tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236862622024-03-14T10:58:17.527-04:00Least Significant Bits<br><br>Whatever I feel like talking about at any given time. You know. Stuff. <br><br>Copyright © 2022 John A. Masters. All rights reserved.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.comBlogger898125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-61979152741681114532022-05-15T00:49:00.001-04:002022-05-15T00:51:34.615-04:00Picture Post, Sunday May 15, 2022<p>It has been a ridiculously long time since I posted a new blog post.</p><p>Lord knows A LOT has happened in the past almost-four-years since my most recent blog post.</p><p>Covid 19 and Joe Biden becoming US President have happened, though I'm not sure which is worse.</p><p>But, to post something after all this time, I'll just put up some recent photos I've taken.</p><p>1&2. SpaceX Falcon 9 Friday, May 6 at 5:42 a.m. ET, SpaceX launch of 53 Starlink satellites
from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Taken from Space View Park in Titusville, Florida. #2. Taken a few minutes after a SpaceX rocket launch. From Space View Park in Titusville, Florida.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Time-Exposures/i-pbxV2Jr/0/2adf1e32/X2/XT4_May06_22-4288-X2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="267" src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Time-Exposures/i-pbxV2Jr/0/2adf1e32/X2/XT4_May06_22-4288-X2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuji X-T4,<span style="font-size: small;"> Fujinon 10-24mm F4 OIS WR lens </span>@11.5mm, f/18,and 400s</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/World-At-Large-Newer-Stuff/i-6rc8m32/0/3c07b2c2/X2/XT4_May06_22-4289-X2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="267" src="https://photos.smugmug.com/World-At-Large-Newer-Stuff/i-6rc8m32/0/3c07b2c2/X2/XT4_May06_22-4289-X2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuji X-T4,<span style="font-size: small;"> Tamron 18-300mm </span>18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 DiIII-A VC VXD lens@18mm, f/14,and 120s</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>3. SpaceX Falcon 9 Saturday, March 19 at 12:42 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launch of 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Taken from the beach at Jetty Park in Port Canaveral, Fla.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Time-Exposures/i-Lcv7MRC/0/23114b84/X2/XT4_Mar19_22-1953-X2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Time-Exposures/i-Lcv7MRC/0/23114b84/X2/XT4_Mar19_22-1953-X2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuji X-T4,<span style="font-size: small;"> Fujinon 10-24mm F4 OIS WR lens </span>@10mm, f/20,and 240s</td></tr></tbody></table><p>4. Day time Moon. Taken from my Palm Bay, Florida back yard on May 10, 2022 at 5:21pm Eastern time<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/World-At-Large-Newer-Stuff/i-bXx9vvN/0/010a6b7c/X2/XT4_May10_22-4579-X2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="267" src="https://photos.smugmug.com/World-At-Large-Newer-Stuff/i-bXx9vvN/0/010a6b7c/X2/XT4_May10_22-4579-X2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/200s @ f/8 Fuji X-T4, Nikon 400mm Ai f/5.6 lens w/Nikon TC-14B teleconverter (840mm 35mm eq)</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>5. Night time Moon. Taken from my Palm Bay, Florida back yard on May 9, 2022 at 11:45pm Eastern time</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/World-At-Large-Newer-Stuff/i-g9BjWvg/0/71cc3efe/X2/XT4_May09_22-4565-X2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="267" src="https://photos.smugmug.com/World-At-Large-Newer-Stuff/i-g9BjWvg/0/71cc3efe/X2/XT4_May09_22-4565-X2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/30s @ f/8 Fuji X-T4, Nikon 400mm Ai f/5.6 lens w/Nikon TC-14B teleconverter (840mm 35mm eq)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-61302730920662987432018-07-17T23:27:00.001-04:002018-07-18T00:10:36.597-04:00Sea Oats, Indialantic, Florida<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Here's a colorful Florida photo for anyone who might happen upon this blog. <br />
I have been posting political posts lately, and thought I'd do something different, like post a photo.<br />
I do have a photography blog, sans politics, called <a href="http://jampictures.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Brevard County Images</a> if you care to see it.<br />
People of all political persuasions are welcome to visit and comment on either or both blogs.<br />
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I use a Fuji mirrorless camera and have two Fuji auto focus lenses made for that camera system. I have numerous older manual focus lenses originally designed for and used on 35mm SLR film cameras, that are capable of being adapted to work with this camera.<br />
I absolutely love the camera and the Fujifilm X system.<br />
The problem is money.<br />
Fujinon lenses, lenses made by Fujifilm, are fairly expensive, but one advantage of a mirrorless camera system is that, due to the physical size, many old, manual focus camera lenses from many different lens manufacturers can be adapted to, and used, on these cameras.<br />
With this photo, I had carried an old, Nikon 50mm manual focus lens with me and thought it's wide maximum aperture would make it a good choice to get a photo of this nearby sea oat in crisp detail and yet give the farther distant Atlantic Ocean and the beach a pleasant, colorful blur.<br />
Outrageous colors provided by God Himself, with the help of about a 1/3 to 1/2 stop underexposure.<br />
I hope y'all like it.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-44481856470262031752018-07-11T13:06:00.000-04:002018-07-14T23:15:41.496-04:00American Liberals Are Causing Oceans To Rise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After decades of being preached to about the imminent dangers of the supposed rising sea levels, due to, according to them, man-made climate change, I now see that <u>it's the world's Trump-hating Liberals that are causing any sea level changes</u>.<br />
The sheer volume of the tears of Earth's liberals, over - every - freaking - thing since the November 2016 presidential election easily has the potential to cause more detrimental sea level changes than any possible rise caused by the other 6.5 billion carbon-spewing people on earth who are not Trump-hating liberals.<br />
I can't go to the mail box at the side of the street in front of my house without getting my shoes/socks/feet wet from stepping in big puddles of liberal's tears.<br />
Question: Have liberals never had to read The Boy Who Cried Wolf in school as a kid?<br />
Heck, I joke about having grown up going to Louisiana public schools, but even I got that story loud and clear as a young'n.<br />
The whole DEFCON I thing where the world's liberals now live, long-term, and their constant bleating about the wolf's arrival have proven quite false, thus far, don't you think?<br />
Two easily-arrived-at determinations of the non-ending crying are, a) people tune them out and ignore them and b) the Crocodile Tears of Fake-ness actually will drive people away from liberal political opinions and to voting to support the much-improved economy and incredibly low unemployment figures of the Trump administration's economic policies.<br />
