If you have an android phone/tablet, check out DOF. It gives you a clear visualization of your depth of field. It also takes diffraction into account - and can help you do focus stacking. Read the help file for a good understanding.

Yeah, there were words for ‘here by me’ and ‘there by you’ and there where neither of us is” plus “there that’s geographically far away”. Yonder matches up wit the last one. Not sure about hither and thither.

Speaking of words going extinct, some years ag0 my wife and I were in the Azores, visiting friends, and I was doing my usual “pick up some of the local language”. I was struck that Portuguese has a number of ‘position’ words, including one for ‘there’ meaning ‘geographically far’ - and that English (the ‘throw…

Tampering was happening. It’s called vote suppression.

The best words: “bigly”

I just hope I don’t get lynched somewhere along the way.

Absolutely. The tragedy is that they’ve fucked over a lot of people who did not vote for Drumph. Their being unhappy might be a silver linking, but I’m not happy...

I went through the order/checkout process, all the way to “place order”, and didn’t see a place to put any code, so no way to use “KINJA25". Any ideas?

I went through the order/checkout process, all the way to “place order”, and didn’t see a place to put any code, so…

These are for removing nuts from threaded fasteners. not really for budging screws. Maybe an impact driver? If the bit keeps coming out of the slot, put a dab of valve grinding compound on the bit.

Kroil is great stuff. It’s enough better than WD-40 that I don’t bother with the WD (to be fair WD-40 is not a penetrating oil but is designed to displace moisture).

If you’re thinking about the Lagostina Axia cookware. I have a couple of pieces and am pleased. If anything, I like it a bit better than my AllClad. OTOH, it totally beats me why anyone would put nonstick in a tri-ply (but AllClad does it as well).

If you’re thinking about the Lagostina Axia cookware. I have a couple of pieces and am pleased. If anything, I like…

There are two factors. First, there’s a lot of ice that isn’t currently floating in the ocean. Second, if you were to do this ice-melting-in-coffee experiment again, but with salt water in place of coffee, the water actually would rise. See this article in Skeptical Science.

I’m struck by the irony: the Senate Republicans did all they possibly could to make him an unsuccessful President, now he’s doing what he can to make Drumph a success (or at least less of a failure)

Boston area only, When I’m asked by out-of-towners where they can get good seafood, my answer is “anywhere around here”. LS is good, compared to that background. Hell, we’ve even got a couple of really good seafood places near me - and I’m in an exurb. Head to an area with a fishing fleet, like Cape Ann, and even fish…

I live in a small neighborhood that we laid out (and had built) ourselves. We actively did not want to be a through-way, the idea being to have a place that was safe for kids and dogs.

Legal Seafoods, here in the Boston area is actually pretty good (and we’re pretty spoiled/picky on seafood).

Read the Federalist Papers (Hamilton). The rationale for an Electoral College was to prevent demagogues from taking office. Doesn’t look to be working, does it?

They may not be racist - but they were willing to overlook racism. I feel towards these people the way I felt towards the deep South in the 50s and 60s

God help Mexico. Diaz was right - and least a wall means the US might stay the hell out.

From the numbers, it’s pretty clear who elected Trump: the Democratic voters who didn’t show.