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Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 02:15 pm In PDX for the holidays.
I leave for Portland tomorrow morning and come home Saturday. If people want to meet up Friday or Saturday morning, please let me know.
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Nov. 20th, 2009 @ 11:48 am Seattle Times steals one of my pictures
In the Seattle Times defense, it looks like they are using an automated script to grab pictures tagged with “Bellevue”, without looking at the copyright notice.

The page:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/bellevue/

The picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adameros/4118143681/

I’ve contacted both the Seattle Times and Flickr to see if they can modify the script to check for the copyright notice. Frankly, I don’t care if individuals use my pictures for personal use, but if anyone makes money off of one of my pictures (like using it on a commercial site), I better get my cut.
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Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 10:05 pm Bellevue's twin towers.

Bellevue's twin towers., originally uploaded by adameros.

I took this last night. The only picture that turned out due to a hair on the sensor. This was a 30 second exposure, that was then edited for perspective.

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Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 10:04 pm Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows, originally uploaded by adameros.

This is one of Microsoft's buildings, downtown Bellevue.

I like how skeletal building look at night with the lights on, but all those windows looking in on Microsoft, the name seemed obvious.

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Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 10:03 pm The Last Meeting

The Last Meeting, originally uploaded by adameros.

Microsoft moved in to the building across from us. I looked over and saw this scene that reminded me of The Last Supper.

The scene, from the lights, is even yellowed, like an old painting.

Also there are 13 people in the picture, just like the painting.

And the windows echo the golden mean of the door way behind Jesus in The Last Supper.

I think this was their 14th or 15th floor. (The building has what looks like a double tall first floor, but that might just be a facade.)

I corrected the perspective, but that section of the building is curved, creating the illusion of barrel distortion.

In other news, Microsoft holds a lot of meetings, projecting stuff on walls I can see from my office, and never closes the blinds. Hell, with my cheap telescope, I could read their screens, if I wanted to. I hope there aren't meeting over confidential internal stuff. :-p

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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 10:29 am Calm Before the Storm.

img_3411, originally uploaded by adameros.

This was taken Friday evening just after sunset, with storm clouds coming in from the north (right of frame). This is looking west toward Seattle from the Bellevue City Center Building. The glow in the cloud to the right is from a lightning strike.

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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 09:18 am What I've been busy with?
Lots of things, actually...

But the most notable this is, I've been asked to administrate a photo rating community on Flickr. It's novel in that the we try to encourage freedom of speech as far as the Flickr ToS allows. So you get some bruttally honest opinions on your pictures. You also see a lot of ass hattery. You have conservatives and liberals battling to the death. And we get a far number of trolls.

It sounds like a miserable group, but actually, it's a fair fun as long as you are think skinned.

The group is here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/censorshipsucks/

The rules... Put a picture in the pool (one per day, no more than one in the pool at a time) and vote on every picture in the pool (to keep the game going, voting is more important than submitting pictures). Use this web tool to vote. You must comment when you vote. If a picture get's 10 save votes before it gets 10 delete votes, it is saved to the Lightbox and is considered a winner. If it gets 10 deletes first, then it's just removed from the pool.

That's about it. Come join the fun. :-)
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Nov. 11th, 2009 @ 11:47 am (no subject)
So many rules at the Naughty Palace...

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Nov. 10th, 2009 @ 04:33 pm (no subject)
[info]brokenchains needs to look here:

http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/7693420.html
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Nov. 10th, 2009 @ 11:40 am (no subject)
Santa, it seems, has been hit hard by the current Recession. So he has asked a few of us Misfits, to ask that more people be naughty, so as to save Santa some of his labor cost and a trip to your home town.
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Oct. 20th, 2009 @ 08:49 pm Work! Fight! Unite!!!

DMU unite2, originally uploaded by - Jeff Wilson -.

The pre-digital photographers will enjoy this.

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Oct. 7th, 2009 @ 10:19 am (no subject)
One more reason the Olympics, in particular the IOC, suck...

Let say you go to the Olympic Games, you have a great time, you take pictures. You put your pictures online to show friends and family what you saw and what great time you had... Well... That's a take down notice for you, straight from the IOC.

http://thomashawk.com/2009/10/international-olympic-committee-tries-to-shut-down-olympic-photos-on-flickr.html

I boycotted the Olympics last time around, I guess I can do it all over again this time around. Fuck you IOC.
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Oct. 5th, 2009 @ 03:21 pm File this under "Things you know won't end well."
Apparently, "liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations."

Yes, the religious right feels the Bible (or it's interpretations) are too liberal, and they are rewriting the Bible to meet their political ends.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/05/coming-soon-the-new-international-free-market-bible/

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

So, if you believe the Bible is the word of God, wouldn't editing it to meet your own needs make to a heretic? just checkin'...

Actually, this is interestingly timely, as I was telling Molly there is a King James version of the Bible, but I think they needs to be a (Mad) King Ludwig version of the Bible.

Update: More press...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/05/conservative-bible-projec_n_310037.html
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Oct. 5th, 2009 @ 09:02 am (no subject)
I'm not a big fan of Air, as I tend to think of them as auditory ambien, and musically that has not changed, but I really like the visuals on their latest video:

http://vimeo.com/6605514

I was reminded of Yellow Submarine, Molly was reminded of the Electric Company/Sesame Street video with the pin ball teaching you to count...
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Oct. 1st, 2009 @ 04:09 pm (no subject)
My inner geek wants to get these, frame them, and hang them on the wall...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130334366031
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Sep. 24th, 2009 @ 09:21 pm (no subject)
The good news and bad news...

I parked my truck in the secure garage at work and someone still broke into it. They broke the passenger side window and snagged my iPod.

The good news is, they didn't notice my camera bag in the back seat.
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Sep. 21st, 2009 @ 12:04 pm (no subject)
Will Chris Hansen be visiting PETA soon? (Checkout the title ot their blog.)

http://blog.peta.org/







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Sep. 18th, 2009 @ 02:39 pm Picture taken last night...
click for the late night fun )
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Sep. 18th, 2009 @ 11:28 am (no subject)
Star Trek reinterpreted...

Jefferson Airplane meets Star Trek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn3jPfeiVlQ

How To Kiss A Woman by Captain Kirk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VuIShM5kAQ

NIN meets Star Trek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uxTpyCdriY
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Sep. 16th, 2009 @ 09:11 am (no subject)
According to Republicans, why women have sex...

http://zeldalily.com/index.php/2009/09/the-real-reasons-women-have-sex/
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