I do get tired of liberal's crying, but I do like seeing President Trump cause them to come out of their shells and show themselves for the bat poop crazy, unreasonable people they have actually been all along.<br />
But, as a liberal actor, in the guise of a movie character, once said, "Stupid is as stupid does." <br />
There's even a <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/erichreimer/2018/07/09/the-walkaway-movement-is-taking-america-by-storm-n2498426" target="_blank">Walk Away movement</a> by former liberals/Democrats, encouraging their former protest-mates to get a brain and to get a life.<br />
I miss the days when I could have a reasonable political discussion of politics with a liberal friend.<br />
That started changing under George W. Bush's administration, and by the
day after the presidential election of 2016, even people I thought
stopped being able to talk politics like a human and instead chose to
become screeching doomsayers like the talking heads on MSNBC.<br />
I know that I may often sound like an unreasonable conservative on this blog, blogs are one-sided by their nature, BUT!, I know what I believe, AND WHY I BELIEVE IT.<br />
I believe that liberalism as being practiced in America by those in power in the Democratic party is intellectually wrong and dangerous.<br />
I AM a hard-core political conservative, so sounding harsh on here is a risk I'm willing to take.<br />
Even my most strident diatribe here is nothing compared to the screeching by "experts" on CNN or MSNBC. Unreasonable mental gymnastics are required to follow what, to a liberal, is sound reasoning on shows such as Rachel Maddow's. Girl be crazy.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-21157482764243199622018-07-09T13:59:00.000-04:002018-07-09T13:59:20.578-04:00THE Most Important Point About Trump's Supreme Court Choice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have looked, read, thought, and otherwise obsessed over the Supreme Court Appointee choice that President Donald Trump will make in the summer of 2018 to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.<br />
No matter how I look at the issues and the individual judge choices, which are important, ONE THING of importance stands head and shoulders above all others in this particular case.<br />
The most important thing about President Trump's next Supreme Court choice is simply THAT HILLARY CLINTON IS NOT IN OFFICE TO MAKE THAT CHOICE.<br />
And, although the world seems really crazy to me, that last fact allows me to sleep a little better at night.<br />
I would, hands-down, prefer ANY Supreme Court Justice picked from the list of possible appointees that Trump listed as far back as during his presidential campaign run (a truly impressively accomplished list of judges if you take the time to look at them), than any justice Hillary Clinton would have chosen.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-13082534827877758062018-06-27T17:53:00.002-04:002018-06-27T17:54:20.875-04:00Labor Unions are Crying; June 27, 2018Glory Hallelujah!<br />
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States of America declared it unconstitutional for public sector labor unions continue to <strike>steal</strike>, um, deduct "fees" from the paychecks of any employee anywhere.<br />
If you love labor unions and their money laundering of "fees" and union dues directly into the coffers of liberal Democratic political candidates, then you are probably crying.<br />
I have no love for labor unions, based on personal experience and the effects of union members on beloved members of my family, and therefore LOVE this decision.<br />
The fact that union membership is at an all-time low, yet labor union donations to national Democratic political candidates is at an all-time high, goes farther than I could elucidate here to show that today's labor unions reason for existence is to finance the Democratic Party and liberal parties. <br />
I'll just let it go at that.<br />
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<br />JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-35020314233869247402018-06-21T16:23:00.001-04:002018-06-21T16:23:54.826-04:00Taxation Without RepresentationJune 21, 2018.<br />
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Aaaaand, America has come full circle.<br />
Well, at the very least another example of America having come full circle regarding another reason that provoked the Founding Fathers to break off from England.<br />
The Supreme Court of the United States of America, in a 5-4 decision, has decided that any particular state can collect taxes from people who live in other states.<br />
The door to collecting taxes in every single aspect of the internet has been shoved open by the US Supreme Court.<br />
I'm not surprised at all.<br />
I AM disappointed.<br />
Just another way "The Man" is determined to keep us individuals "down."JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-70980929503679639772018-06-20T10:28:00.000-04:002018-06-20T10:37:39.788-04:00Hating On Trump for Illegal Alien Child Separations?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjscz6GMOlVdwH-rKdKYk6JNVcZA-TOrpzuT9KkNaAASrN3KHNbgEMtB56B-5I2WHN7R9s6Yc6Tzh4_6RWPutAUGVMM6Vu74fVPudjEfbffG83dJy3M6e1w8s3_lRwEpoq8FwMd1A/s1600/cue-the-fake-liberal-tears.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjscz6GMOlVdwH-rKdKYk6JNVcZA-TOrpzuT9KkNaAASrN3KHNbgEMtB56B-5I2WHN7R9s6Yc6Tzh4_6RWPutAUGVMM6Vu74fVPudjEfbffG83dJy3M6e1w8s3_lRwEpoq8FwMd1A/s200/cue-the-fake-liberal-tears.jpg" width="200" /></a>Hate seeing babies separated from their parents on the border? <br />
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It's really funny, in an un-funny way, how liberals in June 2018 are hating on Donald Trump for the US's laws on handling illegal aliens entering the country...illegally.<br />
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Just a reminder, folks.<br />
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This has been going on for Many years. Yes, even all through the Immaculate One, Barack Obama's administration.<br />
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Here's but <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/hhs-handed-child-migrants-to-human-traffickers.html" target="_blank">one of many, many possible examples of the Obama Administration doing baby separating</a> on a massive scale, that never even got Rachel Maddow to shed one single, fake, crocodile tear...<br />
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Where were the crying liberals blaming Obama for the THOUSANDS of family separations he was in charge of? <br />
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Yep, it's unfortunate, but it is, and has been for years, The Law of the Land.<br />
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Don't like the law? Contact your Congressman -woman, Senator, to have them change it.<br />
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"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." -
Abraham Lincoln<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Next
