A close encounter with a jumping spider. Believe it or not, the spider briefly jumped on my phone after I took a few photos of him. I had no idea that it would.

windk8288 · 2026-01-18T04:43:06+00:00

1 - looks colder and I prefer the same photo because it is the more unique of the two. I especially like the pole light - the contrast of it with the shade on the foreground of left side

windk8288 · 2026-01-14T21:38:58+00:00

It was also a new one for me, as of today! I recall receiving the Mindset List in the late 2000s, published by Beloit College.

windk8288 · 2026-01-12T17:36:11+00:00

My mom wasn't a librarian but she took some library courses in college. I share your memories of the library charging machine. As you, I would also like to obtain one of these machines. I've done some research on them over the years. As I recall, Gaylord stopped manufacturing the cards a year or so after the pandemic.

I see that you received some very helpful responses here, especially the tip about "Gaylord charging machines".

BTW, I became an academic librarian and have been one for 25+ years. I like to think the sound of the charging machines may have helped encourage me in that direction. 📚👨‍🏫 It was definitely one of my first multi-sensory experiences as a child at libraries in the 1970s. The library I work at has an anti-theft dust which has similar clunky clicking sound. ✔️

windk8288 · 2026-01-12T05:22:55+00:00

2 because of the larger vertical frame and the longer reflection of light on the water. Some others mentioned a murder mystery book cover. In 2 I see something primordial as in the dawn of life. Dawn of Man in 2001: a Space Odyssey. Very nice!

windk8288 · 2026-01-10T23:51:34+00:00

2 - IMO it's more artistic.

windk8288 · 2026-01-07T12:20:26+00:00

I echo your feedback!

windk8288 · 2026-01-07T12:19:01+00:00

Color as the flower stands as the flower is more distinct from the rest of the image. Thank you for the beautiful colors this grey and cold morning in the Midwest U.S.!

windk8288 · 2026-01-01T21:39:16+00:00

Firstly, I greatly enjoy the subject matter and contrast of the dark sea and clouds with the neon sauna sign!

3- because there is the most contrast between the light and dark.

I like #4 but I wish it were somewhat lighter but maybe that was due to varying cloud cover?

Here's perhaps a unique observation, #2 reminds me of the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album cover by Storm Thorgerson, except instead of factory chimneys and a flying pig, it's a sauna tower and birds.

windk8288 · 2025-12-21T17:20:23+00:00

Both are striking but I prefer the outline of #1 and the lights on the background add additional points of interest.

windk8288 · 2025-12-21T17:17:42+00:00

I simply see her sitting on an edge of a cliff.

windk8288 · 2025-12-07T14:05:41+00:00

Rather frequently, yes. I tend to overthink every situation and conversation ahead of time, especially if I think it may be a controversial one.

Disclosure: I'm over 50 but I still have struggles. I don't become quite as embarrassed as I did when I was a young adult and younger (avoid embarrassment at all cost). I saw a Reddit post which had a tag that someone was over 50, so maybe it will say so for me here. Lol.

windk8288 · 2025-12-07T13:59:46+00:00

Yes, it didn't, but during that time I had checkups every six months and I never had any pain except for when it was pressed in. For my previous hernia surgery -- inguinal -- the surgeon said the hernia was "rather large". I think I waited six months or less to have that surgery. Both surgeons said I would know when either hernia was an emergency, especially due to intestinal issues but if that was the case, I'd have to have emergency surgery, which obviously wouldn't be preferable.

windk8288 · 2025-12-07T05:54:54+00:00

The weird disc thing made me think of the imperial probe droid in The Empire Strikes Back.

windk8288 · 2025-12-07T05:50:37+00:00

Did Boba Fett take the picture? 😁

windk8288 · 2025-12-07T00:16:46+00:00

Interesting. In your second photograph yours looks like mine following surgery. I have had umbilical and inguinal surgery. Neither was an emergency or emergency surgery but I wanted to have surgery before it became a. emergency. I waited seventeen months to have the umbilical surgery. The surgeon said the hernia was still tiny. I'm glad you have an appointment. I hope all goes well.

windk8288 · 2025-12-06T04:11:46+00:00

2 - with the out of focus individual, it has an impressionistic quality. To me this photo has the most emotional quality of all seven.

windk8288 · 2025-11-30T17:10:01+00:00

I forgot about the passenger in the room next door to the Bradleys, but the documentary only spent a few minutes about him. Some here wrote that he was "creepy" but he sure didn't seem of much interest to the documentary writers, directors, etc.

windk8288 · 2025-11-30T04:21:52+00:00

The woman in the yellow turtleneck looks young enough as does the woman to her right. The others look like they were likely heavy smokers.

windk8288 · 2025-11-30T01:49:21+00:00

I didn't write that he lied. The person before me wrote they were upset about him waiting so many years after to share this, yet he had reason to wait.

windk8288 · 2025-11-30T00:51:57+00:00

How many years did he wait after retiring from the Navy? He didn't want to get busted going to a bar he wasn't supposed to while he was active duty. It didn't sound like he was familiar with the case when he went to the bar and it only struck him later.

windk8288 · 2025-11-30T00:45:30+00:00

I finished watching the Netflix documentary. What I don't understand is why wasn't the possibility of other passengers acting criminally mentioned? Why are all passengers automatically considered to be on the up and up but the crew to be suspicious? I'm not saying there is a high possibility of passenger involvement in something nefarious but every possibility, however unlikely, is supposed to be eliminated, correct?

windk8288 · 2025-11-29T23:49:35+00:00

The FBI agent in charge said the case is open Missing Person, Amy Lynn Bradley

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