Spoiled for choice here... I'll share a photo I took of one of my favorite somewhat easy hike destinations nearby. This is a spectacular high alpine lake that sits nearly on the top of the Divide and left me awestruck on my first climb over the ridge that hides it.
Very familiar with this phenomenon. Found that it's possible to create this effect on purpose even when you are consciously aware of the perception.
Felt compelled to pick up and start reading A Song of Ice and Fire once more this weekend. Giving me a good excuse to rest my cold-weary hands and break in my new headphones for a while. Would hit the library for something new, but these books were already there, it's cold as heck, and I'm feeling particularly lazy…
In part, the blurring contributes to the illusion. There is also a warping of the field of view, sort of as if the image were printed on the inside of an unrolled cylinder. That's what exaggerates the perspective, making the margins larger and closer than the focus of the shot and reducing the apparent scale. Just…
This is so thoroughly bleak and depressing...
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+props for 'juvenile defenestration.'
True farther south and higher up as well. 4C here is shorts weather as far as I'm concerned.
Fringe lost me with the Observer invasion. Seemed like an out of nowhere 'what are we going to do with these mysterious bald guys anyway?' solution that fell flat on its face.
Ah, that definitely aids in understanding. I imagine most produce must be imported and I can see how that could make it prohibitively expensive.
Aside from Quasimodo, Ursula, and Maleficent, these are kind of hard to puzzle out. If anything, this just kind of reduced their caricature cartoon features and with few exceptions, rendered most into a slightly different flavor of vanilla from their neighbor.
I'd be curious to know what prices are in your area. Peppers here are usually $.99/ea (and often buy one get one at that) and I get 5-6 servings out of each, just slicing off a piece to chop and leaving the rest of the whole pepper in the crisper. Cucumbers cost about the same and I buy about one or two a week.…
I've tried grilling and steaming asparagus, but never roasting it... I —might— give that a shot but I do not have much faith it will sway me.
We need more gardens. Grew up in a family that kept a couple gardens yearly, between my mother and my grandmother. Been grazing fresh vegetables in the summer almost my whole childhood, and I absolutely LOVE raw greens and vegetables. Every night have a salad of mixed greens, green, yellow and red bell pepper,…
Great. Not only do I need a glowing plant, now I need to build a neat LED toy to place next to it as well.
Earliest real memory that comes with a fair amount of recall is, sure enough, my third birthday or right around it. I got a workbench and tools made of plastic, probably Fisher Price or possibly Playskool. Either way, it was those ones where all the 'tools' were of cartoonish proportions, kind of flimsy and hollow and…
But then someone would mix their Batman trivia and Venture Bros. trivia and totally blow it in Final Jeopardy.
A mere 100,000 users, even for 1930's, feels like an enormous underestimation.
Which would be why I added my admonition re: my inability to read.