week we both know you'll be whining about a completely different thing, having totally forgotten "the children," just like y'all always do when it's convenient for you and your politics.</span></span><br />
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<br />JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-34916676473405824992017-12-19T08:00:00.002-05:002017-12-19T08:02:23.435-05:00What Christmas Songs - versions/artists - Do You Hate?I like to listen to a lot of different kinds of music.<br />
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I have to admit to being a guitar nut, so pretty much any music with good guitar will attract me like moth to a flame.<br />
This is why I tend to hate rap, not because I'm a racist schmuck, but because rap very, very rarely has any guitar parts. Someone talking over a phat beat is not something I care to listen to.<br />
Gibson Musical Instruments used to have ads in guitar magazines showing a person from mid-chest to knees, sitting with a Les Paul guitar in their lap. The caption of the ad said, "Lyrics, wasted time between guitar solos." That pretty much sums up a great portion of my musical tastes.<br />
When it comes to Christmas music, my tastes are very traditional. <br />
I love instrumental music. There are some great instrumental Christmas albums out from over the decades. We've all heard the lyrics to many Christmas classics so many thousands of times that instrumental versions are awesome, and let us add the lyrics in our heads. <br />
So, when an artist "gets jazzy" and tries to change an old Christmas song to make it their own, they generally fail in my estimation.<br />
First on my list of hated Christmas song versions is, of course, Barbara Streisand's version of Jingle Bells.<br />
I consider it a good Christmas season for myself if I somehow escape hearing Bab's version of Jingle Bells. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why any radio host would play this travesty of a Christmas song. I think I got my point across on that one.<br />
Another Christmas song version that can ruin my week is Bruce Springsteen's version of Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. I have a dear, dear friend who loves, loves, loves each and every song by Bruce Springsteen. As in, my friend sees no error in any song choice or performance by Mr. Springsteen, ever. That's cool. I have bands and artists that have done little wrong in my mind, but even my favorite artists let out a stinky fart of a song now and then, so I have no understanding of liking EVERY SINGLE THING a musical artist ever does. The "constipated" Bruce Springsteen showed up at the studio the day they recorded this son and he sings as if he's trying to rid his body of a particularly reluctant bit of excrement. Excrement, that's the perfect word for this song.<br />
I am truly sorry if you love this version of Santa's Comin', but I cannot abide it.<br />
Albert Einstein stated that noting can exceed the speed of light, but I have to say I believe my hand moving to change a radio channel when one of these two songs comes on quite possibly passes through the light speed barrier in any Christmas season.<br />
If I thought for a while, I could come up with a bunch more Christmas song versions that drive me up the wall but I'll just list a couple more and open the floor for your comments.<br />
I'd love to know what Christmas song versions are out there that you hate!<br />
Oh yeah, anything by Rhianna. I had the TV's song channel on one time and they were playing Christmas music and I heard a song by someone who was blatantly singing off-pitch. I went over to look at the TV to see who was able to get a song recorded and played in public in which the singing "artist" was so obviously pitchy. It was Rhianna.<br />
Later I heard another Christmas song with the same off-pitch singing. Sure enough, going over to the TV revealed the culprit to be Rhianna. Maybe she's talent-less, maybe she needs to quit smoking, but either way, her Christmas songs were terrible. If "I" can tell you're off-pitch, you're off-pitch BAD!<br />
How about some hate for Dean Martin's version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer?<br />
I hate most lounge singer's songs of ANY type, but Christmas ones the most because the lounge singer types try, in vain, to make the songs sound hip and happening. They invariably fail at this. And, to add insult to injury, Mr. Martin has the gall to call the legendary Rudolph, "Ol' Rudy" in the song. How dare he?<br />
OK, let me have it. Show me the error of my ways on Bruce's or Bab's Christmas tunes. Or add to my list and tell me which Christmas songs out there for public consumption send bad shivers up your spine.<br />
Merry Christmas 2017!<br />
God Bless You AllJAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-40518461731938225972017-03-15T20:06:00.000-04:002017-03-15T20:08:34.804-04:00Doing My Duty as an America Citizen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had jury duty today.Don't worry, I wasn't chosen, so my strange way of looking at the world wasn't foisted upon the judicial system.<br />
The morning was spent in "The Jury Room" where we all waited to be called, or not called in my case.<br />
They bragged about the unlimited coffee they kept fresh for us.<br />
This was a non-issue for me because I hate coffee in all it's nefarious, EE-VIL forms.<br />
But they also supplied the jury room with an old TV set on a rolling cart, and below it on the shelves were: 1) A VHS VCR, 2) A jumble of old, pre-recorded VHS tape movies, and 3) a stack of 300, 500, and 1000 piece puzzles.<br />
They had Robocop, so I was planning to start that if things got desperate enough to watch an old VHS tape.<br />
The clouds parted for me when they mentioned that, for jurors, the building's cafe gave out free coffee and hot chocolate.<br />
I'm not much for hot drinks, but hot chocolate? Heck yeah.<br />
So I went down there and walked past the meager little coffee cups and got me a McDonald's medium sized Styrofoam soda "cup" and topped it off with the free hot chocolate.<br />
I immediately scalded my tongue, mouth, and the first few inches of my throat. That was the 12,654th reminder of why I avoid hot drinks.<br />
I had to wait over 30 minutes for the chocolate to be drinkable, but it lasted me a while.<br />
I spent a solid hour reading one of my camera manuals on my little tablet, I like to read non-fiction in waiting rooms, and learned some camera features that I either didn't know were there or how to better use features I knew about.<br />
Then I dozed a while, I don't think I snored, but I wasn't awake enough to be sure, so...<br />
Then just before lunch time, they let the rest of us go.<br />
The state of Florida uses the list of licensed drivers for their pool of folks to choose for jurors, not the registered voter rolls like many people think.<br />
I've known a lot of people in my life that didn't register to vote simply becasue they don't want to be a juror.<br />
You'd get a surprise if you assumed you were "safe" from that in Florida.<br />
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<br />JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-43525769320888856262016-08-14T20:28:00.002-04:002016-08-14T20:28:42.714-04:00Falcon 9 Rocket Launch, 1:26AM 8/14/16<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My younger daughter leaves this week for graduate school in Sweden.<br />
