Red Ring Tupperware Party, Autumnal Equinoctal Edition (24)

I don't get that crap at all. So I guess I'm baseless

gjl711 wrote in post #17631416
Too bad we don't have 27 fingers. It would have been fun counting in base-27. Also, which hand would have the odd finger? Put a whole new spin on left/right handedness.

Use all your fingers and toes, ears, elbows, knees, and penis (or your nose if you're a female).

LV Moose wrote in post #17631419
I don't get that crap at all. So I guess I'm baseless

Well, as base zero in not possible, that would make you irrational.

gjl711 wrote in post #17631420
Well, as base zero in not possible, that would make you irrational.

Trying to appeal to our baser instincts

So base that it's in the basement being debased

by Kim Basinger?

LV Moose wrote in post #17631494
by Kim Basinger?

Wait, wasn't she the craze in fatal attraction... no wait.. that was Glenn Close. That movie frightened me.

Yeah, Glenn Close was quite the nut job in that one.

Kim Basinger was in 9 1/2 Weeks. Yummy.

Baseball night tonight. We circled the bases 26 times. I had a bad night and never got past first base. Got caught out, thrown out, or someone else got tagged out for the third out. But I picked up a handful of RBIs.

26 runs?

You guys have no mercy.

Unless your team had no defense either...

Big Sur, CA. Just last week

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Unbalanced wrote in post #17632063
26 runs?

You guys have no mercy.

Unless your team had no defense either...

There's no mercy in innings 8 and 9. Before that, there's a 7 run mercy rule per inning.

We won, but not by a whole lot. It was a high scoring game. The field we were playing on has no back fence, so a deep hit just keeps rolling. Both teams have people that can hit really deep. It was also pouring rain for most of the game, so defense was a struggle.

We just started the playoffs. We're in first place, they are in second. Tied at 8-2, but we have the +/- differential over them. We play two games against them and the total score determines the winner.

A thing I'm glad I had on my recent trip: a filter wrench. My wife picked up my camera bag, which was unzipped, and out fell my 24-70 with a B+W CPL attached. Made the threads go wonky and I couldn't unscrew the filter from the lens. Luckily I had a cheap little filter wrench in the bag and managed to get it off. No harm, no foul.

A thing I had, and lost, and miss: Remote cord. I used the tripod a lot on this trip, and always used a remote shutter release. Two days before we headed home, I lost the cord. Using the camera timer sucked! Trying to take pictures of my wife and I at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove I had to hit the 10 sec timer, then scramble over uneven rough granite to get to my spot. Many attempts, a couple of which worked out okay. The others... I fell over twice trying to quickly sit on a rock next to her, twice more scraped up my leg on the rocks, and didn't make it in time for a few other shots. I ordered another cord the day I got home. I'm too old for that crap.

LV Moose wrote in post #17632648
A thing I'm glad I had on my recent trip: a filter wrench. My wife picked up my camera bag, which was unzipped, and out fell my 24-70 with a B+W CPL attached. Made the threads go wonky and I couldn't unscrew the filter from the lens. Luckily I had a cheap little filter wrench in the bag and managed to get it off. No harm, no foul. ....

I'm not a fan of filter wrenches. Most jammed filters are like yours, the threads get crossed and using a filter wrench just powers through the unscrewing process damaging the filter threads as well as camera threads. Screws do not like to be unscrewed while cross threaded.

A much better way I have found is to carefully examine the filter and you will spot one section where the space is closer than the rest. When you find that spot, with a pocket knife, steak knife or other sharp flat implement, place it in between the filter ring and camera ring and gently twist the knife. Many times you will feel a slight pop as the thread slips back into place. It can then be un-threaded normally. The only time a filter wrench is handy is if Moose Cholak screwed in the filter so hard, that you cant get it started.

Well, I turned it opposite direction first (tightening slightly), then reversed. It was hard to get off, but after I did, I tried screwing it back on a couple times and it seems to thread on and off just fine. Guess I got lucky

I've also needed the use of a pair of wrenches more than a couple times when separating a CPL from a step-up ring.

Shhh. Be vewy vewy qiet. Evwy one is sweeping.