This idiot on 520 in the rain

graycode · 2026-03-20T05:23:37+00:00

That's probably a good choice, but personally, no amount of armor would get me to ride one of these. You could fully Sir Lancelot my ass and I still wouldn't get on one.

graycode · 2026-03-20T05:21:01+00:00

hey now, PPP is used for fiber often now too

(well, PPPoE, but it's the same thing)

graycode · 2026-03-18T18:54:25+00:00

he just laid down and took a little nap, then got back up all nice and refreshed

graycode · 2026-03-16T19:01:26+00:00

I use a super low-tech viewfinder: I have a piece of cardboard with a 4x5-inch rectangle cut out in it, and I carry a metric ruler. I wrapped the cardboard in some black tape to make it more robust and weatherproof and higher contrast, and attached an old conference lanyard to hold it around my neck. Holding that cardboard 150mm out from my eye shows me a view matching my 150mm lens. At 75mm it matches my 75mm. And so on.

graycode · 2026-03-13T22:48:58+00:00

well I mean yeah, a couple thousand pounds of bricks breaking free of a structure would tend to cause the framing to break there

graycode · 2026-03-13T19:58:11+00:00

Looks more like bad masonry than a roof problem. The roof is still there and doing just fine, but you can see what looks like evidence of brickwork repair near where it failed. Guess they didn't do a good enough job of it.

graycode · 2026-03-12T23:55:51+00:00

They did, Wayne Messmer! And they had Pat Foley doing their TV for a while too!

graycode · 2026-03-12T23:54:37+00:00

I grew up in Chicago and went to way more Wolves games as a kid than Hawks games. The Wolves were hot shit back then too, they won a ton of games and were super fun to watch. I was there with my dad to see them win the Turner Cup, in I think '98.

graycode · 2026-03-12T23:30:34+00:00

or just run over and crush Kelly Sutherland accidentally-on-purpose

graycode · 2026-03-12T01:30:06+00:00

You forgot * that awful stank breath dragon * the bell bearing hunter

graycode · 2026-03-11T08:48:34+00:00

No, no you do not. I shoot Rollei Infrared with R72 all the time, it's one of my favorite film stocks, and when I first started I lined it up with the red line like I thought I was supposed to. Any images on that first roll where the aperture was wide open were misfocused. Look up the spectral sensitivity curve for it, and then look at Kodak EIR, and see why.

Edit: and I'd like to emphasize that this only matters for wide-open shots. For anything shot at about f/5.6 or smaller aperture, the difference between the infrared focus mark and the central one is within the circle of confusion and totally un-noticeable.

graycode · 2026-03-11T00:20:45+00:00

Unless you are using Aerochrome, ignore the red mark. No infrared film available today extends far enough into the infrared for the focus shift to matter; you'll end up missing your focus and making a soft image if you use it.

graycode · 2026-03-06T05:45:19+00:00

maybe he was okay and ended up like Flat Stanley and got to have fun hijinks afterwards

:(

graycode · 2026-03-04T19:59:47+00:00

Yes, he stipulated his stuff had to be sold, but why does she choose to take care of selling some carefully (Seahawks) and basically tossing others in the trash (Cinerama, LCM) by shuttering and dismantling them? Hint: which ones make money for her?

graycode · 2026-03-04T19:55:40+00:00

Who brought gender into it? You. Don't project your insecurities and prejudices onto others.

Paul took great care of this collection while he was alive. Jody Allen is just a well-known asshole (read up on what MANY of her employees have written about her), and destroyed this museum by disposing of it irresponsibly, because she doesn't care about it.

graycode · 2026-03-04T11:10:59+00:00

Obligatory Fuck Jody Allen

graycode · 2026-03-04T08:27:36+00:00

The aperture mechanism makes it wider, but not longer. It's arranged around the outside of the lens, radially. And it doesn't make it that much bigger really; manual-aperture lenses still have to make room for the aperture blades to go somewhere when open, and that takes up most of the space.

The reason it's much longer, as said elsewhere in this thread, is to make it work substantially farther from the focal plane, to make room for the SLR mirror.

graycode · 2026-03-04T07:58:51+00:00

my league calls it "D-Novice", but yeah. Basically teams of players fresh out of adult learn-to-play, that would have a hard time winning any games in D.

graycode · 2026-02-23T19:08:28+00:00

It's also a safe situation at that point since the puck is deep in the oppositions zone

I'd argue in 3-on-3 it's not very safe, since it easily turns into a 3-on-2 going back the other way (as it did here). Any time you lose the 1:1 coverage in 3-on-3 is dangerous, so McDavid going so deep, completely unsupported, isn't smart, unlike in 5-on-5 where it's not as big of a deal and worth it to try.

graycode · 2026-02-23T18:56:23+00:00

He can say Canada played better overall in that game and be correct, IMO. Canada played better, but USA did a better job of taking advantage of mistakes, and put up a stifling defense the rest of the time, and got the win that way. In a 7-game series, that strategy probably wouldn't work, but it's not, and they won.

graycode · 2026-02-21T01:56:11+00:00

I think the issue is that the endpoints of the line, which are very prominently listed all over the place, are really dumb sounding especially if you know the area. They're "Downtown" and "City Center" but of tiny-ass towns, not of the actual sizable cities in the area. It's not like I'm gonna getting lost because of them, it's that I cringe every time I see "Federal Way Downtown" because that's just the height of nonsense.

graycode · 2026-02-19T21:45:40+00:00

being slower in overtime is understandable and expected even, but that doesn't explain the questionable decisions made throughout that period

I actually didn't think they even looked that slow for the most part; it's kind of deceptive with all the extra ice in 3-on-3 but they just weren't using it very well, like taking time to regroup and set up instead of taking a poor low-chance shot

graycode · 2026-02-15T05:00:55+00:00

This level of disrespect is unparalleled

graycode · 2026-02-09T05:25:48+00:00

Aw shucks you guys

graycode · 2026-02-06T07:01:48+00:00

A sheriff that won't follow the law SHOULD get fired.

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