Thanks, Vortex.
The kids have finally made a good sized dent in the first bag of candy. phew! Favorite so far is the little green fairy who complimented my costume, so I complimented her right back.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
Host ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Oct 31, 2013 5:46:16 pm PDT #10783 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Burrell - Oct 31, 2013 5:48:42 pm PDT #10784 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Just had a mom full-on ToTing alongside her daughter. I was happy to oblige seeing as I still have too much candy.
-t - Oct 31, 2013 5:51:31 pm PDT #10785 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just got the most adorable little Captain America. With a frisbee for a shield.
I had one of those at work - so cute!
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2013 7:55:23 pm PDT #10786 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I swear I can never make the recipe on the side of the rice box successfully. Sitting for 15 minutes, bring to a boil, let simmer closed for 35 minutes. AWFUL. It's soupy and I have to let most of the rest of the water evaporate not push as steam into the kernels. I google "brown rice basmati recipe" and follow the bring to a boil, let simmer for 50 minutes...and voila! One of the best pots of rice (it's a tense relationship--I am keeping score).
And after all that (FIFTY MINUTES) I find I don't actually have the chicken I was going it with its fluffy brownness. Luckily I have survival food in the freezer, so was able to whip up something, and...the dish¹ broke in my lap!!! Why is my food fighting so hard to avoid being eaten? I MUST OM NOM. I will overcome. Ooh! And time for half brownie!
¹ The last deep plate/shallow bowl from the Kat'n'Lori housewarming startup package. I liked those! Way more interesting than anything I own, and that perfect shape for something where you need a rim to help get the food on the fork, or it's something more liquid than normal, but you need to get a knife and a fork in.
Goodbye, dear hybrid placesetting. Goodbye. You served Los Angeles well.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2013 8:08:12 pm PDT #10787 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've gotten my rice cooking down now after I stopped using Western techniques and switched to Eastern methods.
Cass - Oct 31, 2013 8:11:05 pm PDT #10788 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Rice is my cooking nemesis. People say it's easy but I think they lie. Or have made a deal with a demon? Somehow it looks effortless for them but my rice does not ever work like that.
We need to know the plural of sparkly pink Batman. This is a good world.
It was pretty neat.
Trudy Booth - Oct 31, 2013 8:19:44 pm PDT #10789 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
rice cookers rule
WindSparrow - Oct 31, 2013 8:20:42 pm PDT #10790 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
One of the hardest things about cooking rice is leaving the damn lid on the pot when you are supposed to and not lifting it to check on it until the allotted time is up.
SuziQ - Oct 31, 2013 8:31:32 pm PDT #10791 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I have never had a problem with rice. It is one of the few things I can cook with confidence.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2013 8:51:05 pm PDT #10792 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am looking for photography lighting help. I took some pictures five years ago, and I "learnt" quite a bit about lighting during the project, and seem to have forgotten it since then.
So I have a couple pictures, this and especially this that I can't work out how to recreate.
Playing around with levels on the second one makes me think the light was through a crack in the curtains. On the first, there's a standing lamp aiming up at me from the bottom right of the picture?
In my current project, I am more than bored by my face, but very caught up in light and limning. And skin is the best subject for that. I have bust out one of the standing lights (I have 4, but only two shades and 1 diffuser), even though at least one stand is hinky and the diffuser falls off when I sneeze. But I've only used one in a photo any time--and I think they're daylight bulbs, but I dismember.
I have a Nikon Speedlight which can't communicate with the camera (D3200) which I bought not to mount it over the camera (although using bounced light is fun). So I performed some flimflammery the first time I used it and got a mostly technically correct photo, but that was luck and guessing Flash Compensation setings.
I think I'm going back to the Strobist, who is the one I was taking cues from to buy all my lighting equipment. I want to be definite before I go into the camera store near me--they're very pushy.
BUT, basically--what would light gurus you recommend for simple portrait/fake studio lighting? Getting a new flash that communicates with a camera half its age? Different bulbs for the lamps? Reflectors? What colours?
I am settled on shooting with a 50mm prime lens for now (but my other lens is a slower 28-80) often wide open. Lens and body check!. But it's photography. The magic is in the photons and how we bounce them. I mean, I like the modelling I'm getting with my limited knowledge--they're decent, fills out 3D, the whole schpiel. NEED MOAR NOWLEJ.
ALSO, I found the manual for the Speedlight SB-24 on Scribd. Anyone willing to help a non-member out and toss it my way?