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Post by nikeajax on Nov 25, 2022 12:57:47 GMT -8
Touché! These always make me smile, if not grin stupidly...
As for being an audiophile, oh-yeah, that's me big time: I have an incredibly eclectic and diverse taste!
JB
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Post by nikeajax on Dec 8, 2022 16:50:34 GMT -8
Jacob, have you been watching this?
JB
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Post by Linda on Dec 12, 2022 18:46:04 GMT -8
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Dec 14, 2022 9:59:14 GMT -8
Reader's Digest used to have a regular feature entitled "Laughter - the best medicine", whose sentiment I heartily endorse. By way of contrast, the British Sub Aqua Club journals Neptune and Triton occasionally included a "smile" to lighten the mood a little among the serious articles. One example from August 1955 below: I love "funnies" like this that draw attention to human quirks and foibles. This one, as well as having a diving theme, focuses on people's urge to find out what is really going on at building sites often hidden away behind hoardings. I've noticed that these temporary walls sometimes have a small aperture in them to satisfy the curiosity of the public! At least in this case the building contractor supplied something for the scuba divers to rest their arms on!
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Post by nikeajax on Dec 14, 2022 11:37:28 GMT -8
DRW, thanks for posting this one  I love old cartoons, especially when they are droll like this one. Every once in a while we find books with collected cartoons in them, we have a "Sad Sack" book from, 1944, WW-II not the comic book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_SackWe also have some Charles Addams books too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_AddamsJB |
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Post by nikeajax on Dec 14, 2022 12:39:06 GMT -8
I saw this and I just about died from cuteness poisoning:
It's an Aardwolf related to the Hyena, which I think are really cool too. Most people don't like Hyenas, but when I found out about them, I realized that are pretty amazing. For instance they have the most powerful bite of any land mammal, and they are actually related to cats, not dogs!!!!
JB
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Post by nikeajax on Dec 30, 2022 9:11:44 GMT -8
Here are the making-of videos:
JB
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Post by nikeajax on Dec 30, 2022 11:37:39 GMT -8
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Post by SeaRat on Dec 30, 2022 13:11:55 GMT -8
I took some macro photos at my home during our ice storm. I thought you'd enjoy the smile that they brought to me when I received the results.  Red Berries on Green Leaves by John Ratliff, on Flickr During our freezing weather a just over a week ago, I took my camera out to get Christmas photos of the lights, and also get some macro photos with my Canon EOS 70D camera, 50mm F-1.4 lens and a 240mm Canon Closeup Lens attached. I took these at F-16, shutter speed of 1/250th of a second, of the berries on my bush with ice on them. Enjoy! John |
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Post by SeaRat on Jan 5, 2023 18:11:17 GMT -8
Last April 6th, 2022 I was on a bicycle ride, and went along the Rock Creek Trail. At the east side of this trail is a connecting trail, The Waterhouse Trail, and following that downstream to the Bronson Creek Trail. There, I found a number of ducks easily watched from the elevated, wooden trail. The following photos, which I looked at today in my iPhoto program, were enjoyable in light of the dismal winter outside right now.  Version 2 by John Ratliff, on Flickr  Duck has an Itch by John Ratliff, on Flickr  Wood Duck Grooming by John Ratliff, on Flickr  Wood Duck & Mallard Hen on a Bush by John Ratliff, on Flickr I also met a fellow I've been communicating with an Facebook messages, who was interested in diving. He's named Nicholas Houston, and lives in Eugene. Today, he drove up to meet me and receive two Dacor Quantum regulators that I gave him. We met at Pacific Watersports, where he also got a couple of plugs for the regulators (I gave him two, as he can use one for parts). I had been given those two regulators by Laurie at Pacific Watersports, and had not used them in several years. So getting them to a person who might actually use them was good. I found out, however, that he had not completed the PADI diving course, and so could only do "inside diving" (e.i. pool diving). I encouraged this young man to finish his PADI scuba course, and we went on our way. I will not miss either regulator, and in the process got my twin 52s filled, and am getting the battery in my Suunto Cobra dive computer changed. John |
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 6, 2023 14:17:26 GMT -8
John, thanks for sharing, good images too! It's always exciting when you can get good bird pix. I stumbled upon this one this morning. WARNING-VERY-GRAPHIC:I thought it was very interesting though  JB |
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Post by SeaRat on Jan 6, 2023 14:59:54 GMT -8
John, thanks for sharing, good images too! It's always exciting when you can get good bird pix. I stumbled upon this one this morning. WARNING-VERY-GRAPHIC:I thought it was very interesting though JB “Burt: Hey Cliff, we’ve got a new stain on the top of that pole next to the camera. Take a look at the video and see whether we have corrosion, or something else.” Cliff: Okay, I’ll take a look. Here goes…oh, look, a hawk just landed on top, with a…rat! Oh, it looks like…Oh, yikes, he’s tearing it apart, there’s blood on the top of the pole, rat blood…oh yikes! He just ate half a rat in one bite,..oh, GROSS!” As a zoology person, as Walter Cronkite said, “And that’s the way it is…” John |
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Post by scubalawyer on Jan 7, 2023 10:16:21 GMT -8
For over a year now a young Red Tail Hawk (Dark Phase) has been visiting me when I'm sitting out on my deck. At first it landed about 10 feet away on a drain pipe jutting out from my deck.  Then it started landing on the deck railing.  Now it lands on the table next to me just a few feet away. It will sit for 10 minutes or so scanning the canyon below for snakes, mice and the occasional small house cat and then take off to snag its prey.   Looks like I have made a friend.  |
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 7, 2023 10:54:34 GMT -8
Mark, very nice/fun! Here are two images I am particularly proud of: it's a Red Shouldered Hawk in the front yard of my last house:   I watched this yesterday and was utterly captivated by the sheer audacity  JB |
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Post by SeaRat on Jan 7, 2023 13:44:32 GMT -8
Wow, that pelican was awfully mad at the osprey to try to eat it. It looks like he failed, but made an impression. If he had gotten it down the gullet, it may have left a few marks inside.  John PS, JB, your red-shouldered hawk photos are really great. |
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I love old cartoons, especially when they are droll like this one. Every once in a while we find books with collected cartoons in them, we have a "Sad Sack" book from, 1944, WW-II not the comic book:
