Today I decided was a day away from life.
I went in a general direction, and I had a blast. Here’s the first pic from it because I know mach will yell at me for not posting something ASAP.
This is from my point and shoot, which while amazing, is not a RAW from my D70. That pic will need a bunch of processing to be made available.
Give me a week or so.
-pyra
My neighbor is out for a couple weeks and has asked me to pick up his mail.
He received a movie from NetFlix. Would it be unethical for me to look at the title of the movie?
What about to watch it if it is a movie I would like to see?
The movie is “Dan in Reel Life”. Does this change your feelings about either of your answers?
In other news, a supermarket near where I like to have lunch decided to tow people who park there and do not go inside. It was done out of spite because they told the place next door that their parking lot would not be large enough.
The supermarket’s parking lot is never even close to half full, so parking there does not block an actual customer. Also, those parking there for lunch park in the spaces furthest from the supermarket itself. The few times I have actually gone inside (mostly because it was close to where I went for lunch) the store was empty.
Today, they were threatening to tow everyone. So, I went inside and found the cheapest item I could possibly use. It was a container of Tic Tacs, 85cents plus 2cents tax. I charged an 87cent item for spite. Credit cards take 25cents per transaction plus 5% of the overall sales, meaning they would take 29cents out of the sale, leaving the supermarket with a sale of 56cents to cover cost of the item, plus keeping it there, plus expenses. Was that wrong?
If I say it was a Safeway supermarket, does that change your feelings?
Remember when gas was still cheap, and under $4/gallon.
Ahh the good old days, of last week.
Today I saw $4.55/gallon. Ew. I really hope no one actually paid that much.
I know complaining about grammar on the interweb it about as effective as throwing a glass of water into a lake, but here are two things that really bug me.
Your/You’re, and Affect/Effect.
Your is possessive. Your car. Your house. Your light staff. Your Scorpion Harness.
Can I borrow your ring for this fight?
This is my gloves, not yours.
You’re is a contraction of “you are”. You’re not gonna like this.
When used as a question, can use “Are you” instead of “You’re”. You’re coming? Are you coming?
Incorrect usages. (Correct usage)
Your on your way? (You’re on your way?)
Your coming? (You’re coming? Alt: Are you coming?)
You get you’re drop from Kirin? (You get your stuff from Kirin?)
Don’t ask me why, but using the wrong ‘your’ drives me bonkers. Using “ur” doesn’t drive me quite as crazy though for some reason. I guess because the person typing it is admitting defeat from the beginning, instead of trying and failing. What really gets me is when people who are apparently quite intelligent use the wrong one.
The other pairing that annoys me is Affect/Effect, but not as much. I’m somewhat ok with this mistake because in many accents they sound the same, and the words both have a similar etymology.
Just so we know — It is a status effect, not a status affect. Your actions affected the outcome. Your actions caused this effect.
The best way to explain it — affect implies that something already exists and is altered by the action. Effect implies that something did not exist before, but does exist afterwards (ie, it was created).
Which brings up one of the best entries in a comic I like, xkcd. Effect an Effect.
Also, see the Usage Notes on the Wiktionary for Affect.
And yes, I have a good reason for burning a post, it will be clearer soon[ish].
-pyra
Subtitle — or why I was late to Limbus
Sub-subtitle — and how I learned what “Sakura” meant
Yesterday (April 5th), I took a trip down to DC for the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
And of course, I took my camera.
Washington Monument with Cherry Blossoms:
This one is so bazaar, I just love it
The branch is just suspended there, coming from no where.
It was such a big deal, that Tommy Jefferson decided to show up.
Actual size too. He really was 25 ft tall.
Here is Tommy’s House with some of the Blossoms.
Some of the trees are fairly old, with a handful of originals from about 100 years ago.
The older ones have branches that reach out over the path. This one is from behind.
Also, some of the older ones have small buds coming directly out of the larger branches.
And finally, my show off picture for today.
-pyra
Posted in Real Life
Tagged Cherry Blossoms, Photography, Real Life, Sakura, Washington DC