Comments on: Butterfly effects http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/ Very helpful! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:25:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Colin http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-4038 Colin Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:57:37 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-4038 No, that picture had disappeared, and that's because I just upgraded WordPress. I made some changes a while back that broke one of WP's alleged features ("auto-correct your HTML") so I could make my image management work. The new version breaks my code that breaks the alleged feature. I've retaliated with the <a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/disable-wpautop/" rel="nofollow">Disable wpautop</a> plugin until I can re-administer my featurectomy or implement a counterfeature. At any rate, I've fixed the post. Butterfly! No, that picture had disappeared, and that’s because I just upgraded WordPress. I made some changes a while back that broke one of WP’s alleged features (”auto-correct your HTML”) so I could make my image management work. The new version breaks my code that breaks the alleged feature. I’ve retaliated with the Disable wpautop plugin until I can re-administer my featurectomy or implement a counterfeature.

At any rate, I’ve fixed the post. Butterfly!

]]> By: Punam http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-4037 Punam Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:41:06 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-4037 I don't see any close up butterfly pictures. I don’t see any close up butterfly pictures.

]]> By: BDEaston http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3994 BDEaston Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:12:39 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3994 Bah, you and your warm bodies of water. The wind chill is -6 today and it's much warmer outside than it has been in a couple of days (only a 2 hour delay instead of schools closed). On monday we didn't have any water because the pipes had frozen so we had to put a bucket of water by the toilet and live like hippies (yellow - mellow; brown - flush down) until the pipes were thawed. Speaking of panoramas, the <a href="http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=12913" rel="nofollow"> camera</a> I just got for my birthday comes with some image stitching software and supposedly has some settings to help take panoramic pictures. Maybe when it isn't so freaking cold I'll try and take some pictures that aren't of my mess of an apartment. I can't wait to get my <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/80da/" rel="nofollow">tripod</a> either. (ThinkGeek might be one of my favorite sites to browse.) Anyway, pictures in future. I just might have to open a flikr account or something. Bah, you and your warm bodies of water. The wind chill is -6 today and it’s much warmer outside than it has been in a couple of days (only a 2 hour delay instead of schools closed). On monday we didn’t have any water because the pipes had frozen so we had to put a bucket of water by the toilet and live like hippies (yellow - mellow; brown - flush down) until the pipes were thawed.

Speaking of panoramas, the camera I just got for my birthday comes with some image stitching software and supposedly has some settings to help take panoramic pictures. Maybe when it isn’t so freaking cold I’ll try and take some pictures that aren’t of my mess of an apartment. I can’t wait to get my tripod either. (ThinkGeek might be one of my favorite sites to browse.) Anyway, pictures in future. I just might have to open a flikr account or something.

]]> By: Ken http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3993 Ken Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:45:28 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3993 Oh pretty stuff and I laughed a bit at the oh-so-Colin "load bearing genitalia". It was -13 here Monday night with the wind-chill and PECO had our power and thus our heat out from 5pm to 10am Tuesday. Ken was chilly. Oh pretty stuff and I laughed a bit at the oh-so-Colin “load bearing genitalia”. It was -13 here Monday night with the wind-chill and PECO had our power and thus our heat out from 5pm to 10am Tuesday. Ken was chilly.

]]> By: Colin http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3992 Colin Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:36:27 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3992 What you can't see in any of the pictures is that I'm wearing shorts in all of them. State-of-the-art performance outerwear and a helmet liner, sure, but then shorts. I think that the coolest picture is the butterfly closeup, which Punam took. It required quite a bit of patience to get close enough to a still enough butterfly for a quality image with our stone-age digicam. Remember, in the opening credits of <i>The Flintstones</i>, where someone takes a picture, and the lith-punk camera is a box with a woodpecker (stonepecker?) who chisels the image it sees into a little stone tablet? I think that's actually how they made digital cameras back in 1999, except using a Maxwell's Demon who looks out the lens, then traces out the photo on a big ol' array of buttons. The best thing that's happened to it, in terms of its continued usefulness, has been my discovery of one-stop free (as in speech and as in beer) software for panorama stitching, so I can get five million pixels as long as I'm willing to take four or five overlapping shots. What you can’t see in any of the pictures is that I’m wearing shorts in all of them. State-of-the-art performance outerwear and a helmet liner, sure, but then shorts.

I think that the coolest picture is the butterfly closeup, which Punam took. It required quite a bit of patience to get close enough to a still enough butterfly for a quality image with our stone-age digicam. Remember, in the opening credits of The Flintstones, where someone takes a picture, and the lith-punk camera is a box with a woodpecker (stonepecker?) who chisels the image it sees into a little stone tablet? I think that’s actually how they made digital cameras back in 1999, except using a Maxwell’s Demon who looks out the lens, then traces out the photo on a big ol’ array of buttons. The best thing that’s happened to it, in terms of its continued usefulness, has been my discovery of one-stop free (as in speech and as in beer) software for panorama stitching, so I can get five million pixels as long as I’m willing to take four or five overlapping shots.

]]> By: Bentatsu http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3987 Bentatsu Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:56:51 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3987 The wind chill was -2 today. Not jealous of your climate or anything, just thought you'd like to know. The wind chill was -2 today. Not jealous of your climate or anything, just thought you’d like to know.

]]> By: Abby http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3985 Abby Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:12:32 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/02/06/butterfly-effects/#comment-3985 awesome pictures awesome pictures

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