forcebwithu
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As a guy that dislikes Phillips head screws, I found this video interesting, and mildly entertaining. It's a shame the Robertson head didn't become the standard in the US.
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43 minutes ago, Yessongs said:
Yeah Nikon makes great equipment too......the technology these days is amazing as far as these DSLR's and Lenses. Are you happy with your Nikon?
We have come a long way since I first bought my first camera 50 years ago in 1974...Minolta SRT 101....scraped by as a struggling college student to buy a "Vivitar" 135MM lens for concerts...can never forget using a roll of 36 Kodak Ektachrome film back in the day. The challenge was after you took your first 36 pictures, could you unload it at a concert, and re-load your next roll of film without dropping it LOL! Yeah and a few "bong hits" didn't help either LOL! 20 or so years ago, Costco started taking slides and transferring them to a CD....
Glad I survived all of it back in the 70's...these concert pics and others are priceless to me.
I have the Nikon D3300 that I bought years ago. For the amatuer work I do I'm very happy with it.
Like you I've enjoyed photography since my HS days. Even had a darkroom in my parent's basement.
Most days I use my waterproof Olympus Tough TG-5. The Nikon gets used when I want to take shots at night, long distance photos, and hash shirt photos. I have a makeshift studio setup in a spare bedroom for the shirt photos. Those get posted to the hash shirt webpage (link).
Do you do anything to protect your gear from the heat and humidity when not in use? That was a big concern of mine as only two bedrooms in my home have A/C, which only gets turned on when we're in the room.
To protect my gear I bought a dry cabinet (link) which seems to get the job done. After buying one I realized I should be storing a few bits of other electronic gear in the cabinet, so bought a larger one to hold everything. If anyone is interested, the smaller, 30L cabinet on the top shelf in the pic below is for sale.
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On 4/3/2024 at 12:29 PM, forcebwithu said:
I finally had enough of Windows 11 and bought a new laptop which I've downgraded to Windows 10.
Moving my apps over to the new laptop has gone smoothly and I'm quite pleased how fast everything is running, and how fast reboots are compared to Win 11. Hopefully Microsoft does better on their next OS version.
One month on and Win 10 is performing brilliantly.
One thing I had forgotten about that was lost in Win 11 was the ability to drag maximised windows across multiple monitors. I just recently rediscovered and remembered that feature is baked into Win 10.
Working with a triple monitor setup I'm often times moving windows around. It was annoying when Win 11 was installed to find out I had to first "Restore Down" a maximized window before I could drag it across to another monitor. Once placed on the other monitor I would then have to click to maximise it again.
It was a small annoyance, but having to do that multiple times a day became a PITA. Can't imagine why the programmers of Win 11 removed that feature.
Anyway, happy days again with Win 10.
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Most homes have one. It's called an air conditioner. Just set the temp high on the A/C, I keep mine at 29-30, and it'll do an effective job of removing humidity from the room.
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18 minutes ago, ChiFlyer said:
Thai Meterological Department on the Heat
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The Thai Meteorological Department should go back to school. The earth is closest to the sun around 4 January every year (Perihelion).
"The Thai Meteorological Department explained that summer typically begins in mid-February and lasts until mid-May, two and a half months. During this time, the Earth was closer to the sun and the sun was directly overhead, especially in April, when the sun was almost directly overhead in Thailand around noon daily, resulting in full exposure to sunlight."The inaccuracy in this second quote may be due to poor writing and/or sloppy editing as September usually marks the beginning of the rainy season.
"Therefore, in September, which marked the end of the rainy season, heavy rainfall was common in almost every part of Thailand."-
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The black, smelly water that was flowing out of a pipe in Na Jomtien a month ago has now made an appearance farther north in Jomtien.
I wondered at the time when it was reported they blocked and covered up the pipe in Na Jomtien if that was all they did. And if all they did was block the pipe as a quick and dirty fix, then that black, smelly water would be making an appearance elsewhere. And guess what...
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Even when I was young and in very good shape and could have fit in, the shallowness of the party crowd was a turn off. Much more to life than chasing bling.
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45 minutes ago, Pumpuynarak said:
Could'nt watch @thunder367 as it says its only available in the UK. I set my Nord VPN to the UK but it still would'nt work.