We went with her older sister to Cocoa Beach, Florida to watch one more night rocket launch together.<br />
Having grown up here on the Space Coast, space shuttle and rocket launches have been a recurring part of their lives.<br />
She knows it could possibly be years, if she's ever able to see another rocket launch.<br />
They never get old.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-23003439436569557352016-07-28T16:04:00.000-04:002016-07-28T16:04:14.704-04:00Trump Asked Russia To Hack American Government Computers!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not really. That was just the catchiest title I could think of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WARNING! What follows here is a political screed, written by
me, John Masters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
thin-skinned, do NOT read this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is
me angry and letting off steam. I'm a really nice guy, but even nice
guys get mad now and then. Think of this as me getting my anger out "on
paper" and putting it to sea in a bottle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those who feel
that "Trump invited Russia to hack into US State Department servers!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Um, NEWS FLASH! Trump was engaging in something called "sarcasm"
when he "asked" Russia to find Hillary's emails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please, for the love of Pete, Google the meaning of the word
"sarcasm."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The word Trump used, FIND, does not, and never will mean,
"hack into the United States State Department, or any other US government computers,"
<b>mainly because...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hillary's server she used for her emails was NEVER, EVER, EVER
part of the U.S. State Department!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hillary's server she personally had set up in the bathroom closet of a
Denver facility (can't make this stuff up folks) used during her disastrous
tenure as US Secretary of State WAS PRIVATE, remember? NOT in any way, shape,
or form was this PRIVATE SERVER part of any US Government computer system. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess the media and the left didn't know or
conveniently forget this in their desire for Trump to be "investigated."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That Hillary Clinton in her official
capacity, knowingly placed secure US documents on an extremely vulnerable
private server was a big part of why she was investigated regarding the emails
in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The irony here is thick enough to need a big man wielding a sharp machete
to even scratch the surface of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The media, and apparently many Americans, were totally
unprepared to handle the concept of someone running for POTUS to use
sarcasm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
media, and the US political left in general, have always seen
themselves as more hip, smarter, and better in every meaningful way than
us
rubes on the right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it beginning to
dawn on you that Donald Trump got under the skin of the media and the left in
your hunger to see him go down?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You gotta admit, Trump TOTALLY made the media and the left
in general look like the clueless fly-over-country types this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the bottom line:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is IMPOSSIBLE for ANYONE to go "find" Hillary's
emails because:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A.) The server no longer exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hasn't existed for a couple of years now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
IMPOSSIBLE to hack a non-existent computer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">B.) According to Hillary, she had deleted the 30,000
emails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently, even if the server
still existed, the emails are gone, because, according to Hillary whom we all
know never lies, the 30,000 emails were long ago deleted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The absolute worst, most serious charge that could possibly be drummed-up
and leveled against Donald Trump here is simply that he advocated a foreign
nation to break into a private computer server.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I personally think that'll go nowhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But the mainstream in-the-bag-for-Hillary media and the left tend to be pretty
vindictive and so, I could be wrong.</span></span></span>JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-69731839285852128952016-07-21T22:26:00.001-04:002016-07-21T22:28:11.865-04:00How I See ThingsMy problem, is that I usually DON'T see things.<br />
<br />
I'm one of those people that can travel the same path to and from, say,
work, every day but then cannot tell you what businesses are along this
well-traveled path.<br />
<br />
I don't know if that's good, because I'm
concentrating on driving, or bad, because I'm not aware of my
surroundings as much as I should be.<br />
<br />
But when I have my camera, I suddenly see everything.<br />
<br />
This orange sunset in the windows of this boat caught my peripheral vision on Wednesday evening.<br />
<br />
Had I not had my camera<span class="text_exposed_show">
and was instead walking to meet a friend, I would have never bothered
to stop and look over there, much less stop and walk back and forth like
I did to get the best shot.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> "Zoom with your feet" is good advice, even if you have a zoom lens on your camera. </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"><br />
Sometimes the perspective change from using your feet instead of that
zoom (if you can, but not advisable at the edge of a cliff) makes a lot
of difference.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikon D750, Nikkor 28-300mm lens at 190mm, f/8 , 1/80sec., ISO 800</td></tr>
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JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-37476278776687508212016-07-10T11:37:00.000-04:002016-07-10T11:50:56.676-04:00While Two Black Men Die At The Hands Of Police Every Week (on average)...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Using FBI
Supplementary Homicide Reports and CDC statistics, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>between January 1, 2009 and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnrRmHyVNgm4snbb5Z-u5_ZSRUkvs1CQhe2Q-ffO-vIH22FbH1bYxCc7ZTm0vtZ1L2Qn19qjKcdijXoinuRXzmnEvXn_3S58lsfnxLBlGqJcP5U0zXuEiBoK6MV-FiM6ulF4ptDg/s1600/baby3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnrRmHyVNgm4snbb5Z-u5_ZSRUkvs1CQhe2Q-ffO-vIH22FbH1bYxCc7ZTm0vtZ1L2Qn19qjKcdijXoinuRXzmnEvXn_3S58lsfnxLBlGqJcP5U0zXuEiBoK6MV-FiM6ulF4ptDg/s1600/baby3.gif" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">December 31, 2012,
