As a reader, I love footnotes, and have no patience for endnotes, though, I will endure end-of-the-chapter notes if they are mostly just references.
As a retired typesetter, I have no patience for the idea that footnotes are difficult to set.* There is a field of publishing that regularly incorporates multiple blocks of text on the same page, some related, some not. I believe that you might know of such, they are called in the French, magazine.
*I'll accept, not necessarily cheap, or free, but difficult? Aesthetically displeasing? I think not!
Abby N, 34,
it was an artifact of having been a middle-schooler when the whole sexual-attraction thing started, and it kinda stuck. Further discussion revealed that sex-with-peers was the thing that really dislodged this. A reset, of sorts, perhaps.
I'm kind of hoping that the easy access to free pornography will help solve this kind of thing. Do you think that would help? (How long ago was that conversation?)
Tom Whitmore, 332,
Thanks.
If I can get more information from the people using the term, I'll post it here.
Obscure language question:
Have you heard the usage of the word "taddy" in place of "thank you"? I've been hearing it from people over the age of 80, but I can't find any written instances of it.
LLA, 117,
My dad tried to teach me to use a light meter when I was five and completely scared me away from photography for years in the process (which is the reason I celebrated when light meters began to be built into the cameras!). Maybe I should ask him for another lesson.
Wow! And Ouch! That's some pretty darn abstract stuff, there. Five year olds typically get pretty frustrated with abstract thought! It took me a long time as a 20 year old to piece together how light worked with light meters, and I was an art student. I'm curious, what was he trying to teach you? The sunny-16 rule, or the zone system, or what?
Rob Rusick, 129,
Re: contemporary cameras. For years we have had cameras which can automatically take several shots in quick succession, typically used for action photography. Are there any that can take a series of shots with a range of f-stops? This would be useful for HDR images.
My Olympus 520* will auto bracket, by taking 3 consecutive shots: down one setting, on the metered reading, and up one setting. A setting can be as little as .3 of an EV (exposure value) or as much as 1. (You may also be able to ISO bracket on that model, but I'm less sure.)
Useful for HDR? Wrotniak says:
For shooting sequences to be merged into a single HDR (high dynamic range) image, it would It would be useful to have also an option of 2 EV here.
The limitation seems to be buffer size. Why there isn't a "gee, I'll take my chances with the buffer filling up, just give me the +/- 2 EV please" mode, I can't imagine. Ditto for time lapse. So, to answer your original question, you can manually bracket...faster, with current cheap DSLRs.
Also, there are no f 1.8 or larger lenses for the Olympus 4/3rds cameras that cost less than 450$. Just fyi, in case anyone is looking at getting one.
*450$, w/ lens. 400$ for the 420 model.
Mary Aileen, 877,
O yay! Thank you for the online scifi network linky. That's really helpful! I may yet be able to get rid of that hated set top box. At least until September.
In the Joss Whedon interview linked above:
"My passion, my perversion, my obsession...my voice, my avatar, my girl."
I don't have a problem with Buffy being his Mary Sue. I think, perhaps, he redeems the term.
LLA, 39
I think variations in different people's signal processors for color may be greater than is generally acknowledged
Not only are about 5% of males green/red colorblind, but there may be some tetrachromat humans as well. Yes, that's right: four cones, not three. Leading to better differentiation between 'close' colors. Possibly more prevalent among women. (Contradictory research alert!)
Glen Blankenship, 38,
With today's proliferation of compact fluorescents, which come in several quoted "color temperatures", (none of which are actual matches for the designated temp, since the flouros' rather bandy emission output is nothing like a black-body curve - the quoted temp is just the black-body temp they most nearly resemble),
This is becoming an increasing problem with my photography, trying to correct white balance after the fact in photoshop. I'm not looking forward to the upcoming (2012) ban on the production of incandescent bulbs between 60-100 watts. It's going to make things really hard for people taking casual digital camera shots, when you have multiple not-quite matching CFLs lighting things.