Back in the 70's/80's i had many great holidays on Ibiza, what a party island
Here's the trailer on YT. Quote that probably sums it up best, "when you see more, you want more". Sad attitude to go through life with.
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On 4/25/2024 at 8:02 AM, Yessongs said:
Anxiously waiting for Fed X to arrive. They called me last night and told me my lens I bought from B&H photo out of New York will be here today.
$1,510 Baht import fees, Vat etc will be due of course...
Geeked up LOL!
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM Lens
Excellent photos you posted in your Testing Out My New Lens topic. And good choice on your new lens. Of the lenses I own, my Nikkor 18-140mm is the one that gets used most often.
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11 hours ago, boydeste said:
The nice thing about Bkk is that it is so easy to get around via the BTS which has aircon or taxis and Tuk Tuks, obviously no aircon in the latter.
Hard to wrap my head around how many people still want to drive when mass transit is so readily available. Even allowing for the last km to get to their destination, easy enough to hail a cab.
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One more for old times sake.
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3 hours ago, Trip said:
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25 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said:
I think this year will be the biggest test of water sustainability since Covid Lockdown. Pattaya dodged a bullet there with the lack of tourists allowing the water to be replenished to where it is now.
Imagine what that graph would be like today had the city been full for all those years ...!!
I was thinking the same. Pic below is from April, 2019. Mabprachan was almost bone dry and the water utility was asking for voluntary water use reductions. But at the same time the city officials in their misguided attempt to be seen to be doing something about the China virus had water trucks out daily, washing down the sois. Just incredible how stupid some in positions of power can be.
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In the news yesterday.
PM urges vigilance after Covid-19 surge
"Dr Manoon Leechawengwongs, a pulmonologist at Vichaiyut Hospital, said that despite the new sub-variant, the disease is now of weak severity, with the symptoms mostly being infections in the upper part of the respiratory tract, or throat and nose, rather than an infection in the lower part of the system -- the lungs and bronchia."
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2 hours ago, forcebwithu said:
Have to disagree with that last sentence. There's a very good chance the driver had what's called target fixation. My presence in his path of where he wanted to go never even registered in his mind as he had fixated on his destination. If I had been walking with my back to him, he probably would have clipped me with the side of his car.
Rather than continue OT in the Great Ranting Topic, I'll post this video here as a good example of what target fixation is. It's something that was an important part of the motorcycle training course I took. The trap is you tend to steer where your eyes are looking, which can be especially dangerous on curves. To counter it we were taught to turn our head in the direction we wanted to go to keep our eyes focused on where we should be going.
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With the start of the rainy season still at least three months away, water levels aren't looking good. The black line in the chart is now below the worst case projection.
https://www.eastwater.com/en/Customer/WeeklyWaterSituationDetails/437
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1 hour ago, fforest said:
I thought Tony was finished years ago...
He probably needs the income stream to pay for the upkeep on his estate out near Khao Mai Kaeo.
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4 minutes ago, Phantom51red said:
That's my arm as I'm trying to dodge the mirror 😆
I looked again and really zoomed in this time. Zoomed out I honestly thought it looked like a profile of a lady with long brown hair looking at your bike. Sorry for offending the masculinity of your biceps. LOL
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^^^ Smart dog. Knows how to escape the heat. I have three that are now hunkering down in my A/C cooled office.
BTW, Be ever watchful for motorbike thieves. I see in the mirror a lady that looks like she's sizing up your motorbike for a quick getaway.
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4 minutes ago, fforest said:
April 1 to April 22 was horridly hot......Now its still plenty hot but its ever so slightly cooler so I do not have to run the aircon all day and night....
Not on my side of town it isn't. Where are you living, I want to be your neighbor and experience the ever so slightly cooler weather. Maybe rather than move I'll just camp out on your doorstep.
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16 minutes ago, ThaiTim said:
Thanks @the force, have done as suggested. Much appreciated.
Khun PP I will ask Mrs TT to get her lad to get in touch. Now the problem, how do we do that?
Hover the cursor over the BM's avatar and when you get the pop up window click on Message to send a PM with private contact info.
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The sun is brutal. Definitely need to be working under shade today.
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I looked again and really zoomed in this time. Zoomed out I honestly thought it looked like a profile of a lady with long brown hair looking at your bike. Sorry for offending the masculinity of your biceps. LOL
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