there were an average of 4,472 black men killed by black men in America each of those years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Richard Johnson, criminologist at the
University of Toledo, studied the details in these statistics from the FBI and
the Centers for Disease Control, and calculated that the average number of
black men killed in both justified and unjustified police shootings to be 112
during each of those same four years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, 2.5% of the
yearly average of 4,472 black men killed by each other or cops, were death by
cop. Again, FBI and CDC statistics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We're having internet
rage, riots and police shootings over that 2.5% of black men's deaths, while
ignoring the 97.5% of yearly black men's deaths that are within their own
communities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not much on the
news about the 97.5% of black deaths due to minority on minority violence,
except the regular reports of how many black men's deaths there are every week
in Chicago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people in Chicago are
killing each other at such an alarming rate, many of which are with guns in
this city with a huge number of restrictive gun laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go figure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And speaking of
deaths that aren't making the news...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the
Centers for Disease Control, 12.8% of the United States population is black,
yet OVER 35% of the yearly abortions in America are black babies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During that time period, abortion deaths of
Hispanic babies was 21%, while other minorities made up 7% more of the total
abortion number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At LEAST 63% of
abortions yearly are brown skinned babies and some other minorities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Margaret Sanger,
founder of Planned Parenthood, was a believer in the "science" of
eugenics, which she preached with a missionary fervor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A foundational
thesis of the founding of Planned Parenthood, and that Margaret Sanger taught
to anyone who would listen, was that "undesirables" should not BE
ALLOWED to reproduce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black people were
very much at the top of Ms. Sanger's list of folks she didn't want reproducing
in the world, and specifically America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Planned Parenthood
is still the largest abortion provider in America today, by far.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, with the CDC
yearly abortion number percentages above, it's brutally clear that Planned
Parenthood still kills babies of minority mothers in numbers that would please
Ms. Sanger and her eugenics believing pals of the early/mid 20th century.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adolf Hitler used
the "science" of eugenics as a basis for his attempted extermination
of Jews, the diseased, the handicapped, mentally unstable, gypsies, etc. in the
1930s and 1940s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, the numbers of minorities killed by police pales in comparison to
the numbers of minorities killed by other minorities, and THAT number pales in
comparison to the numbers of black and Hispanic babies killed by legal
abortions in America each and every year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Police shootings of
black men are being used as excuses for riots and the murder of on duty police
officers, while the elephants in the room, the many thousands of minority on
minority deaths, and the <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS</span></span> of minority babies dying in abortions each year
are pretty much ignored.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the media
report, and the people of America get at each others' throats about the 2
deaths of black men by cops average weekly rate, I mentally think, "Why
isn't anyone freaking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>out about the
4,350 black babies that were aborted the same week those two black men were
killed by police, and 4,350 black babies aborted the next week, and 4,350 black
babies aborted the next week..."</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That my
friends, is legal genocide.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It's kinda hard to ask for God's mercy and blessing on America when that many innocent deaths happen day after day, year after year. </span></span></span>JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-73741281081568660452016-02-17T15:47:00.003-05:002019-02-16T19:14:32.684-05:00Gibson Four Conductor, Quick Connect Wiring DifferencesA Public Service Announcement<br />
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Gibson neck and bridge four conductor humbuckers, wired traditionally, with solder, and to be used only as humbuckers without any phase switching or coil cutting, has long had the same wiring color scheme as one another.<br />
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When Gibson began to use printed circuit boards (PCBs) in many guitars like the Les Paul and the SG, at least since 2011 or so, there's a confusing difference in the bridge pickup's coils magnetic polarity and in the wiring color scheme WHEN WANTING TO WIRE IN OUT OF PHASE SWITCHING AND COIL SPITTING.<br />
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I have evaluated several different four conductor quick connect pairs of Gibson humbucker pickups and found the same wiring changes in all the bridge pickups.<br />
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I created the following picture and am posting it here in case others out there take a four conductor Gibson humbucker from the quick connect era and want to cut off the connector and wire it in WITH either an out of phase switching scheme and/or wiring in switches for coil splitting.<br />
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The several sets of four conductor quick connect neck/bridge pairs of Gibson humbucker pickups I've had all had these exact details, and I checked each set several times to be sure of what I was seeing.<br />
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I am including my email address too in case someone sees a problem in my drawing. I welcome corrections.<br />
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UPDATE: February 16, 2019<br />I have been contacted by a reader, who confronted this issue with the different wiring of newer generations of Gibson humbucker pickups that were produced with the quick connect wiring, as discussed in this post, and in the image/diagram below.<br />He had Gibson humbuckers with the quick connects clipped off, and wanted to wire his Les Paul into the Jimmy Page "this guitar can do ANYTHING" scheme.<br />This reader reported that by reversing the bar magnet in the bridge pickup resulted in the both the polarity of the pickup and the wiring then being as if it were an "old" wired Gibson pickup.<br />That was all he needed to do to "correct" this issue of modern Gibson bridge humbucker pickups seeming to be of different polarity and wiring when compared to the Gibson bridge humbucker pickups of the pre-quick connect era.<br />My heartfelt thanks to this reader for basically understanding what I talked about in this post, and to find an easy "solution" to traditionally solder wiring in the newer generations of Gibson bridge humbuckers created for the quick connect system. (Not to mention confirming that I wasn't insane in my conclusions here.)<br />
