Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.islandhosting.com!news.islandhosting.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:30:01 -0600 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:29:38 -0800 From: Dan Rempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: More New (Old) Toys, and Useful Info for the Digital Age References: <96irr258jqd5qsmqg2d0p3p252pb2m50j3@4ax.com> <2bce0383c4824f3049154680fb369214@grapevine.islandnet.com> <523ec6c506d3582c36dbccf60971ca6c@grapevine.islandnet.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Organization is overrated Message-ID: X-Tracking: 45BFC6D0B4B4DA28A0A3D305E1F4886BE0E88F6BE1E68872E5FF X-Report-Abuse-To: news@islandnet.com X-NNRP-Cache: Grapevine 2.0 -- http://grapevine.islandnet.com/ Lines: 59 NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.175.106.126 X-Trace: sv3-GJGPtyRd+PhuREm6P/Zj82HKXbKm/AvPQwvuKjw5KbdzNNbEz16ROaxU+/u+5E5mafbU8IeirH4NuqH!Rdl/pMAZI1KSeUSebTt3rnmcuPFHHXUbqwhY+Dm7dRtTYijBArFZSJsNgRJqpDfn3jxaupUVXzop!99Q4ofYkc1mW2S5VGin2ueUwwH+YizGSo1jieFY= X-Complaints-To: abuse@islandnet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@islandhosting.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:165110 Michael Cash wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:41:35 -0800, Dan Rempel > brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: > >> Michael Cash wrote: >>> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:08:21 -0800, Dan Rempel >>> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: >>> >>>> Michael Cash wrote: >>>>> This is sort of a follow-up on the "New Camera" thread. >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>>> Nobody asked, but recently I'm posting a few photos taken at work at: >>>>> >>>>> http://mikecash.aminus3.com/archive/ >>>> These are pretty good; you've got a good eye. Looking forward to more. >>> Thanks. The community there is quite small and many of the people are >>> damned good, so I'm reluctant to post just anything and everything >>> (that's what Flickr is for!). >> I also liked some of your earlier stuff, especially a couple of your >> street shots of Tokyo women. Casting a discerning eye over that stuff >> may reveal a few more worthy of posting, assuming you want to revisit >> old territory. > > In most cases I am leery of posting photos of people without their > permission. In fact, I think it is *technically* illegal to take the > shots here, never mind publish them on the net. Sometimes I have if > there is something about the overall composition to recommend the > photo, but I don't plan to post photos of beautiful women just because > they're beautiful. Yup, I understand that. The ones I was thinking of weren't just beautiful because they're beautiful, but rather genuinely interesting pictures. Still, people's privacy counts. [gotta go: intesting techy stuff snipped] >> Since aminus3 is free I may sign up: I've taken exactly three pictures >> that I think are ok, and it'd be interesting to see if anyone else agrees. > > Come on in, the water's fine. > > Be sure to click on the "Community" link and check out the thumbnails > of the shots posted each day. There are always at least 3 or 4 that > are eye-catching enough to make you want to click on them. Fortunately > the total number of shots posted each day only runs around 130 or so, > so it isn't overwhelming like Flickr is. Also, even more fortunately, > there are only one or two people who obviously use it to post crap > shots that should never have seen the light of day. Thanks for the encouragement; I'll post a couple when I get home. Nobody -- Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as `all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.' -- M.D. Epstein