LadyCrimson

I don't mind income taxes - it's the high prices I mind. California...social security+federal+state taxes combined equal about 40-60% of your annual income - Social Security is almost as much as the actual Federal taxes. On state and Federal, rates varies on how much you earn, deductions if any, etc. There's generally no food-grocery tax but there are still food items or food services (like getting a pizza) that have taxes. Plus minor recycling fees and the like on some things added to the price.

I've been accused of creating things that are too 'busy' a lot. It usually happens because I have an idea, then notice something (the reflections) and start concentrating on that w/out changing the original idea much and... I think overall I do better with more spontaneous subjects/shots that don't have a lot of forethought put into them, because I don't have time to become overly obsessed, but I'd need a serious telephoto to get the images I'd want w/out having to crop out empty space. Sigh.

I know jack about RSS, so hopefully I'm not completely wrong...but Googling and looking at your page source I'd say the feed has some xml issues - ie, your server/software/whatever is having problems with the forum feeds entity definitions - or lack thereof ... or something ... I don't know terminology. So you have all those < /b > < br etc. being written in your pagesource rather than the actual symbol < br > that's in the XML feed, and so on; thus your page "sees" entity names and to it that means "draw a < " instead of recognizing it as a codetag to make a line break or bold or () symbols, if that made any sense at all. If something like that's actually the case, it's possible you won't be able to fix it on your end, but there I don't really know. Your portal software may have an idea/solution from past users having similar problems with linking to outside feeds.

So some of it's writer-research? I can understand that. That's partly how I first developed such an interest in ancient weapons and battle tactics, myself. Not that I write anymore ... but it's amazing how much research you can end up doing in order to make certain things in a novel be believable.

Cowardly party members...they like to run off and hide.

New World. It's a pretty movie, for sure. Kind of slow yet melodramatic. The periodic character voice-over monologues are distracting and unneccesary tho.

Ahaha! That's exactly it. "Dee doot!"

No water bottles ... been trying to learn still-lifes with a homemade lightbox. It's kickin' my arse, this lighting stuff. :/ In-camera white balance is annoying to configure. And I need a taller table, this hunching over thing is killing my back, which makes me feel like this:

Standard single, dual-wield I don't like purple or green that much, otherwise don't care. Dark, but Light is easier on the eyes... Atton/Disciple toss up, T3 runner up because he's so cute. The jungle looking one 8/10, mostly because of the unsatisfying ending

@ Sand - August huh? Well, it's usually clear and warm then, so maybe so. That'd be cool. Maybe I'll have a bigger lens or two by then.

Poseidan - as bad as I'd heard, although not so bad I couldn't sit through it to mock it along the way. Wolfgang...I'm disappointed in thee. I've never seen the original one all the way through, but comparing what I have seen to the new one...they're both equally boring. Although there was one bit toward the end of the new one that I wasn't expecting.

I really like Gorth's #3...

Well, I missed it. It was partly sunny most of the day then clouded up by evening. Thus I had to rely on photo forums to get my "look." Of course someone had to do one of these:

Yeah, the photog forums are all abuzz with that... If I had a good telephoto I'd try to take a picture, assuming it wasn't cloudy. It's been rainy of and all week. If it's not cloudy tonight, I could try anyway...hehe. Wish we had the telescope properly set up for the camera.

Excellent series, IMO. His Mordant's Need 2-book novel/series is pretty good too.

I Ran - Flock of Over-Teased-Bad-Hair Dudes (Seagulls...)

Pale Rider. I've always liked this movie for some reason. Going to the zoo, then will watch Full Metal Jacket, which I recorded last night. Unless I try watching Poseidon on HD-HBO. I heard it's terrible but I'm curious.

I find my cable co.'s hard drive recording capability more than adequate to get around that. No extra charge for it beyond the cable fees, of course. Although recording hi-def does hog up the HD space a lot more and I usually delete those at the end of the week.

Something the Lord Made, HBO movie from a few years ago or so. Alan Rickman was great, as always, but Mos Def makes the bigger impression. Not a bad cable movie.

Closed by request. I believe this is the other thread referred to.

Walsh, that was a really funny post. :D If the battery is wearing down that fast, especially if you're barely using the phone during that time, then yeah, I'd try another battery before giving up on the phone entirely. I don't know much about cells, but maybe it's possible some feature you like to use a lot sucks up more juice than average, too? I've been irritated via camera battery for the same reason. Charges fast and can last reasonably long if all I do is click the shutter, but use the tiny built-in flash 20 times or view the LCD screen too much and it's gone very rapidly. I have 2 spares with me at all times.

I know I said I'd add them all on Monday; changed my mind. I've been having so much fun w/the new lens, I think I'll just post them as I get them. Which means there might be more than one for each thing on that 'list' up there. List, flist, who's counting...they're both less thn Plum trees in blossom. Colorful, if not very exciting, but it's...y'know...trees. 130kb I tried to take some of an abadonded farm area shack on the way home today, but they came out really boring, so instead I'll post this one, because I like it. Honey bee on flower - 70kb

Dead Zone/Stephen King. I'm so pedestrian re: books. :D

I'm trying a new sig pic. It's a tad less tall but a bit longer...it's from a picture of a farm area that I drove by earlier today. For some reason I liked it, with the truck and houses in the background.

I wonder what it would look like on our 50" TV?