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porsupah

Unseasonal Festivity

Apr 28, 2018 23:48

NEW ABBA NEW ABBA NEW ABBA AAAAAAAH "One of the two new songs that resulted, called I Still Have Faith in You, will feature in a TV special to air in December. The statement concluded: “We may have come of age, but the song is new. And it feels good.” Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus revealed details of the band’s forthcoming project in Brussels earlier this ( Read more... )

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makovette April 29 2018, 05:15:14 UTC

I really do enjoy these posts of yours, sooo much to ponder upon!

The drams you got looks delicious, remind me to invite myself over for a tipple or 3 with you soooon :P

Dat lens! o.O

Million other punnies and impressions, but that's all best done over a brew :)

Cheers!
Mako

porsupah April 29 2018, 05:24:34 UTC

Yay! I really need to get back into the LJ habit, needless to say, both reading and posting. ^_^; Maybe if I just resume a more daily reading schedule..

I'm going to have to decide whether to bring them with me, or leave them for the roomie. =:D They're fairly wondrous, needless to say - the calvados, especially, is quite unlike anything I've known.

It's a nifty lens. =:D Already, I'm appreciating being able to drop the shutter speed right down, for a lovely clean exposure, as on the maternal bun - and the vibration compensation helps with good focus, even moreso as you head out to 400mm f/4, with even narrower DoF than at 300mm f/4. (A subsequent shot has their head in perfect focus, but even by the time you're back to their tail, it's all getting fuzzy, so to speak)

Indeed! Meet you at the Gladstone Arms outside Borough station next weekend? ^_^

schnee April 29 2018, 09:42:32 UTC

She's not a quiet nan

*groan*

porsupah April 29 2018, 14:18:39 UTC

*grin* You see why I had to include that. =:)

kishenehn April 29 2018, 14:14:00 UTC

Even without the hood, that's one hell of a lens!

But it clearly does a pretty nice job. :)

porsupah April 29 2018, 14:47:39 UTC

Heh, indeed. ^_^; It's certainly heftier, but still "light" enough for me to wander around my usual circuit and wield it hand-held. The Sigmonster's a hell of a lens, but it's heavy enough and with much of that at the front that it's outright impossible to use without a gimbal mount on a tripod - not quite as useful for capturing spontaneous moments ( ... )

thewayne April 29 2018, 16:43:53 UTC

I knew about the Abba, looking forward to it! I saw the Mama Mia musical twice and own two copies of the DVD. I'm kind of concerned with the movie sequel.

I don't think that I want to know how much that liquor order set you back!

There's a food porn TV show that you should check out if you have Netflix: Samurai Gourmet. It is hillarious.

XQD? Haven't heard of that one. Perhaps I should look in to it, it's possible my new Lumix might be compatible, it's only a year old or so.

porsupah April 30 2018, 12:02:52 UTC

I'm quite tempted to take Mum along to Mamma Mia sometime - they were always one of our shared musical delights, along with Eurythmics, Queen, and Mike Oldfield. ^_^ Ah, to see Eurythmics or Annie Lennox in concert.. but, AFAIK, she hasn't been performing for a few years now. And of course, I can only wish I'd seen Queen, especially A Kind of Magic.. that said, of course, the rest of the group's still active, now with Adam Lambert heading up the vocals, and seemingly doing a pretty good job of it.

*grin* It was a bit, yes. ^_^; Only trouble, of course, is you hardly feel like tucking into it routinely, so FSM knows how long it'll all now last.. and if the move does take place in a couple months, will it even be practical to bring it with me? I might simply leave it for the roomie. =:)

Ooo, that could be fun! I still miss the prime days of Iron Chef - back around 1998, one of the Bay Area stations aired the original series with subtitles. Absolutely wonderful!XQD's apparently a Sony thing, and only seems to be supported on a few ( ... )

thewayne April 30 2018, 15:55:28 UTC

Did you know that THE Richard Branson's Virgin Label released Oldfield's Tubular Bell's? Mike was discovered by Richard! At least according to a How I Built This podcast interview. It was quite interesting.

Actually, only 2/3rds of Queen is touring. John Deacon retired after Freddie's death and is not part of the new gig with Adam fronting. Still, two of the originals would be awesome to see!

I loved the Japanese Iron Chef. The American version? Not so much.

I bought a new Lumix pocket camera in November. It has single shot and burst mode - nothing in between, which is slightly vexing. And since Panasonic != Sony, yeah, probably not going to be in my future. My last shooting series was at the Air Force Base where I worked, just before the job ended. I shot their static display war birds, which were mostly planes that I'd never seen before! It was quite awesome to me.

But the burst mode - I REALLY want to try it out in the hummingbird cage at Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson!

porsupah April 30 2018, 21:57:55 UTC

I'm reminded of the Morse message MO inserted into Amarok.. =:D Come to think of it, I haven't listened to anything new from him in quite a while.. any idea what his later work's been like ( ... )

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c_eagle April 30 2018, 07:15:10 UTC

Massive lens! :D

Thx for the ABBA info too!

We've been watching some of that anime! (roomies has, and I've been drawn in....)

I still haven't found a noise-cancelling headset that doesn't make my eardrums feel like they're being sucked out...

yay pheasant and later sleeepers! *fuzzles yer furrrr*

porsupah April 30 2018, 11:49:50 UTC

It's a little hefty. ^_^; I really wish Nikon would come out with a Fresnel version of it, as with the 300mm f/4! There, they brought the length and weight down by half. Though, arguably, the earlier purely refractive version has superior bokeh and resistance to off-axis bright light.

I'm definitely interested in that ABBA tour next year. ^_^ (And I see Janelle Monáe is touring now, but the SF date may well be before I'm back. I've long enjoyed her work, but Dirty Computer's the first I've actually bought - fantastic!)

Which anime?

I'm finding the noice cancellation on these to be nicely comfortable, to the extent that I can even eat with them on, and it doesn't feel like I'm listening to a bad recording of my mouth. =:) With it turned off, I'm able to hear myself breathing rather clearly ( ... )

c_eagle April 30 2018, 20:02:59 UTC

hehe... I have a 250 mm also with no refraction, and it's a hefty one as well .. :D

Ah! There's an ice skating anime "Yuri on Ice" and a swimmer anime "Free!"... maybe a few others too, not sure the names...

oh! I forgot to mention also.. quite happy about the S.L. addition of giving ya Twice the basic land allowance as before.. a good idea on their part to recoup some Lindens from abandoned land too, not to mention the favorable P.R. from such a gift..

Good lux with the rabbiteering!

porsupah April 30 2018, 21:35:23 UTC

That's the trouble with larger sensors than phones and m4/3 - the lenses get quite large, and in the telephoto and supertelephoto leagues, rather heavy. =:P But, if you shrink the sensor size, and maintain the pixel count, you also shrink the photosite size, and diminish the advantages of low light sensitivity and dynamic range that APS-C and full frame afford, as well as the effects of a wide aperture lens.

What do your photographic subjects tend to be? Have you been out capturing moments of wild lives lately? (In the wildlife sense, I mean, but feel free to interpret differently =:)

I'd love to be able to watch the odd anime or such with company, but, the roomie's tastes and mine only overlap here and there - he didn't apparently take to SU at all, but is quite enjoying Gravity Falls, so he does have some taste. =:) I might see how he reacts to Danger & Eggs, too.. which I'd love to be able to buy, but in this new gilded age of television silos, Amazon's apparently wanting to keep that strictly for subscribers, just as with ( ... )

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