Oh, and your story about lighting for the fashion show? Pure brilliance! Kudos.
But the fact is that people who were raised YEC or inerrantist ...
I'm sorry, but when I see YEC = Young Earth Creationist, I immediately think of OEC. Like so:
Us is riht micel ðæt we rodera weard,
wereda wuldorcining, wordum herigen,
modum lufien!
(from Murray's Old English Poetry Project.)
David Harmon, 120,
Also, someone on the open thread suggested the ability to edit posts (after suffering a typical ohnosecond ;-) ). Definitely needs a time limit, though -- perhaps half an hour or so.
I think a 5-10sec "oh sodomy!" timer would be good enough. Hit post, and you see a spinner run. Mash the button to abort the post and drop back to the editor.
albatross, 56,
but that any numbers either field tries to offer to quantify these effects will be little better than SWAGs.
At the risk of reaching my minimum speed, I think you could give the climate scientists credit for the direction* and the relative magnitude of changes, even if they aren't likely to get the exact quantity right to within anything better than the ten's place.**
(You could probably give the economists some credit for predictions like: given a 1 meter rise in sea level, the following condos on the VA/MD/DEL coast will be underwater and therefore have a future value of 0 no later than 2095, and therefore if you could find a way to short sell their future value, while packaging up the risk for selling at the wrong time in a credit derivative, which you could then insure...)
*vector? sign?
**At the risk of chumming the waters, I'll suggest that lots of economic theory is unfalsifiable, and therefore not that useful, but climate science is merely difficult to falsify, and therefore hard.
That is, it is difficult to falsify due to being made up of many interlocking observations from many related fields. I.e.: the insulating properties of CO2 are well understood in chemistry, but to get historical levels you need to talk to botanists, geologists, and archaeologists, and to predict the effects of too much carbonation in the ocean you need to talk to both microbiologists and oceanographers.
I forgot to mention that you can run Wordpress and Moveable Type locally on your windows machine using XAMPP*.
I use this setup for web development and testing backups to see if they are good.** I would suggest importing a ML backup into a vanilla install of the latest Moveable Type and Wordpress versions and just see what happens. Maybe nothing will break...?
*XAMPP = the Apache/MySQL/Perl/Php backend that wordpress runs on. The Mac version is called MAMPP, I think. XAMPP is now available as a portable app, so you could even run it off a usb drive if you wanted to.
**I would do better to install XAMPP on a virtual machine and work from that, but I'm too lazy to redo the work I've already got going.
Can we all go metric now? Thanks.
Just so long as I can specify things in 12 metric unit groups. (1.2 meter planks of wood please, the better to divide them by 3 and 4.)
I desperately want to offer to do something helpful, but aside from knowing that what you want to do is eminently possible, and having (strong) opinions on what tech you should use to do it with*, I'm no help at all.
*wordpress, with the latest iteration of WP Super Cache plugin to make most pages load as if they are static, the akismet default plugin for spam, etc, and the import from MT "just works". Except, what you want is someone who is not you to iron out all the inevitable bugs when that setup doesn't work right.
Ah, Xopher, Julie L.,
I mis-typed. The link actually adresses prejudice against OtakuKin by OtherKin. The theorizing later in the essay is pretty interesting, and to me, makes OtherKin/OtakuKin much more a mystical/religious phenomena. (In some senses that William James might recognize.)
Oh, yes, otaku-kin. Possession by fictional characters from anime/manga. (Which the author correctly points out are often derivatives of Eastern* deities, many of whom got their start as fictional characters. See: Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart.)
*I need a better term. 'Eastern' sounds too Orientalist.
hi all. Um, I found this:
On prejudice against otherkin:
"...a somewhat disconcerting and ironic contradiction in an alternative community that accepts everything from therianthropes to extraterrestrial fae."
Thought the fluorosphere might like it.
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