Super camera telephoto lens is out of focus
Even though the tripod’s set, the blur is really bogus
If you use the automated setting hocus-pocus
Still the telephoto lens is slightly out of focus!
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(The background is supposed to be blurry, but I had a lot of trouble focusing on the foreground with this lens. I guess it’s just going to take practice.)
I’d never noticed the “don’t use Energizer” note on the smoke detector before. But sure enough, it’s still chirping.
So I went to look online for why, and found that auto-complete has some odd ideas of what smoke detectors need.
For the record: I didn’t find a satisfactory answer. A lot of talk about types of batteries based on power consistency and drop-off rates. You don’t want something that stays high-power longer, then quickly drops below the level needed to produce a low-battery alert. That makes sense. But specific brands? The consensus was split between specific brands having been rated in tests, or specific brands having deals with the smoke detector manufacturer.
“Please sign this petition about X!”
“OK, I care about X, what’s the petition actually say?”
“It’s about X!”
“Right, but what’s the actual wording? Am I putting my name on supporting a specific action? ‘Cause I’d support some actions but not others.”
“It’s telling them to do something about X!”
“Yeah, I got that. What is it telling them to do?”
“Solve X!”
“Just look for solutions?”
“No, it’s telling them what we want them to do about X.”
“Which is…?”
“Fix it!”
“Sorry, but I’m not signing my name to a blank letter.”
“Why don’t you care about X?”
*sigh* *delete*
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I’m totally willing to sign petitions when I can see the actual wording and it’s something I agree with.
But if the petition website doesn’t say what they’re actually delivering? I don’t want to put my name on something that might be advocating what that I consider to be a bad solution, even if I agree on the problem.
“Not loyal.” Two years in and the President still doesn’t understand (or more likely, doesn’t care) that officials owe their loyalty to the country, not to him personally.
I had a lot of problems with Bush, his policies and his priorities, but I never doubted he understood that the job was about the nation, not about him.
This guy? He’s never given me reason to doubt the opposite: that he thinks it’s all about himself.
Not as exciting as some of the less common halos I’ve seen over the last few weeks, but it’s a very complete 22-degree halo.
You’re tired of skateboarders on your street, though there are a lot fewer of them these days than there used to be. Your city/housing association won’t build a barrier at the end of the block. A lot of people don’t think the skateboarders are as big a problem, or even a problem at all…
But this is an emergency! (Even though the numbers are already declining.) So you take your neighbors’ money and put spikes across the street and their yard. Nothing on wheels is going to get through!
Meanwhile, the skateboarders keep walking in on the sidewalks, carrying their skateboards, like they’ve always done.
You’ve misappropriated funds, violated your neighbors’ property rights, blocked traffic…and yet you haven’t actually addressed how the skateboarders are showing up in the first place.
I don’t think they really need the guide to all those different types of melons right now.