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<br />JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-49181567951181162422015-11-26T10:08:00.002-05:002015-11-26T10:08:56.072-05:00Happy Thanksgiving, Thursday November 26, 2015I have to say that, in a lot of ways, life has been kinda rough this year.<br />
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But every single time I even think about feeling sorry for myself, something or someone comes along in my life to remind me just how good I have it.<br />
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If nothing else, I have lived 53 years, even if I didn't always make the most of every day.<br />
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My older brother Paul died in 2001 at age 41.<br />
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I have lived twelve years more than he got to.<br />
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Thank you God, for all of your many blessings in my life.<br />
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Thank you God, for my life, my wife, daughters, sister-in-law, and son-in-law, and all the others I've been blessed to call family and friends, but who have moved on from this life.<br />
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God please bless America, though we're more wicked than ever and might not deserve your blessing. <br />
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I know for sure we didn't deserve Jesus, and you sent him and he came willingly, and the Holy Spirit bore Him up and now guides us here while we wait for Jesus' return.<br />
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Happy Thanksgiving and God bless whomever might read this, whenever you read this.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-2043247520149843362015-11-22T23:46:00.002-05:002015-11-22T23:46:40.935-05:00Maggie<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"<span class="quote_font"><b>...Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.</b>
It's quite a characteristic of them. They then start to nationalise
everything, and people just do not like more and more nationalisation...</span>"</span></span> -- Margaret ThatcherJAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-88593958292375535932015-11-17T18:19:00.001-05:002015-11-17T18:21:56.436-05:00Something Completely Different from the Paris Terrorist Attacks<br />
The last few days, with the islamic terrorist attacks in Paris, I've read and digested as much as I can.<br />
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Then President Obama speaks and all that I though I had digested curdles and makes me want to puke.<br />
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President Obama is the weakest, wimpiest President, well, certainly in my 53 years here.<br />
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So, instead of continuing to whine about the non-existent leadership from "the leader of the free world," I will post a pretty picture.<br />
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Posting a pretty picture for people to look at is at least as effective as President Obama's non-response to islamic terrorism in this world.<br />
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Photo taken at Melbourne Harbor Marina, Melbourne, Fla., on November 10, 6:49am. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikon D750, Nikkor 28-300mm lens at 190mm, f/32 , 1/20sec., ISO 100</td></tr>
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JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-54288021495564471112015-02-08T13:18:00.000-05:002015-02-08T13:18:03.767-05:00People Photography<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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People photography is not my specialty.</div>
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I am not a confrontational person, and when you're as big as
I am, when I try to get close with my camera to people, their reaction kills
whatever potential photo I saw.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikon D90, 18-300mm lens at 48mm, f/11, 1/160sec, ISO 200</td></tr>
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You have to be a good people person and have a lot of
personal charm to get good people photos, like a great street photographer
does.</div>
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Saturday, I hobbled around downtown Melbourne for a little
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At one point, I could see amazing light on the west-facing
buildings of a side street. so I followed the light.</div>
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When I wander with my camera, I just look for interesting
light around me and walk over there, good photographs invariably present
themselves.</div>
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On the other side of the small street, where the light was
great, a tattoo artist came out of his shop and sat down for a smoke.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikon D90, 18-300mm lens at 95mm, f/11, 1/160sec, ISO 200</td></tr>
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He looked up at me and I pointed at my camera and asked if
he minded if I took a photo or two of him and his shop.</div>
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He asked what the photos were for (people often ask if I
work for the newspaper), and I said they're just for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him I'd lived here for eighteen years
and I had realized that if I moved away I wouldn't have photos that represent
this area as I saw it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That I was trying to
now take photos that would more completely show how I see the area where I live.</div>
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He said he didn't mind and set about doing stuff on his
smart phone.</div>
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I took these photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span id="goog_2112895086"></span><span id="goog_2112895087"></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LowTideTattoosFlorida" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thanks to Matt at Low Tide Tattoos!</span></a><br />
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JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-26093982569916332612015-02-02T14:53:00.000-05:002015-02-02T14:56:18.437-05:00Why I Didn't Watch Yesterday's SuperbowlI'm fifty-two years old.<br />
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I have had four back surgeries, have the metal rods and screws along my spine to prove it, and now have chronic back and leg pain to the point that I have a morphine pain pump in my side with a catheter that runs around my side to my spine.<br />
