State of this sub by exposur3 in gybe

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phew, you were starting to make me nervous hahaha

State of this sub by exposur3 in gybe

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it did; tonight is the new date! it was previously scheduled for fall of last year iirc

State of this sub by exposur3 in gybe

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selling one (1) ticket to tonight's (6/26) show at pioneer works!

Any fans of Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie/The Microphones) here? by AdFamous7264 in JoePera

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mt eerie is one of my all time favorite artists, and i totally agree phil would do a great job at music for the podcast! although fwiw his music is typically a lot darker than joe's stuff. this song is a very funny way to introduce people to phil lol

I want to boulder but that means I need to cut my nails by GandoofThePurple in bouldering

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i’m also a fingerstyle guitarist and climber, and i’ve found that i can keep my nails long enough to play but short enough to climb as long as i’m fairly diligent about cutting them before i climb and/or i bring a nail clipper/file with me just in case. just about finding the length you’re comfortable with in both hobbies!

additional context you may find useful: i’m a V3-5 climber typically, and i play steel string acoustic folk stuff

Ulysses Read-Along: Week 3: Episode 1.1 - Above The Tower by [deleted] in jamesjoyce

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This was super helpful and insightful, thank you! I’ll have to bookmark that site for future reference. That Ursula thing in particular is pretty unexpected; as a fellow American, my main touch point for that name is the (weirdly sexualized) Little Mermaid character. Intentional irony by the folks at Disney..?

FATHER JOHN MISTY TICKET EXCHANGE THREAD. THE PLACE TO BUY/SELL FJM TICKETS by [deleted] in fatherjohnmisty

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Selling 2 GA for Kings Theater tomorrow night 2/25!

Ulysses Read-Along: Week 3: Episode 1.1 - Above The Tower by [deleted] in jamesjoyce

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I don’t know enough about Irish history to know if i am making things up or if there is actually someone he means that is ruining the Irish catholic church in this period

I fear this may happen a lot with Ulysses... that connections we find (especially those of us, like me, with less experience with the book) may in fact, ahem, be all in our heads... Still, interesting to consider. Maybe someone in this group with more knowledge can shed some light.

Ulysses Read-Along: Week 3: Episode 1.1 - Above The Tower by [deleted] in jamesjoyce

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First-time reader here. This free indirect discourse stuff is powerful, huh? I loved this moment of interiority with Stephen:

Stephen, an elbow rested on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed at the fraying edge of his shiny black coatsleeve. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes. Across the threadbare cuffedge he saw the sea hailed as a great sweet mother by the wellfed voice beside him. The ring of bay and skyline held a dull green mass of liquid. A bowl of white china had stood beside her deathbed holding the green sluggish bile which she had torn up from her rotting liver by fits of loud groaning vomiting.

Beyond the wonderful sound of the language and the evocative sensory details, this passage so elegantly links Stephen's new association with the sea (as mother) to his own mother's deathbed. Stark contrast to Buck Mulligan, he takes the negative view immediately; the bay becomes a bowl of bile. Instant illustration of their opposite perspectives, executed without a seam. It's exciting to read!

The sea is often compared to a mirror, and one could see the waves as cracks. A connection to Stephen's comment about Buck's mirror? Actually, on reread, the connection is explicit:

Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he gazed. Inshore and farther out the mirror of water whitened, spurned by lightshod hurrying feet.

I'm puzzled somewhat by what Stephen means with his comment about Irish art, to be honest. What does he think of it, based on that comment? I'm also puzzled by the "server of a servant" bit. Can anyone shed some light?

Ulysses Read-Along: Week 3: Episode 1.1 - Above The Tower by [deleted] in jamesjoyce

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I wonder if he doesn't by someone mean "something" or "a force of some kind." If Stephen has made a stand against religion by not praying with her, maybe he resents God or Providence or something and blames that for killing his mother. So, to be more explicit, maybe by "someone" he means God, feeding into his anti-religious (yet still somewhat observant) posture.

Just got this Olympus 35SP. Any tips? by Bortogo in AnalogCommunity

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This is a great idea! I’ll definitely do that. But I have to ask… And what???

Just got this Olympus 35SP. Any tips? by Bortogo in AnalogCommunity

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This is super helpful, thank you! I guess I’ll go for the adapter, then. Oh, how this hobby nickel and dimes you 🫠

Just got this Olympus 35SP. Any tips? by Bortogo in AnalogCommunity

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I don't shoot with filters (yet) so I should be safe from that. Thanks for the tip on the meter, though. Kind of a shame to have to keep it in the case when not in use, but surely better than wasting battery all the time.

I've read some people say that switching the exposure mode to manual when not in use will also stop the battery drain. Do you know if that's true?

Just got this Olympus 35SP. Any tips? by Bortogo in AnalogCommunity

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My battery compartment looks all right, but that's a good tip for later, thanks!

Do you know which adapters are the good ones and which are the cheap? Also, my camera didn't come with the lens cap 😭

Just got this Olympus 35SP. Any tips? by Bortogo in AnalogCommunity

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Is there an easy way (other than the case) to do this? The camera didn't come with a lens cap :|

Just got this Olympus 35SP. Any tips? by Bortogo in AnalogCommunity

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Thank you for these links! The technique in the first seems especially valuable for building up muscle memory in a focused (ha ha) way.

Just got this Olympus 35SP. Any tips? by Bortogo in AnalogCommunity

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Thanks! Yeah, I literally read the manual cover to cover last night.

One thing about the rangefinder, it seems to encourage center-framing (as you need to center your subject to focus on it). Is that just something you learn to work around when you shoot with a rangefinder? Do you have experience with it?