@86b332f6 👍👍 

 @a3fd556a Thanks, Eddie :) 

 @f15f299e @185527cf Very cool. 

 @86b332f6 BTW, I have a lemon squeezer and grater that feels very much like this. I wonder if the architect had that in mind when he designed this place. 

 @86b332f6 it's a tough place to shoot with the wide angle, because that lens tends to send lines flying in every direction if you move a couple of inches off center.

Next time I think I'll embrace the skewing and shoot asymmetrically. 

 @827f63a3 The deYoung is a great museum and interesting architectural space. And the tower is admission-free to all visitors. 

 @ab25e353 Oh my goodness, no. I was still learning yow to look through the viewfinder way back then. The only thing I knewwas how to rotate the camera to make panoramas and glue them together in my scrapbook. *chuckles* 

 @a15750ec ooooh... I would love to have a hot-shoe duck for when I'm out street-shooting :) 

 I don't have many pictures from that ZX-50 -- the film is somewhere in an old trunk in my garage, buried in a pile of thousands of things I need to throw out someday. 

But hunting through my Lightroom catalog, I did find some shitty scans of old prints taken in Oaxaca, Mexico. They are crap but good enough for #ThrowbackThursday 

You'll need to click on the second photo to view the full panorama.

https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/111/183/116/717/858/010/original/c7f4b16c8edcbcc1.jpg

https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/111/183/117/348/819/230/original/a09b192d742deb40.jpg 

 @97296b5c Fun! I can't wait! 

 @5f59e153 I remember Y2K well. I was in charge of Y2K projects at Hewlett-Packard... a massive 3 year effort to upgrade software across the company before the critical date. Nothing happened. I went down to San Francisco's Ferry Building, watched the fireworks, and drank good champagne straight from the bottle. 

 @6a2a52ad Well said, sgt. Well said.

My plans are to be cremated too... and will be up to my husband to decide where to spread my ashes. 

 @a3fd556a I thought you were going to say tiny disco mirrors. 

 @a3fd556a Needs more bling, if you ask me. 

 @2dc251b5 I'm a Costco casket kinda guy. I want an inexpensive box, but also roomy, with cushy cushions like their living room sectionals. 

 @796af16b @796af16b 
Q: Say I'm using the Mastodon app, looking at photos posted by other people on different instances. And maybe one looks great...so I decide to see what other photos that person has posted.

But in the app, I can only see remote photos back to 2-4 weeks (unless someone on my own instance has boosted the photo). I get it. My instance can't keep a copy of every photo in the fediverse - there has to be a limit.

I've learned that if I want to see someone's portfolio, I need to use my browser and essentially do my viewing as a guest on the remote instance, with limited functionality to like or comment while not logged in.

My question is: why can't the Mastodon app make an external lookup itself and show me an old photo from inside the app, without me having to switch to a browser? Is that a difficult thing for an app to do - to fetch old photos for a quick look-see on my phone or tablet, on demand, without burdening my instance with storing that photo?

Does that question make sense? 

 @722bd124 @58b2274a I fear we have hijacked Enia's post. Apologies. 

 @722bd124 @58b2274a Bad wordplay :)

As for monogamy, statistics offers zero moral judgment when it comes to distributions, even when plotting one's number of lifetime partners. We all fall somewhere on the curve and its standard deviants. 

 @cc694c58 @722bd124 @58b2274a I would be very happy with a hammock. Either in the office or for working at home. And that says a lot about me. 

 @722bd124 @58b2274a Bad phones. Bad boy. 

 @58b2274a The work-from-home/work-in-the-office pendulum has swung back and forth several times since the 1990s. I expect it will continue swinging for a while still. 

 @58b2274a @74c65fe5.
On my last day of work, before retiring, I calculated that in the course of commuting for 30 years to workplaces in Palo Alto and Santa Clara, I traveled 780,000 miles on Interstate 280.

780,000 miles!

That's like making a trip to the moon, and back again, and then returning to the moon. Plus a couple of orbits on each end.

Time-wise (at 2.5 hours a day), if you put all that commute time together into one block, it adds up to 2 solid years of my life wasted on Interstate 280.

A chunk of that was in a 2 or 3 person carpool. But still, my carbon footprint is unforgivably huge. And the wear and tear on my cars and body... ugh. 

 @b282e4c2 I saw that (while waiting on line ar Whole Foods). Good shot! 

 @84f2fcd5 Not sure about what kinds of lights these were but I have had terrible experiences with colored LEDs. My Pentax camera sensors seem to hate them. Incandescent do much better. 

 @98352b39 the trust is reestablished 👍 

 @c92d4e92 Always adorable. 
How much longer with the neck pillow? 

 @84f2fcd5 excellent portaits and beautiful light. 

 @ea7f5817 *chuckles and shakes my head at the same time* 

 @ea7f5817 it's that "I see you guys" disdainful look and unafraid walk that gets me. 

 @2450321a 
Lol !!! 

 @98352b39 Good job, the two of you.
Hopefully the setback in his socialization will be brief. 

 @6ac920b9 ahhhh. If only this were real! 

 @86b332f6 This was only a 3 or 4 second exposure - fairly short - and I was planning to do something longer. But damn, it was too fucking cold and windy up there that night. 

I took 7 shots and 6 of them were unusable because of the camera shak from the wind.  So I went to Safeway (2 blocks away), got some gin, and came home to make a martini.

I'll go back and try shooting here again on a less windy night. 

 @722bd124 Very wets. Seems to happen every time I get near waves. 

 @86b332f6  Thank you, KC! 

 @4388b5ab Damn, the AF1 shots are especially awesome. 

 @77c275e6 It is cool... and serene. 

 @827f63a3 @98352b39 I know her. She can handle it 👍 

 @527c3522 @d6e4c7e0 I hope, when asked a question about history, the Meta LLM replies "well, in a galaxy far far away..." 

 @4b30092e I know, right? It's end times. 

 @133a688f Aye.

I would definitely content warn if a picture involved sexual activity or genital nudity. But hiding fetish gear or gay life(?) would be wrong, IMHO. It would feel like censoring something because it might give someone who is conservative the vapors.

It's a poorly marked line, being on an instance that is both family friendly and also representative of a wide spectrum of Bay Area communities. I try to stay mindful of that, and not post things blatantly inappropriate. 

 @0b7652aa Damnit. The elevation at our front door is 60 meters. We're going to be about 6 meters short of surviving the ice cap melt.

Our roof, however, would make a nice fishing pier 👍 

 @bbbb96a3 Jesus man, are you okay? 

 @9b8f5ad6 Take it slow and easy.

Wishing you smooth sailing, with mild symptoms. 

 @23aefb2f The alarm arrived 3 minutes early... and we survived. Yay.