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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / General Topics / March 2008[PICS] NC Botanical Gardens
Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and something that likes to eat the sweet eater. http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/NCBG032608/NCBG032608.htm From a short trip to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens on March 26, 2008 Jim > Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and > something that likes to eat the sweet eater. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Jim Spiders count in octal, some people count with all their fingers up to 10 it's possible to count in base 2 up to 1023 with 10 fingers and humans that use their toes can include 10 more digits , 2 = 1 for sign, 1 for carry , 8 -> to squish spiders!!!!!!!1 >> Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and >> something that likes to eat the sweet eater. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 8 > -> to squish spiders!!!!!!!1 Actually spiders, like many commonly thought of as intelligent animals, count in hexadecimal. Each leg has two tarsal claws, leaving 16 distinct points to count upon. That's at least 2^6 better than you. If you killed all the spiders in the world, you will be over run and devoured by the insects that they would have eaten. Still want to squish them all? Have a creep-crawly day, Jim > Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and > something that likes to eat the sweet eater. > > http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/NCBG032608/NCBG032608.htm > > From a short trip to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens on March 26, 2008 1 - pleasant image, nice pastel tones - a little soft, maybe..? 2 - Great shot. Tastes like Velvia! and looks decidedly *not* like it was taken with flash (diffuser?) .. which is a good thing. 3 - don't like this one so much - apart from the glare, the light just looks very harsh - polariser may have helped? I'm bein' over-critical, only 'cause I know you can take it! If it stops raining here, I hope to get my camera out this weekend. Yes, I know there is plenty of subject matter under overcast skies: (warning - arty-far.. content) http://www.marktphoto.com/examples/drops_on_yellow.jpg http://www.marktphoto.com/examples/pegged.jpg .. but sometimes it is nice to have sunlight... (O: On Mar 28, 4:40 am, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > > Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and > > something that likes to eat the sweet eater. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > .. but sometimes it is nice to have sunlight... (O: First we really need to get you off Google Groups. Second take a look at the big pictures. Your sharpness concerns will fall away, the Velviaish will be positively cheesy, and the spider will look a bit better, not much mind you, that sun is bright. Good luck with the sun, I'd be happy with some rain as we are still 8 inches behind. Jim > First we really need to get you off Google Groups. Agreed. I'm a bit sick of it too - am working on a new solution. > Second take a look at the big pictures. So many images, so little time, especially when my connection speed has just been capped at the end of month (too cheap to get a 'real' unlimited connection!)... > Your sharpness concerns will > fall away I'm sure they would.. but I do think all images need to be optimised at all resolutions they are posted at... (if only I practised what I preach!) (O; That's probably why I spend too much time playing with various interpolation and sharpening regimes, and never get out to take actual images... )O: > Good luck with the sun, I'd be happy with some rain as we are still 8 > inches behind. Yep, we are also still in the grips of a drought (aka "poorly managed water resources"), so I shouldn't complain. But they *promised* the rain would be gone this am, and I'm still getting wet... On Mar 28, 5:52 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 28, 9:53 pm, JimKramer <j...@jlkramer.net> wrote:> First we really need to get you off Google Groups. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > But they *promised* the rain would be gone this am, and I'm still > getting wet... Have a look at http://news.motzarella.org Very nice free news service, then just block everything with a gmail addy. :-) > On Mar 28, 5:52 pm, mark.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Mar 28, 9:53 pm, JimKramer <j...@jlkramer.net> wrote:> First we really need to get you off Google Groups. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > Very nice free news service, then just block everything with a gmail > addy. :-) Will that make him behave himself too? > Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and > something that likes to eat the sweet eater. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Jim Nice work. > Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and > something that likes to eat the sweet eater. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Jim Nice to actually see a honey-bee. They were few and far between last summer. I hope they're makin' a comeback from colony collapse. We're gonna' be in deep kimchee if they don't. >> Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and >> something that likes to eat the sweet eater. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > I hope they're makin' a comeback from colony collapse. We're gonna' be in > deep kimchee if they don't. Now this is funny. You do realize that the honey bee was brought in from Europe with the early (European) settlers and their crops and is technically an invasive foreigner in the Americas? Bee-fore there were honey bees there were plenty of other native pollinators here. The only things that are really going to suffer are the huge monoculture farms, that IMHO are an abomination anyway. I'm still seeing ratios of about 1 to 5, honey to other bees in my area, but I think that they are on a comeback, assuming that the "drought" is not going to be as bad this year... When's your next nice day off? Jim >>> Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and >>> something that likes to eat the sweet eater. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Europe with the early (European) settlers and their crops and is technically > an invasive foreigner in the Americas? Yes, along with many crops we now rely on to be pollinated by the honey-bee. > Bee-fore there were honey bees there were plenty of other native pollinators > here. The only things that are really going to suffer are the huge > monoculture farms, that IMHO are an abomination anyway. I don't think they're the ONLY thing that will suffer. What happened to the native pollinators? Are there enough of them still around to take up the slack? As I see it, the problem is how to make a transition back to agricultural diversity without a crash when we abandon monoculture. > I'm still seeing ratios of about 1 to 5, honey to other bees in my area, but > I think that they are on a comeback, assuming that the "drought" is not > going to be as bad this year... All last summer, I only saw a single honey-bee; lots of bumble-bees & carpenter bees, but no honey-bees. > When's your next nice day off? > Jim Today (Saturday), Sunday, and theoretically next Thursday. >>>> Something that will be sweet, something that likes to eat sweet, and >>>> something that likes to eat the sweet eater. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > What happened to the native pollinators? Are there enough of them still > around to take up the slack? Not without native habitat or hedgerow plantings. Others have reported fewer bees here this spring, I've seen plenty of native bumblebees but nothing else. > As I see it, the problem is how to make a transition back to > agricultural diversity without a crash when we abandon monoculture. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Today (Saturday), Sunday, and theoretically next Thursday. |
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