True. However, if I had to guess focal length, the landscape shots were probably in the 20mm range, and the one of the magpie looks to me like it was shot around 200mm to maybe 250mm. I could be way off, but that’s what it looks like to me.

Heh. I’m using a 13 year old first generation Canon EOS Rebel (serious piece of crap by today’s standards). But it was given to me, so I couldn’t say no. In fact, its glaring lack of features has forced me to become a better photographer - I have to work twice as hard to get the shot I want, and I think that pays…

Oh my god thanks for quoting that you completely changed my worldview, politics, self-awareness, and spirituality in only four lines! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

“Where are you?” sounds too aggressive

“Where are you?” sounds too aggressive

Yeah, I’ve noticed this. And it isn’t just dieting - it’s also in their speech patterns. Millennials especially can barely talk without hyperbolizing everything. “LIKE, EVERYTHING IS LIKE, AWESOME! AND LIKE, AMAZING! LIKE, IT’S SO AMAZING! AND, LIKE, AWESOME! OMG LOL!!! I KNOW, RIGHT????!!!!”

Exactly! Want to know how pathetic it is? I was walking the dog through the park last Sunday, and glanced over at the playground area. The kids were all playing on the equipment, and probably 2/3 of the parents on the side of the play area had their phones out, looking down at them and flipping the screens with their…

THIS. A nice, easy swing goes a long way, so my dad says. It’s true.

* xeriscape

Same situation here. I just built my home and the landscaping cost for xeriscape was DOUBLE what it was for a traditional lawn with a sprinkler system and all that, so I told them to put the minimum amount of grass on there, and I ended up with about 300 square feet of grass, the rest is all rocks. So I sold the…

Oh hell yeah

Just built a home in northern CO. I wanted to xeriscape, but the cost was astronomically higher than if I put in a lawn. So I looked up what the tipping point was between xeriscape and not xeriscape, and went with the smallest possible size of lawn allowable, and did NOT put in a sprinkler system. Sold my gas-powered…

Dear god, I haven’t read anything in years where with each subsequent comment/suggestion, I think “YES!” for 100% of the article. I think I found my soulmate, and his name is Nick Douglas. Nice work, bro. I agree with everything you said. Wow.

I was also married to someone who made fun of the things I like. I asked her repeatedly not to go there, pointing out that I don’t do that with her stuff. Didn’t matter; she persisted. I’m remarried now (we met via eharmony, and both posted pics of ourselves that were fair to real life), and all I had to say early on…

I have mine on the same electrical circuit as the light, so whenever anyone is in there with the light on, the fan is on too. There’s really nothing a person does in a bathroom that shouldn’t be ventilated, save maybe urination or masturbation.

I spent significant time in Brazil when I was a youth, and most of the middle class to upper end homes had a bidet. I loved them. No more worries of smearing a fresh dingleberry while wiping. I wish the US had more of them.

I always put down that I’m Nigerian Eskimo Pictish just to drive some bureaucrat somewhere up the wall. No joke.

Hell yeah. Part of me wishes I still had that lovable Piece of Shit. It was the ugly champagne color, CE edition (or as I lovingly called it - the “Cheap Edition”). I was hoping and praying it would conk out on me so I had an excuse to get something else, but it never got there. It just kept on going and going and…

To hell with mp3s - I’ve always hated them.

“Where do you see yourself in five years?”