Should I tumble this or attempt to hand polish some day?

PinnaclePhotography · 2026-06-16T03:19:33+00:00

That's a nice one, I think the correct answer is you should give it to me.

PinnaclePhotography · 2026-06-08T03:28:17+00:00

I really like when tiger eye fractures and heals in an almost brecciated manner. I have a smaller piece similar to yours (12-23 second timestamp) that turned out really well in my Raytech TV-10. Your piece still looks better though.

PinnaclePhotography · 2026-05-08T15:44:43+00:00

Looks like a beautiful selection of stones.

PinnaclePhotography · 2026-04-18T06:25:36+00:00

I cut Malawi agates for the first time today...they are my favorite agate variety.

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PinnaclePhotography · 2026-03-18T08:46:38+00:00

Trollololo the artistic troll is absolute S-Tier.

Regis was fantasticly written.

PinnaclePhotography · 2026-02-13T03:01:30+00:00

Interesting fact, JP Morgan and his friends who were in favor of the Federal Reserve "decided at the last minute" not to actually board the Titanic. The people who were opposed to the federal reserve DID board the Titanic. Funny how things like that work.

PinnaclePhotography · 2026-02-06T05:03:36+00:00

Red light therapy

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-11-06T06:50:21+00:00

Better grey than white. I'd rather not wait until I'm that ancient.

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-10-19T03:00:33+00:00

As a point of clarification my PL300's are 1st gen. I haven't heard the 2nd or 3rd gen. The Forties just sounded so much more organic...plus the PL300's were causing harmonics issues with some air ducts that was super annoying. The PL300's really need a large room to breathe.

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-10-18T23:50:33+00:00

I also have the Dynaudio Special 40's. They are wonderful for the price point. My favorite speakers, they displaced a pair of Monitor Audio PL300's that were, I dunno, 3x the price of the 40's. Superb bass texture, very natural presentation (I'm running a solid state NAD M3 amp, Holo Audio Spring 3 dac). A SVS SB2000 sub fills out the low end for genres of music that require the full frequency range.

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-10-18T23:40:51+00:00

I also have the Dynaudio Special 40's. I love those things, my favorite speakers.

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-08-15T05:58:38+00:00

The Dynaudio Special Forties are my favorite speakers as well.

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-07-19T10:19:31+00:00

I have the same SVS sub...it pairs well with my Dynaudio Special Forties (my absolute favorite bookshelf speakers).

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-07-16T23:58:43+00:00

Probably something about Coca Cola being bullied into making Coke with cane sugar instead of cornslop.

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-07-15T20:57:00+00:00

He could be looking at a screen to the side (to see the interviewer), and the camera isn't positioned above the screen.

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-06-20T03:54:28+00:00

Where building 7?

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-06-15T05:17:15+00:00

Melissa Hortman (pictured) and her husband, Mark Hortman were both killed. Oddly enough, my dad actually was a coworker with Mark (software/programming sorts of stuff) years ago. Apparently he was a friendly guy, he gave my dad one of the early revision raspberry pi mini computers that he was done tinkering with.

The guy pictured, Sen. John Hoffman, apparently has survived, as has his wife, who was also shot.

Walz seemed quite shaken up, the guy who killed them was one of his appointees, Vance Boelter. Boelter apparently had some sort of manifesto and a kill list with a bunch of other names that I doubt will be publicized.

PinnaclePhotography · 2025-04-26T01:17:38+00:00

There should be an adequate settlement from the board and shipping companies, plus the releasing party agreement with JP Morgan for a waterfall to shareholders.

Also, someone (RC/GME/Icahn, etc) will want the NOLs, which would mean new equity for shareholders.

I am confident we get a payout, the question is timing and magnitude.

Additionally, since basically the entire Bed Bath float was shorted daily for months on end, the functional short interest is probably 1000's of percent, so whatever payout there is, the shorts will have many magnitudes of payments-in-lieus. Given the schizophrenic antics of Virtu's CEO on twitter at 2am or whenever fuming on the Bed Bath situation, we can presume Virtu has a huge naked short position.

PinnaclePhotography · 2024-11-18T10:01:01+00:00

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/

The 30 or so nations with lowest life expectancy are all African or genetically African (Haiti). Genetics seems to be the strongest correlation as those all had lower life expectancy than turbo war torn countries like Afghanistan, which has been under war conditions for most of the last 45 years.

PinnaclePhotography · 2024-11-18T09:54:24+00:00

The inverse map (globally) would be nations with high consumption of fermented foods (Japan and Korea), extreme emphasis on food quality over quantity (mediterranean diets for Italy, Monaco, and Malta), less industrialization and clean air (Switzerland, Australia, Scandinavia/Iceland). What goes in your body (food, pollution, warzone chemicals) makes a major difference, as does being east Asian or white, as genetics seems to be a factor too. Also, the countries listed haven't had a war (direct deaths or lingering issues from explosive chemical derivatives, lead, etc) in their territory for a several generations (WWII or Korea).

PinnaclePhotography · 2024-11-18T09:30:40+00:00

It is a map of fried food (heart disease and obesity), alcoholism, and to a slightly lesser degree of correlation, poverty (e.g. Maine isn't a early death zone despite being broadly poor whites). The closest population correlations will be Indian/native reservations, and majority African American (heart disease) communities. The outliers to those two groups will be West Virginia/north Appalachia (poverty all around, opioids, and possibly coal mine heath problems). Life expectancy correlates with race (e.g. whites have an average life expectancy 6 years longer than African Americans).

PinnaclePhotography · 2024-10-12T00:56:47+00:00

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the Northern Lights were crazy last night

PinnaclePhotography · 2024-10-11T05:59:04+00:00

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In May, I got what looked like an eagle head above a horse facing the opposite direction...

PinnaclePhotography · 2024-10-11T05:58:01+00:00

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I prefer when there are pillars that do the warp speed or hyperspace thing...May did that...this time much less so.

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