Oh. Look. It's a story about my ex-wife.

@spamfeed: There's a place for both approaches. The biggest error being made here - just as often by both sides - is the assumption that one or the other method is inherently superior. There's plenty of room to go at almost any subject either way, and there are techniques along both paths to improve images in the face…

@battra92: You don't *need* a Polaroid or a Holga. If you think you do, that just makes you look like a hipster poser. Pictures are about the result, not the hardware. If the result is pleasing, the path would only be dismissed by an elitist. Note that I *didn't* say that having and using a Holga or a Polaroid is a…

@streeeeetch: I was pretty pleased with it; I was guessing that since the scanner is designed to do slides, that it would deal decently with the different focal planes of the IC, and that seems to be substantiated by the result. I also took some shots with a cheap USB microscope, as you see, but the results aren't…

Here, 68000 MPU scanned with an EPSON 4800

@ithius: Don't worry. This practice is recommended by people with absolutely no sex life, who apparently want more company. There is no more certain way to curtail amorous adventures than not being scrupulously clean. If you want an active sex life - that is, one or more encounters with a great partner per day -…

@rbuchberger: hmmm.

The question I have to answer is, how many monitors will die during restart of their illuminator power supplies? How many PC power supplies will die (and perhaps take something else with them) when they power up and down? How much damage does thermal shock do to various components?

@Mooncow27: That'd be worth becoming a convict for. :)

Putting a fan in the sewer vent stack is EXTREMELY dangerous. The gasses in that stack are often/usually hugely flammable; and once you open the stack to the house, all it takes to push the gasses out the new opening in the house is a little bit of wind. Add an ignition spark from the fan starting or stopping, a mix…

"Until now this could only be done by laborious frame-by-frame retouching."

I live smack dab in the middle of some of the best dark skies in the world. And a hobby of mine is astrophotography. It works out quite well. I've got this thing going on where I see just what I can do with a DSLR (a Canon 50D right now) and a fixed tripod. This is an example, it is comet McNaught C/2009 R1, exposing…

@fyngyrz: That's fanboi nonsense. I look at a native app; the fonts are beautiful. I look at OpenOffice; the fonts look like trash. This is clearly a design issue, not a user issue or an OS issue. When someone hands me a program and tells me it is for editing text, I expect it to handle the job well. Telling me that…

Get a metal folding dinner tray, with legs, for the bathroom. Put your laptop, ipad, book, whatever, on it. As a bonus, the metal tray will help dissipate heat from the laptop, and extend its life.

@ithrewitontheground:

> in an era where you can do 90 percent of your work through a browser window

Don't worry, sonny... the car industry doesn't "get" anyone; they're just a shill for the oil industry. That's why your vehicles are still gasoline powered. You want power? A conservatively designed electric vehicle can easily put 800 hp to the ground with four 200 hp motors - and just about tear your head off.…

Look, how is this different from removing tattoos, like Angelina Jolie's? Or smoothing out the complexion of a centerfold? Movies are, believe it or not, all fakery. That's the point. The story is a lie. The characters are a lie. The clothing is a lie. The guns, the explosions, the robots, the spacecraft, the…

@pixelsnader: I never use a fisheye. 50 years of photography, and I've never found a use for intentionally distorted views. If I want a panoramic view, I shoot more than once. If I want great depth of field, I tighten down the aperture. If I want lots of light *and* great depth of field, I open the aperture, shoot…

Trades resolution for many focal lengths. Do you want to do that? No. Ok, next?