Posts by Jourles

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Made contact with an old jw(now exjw) boss of mine

by Jourles in

i come on tonight to see i had one new pm.

come to find out, it is from evidently who has been signed up on the board for over a year but has never posted.

this guy used to be an old boss of mine from way back when - i'd say around 12 years ago or so.

Jourles

It's great when JW friends make contact and tell you that they are also out. Fantastic.

Several more to go and I'll be really happy.

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Made contact with an old jw(now exjw) boss of mine

by Jourles in

i come on tonight to see i had one new pm.

come to find out, it is from evidently who has been signed up on the board for over a year but has never posted.

this guy used to be an old boss of mine from way back when - i'd say around 12 years ago or so.

I come on tonight to see I had one new pm. Come to find out, it is from Evidently who has been signed up on the board for over a year but has never posted. This guy used to be an old boss of mine from way back when - I'd say around 12 years ago or so. He wasn't involved in hiring me, but we both managed to end up working in the same location in Frisco, CO and went to the same congregation at the Silverthorne hall. He and his family moved away before I did and we eventually lost touch. So it was a huge surprise to see a message from him tonight. And the best thing about it, he's an "ex-witless" too.(his term)

So Evidently, you'd better get your ass on here and start posting. Don't make me come down there and TP your office and the inside of your car.

C'mon folks, give him some encouragement.

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HDR photography anyone? (pics inside)

by Jourles in

jw
friends

does anyone employ hdr(high dynamic range) photography in their bag of tricks?

in a nutshell, you take several photos of the same scene but at different exposures - from dark to very light(your aperture needs to remain exactly the same).

you then merge them together.

Jourles

Leo,

Don't forget(if your camera allows you) to keep the ISO and aperture the same, use a tripod, and set your white balance relative to 0.0. As long as these few items are set correctly, you should have some good shots to work with.

Oh, and turn off any camera or lense vibration reduction and set your focus to manual so your camera doesn't accidentally hunt in autofocus mode between shots.

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HDR photography anyone? (pics inside)

by Jourles in

jw
friends

does anyone employ hdr(high dynamic range) photography in their bag of tricks?

in a nutshell, you take several photos of the same scene but at different exposures - from dark to very light(your aperture needs to remain exactly the same).

you then merge them together.

Jourles

did you have to do a lot of nuanced tweaking in that example, or did it mostly fall out of the merge function?

I used 3 shots for this one. -1.3, 0, +1.7. I've tried Photoshop CS3's hdr merge feature, but it tends to seriously jack up the alignment(you would think a $600 program could get this right). PS has done this with 4 different sets of images I've tried - so I know it's not the photos themselves. I'm sticking with Corel's PSP Photo X2. The only post-processing I did was brighten, sharpen, and crop. I zeroed out the Clarify which tends to give the photos that surreal look. Using Clarify on this image blured/faded the concrete seams on the smokestacks. It would have been easily noticeable.

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HDR photography anyone? (pics inside)

by Jourles in

jw
friends

does anyone employ hdr(high dynamic range) photography in their bag of tricks?

in a nutshell, you take several photos of the same scene but at different exposures - from dark to very light(your aperture needs to remain exactly the same).

you then merge them together.

Jourles

Here's one I did last weekend of the local power plant:

Shot this one just after dusk at 19mm @ f8. Exposure times varied of course since it was almost dark out. A less flattering view can be seen on the Wiki of this plant.

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Fluffity fluff fluff. Word puzzle, can you solve it?

by RisingEagle in

jw
friends

i found this word problem on the net from another website i frequent.

have fun and post your answer below.

facts:.

Jourles

I just woke up, so you'll have to excuse my lateness to this thread.

What's the volume of material left in the remaining perforated object?

I would first need to know the diameter of the hole.

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Fluffity fluff fluff. Word puzzle, can you solve it?

by RisingEagle in

jw
friends

i found this word problem on the net from another website i frequent.

have fun and post your answer below.

facts:.

Jourles

There is a bus with 7 children inside of it (14 child legs)
Each child has 7 rucksacks (7x7=49)
In each rucksack there are 7 big cats (49x7=343) or 1372 bog cat legs
Every big cat has 7 small cats (343x7=2401) or 9604 small cat legs
Everything listed above is entirely in the bus
All objects are unique
There is no driver
Every child has 2 legs
Every cat has 4 legs

grand total = 10,990 legs (14+1372+9604)

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Fluffity fluff fluff. Word puzzle, can you solve it?

by RisingEagle in

jw
friends

i found this word problem on the net from another website i frequent.

have fun and post your answer below.

facts:.

Jourles

10990. C'mon, give us a hard one!

Lease, you fogot the 2401 small cats...

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Wii or XBOX 360 or Playstation -- which to buy?

by UnConfused in

advice?

it will be mostly for my daughter, age 11 and she loves horse type games mostly.

the wii looking interesting of course.

Jourles

Wii owner here. I would highly recommend this over the other two easily.

Jourles, of the "I feel like my arms are going to fall off because I played the Olympic game waaaay too hard" class

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The Watchtower, RandCam and H.R. 1959

by ProdigalSon in

on august 2, 2007, a bill was introduced to the us congress entitled h.r.

1959 "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention act of 2007".

if this bill becomes law, a us citizen's words could be considered "promoting an extremist belief system", and the us government, at their [in]discretion can deem any attempt to expose government lies as using planned or threatened "force" this does not necessarily have to be "violence" --force by exposing corruption or criminality against "the civilian population of the united states, or any segment thereof" read the bill very carefully.

Jourles

NO ON HR 1959

If this bill is passed, and becomes law, your words and actions could be considered terrorism. S 1959 EVISCERATES FREE SPEECH, and empowers the govt. to declare ANYTHING they deem an "extremist belief system", instantly make you a terrorist, resulting in stripping of US citizenship, torture, and/or execution, with no habeas corpus rights, no ability to challenge even in the US Supreme Court.Contact your Senator and let them know they will be looking for another job if they vote yes on this bill, which is now introduced into the Senate as S.1959 THIS BILL **MUST NOT** BECOME LAW, PERIOD.http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959If this becomes law, your words could be considered "promoting an extremist belief system", and all they have to say is that you are using PLANNED OR THREATENED *FORCE* (DOES NOT HAVE TO BE VIOLENCE) --FORCE by exposing CORRUPTION, CRIMINALITY against "THE CIVILIAN POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, *****OR ANY SEGMENT THEREOF" READ THE BILL MANY TIMES AND VERY CAREFULLY--YOU ARE THE TERRORIST (WHICH MEANS THEY CAN STRIP YOUR CITIZENSHIP, AND HAVE YOU TORTURED AND EXECUTED).Call their local and DC offices. Go to their offices. Find out where your Senator is and tell him no to HR 1959.

If I didn't know any better, it would appear that your introductory paragraph was lifted from this guy's blog(quoted right above). So that means I'm going to have to give you a "W" on your counsel slip for "Giving answers in your own words and not repeating directly from the paragraph."

Oh yeah, just glance through some of that blog. Whoooo-boy.