morning yall...

[waves distractedly]

Is there a mobile-friendly website to watch free motorsport event videos, other than YouTube?

So far motorsport.com is the best I've found, but I can't exactly call their mobile friend "friendly."

mornin'

@Luciano Hehe, I improved one of your edits. Please refrain from editing a title into 'issue with <program>', as those are very nondescriptive titles.

Then again, the original title was even worse, so still appreciated :)

yeah that's why. Feel free to improve my edits when necessary - I should've spent a few more seconds thinking of that one :)

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I still need to get my coffee :)

Ooh, caffy.

I have nine-day-brewed cold brew, because I keep forgetting about it. [goes and gets]

I tried a coldbrew from starbuckz [shame] and I kinda didn't like it. Is that how it is supposed to taste?

I've never tried Starbuck's cold brew, but I'll hazard a "no" on general principle.

I make my own cold brew: coffee grounds soaked in cold water for (ideally) 24 to 36 hours, then the grounds are filtered out (or use a tea strainer to hold the grounds so you can just take that out).

It's a much smoother flavour, less bitter and less acidic.

When I'm feeling fancy, I put turmeric, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, and cloves in with the grounds.

wow that sounds really good. I tried it only because a friend ordered it and hated it, I couldn't even finish that monstrosity. Tasted more bitter than hot brewed coffee, quite nasty.

Bleh.

No, cold brew shouldn't bite back.

I find it's much easier on my stomach than hot brewed coffee.

Not only it did bite back it took a huge bite!

I'm not even sure how that's possible.

Sounds like just iced coffee.

The flavor was not right by all means. I'll try cold brewing sometime, need to get some ground beans first.

Don't worry about the kind of beans; we use Maxwell House or Uban, whichever is being sold in bulk at the warehouse store.

An expensive coffee bean is designed to handle the boiling water well; if you're not boiling it, the bean's ability to boil well doesn't matter.

Oh, and ratios: folks differ wildly. Between two and four cups of water for every one cup of grounds is about the range.

I lean toward the "less coffee, more water" end of things, partly because I tend to make a lot and leave my grounds in the water for several days as I drink it.

alright! Sounds easy

If it weren't easy enough to be nigh idiot-proof, I wouldn't be doing it once or twice a week for years.

We've actually bought some special pitchers with screw-in tea infusers to make it more efficient.

hi

hi [waves]

<+>,<+>

what's that Pie, need coffee?

@Pie my coulrophobia sets in now... D:

@Luciano :O You have an av! :D

@Luciano I always need coffee :p

@Vincent afraid of clowns ay?

@Vincent I thought it was about time to have one :)

@PieBie yup

Clowns are a ten.

i got one good snapshot over the weekend

@Vincent you like

cute!

@joojaa nice one!

should i retouch the bg a bit to make it more neutral outside the leaf?

its pretty a small thing considering

Nice Joojaa

beautiful!

@joojaa how small is this beauty?

here is my interesting thing of the weekend:

first rattlesnake I've ever seen in the wild! They're rare around me

my weekend

I'm hopeful that Photoshop's new face adjuster can fix my goofy mug i.imgur.com/Dd4zwgm.png :)

really nice shot Ryan! Serene

nice shots gents

@JohnB looks like you weren't exactly comfortable noticing it :D

well my friend wanted me to take his phone and reach over top for a sneak shot

I value my fingers too much

Apollo 13?

@Vincent about half the size of your forefinger bit smaller perhaps

oh, that's bigger than I expected

@Ryan that has so nice colors

@Vincent yeah this si quite big compared to most of what i shoot

@joojaa thanks!

the cat gif department is slacking here, but the vermin jpg one is flourishing!

@joojaa do you have a ring flash or anything you use for these?

No just handheld camera and macro. It was a bit of dark day i could have used that. And offcourse the bug could have been better if id had a polarizer Or then not...

Ive been considering renting a macro lens for a weekend but was concerned without flashes and extension tubes and such I wouldn't get much out of it

the only macro available for my camera without adapters is a 90mm

90mm is good enough

you have much larger insects where you are

and for flowers its good enough

I could get better images if id have the stamina to carry around a tripod.

yeah when I do rent I'd walk around one of the local gardens most likely to photo flowers and whatever insects I see

I have a nice fairly light tripod, I take it most everywhere with me

The tripod would have been useful in fending dogs too i would have needed that

its not the weight of the tripod but the flow of things

not carbon fiber or anything but very compact

you might have all day to shoot or not

yeah for flowers would be good to have a reflector though

so having some kind of bendy grip that you can use to clamp it could be nice

I keep a reflector in my car but its a pain to use. The stand is too cheap and light

its pretty bright here in Florida. I doubt I'd need it anyways unless I went in the evening

@Ryan not so much about light but rather about removing shadows

true

Eventually I'll get flashes. Maybe Ill hold off renting a macro until then (not for a while)

@Vincent its a Byctiscus betulae most likely (might also be a Byctiscus Populi) and its about 5.5-9.5mm long

ah that's a bit shorter than my forefinger :P

Yeah well forefinger nail

ah i can see the problem

ah that makes more sense

no wonder there was confusion

Similar pictures apparently sell for 50 euros

whistle

nice

im not sure if i have enough res though

nice pics guys, looks like you had a fun weekend

thanks

does Orlando always have those permanently lovely skies like GTA Vice City @Ryan

:P

@johnp is your picture an adder?

yeah a good amount of the time. At least if its morning or evening

mid-day you don't even want to be outside

hehe

it's a pidgeon foot @joojaa

i actually cropped it...ill see if i can find it on fb

i chased it down a railing in Dublin...i must have looked a bit insane

I went a bit crazy with the birds that year

that bottom one was is really really nice!

ah no my mistake

Thanks @Ryan I love how grainy it is though i didnt add any filter other than colouring

i have about 700 pics of crows i have to filter for a new proj x( the thought of it...

What lens did you use?

ill prob use about 5. oh it was a crappy sigma 70-300 one

was the first lens i bought before i really knew anything about em. it's nice but there is no stabilization so it can be very shakey

think the first pic was just a kit lens 18-55 nikkor dx

oooh my office is closed monday. Nice!

I forget these holidays

imgur.com/VaxIFs6

strange thescribblepen.com

lol i was thinking about that banana peel thing the other day...I have never seen anyone fall spectacularly from one in real life

@Ryan

you've changed o

:O

change happens

Go Iceland.... HUH.... HUH

such a bad time for the UK right now xD

poor guys