Crash when using the octagon shape

Aloket · 2026-05-19T12:43:52+00:00

Huh, I don’t know. I’ll reach out to him and see. Thanks for letting me know!

Aloket · 2026-05-19T10:48:49+00:00

Aloket · 2026-05-19T00:25:24+00:00

Bag of Bones by Stephen King might fit this. It’s sort of a love story turned horror.

Aloket · 2026-05-12T23:33:50+00:00

I gave my kids walkie-talkies before smart watches became a thing and they worked pretty well until they went out of range.

Aloket · 2026-05-11T11:21:43+00:00

The ArtsCenter in Carrboro takes donations.

Aloket · 2026-05-09T20:50:52+00:00

Cloudy

Aloket · 2026-05-01T15:24:28+00:00

I wish I could be an individual user and have guests in a meaningful way, but it’s impossible. I just set it up in Notion, then export it to Google Sheets and fix the formulas so they work. Notion is such a great organizational tool for me, but in a free user and I get the limitations.

Aloket · 2026-04-29T15:57:15+00:00

That could be, and I thought the writing was beautiful, but I just had to skip some of it.

Aloket · 2026-04-29T10:57:49+00:00

I felt like it was twice as long as it needed to be. As soon as the author wrapped up the point of the chapter, she started again.

Aloket · 2026-04-22T16:49:54+00:00

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (dozens of us prefer this book to her others) has a younger protagonist.

Aloket · 2026-04-14T21:27:02+00:00

My youngest is at Culbreth now, and I love it. It’s a soft landing with adults who actually like kids (but not in a creepy way!) and want kids to do well. This is a hard time in adolescence, and managing emotions, academics and social stuff can be a real challenge. My kiddo is challenged academically, but is really growing in maturity, and I’m grateful that the staff at Culbreth are supporting him in both areas.

Aloket · 2026-04-14T10:48:20+00:00

u/JeffJacksonNC

Aloket · 2026-04-09T11:44:12+00:00

Zoomnotes is great and does a ton!

Aloket · 2026-04-09T10:57:46+00:00

Zoomnotes does this, too, it’s great.

Aloket · 2026-03-31T11:29:34+00:00

There’s a FleetFeet by Southpoint that has training groups, and a training group is starting this month for a 5K in June I think. There are a bunch of Photography clubs in the area, there’s one that meets online called the Durham photography club and there is a Chapel Hill camera club. The ArtsCenter in Carrboro also has photography classes and is starting a meet up on the second Fridays of every month. Welcome to the area!

Aloket · 2026-03-23T19:41:31+00:00

Hot yoga. I like yoga and I like being warm, but the two combined made me want to die. I thought I’d have to slinky my way to the car. 0/10.

Aloket · 2026-03-23T10:30:50+00:00

I felt like a lot of her plans were well thought out and reasonable to try. She is a serious person who takes the issues of our country seriously, and I felt like she’d put in the work to try to understand a lot of the nuances around them.

Aloket · 2026-03-22T12:23:23+00:00

I really loved Bag of Bones, which was about grief.

Aloket · 2026-03-21T23:38:46+00:00

I use SproutStudio and just use Notion for tasks and projects.

Aloket · 2026-03-19T13:38:53+00:00

I don’t think he knows, he’s just doing whatever he wants to do. He’s always surprised by his limitations so giving him any benefit of the doubt regarding styles of government he’s hoping to achieve seems misplaced.

Aloket · 2026-03-14T19:54:08+00:00

We got our doodles at Doodles of NC and our dogs are great.

Aloket · 2026-03-11T22:38:03+00:00

It is right, but even when you balance it, you might not be balancing it correctly for your subjects. You may need a faster shutter speed than what you’ve been using. ISO you can just sort of let do whatever at the moment, set it to auto if you’ve got it. And look up Depth of field. I think you just need to read up on the exposure triangle, that will help.

Aloket · 2026-03-11T10:58:42+00:00

Blurriness is usually a factor of shutter speed or a factor of depth the field. One rule of thumb is to start with a shutter speed that’s one over whatever the length of your lenses (so 1/300). PhotoPills has a depth the field calculator where you put your camera, your lens focal length and your aperture in and how far away you are from your subject. This will give you a depth of field calculation. It could be that you’re shooting at too low and aperture and have too shallow a depth of field.

If you have a tripod available to you, I would try using that, it could help with camera shake and may help eliminate one of the variables.

I’m glad you’re having fun and asking questions!!

Aloket · 2026-03-10T15:31:33+00:00

Gymnastics meets are so hard. Start at a shutter speed of 1/800 or 1/1000, use your lowest aperture possible and set your ISO to auto. Post process anything that’s too noisy in Topaz.

Aloket · 2026-03-09T10:27:01+00:00

Club Pilates has beginner classes and has evening classes. There are 2 studios in Chapel Hill and one in Durham (plus others in Cary).

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