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- Sun Jun 26, 2016 4:20 am UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: Photography thread.
- Replies: 352
- Views: 188688
Re: Photography thread.
Here's a selection from Point Reyes, which is just north of San Francisco. Two different trips represented here, photos shot on either Hasselblad 500 C/M or Canon AE-1 Program. https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/779/23602620045_1c8cd1e723_c.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/634/23084730883_f72a3fd9c1_c.j...
- Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:14 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Mens Formal(ish) Wear
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5377
Re: Mens Formal(ish) Wear
Taking a shirt in is relatively inexpensive (anywhere between $10-$30 I'd expect, depending on location), jackets obviously more so.
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 4:09 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Mens Formal(ish) Wear
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5377
Re: Mens Formal(ish) Wear
Vests are definitely a hard piece of clothing, because it's very easy to make them look not so good. Pairing them with matching pants is usually the safest option for a good harmonious look. For a summer wedding, I might go with the lighter colors, but that also depends on the time of day of the cer...
- Thu May 28, 2015 11:25 pm UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: Cosplay (WIP)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10519
Re: Cosplay (WIP)
I'm not one for cosplay, but that is quite a feat.
- Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:41 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: What are your "core" programs?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 12354
Re: What are your "core" programs?
General Productivity: Mail Calendar Bee Stickies Safari Chrome Firefox General Design: Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Lightroom Font Design/Dev: RoboFont MetricsMachine Prepolator App Design/Dev: Xcode Quartz Composer Form GitHub Reflector Web Dev: TextMate Terminal Transmit Other: Processing Dropb...
- Sun Oct 26, 2014 4:32 am UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: Photography thread.
- Replies: 352
- Views: 188688
Re: Photography thread.
So, I recently flew back to the States from the Netherlands and because of some choppy air we got pushed a bit north and ended up flying over the Southern bit of Greenland and got treated to some absolutely incredible views. I didn't see a single road or structure, just mountains, snow, ice, and des...
- Thu Dec 26, 2013 5:43 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: What did you get for christmas?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7007
Re: What did you get for christmas?
Student debt. Merry Christmas, indeed!
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 3:48 am UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: kieryn.com - comics, art, stories.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8951
Re: kieryn.com - comics, art, stories.
No need to post here every time you update your comic. If people are interested, they'll click through.
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:14 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Post your boat race.
- Replies: 20908
- Views: 2454388
Re: Postify your facerity
You have a lot of variety in your daily wear, Jacque. If I did that you would see a lot of black. Three or so years ago and this portrait would have been very dark in the clothing area for the same reasons, but now, I can't wear black very often because we have a golden retriever who sheds constant...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:13 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Post your boat race.
- Replies: 20908
- Views: 2454388
Re: Postify your facerity
Following up on a post from last year: Working on a project where I have to take a picture of myself every day. I'm about six weeks in; looking at a January 2013 completion date. Here's a few of the days: http://alexjacque.com/images/web/me24.jpg Finished the project last month, well, the fi...
- Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:43 pm UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: The Adventures of Stickman
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10291
Re: The Adventures of Stickman
Time to chill out on posting in this thread without new responses. Additionally, see forum rule #7: don't double post. If someone is going to reply, they will.
- Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:22 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Moderation and Resumes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3571
Re: Moderation and Resumes
As my Father has always said, "When in doubt, don't put modding experience on your résumé."
- Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:20 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Dog Walking and Sore Legs
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6388
Re: Dog Walking and Sore Legs
1. Take an Aleve.
2. A rigorous game of tug seems to tire our golden out. Additionally, you could always slip the dog some melatonin or benadryl.
2. A rigorous game of tug seems to tire our golden out. Additionally, you could always slip the dog some melatonin or benadryl.
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:27 pm UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: Age of Fable's Writings
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17436
Re: Age of Fable's Writings
I'm combining these posts into one topic because we don't need a separate topic for each of your short stories/chapters/wirtings.
- Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:58 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Post your boat race.
- Replies: 20908
- Views: 2454388
Re: Postify your facerity
One of the best parts of growing a beard – aside from being awesome – is that when you decide to shave, you get to do novelty facial hair:


- Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:47 pm UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: Photography thread.
- Replies: 352
- Views: 188688
Re: Photography thread.
Again, the photos from India are amazing. Was it a pain to transport the film? Yeah. First problem is the language barrier, hard to explain that it's film and shouldn't be x-rayed. Once or twice is usually fine – I had some fast film (ISO 3200) that shouldn't be x-rayed at all – but x-raying has a ...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:36 pm UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: Photography thread.
- Replies: 352
- Views: 188688
Re: Photography thread.
With those recent trips and what was left in my "to publish queue" (quite a few from India) I should be pretty set with new work to post to the internet for the next coming months. -Again, the photos from India are amazing. Was it a pain to transport the film? Yeah. First problem is the l...
- Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:14 pm UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: Photography thread.
- Replies: 352
- Views: 188688
Re: Photography thread.
So here's some of what I've been up to lately: Hash Bash (click through the images to view larger) http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8159/7128385781_db3791833a_z.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/6972553380_c768b395c3_z.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5350/6938055620_b535daaa34_z.jpg http://farm6...
- Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:20 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Am I a jerk if I donate one, unmatched glove to Goodwill?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4633
Re: Am I a jerk if I donate one, unmatched glove to Goodwill
What manner of glove is this? Boxing? Leather? Rubber? Golf? Driving? Sequened? Baseball? Motocross? Generic snow glove? Mitten?
- Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:32 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: How does linkedin know who I know?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12364
Re: How does linkedin know who I know?
it doesn't explain anything about the algorithm at all That's the secret sauce. You don't get that recipe out of a cookbook. As an aside, I don't think that something like LinkedIn is handled by SQL. It's a Big Data problem so they're probably using something more advanced. NoSQL and Hadoop (plus a...