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At the end of the catheter is a needle that is stitched in place where the tip is inside the intrathecal space (where the spinal cord and spinal fluid are).<br />
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I get a few milligrams of morphine every twenty-four hours to keep me from going insane, or simply curling up in bed and giving up on life.<br />
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I hurt anyway, but most times, I can have a life. Not anything like before my injuries, but still, I'm happy to be here.<br />
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And this, from a guy who once took pride in how much physical pain I could take. I could shake off things that would make many crumble. That was some misplaced pride, let me tell you. <br />
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I don't say all of this for sympathy, I am constantly aware of people around me and in the world who have it so much worse than I do. I thank God for my many blessings every day. I AM blessed.<br />
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But dealing with all the pain changes a person's thoughts, personality, and desires; no helping it, it just does.<br />
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On to NFL football...<br />
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When young, I loved watching Pro football. I still love college football, I watch it a lot every fall, but I have totally lost my love for Pro Football.<br />
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I guess the eternal cycling of young men through college football keeps it fresh and exciting to my mind. Pro football, not so much. Not at all is more accurate.<br />
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Now if the New Orleans Saints had been in the Superbowl again, I would have definitely watched. I'm a Louisiana boy who grew up in the era of Saints fans wearing paper sacks over their heads to hide in shame over our team's pitiful performances on the field. The Saints back in the Superbowl, I would definitely watch. For whatever reason as a kid, I loved the Minnesota Vikings, Fran Tarkenton was a childhood hero for me on and off the field, a real can-do guy. I loved the Houston Oilers, Earl Campbell is still my most favorite pro player of all time to have watched on the field. And of course, the Saints. The hapless but lovable Saints.<br />
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But with the Patriots playing the Seahawks in the 2015 Superbowl, I forget which dumb Roman numeral they are up to, well, that was just too big of a yawn to me to invest my time.<br />
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The weather here has been so beautiful this week, sunny with a few puffy, cotton boll clouds, and a light breeze in case you almost started sweating.<br />
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If you haven't been to central or south Florida in the winter, I can just say there's a reason so many elderly people retire here, and that reason ain't Disney World; it's our winter weather.<br />
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So, yesterday, my back is only hurting normally, so I can steel my mind and try to do stuff anyway, AND I had a great desire to get out and take some photos with my camera. I also needed to go to the grocery store for a few items, those in-between major grocery shopping trips items. I just wanted to stop at a a couple of local parks or something along the way to scratch this terrible itch to photograph something. I wasn't expecting anything new, this is old, well-documented ground for me and my camera.<br />
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As often happens, I headed toward the beach, but started seeing interesting things in the golden evening light along the way, so I never made it to the beach.<br />
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Yesterday I learned that revisiting places I have photographed many times can still throw a few surprises, and therefore great new photo opportunities, at me. <br />
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This blog post is sprinkled with some of the photos I took while the rest of the world gorged on beer, pizza, chips, and Superbowl football.<br />
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Then, as a bonus, Walmart was as close to empty as I had ever seen it in many years, so shopping was fairly easy for me, no crowds or lines at the registers when checking out.<br />
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All in all it was a much better time for me than watching that game could ever have been, well, unless the Saints had been in there.<br />
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But probably even better than that scenario as well.<br />
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These were the only Saints I was able to see yesterday...<br />
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<br />JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-27764727705151215372015-01-22T15:57:00.001-05:002015-01-22T17:19:40.524-05:00Favorite Photo of Atlas V Rocket Launch, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 This is the same post as on my John's Daily Digital Images blog for today.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikon D90, Nikon 10-24mm lens at 10mm, f/16, 139 seconds, ISO 200</td></tr>
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I live about forty miles (65km) south of Kennedy Space Center. You've heard of that.<br />
Just
south of Kennedy Space Center is Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
where many rocket launches also happen, especially US military sponsored
launches (Secure military base). This puts this photo having been taken from about thirty miles south of the launch, as the crow flies.<br />
This was a US Navy satellite being lifted to orbit on this Atlas V.<br />
I
knew the launch was that day, but sat, searching Google Earth for a
good local location to get a time exposure shot of the launch.<br />
I settled on, and went to Ballard Park, set up and took a few practice shots and waited.<br />
When I saw a big portion of the sky light up behind those palm trees, I started my exposure.<br />
This is one of my best photos I've taken in a long, long time.<br />
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The second photo is a crop of the first.<br />
I just loved the way the light through those clouds looked there above that home and palm trees.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-79965143744582423172015-01-18T18:37:00.002-05:002015-01-18T18:55:39.419-05:00Picture Post, Sunday January 18, 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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January 18th already?!<br />
Sheesh.<br />
Sorry I didn't get this up this morning. Doesn't really matter since no one sees them, but here they are anyway.<br />
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Here are some sunset photos I took this week.<br />
