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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
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    Morning. Gleaming sunrays giving the shinning to tower and treetop as if someone turned the brightness up after days of overcast :)

     

    lorikeets sunbathing ?

    They were fighting over pears before I guess the flock isn't called a pecking order for nothing. Not many pears left anyhow, greedy bords :)

     

    pears is how pear trees make babies  baby pear trees

    ...and pear cider and Kruskovac (a Croatian Liqueur made from pears)

    pear cider sounds interesting, and strong :)

    ...pear cider is usually around 5.5 - 6.5%. ABV, a bit heady not too strong.

    Kruskovac is around 40 proof.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    ps1borg said:

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    MistyMist said:

    27,709,664 views?!  this is what the internet wants  laugh  lol


     

    need some fun in the sun red bull cliff diving.

    wow she can really jump those hurdles :)

    ...crikey, what did the put in her Vegemite®?  I like the contrtast of the runner form China next to her who looks so determined.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Gleaming sunrays giving the shinning to tower and treetop as if someone turned the brightness up after days of overcast :)

     

    lorikeets sunbathing ?

    They were fighting over pears before I guess the flock isn't called a pecking order for nothing. Not many pears left anyhow, greedy bords :)

     

    pears is how pear trees make babies  baby pear trees

    ...and pear cider and Kruskovac (a Croatian Liqueur made from pears)

    pear cider sounds interesting, and strong :)

    atticanne said:
    McGyver said:
    MistyMist said:
    TroutFace said:
    kyoto kid said:
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    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:

    Heh, not reading all 122 messages, if anything is critical PM me.

    Phone interview at 2:00PM today, doesn't feel like a good fit but it's worth a shot.

    And, on the OMG OMG OMG front, the fellow I'vebeen doing some audio-for-video work with in the UK has just licensed 4 songs from me at $100 each! It's not a ton of money but is enoug to carry me on for several weeks before disaster finally befalls me!  PLUS, I can say I have now been paid for my music to be used to score animation to, so I qualify as a semi-pro!!!

    I'll be making os list of the videos and posting them here, 2 are already done.  There may be more in the works as well!

    OMG CASH MONEY FOR MY MUSIC!  laughsurprise Every little bit helps, I swear! My burn rate is low so this will bail my butt out.

    Bought 3 Powerball tickets, maybe I'll win $10 lolol!!

    Back to sending files tp the UK...

     

    hey gratz & very well done :)

    Thanks.. still in shock, totally unexpected.. will help keep body and soul together for a while.

    Didn't win Powerball! crying Just my luck, will have to work all my life.

    Bank run today, and second round interview tomorrow.. looking very positive.. here's hoping it all goes well! laugh

    ...yeah didn't hot the Megabucks either.

    Wish I could find a living wage job, everything I see here that deals with my background pays squat for wages a good portion barely above the state minimum which is certainly not enough to afford a place of my own.

    Good luck on the second round.

    Thanks for the well-wishes! laugh I feel pretty positive but I've been wrong before.  The headhunter is sure excited, anyway...

    I'll keep my fingers and what's left of my toes crossed for you, hopefully something will come along. smiley

    Rent in Austin is getting stupid.. try to find a furnished place within a decent commute is tough, it's actually cost-competitive to stay at an extended stay inn. indecision Oh well.. if I can get a perm job here I can move into an unfurnished place and rent a futon, a TV, and  a couch.  Probably be the most cost-effective approach. 

     

    taxes are so outrageous lot of people rent a room to help pay their taxes.

    I believe the word is insane... And that's Suffolk, forget Nassau county... My friend lives in Port Washington and his taxes are criminally high. 

    When me and my wife first bought our house we used to rent out the second floor (the house was set up as a Mother/Daughter arrangement)... We rented it to two nice young girls for two years until they had a falling out with each other and moved, after that we did it for three more years to two separate tenants who were okayish (one girl crashed her car through the chain link fence and hit a tree... Twice... No real learning curve with ice I guess)...(actually, I don't even know what the problem was because both times the driveway was clean and salted)... But when we got our last tenant that was it... Psycho-chic from hell... When we met her she seemed nice and normal (the real estate agent even claimed to have done a background check)... but after the first week it turned out she was an alcoholic and like to fight with random boyfriends she'd bring home, she would break doors and walls when she go drunk... I believe she may have even tried to stab a boyfriend, because apparently the cops who came one night told us they had been there the day before when I was out and they responded to a call about that...then after a few months she stopped paying rent and we had to file eviction papers... It took almost a year for the sheriff to set up an eviction date, but the day before they were to arrive she moved out leaving the place a wreck... She fell off the face of the world after that... we wanted to sue her for the damages, but apparently she was not using her real name and no one could locate her for what it was worth to find her... we also found out her car was stolen and the license plates were from a pickup truck near Albany...  I'd never, ever do that again, all it takes is one bad tenant to ruin everything.  