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:35 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: How does linkedin know who I know?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12364
Re: How does linkedin know who I know?
Diadem wrote:advanced datamining
- Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:46 pm UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: New webcomic - Maybe Hilarious
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6744
Re: New webcomic - Maybe Hilarious
Well, normally a link might help. But, since this is your first post you won't be able to actually post a link until your 5th post as per the forums rules.
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:41 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to get a job?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6698
Re: How to get a job?
There's always loans and community college to make entry to education a bit less monetarily intensive. Finding employment w/o a college degree is considerably tougher, and the unemployment rate among those with no college degree is like double than the rate among those with a college degree. There's...
- Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:39 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Using a GPS Tracker to Catch a Bike Thief
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4367
Re: Using a GPS Tracker to Catch a Bike Thief
Even if you get great coordinates to where this bike gets taken to if stolen (and there's no guarantee that it will get stolen, or stolen by the same guy), the cops are likely to do nothing about it likely even if the value of the bike is great enough to warrant felony theft. Thousands of bikes are ...
- Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:30 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Airport Security and Airlines question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1170
Re: Airport Security and Airlines question
I's say that the lesser of the problems involved in this situation deal with a scientific specimen and more with the preservation alcohol.
When in doubt, FedEx (not in a jar of alcohol obviously, but wrapped in alcohol-soaked cheesecloth and sealed in a bag).
When in doubt, FedEx (not in a jar of alcohol obviously, but wrapped in alcohol-soaked cheesecloth and sealed in a bag).
- Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:38 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Boy Thread: put a hat on ur butt
- Replies: 14353
- Views: 1198099
Re: Boy Thread: put a hat on ur butt
I can get through a shave with my safety razor as quick if not quicker than with my cartridge razor. Generally with the cartridge razor it clogs up after a few strokes and needs to be rinsed, whereas the safety razor can do half of my face w/o a rinse. And when I do have to rinse it, it's just a qui...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:49 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Post your boat race.
- Replies: 20908
- Views: 2454388
Re: Postify your facerity
Spoiler:
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:42 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Post your boat race.
- Replies: 20908
- Views: 2454388
Re: Postify your facerity
FaiD cross-post, but applicable nonetheless.


- Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:19 pm UTC
- Forum: Religious Wars
- Topic: Bowties Vs. Ties
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10934
Re: Bowties Vs. Ties
I'm a fan of both types of ties. Though, each has it's own proper time to shine. Unfortunately I don't have many reasons to wear a tie in my line of work but I enjoy wearing one when an opportunity comes around. And personally I'm preferable to the 4-in-hand knot for the little bit of added personal...
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:06 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Post your boat race.
- Replies: 20908
- Views: 2454388
Re: Postify your facerity
Appearing like a specter out of the dark, and disappearing as he came.
- Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:46 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Boy Thread: put a hat on ur butt
- Replies: 14353
- Views: 1198099
Re: Boy Thread: put a hat on ur butt
Have you recently thinned the underbrush?
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:51 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Men's Fashion
- Replies: 396
- Views: 113487
Re: Men's Fashion
Is that even a thing? You can't wear pinstripes to a wedding? It's not. At all. I'm not saying you can't, but... Show up at a wedding in bold stripes and you run the risk of looking like a banker or someone who works on wall street or this asshole (now that's a power suit). Generally, the more fine...
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:40 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Men's Fashion
- Replies: 396
- Views: 113487
Re: Men's Fashion
I disagree with the author's statement (emphasis mine): Your first suit should be either navy blue or gray, possibly with a light chalk stripe (like a pinstripe, but softer) , and in an all-season, medium weight Your first suit should be as versatile as possible, since duh, you only have one. And on...
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:12 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Living alone: anecdotes and such
- Replies: 69
- Views: 12251
Re: Living alone: anecdotes and such
gorcee wrote:#1 pro for living alone: not having to close the door when you pee.
I don't close the door to pee when just my wife is around. Of course, if she was a regular roommate the door would definitely be closed.
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:32 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Web Aesthetics & Ergonomics
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6614
Re: Web Aesthetics & Ergonomics
Wut? Verifying access? Who's using Javascript to open new pages in the same window? I don't think we're talking about the same things, or work today has got me burned out more than usual or something... EDIT: Oh, I see, I wasn't referring to the bit of your post about about javascript stopping peopl...
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:18 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Web Aesthetics & Ergonomics
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6614
Re: Web Aesthetics & Ergonomics
Personal philosophy on links and new windows: If a link goes to an external website from the website in question (or any page that doesn't have the navigation to get back to where the user currently is), target="_blank". Else wise, same window. I believe that if the user wanted the link t...
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:09 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Web Aesthetics & Ergonomics
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6614
Re: Web Aesthetics & Ergonomics
I prefer that a Web site obey standards, and I prefer that it be perfectly usable in a text browser. It is due to Web sites that violate these rules that I am forced against my will to use a bloated GUI Web browser such as Firefox. So you're that .001% of people showing up in my web analytics using...
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:24 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: National Parks
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4087
Re: National Parks
Yosemite National Park is a little far from Kansas to really consider for this trip but is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. Hiking was great. Views, spectacular. Some photos from my last trip: http://www.alexjacque.com/greent2/uploads/501r14-4.jpg http://www.alexjacque.com/greent2/up...
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:59 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Web Aesthetics & Ergonomics
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6614
Re: Web Aesthetics & Ergonomics
Personal philosophy on links and new windows: If a link goes to an external website from the website in question (or any page that doesn't have the navigation to get back to where the user currently is), target="_blank". Else wise, same window.
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:16 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Men's Fashion
- Replies: 396
- Views: 113487