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Pretty much. I had a business card (although I'm not a pro) when I was working on this project that had my contact info and the web site where I was posting the pictures. I had a little spiel about it that I'd blurt out. Almost everyone I ever asked said yes. A couple were kind of begrudging but they let me shoot any way.
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@petebrown Was it Plinky? I never heard of it until yesterday and suddenly everyone was linking to it. I didn't install it either - too expensive and no functionality I don't already have in Raindrop.io
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@aa I see from Scribbles that this is the last Monday you'll have to put up with this nightmare. That should make your future Monday morning gratitude lists easy to compose for a while.
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@davemark Back in the Napster days I managed to compile the Rolling Stone top 500 albums of all time, spending way too much time in iTunes meticulously editing metadata. I feel totally guilty about that now as a more mature and responsible adult, but damn it was fun.
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@petebrown @JohnPhilpin Back when Apple was a true enterprise company, making Xserve rack mounted servers and releasing its own serverOS yearly, I had many an Apple engineer tell me that the company was done fixing the current version so that it could concentrate on the next release. We were basically told to live with the bugs until we could pay to upgrade.
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@davew Me too. I use the hell out of archive.ph to get around that mess. There is also a browser extension.
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@DaveyCraney @pratik If you really want to get into the weeds with this, download an app called AppRaven. It's an app for reviewing and rating apps, pretty meta. The developer will import your history into the app and you'll get all kinds of info on the stuff you've downloaded including apps that are no longer in the store.
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@pratik I wish I had a way to tell how many iOS apps I've deleted within five minutes of downloading them. I'm sure there are hundreds of them. It doesn't take me long to determine if something is not for me. My first free apps were much like yours and I still have five out of the first six - Wikipanion AP Mobile - Breaking Local, National & Global News GoodReader for iPhone Pandora: Music & Podcasts aSleep (a white noise app) Facebook
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@jean Last week I posted a question " for people with coffee in their bio" and got accused of calling people out! LOL
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@manton I think Noam Chomsky has done some pretty good work over the years demonstrating a pro-Israel slant to the NYT dating all the way back to the 70s. I'm a Times subscriber (it's my most expensive subscription) but I think they are definitely in need of self-examination on their coverage of the war.
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@wfm Hiking the Camino too?
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@DaveyCraney I get good YouTube content related to Obsidian from Nicole van der Hoeven and the channel called FromSergio. Others, like Danny Hester are as you describe.
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@dhester I can hear the game spitting out tickets for the kids to redeem at the counter for candy and cheap prizes.
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@odd Thank you. I owe heavily to Brandon Stanton and his Humans of New York series. He was my role model.
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@Christopher Shining such a light on such a dark industry. What a meaningful photo.
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@jedda I'm going to read that to Wonder Woman in the morning for some serious brownie points!
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@CarolineAnn The policy wonks may have an intellectual connection to sci-fi at a high level, but the guys from the barracks (this from a former barracks guy) grew up on everything from Starship Troopers to Star Wars and as the actual boots on the ground identify with them. I'm not even touching video games and the huge influence they have. Generation Kill, the HBO series about the 2003 push into Iraq does a good job touching on that.
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@johnchandler I read Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox years ago when I was deep in addiction and seriously anti-religious and found it superbly meaningful. I never did "get" religion but I eventually achieved long-term sobriety and I appreciate those few chapters from Matthew more than any other scripture.
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@JohnBrady I've been in and around the amateur endurance athlete community for 15 years and have seen some weird quasi-religious devotion to Paleo. I think it all started with a cycling coach who was 100% unqualified to give nutritional advice.
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@jedda Thank you. I don't know how long I can keep up this pace but for now it isn't a strain.
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@dhester I'm not positive, but I believe that is called a star-gazer lily.
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@alexink It sounds a lot like the way Lonesome Dove was written, a novel that's high on my top 10 list.
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@jedda Thank you! I was very much influenced by the Humans of New York project. I have the book and I've watched documentaries on Brandon Stanton and studied his method of approaching people. I've rarely been turned down and it's a lot easier on my nerves than conventional street photography.
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@samjc Thank you. It was a fun little project. I very rarely had anyone decline to be photographed. It was much less nerve-wracking than taking surreptitious photos.
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@canion Friday's make good mental health days π