I had a back doctor appointment to adjust my <a href="http://www.medtronic.com/patients/chronic-pain/device/drug-pumps/what-is-it/index.htm" target="_blank">intrathecal pain pump</a>, a trip to the pharmacy, and I hoped I'd be through before sunset. (I HATE the early sunset time in winter.)<br />
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I found a local park on the Indian River Lagoon (of Indian River fruit fame) that I had never been to. Better, I had never even known this park existed and it was an exciting find.<br />
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I got there after the sun had set, and there were few clouds to catch the after-sunset color glow on the clouds, but it was a gorgeous sunset nonetheless.<br />
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Without further ado, sunset photos taken Friday, January 16, 2014. Pretty fresh, eh? <br />
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This final photo has Venus and Mercury in the upper, center, blue part of the sky. (Click to enlarge the photos.) That is, if I remember my astronomy correctly.<br />
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God bless you, and have a great week!<br />
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JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-22841363140802563062015-01-11T06:30:00.000-05:002015-11-17T18:26:54.705-05:00Picture Post, Sunday January 11, 2015A week ago today, Jan. 4, I saw some great light in the afternoon.<br />
I grabbed my camera bag, and despite the back and leg pain, headed for the Atlantic Ocean. Cabin fever seemed to have set in, and it was so nice outside.<br />
Well, I never made it to the ocean.<br />
I was almost to US Highway 1 in Palm Bay and as I approached a train crossing, I thought the crossing lights and such would make some interesting photos.<br />
I love big mechanical things.<br />
I parked in between some palm trees that decorate the median of the road and got out for a few minutes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikon D90, 18-300mm lens at 120mm, f/11, 1/100sec, ISO 200</td></tr>
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God Bless You! Have a great day.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-20591231203840834032015-01-07T12:56:00.004-05:002015-11-17T18:26:39.323-05:00Paris Murders Over Mohammed Cartoons 1/7/15The "religion of peace," islam, whose followers believe it is blasphemy to create an image representing their false prophet, the pedophile Mohammed, have expressed their love of their fellow man once again by shooting and killing twelve people in Paris. The people killed worked for a paper/magazine which had dared print photo cartoons of Mohammed.<br />
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Radical islamists are acting in world societies as a virus more than a religion.<br />
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They are scumbag murderers who revere a murderous pedophile.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jjmccullough.com/index.php/2006/02/04/islam-the-tolerant/" target="_blank">Above is an original cartoon by J.J. McCullough.</a><br />
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Meanwhile in the US, the Obama administration waits before making a statement, to decide whether the murderous shooters shouting Allahu Akbar were performing an act of terrorism or if it was just workplace violence. Idiots.JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-23688818946368418252015-01-04T06:00:00.000-05:002015-01-04T06:00:01.399-05:00Picture Post, Sunday January 4, 2015I once loved posting my Picture Post posts on this blog most Sundays.<br />
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The sad truth is that most of these days, if I got up and grabbed my camera to head out for shooting, I'd have to stop and sit on my front porch for a while because of my back and leg pain. I've learned the hard way there are levels of pain that will absolutely shut you down, none of this grit-your-teeth-and-do-it-anyway psychobable. I get out and shoot when I can, and don't when I can't.<br />
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Also, I guess posting occasionally on Facebook kinda scratches the same itch that once got scratched by blogging, so I don't blog much any more.<br />
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But I like the ability to shout at the world on a blog post (even if I know good and well that no one will read it and comment) and that is nowhere near the same feeling as commenting on things on Facebook.<br />
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But here goes at least one more Picture Post, to try and start 2015 off on a good foot.<br />
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This first photo was taken last January, 23, 2014 on the boardwalk on the Atlantic Ocean beach at Indialantic, Florida. It is an 85 second exposure of an Atlas V rocket taking off from Cape Canaveral, about 35 miles (55km) north of us "as the crow flies." It was carrying a telecommunications satellite.<br />
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This next photo was taken at Rich Grissom Memorial Wetlands (ususally called Viera Wetlands here locally) in Viera, Florida. A really pretty, small park with an astonishing number of critters to see and photograph.<br />
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And here's a photo of one of the above-mentioned critters at Viera Wetlands. A white ibis.<br />
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Here's a seagull lineup on a railing at Front Street Park in Melbourne, Florida. The park is a popular boat launching site on the Indian River Lagoon (Intracoastal Waterway). One of the seagulls in the middle seemed to be giving me a wary eye.</div>
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This final photo was taken in mid-December, 2014 in Indialantic, Florida. Number Two Daughter and I were to pick up Lovely Wife from work and had a couple of hours to kill. So we killed them by going and looking at some of the local Christmas decorations. I have always loved these simple, pole-mounted decorations, mainly because I've seen them all my life in both small towns and big cities. Just a pretty and simple Christmas decoration to brighten anyone's day.</div>
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Have a blessed day!</div>
JAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04272374108524693575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23686262.post-30949105879626407902015-01-01T14:18:00.001-05:002015-01-03T03:41:03.975-05:00Happy New Year 2015I remember back when I was in high school in the late 1970s, I would sometimes calculate forward to see how old I would be in the year 2000. <br />
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I would be / turned 38 in the year 2000.</div>
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And now that's fifteen years ago.</div>
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Happy New Year everyone. God bless you this year!</div>
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Sunset photo taken at Juan Ponce de Leon Landing, Melbourne Beach, Fla. on Wednesday 12/10/2014.</div>
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