask if they need help reaching something.
Sometimes they say they don't need anything, so I say "It's not a problem at all. I'm tall. It's easy for me." Then they roll away, and I call after them "Don't you want something? I can reach it! Anything you want!"
I feel rejected.

2024-09-30 04:09:48

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I only last two microseconds.
That sounds about right.
https://cdn.masto.host/photog/media_attachments/files/113/224/538/411/218/493/original/dea072230cfd2dc9.png

2024-09-30 04:04:11

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I got that too. You have to press the play button to keep going.

2024-09-29 04:44:55

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It's harder to eat them if you know their name.

2024-09-28 07:01:57

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Actually, Fred never graduated high school. There was an episode where it's revealed that he missed the last two weeks of high school for some reason, so he has to go back to high school for two weeks.

2024-09-27 17:08:59

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You get more done from a wheelchair in an hour than I do in a day!

2024-09-27 16:56:15

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You are creating real artwork! You're just getting millions of dollars to do it.

2024-09-27 16:54:16

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Pretend you're an AI. See if you can fool a VC. The bar is pretty low. Some of them will invest in the stupidest stuff.

2024-09-27 08:06:43

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Martin Scorsese

2024-09-25 17:52:21

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Oh. So you didn't lose the dough in the accident. See? The most important thing was saved!

2024-09-25 17:11:17

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The greatest tragedy there is you won't get any fresh-baked homemade bread!
😋

2024-09-25 16:48:26

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I love old visions of the future. They're usually optimistic. They have a quaint technological naïveté. I would rather live in that world than what we actually created.

2024-09-24 06:09:22

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Yay! The future still lives!

2024-09-24 04:48:44

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Lucky for you, I just happened to have some vintage photos of pneumatic tubes sitting on my hard drive. (I used to look at them longingly whenever our current dystopia overwhelmed me.)
https://cdn.masto.host/photog/media_attachments/files/113/190/710/039/366/149/original/d3569fbb22efdbd7.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/photog/media_attachments/files/113/190/712/532/691/645/original/a3de64ea88b9453b.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/photog/media_attachments/files/113/190/714/740/647/163/original/0368b7177e334cdb.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/photog/media_attachments/files/113/190/718/367/124/516/original/fc61d3aefe14b065.jpg

2024-09-23 18:29:44

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One of my friends seems to replace her refrigerator every 5 years.
I'm not surprised about your freezer. Stuff was built to last back then.

2024-09-23 18:25:18

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Sorry to hear that.
I learned not to buy GE back in the 80s. (Both a VCR and some other GE gadget died prematurely.)

2024-09-22 06:02:08

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Agnes Moorehead

2024-09-21 19:19:18

This has potential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldpPCBYpFww
#portland #oregon

2024-09-20 05:48:08

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Bite Me Elmo

2024-09-16 21:02:42

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"Hundreds of supporters"? Is that all that's left of the Firefox market share?

2024-09-15 21:49:59

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Maybe they were right but for the wrong reasons.
The game industry went on to be an entertainment behemoth.
In the mid-80s while I was stuck in Accounting a Burger King, one of my co-workers (who used to work at Atari) told me about the massive royalty checks she handed out to the developers.
But I also heard back then that Atari was a sweatshop.
Later, I lived a mile from Electronic Arts. Oh! The stories I heard!
It still would have been a good start to a career.

2024-09-15 21:40:58

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For me it wasn't a specific game. It was games in general. But that was 1980, and numerous people told me that games were a dead end. I couldn't earn a living doing that. Stupid me listened to them.

2024-09-15 07:29:23

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"Does this make my butt look big?"

2024-09-15 02:53:20

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Ralph Milne Farley! One of my favorite authors of pulp scifi adventure.

2024-09-14 00:02:00

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Penn and Teller! Looking very young. In an Adidas commercial!

2024-09-13 23:41:15

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Well it's not like they have jobs to get to or anything.
🐐

2024-09-12 07:47:19

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Oh! I was in the test audience for that movie! The studio execs sat in the back and watched our reactions. When it was over, we filled out surveys. I could tell that most of the audience did not think highly of that movie.
We're the reason that film never got a theatrical release!
😇

2024-09-12 07:25:41

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"I float like a butterfly and sting like a flea."

2024-09-03 09:20:31

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That article didn't mention any extensions!

2024-09-01 13:13:21

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Rare Earth (stories about places)

2024-08-31 07:39:31

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He catlined!

2024-08-31 03:38:06

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The crowd is throwing the produce. You can see one person in mid-throw.
They're probably pissed off that they were promised an execution and all they're getting is bondage kink.

2024-08-31 03:33:17

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Is that Android only? Because if it's on the iPhone, Apple is taking 30%.

2024-08-27 04:55:11

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When I was young, my 6-year-old brother made a whorehouse out of Lego.

2024-08-23 16:54:44

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Do you think it's a scent thing?
Or maybe it makes such an offensive noise that she needs to find out what it is?
Does she think that this time for sure she will be able to figure out how to turn it on?
Does she want to earn extra money by cleaning the neighbors' yards?

2024-08-23 06:30:15

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Judging by the Bambi embroidery, I'm guessing someone on the Mickey Mouse Club.

2024-08-21 07:22:01

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Like the others, I want to guess Roscoe Arbuckle, but I thought you featured him already.

2024-08-17 05:05:17

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Rose didn't push Violet off? She's slipping!

2024-08-12 20:40:44

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Oh. Somehow I thought that was one of the holdups. Then [@BalooUriza](https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@BalooUriza ) is right. They should have electrified it long ago.

2024-08-12 20:00:42

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Does that mean they fully grade-separated the line?

2024-08-07 16:37:53

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Oh, I see. It's not obvious.

2024-08-07 04:55:40

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I'm sorry. This doesn't make any sense. I can't find that. I don't have a "Vivaldi Button Menu". There's nothing in your image that says anything about the right-click menu.

2024-08-05 23:37:30

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Now every full moon you'll turn into a human.

2024-07-31 16:50:39

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Except his name was Remy.

2024-06-21 07:01:50

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