     

    I believe she is now in Austin.  Could be the woman I rescued from the streets in September and had to evict in December.  Finally got rid of her, her son, and dog yesterday.  

    *hugs*

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited January 2016

    Advertising and especially TV advertising is going through a huge upheaval/disruption, think many of the senior people realise ads are going to need to be personalized and possibly be consumed by people compensated to do so, but just how to go about that and where it waill all end up  is a bit of a contest right now. Altho there is some despair about Apple introducing adblockers to the IOS ecosystem.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,240
    ps1borg said:

    Advertising and especially TV advertising is going through a huge upheaval/disruption, think many of the senior people realise ads are going to need to be personalized and possibly be consumed by people compensated to do so, but just how to go about that and where it waill all end up  is a bit of a contest right now. Altho there is some despair about Apple introducing adblockers to the IOS ecosystem.

    I bet they won't block their own ads!

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited January 2016
    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Gleaming sunrays giving the shinning to tower and treetop as if someone turned the brightness up after days of overcast :)

     

    lorikeets sunbathing ?

    They were fighting over pears before I guess the flock isn't called a pecking order for nothing. Not many pears left anyhow, greedy bords :)

     

    pears is how pear trees make babies  baby pear trees

    ...and pear cider and Kruskovac (a Croatian Liqueur made from pears)

    pear cider sounds interesting, and strong :)

    ...pear cider is usually around 5.5 - 6.5%. ABV, a bit heady not too strong.

    Kruskovac is around 40 proof.

     

    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Gleaming sunrays giving the shinning to tower and treetop as if someone turned the brightness up after days of overcast :)

     

    lorikeets sunbathing ?

    They were fighting over pears before I guess the flock isn't called a pecking order for nothing. Not many pears left anyhow, greedy bords :)

     

    pears is how pear trees make babies  baby pear trees

    ...and pear cider and Kruskovac (a Croatian Liqueur made from pears)

    pear cider sounds interesting, and strong :)

    ...pear cider is usually around 5.5 - 6.5%. ABV, a bit heady not too strong.

    Kruskovac is around 40 proof.

    looking at our pear tree in an entirely new way right now, it would grow three or four hundred kilos of pears every year, but I guess would be too big at 12 meters with around a 100 sq meter canopy it would be difficult to put a net over it to protect the fruit. Don't think nets stop fruitbats anyhow, they are quite large animals. 

     

     

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:

    Advertising and especially TV advertising is going through a huge upheaval/disruption, think many of the senior people realise ads are going to need to be personalized and possibly be consumed by people compensated to do so, but just how to go about that and where it waill all end up  is a bit of a contest right now. Altho there is some despair about Apple introducing adblockers to the IOS ecosystem.

    I bet they won't block their own ads!

    Dana

    Apple opened the tech to developers so I guess third parties might, nobody can really tell what the consequences will be. My hunch is it will be good for subscription news websites but not so good for the average joe making a few hundred dollars a month connecting their blogs to Adsense

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

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    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:

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    MistyMist said:

    27,709,664 views?!  this is what the internet wants  laugh  lol


     

    need some fun in the sun red bull cliff diving.

    wow she can really jump those hurdles :)

    ...crikey, what did the put in her Vegemite®?  I like the contrtast of the runner form China next to her who looks so determined.

    You just know a whole lot of effort has gone in to making that look so effortless :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ready for my pre nite-nite cuppa Tea.

    gotta stand up to turn the kettle, no one to make it for me. 

    ready to heave my bones up from the chair, a 1, a 2, heave ho heeeeave 

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Gary Hunt blitzed the cliff diving last year six wins, I think he is from the UK, must be something to do with all those white cliffs there cheeky Women's championships wuz much closer, USA all the way everyone else came in way behind.

    http://www.redbullcliffdiving.com/en_INT/results

    No schedule for 2016 yet I guess it is a north hemisphere thing.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i never think of uk as a place to go swimming.  never see vacation ads.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited January 2016

    My other half spent several years of his grade school years in England.  He had many great stories of horrible times at the sea in "holiday camps".  He called it organized hell.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_camp

    I sort of envision British seashores as excellent places for a 1930's Alfred Hitchcock b/w movie about smugglers creeping in at night by flaming torchlight in unwieldy wooden rowboats.  Rocky cliffs, windswept stony beaches, isolated, miserably cold.

    I haven't been to the sea in England but I did stick my foot in the North Sea on the coast of The Netherlands in the middle of summer.  Brrrrrrr.  Of course I may be a bit prejudiced because I spent 20 years living on the Florida Atlantic coast.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    i never think of uk as a place to go swimming.  never see vacation ads.

    Think there are uk surfers as well :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    the whiteness of skin that never seen by the sun.   burn n peel  >.<

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited January 2016

    I managed to dig my car out of the snow.  It had warmed up and rained a bit so the 1 foot of snow had squooshed down to about 2 inches of heavy gloppy slush.  But I had to get out today because tonight it freezes again and tomorrow we start three days of snow with an expected two foot accumulation on top of 2 inches of frozen glop. sad Managed to get to the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions, and get to the grocery with the car to bring home heavy stuff in several bags.  I almost didn't get my car parked behind the house when I came back.  Slipping and sliding and spinning in the slush.  I finally did get it sort of parked but at a wonky angle but I didn't want to risk backing out to try again.  So be it.  It will sit there until after the snow quits and the driveway get properly plowed even if I have to pay for it all myself.  (mumble, grumble, cheap, lazy, neighbor tenants. angry)

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    slush better in a martini glass, at a tiki bar

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Yes I prefer ice behind glass rather than on it and preferably swimming alongside an olive or something :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    paper parasol  

    smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    dudes used parasols - not as deco-ish though

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388

    People carry and use umbrellas in Florida, and not during the rain.  The sun is brutal in the summer.  I should have gone to school to become a skin doctor.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sun parasols lead to La Vie Parisienne, cute images.  dont think is quite art nouveau

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388

    Changing the subject.  Iray.  My results aren't there, so I think I need to go to the beginning.  "Let there be light". 

    Actually, it's more like "let there be dark".  I want to light a night scene with a girl and her gun.  It needs to look like night time, but I don't want to produce a low-contrast, poorly lit scene.

    Beyond that, I really need to gain a much more functional understanding of iray so that I'm not just bumbling around with ten big toes and not fingers.  Can anybody suggest a good thread for me to start reading?  By the way, I'll even consider a well presented tutorial.  I have gobs of money in my account.  Okay, not really gobs.  laugh

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    You read all this yes?

    http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/new_features/start

    take a look here (slow load)

    http://blog.irayrender.com/archive

    and this pdf is easy to read

    http://www.irayrender.com/fileadmin/filemount/editor/PDF/Preparing_Content_iray_24.pdf

    and you might like to look into what you can do to prep HDRIs & stuff

    http://blog.irayrender.com/post/14310848190/physically-plausible-scene-setup

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    night scene, girl, gun ~~~ study those underworld movies with kate beckinsale.  was a lot of blue tint  laugh

    would look at some gallery images, see if you find something close to what you want, mebbe find tips from the artist

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,587

    I don't know much about Iray, but one thing to remember is that people who work with light in the real world (photography, cinematography, stage lightling) don't just use whatever light is "real', they use tricks to get light where they want it and to trick the eye, and many of those tricks can be applied in Iray.  They don't shoot night scenes using real night lighting, they use techniques like tinting the light to make night scenes give the illusion of night even though they use much more light than would really be present.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    night scene, girl, gun ~~~ study those underworld movies with kate beckinsale.  was a lot of blue tint  laugh

    would look at some gallery images, see if you find something close to what you want, mebbe find tips from the artist

    Found orangey yellow around 2990k is real monochromatic as well enlightened

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,189

    Complaint: eyes hurty, feel like they're swollen.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442
    Tjohn said:

    Complaint: eyes hurty, feel like they're swollen.

    and you look so green?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited January 2016
    MistyMist said:

    slush better in a martini glass, at a tiki bar

    As a Frozen Margaretta here in Margarettaville on a hot summer day at Universal:Orlando, with tired feet. smiley

    http://www.margaritavilleorlando.com/photos.html?ga=11

     

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    I am looking for a pale skin G3M merchant resource, but not sure where to look

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