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Re: MR Forum Confessions - 2 days ago

In spite of being a former river guide, have never been able to step in the same river twice. Plus, after all these years, still can’t surrey down. Todd’s fluvial board

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Re: Everything on Amazon just switched to Spanish. Anyone else? - 6 days ago

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Re: Bose 201's - 7 days ago

Stick around long enough, and many of your early fantasies may be fulfilled. A friend has offered his set of Bose 901s (that have been in storage for over ten years). It is tempting, but my own set of Energy Take 5.1 speakers are already in storage. Called another friend (about to retire from academia) over the weekend to see if his college has a program to sell off old MacBook Pros. His pa

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Re: Any tips on for better long-exposure night photos? - 8 days ago

Thanks for the feedback. I was concentrating so much on using long exposures and adjusting the ISO, I forgot that the camera was set to Auto exposure. It’s raining today, so won’t try again until tomorrow or the next day. Thanks again, Todd’s learning-curve board

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Any tips on for better long-exposure night photos? - 8 days ago

Folks, Here is the best of a series of photographs with a Canon dSLR EOS Rebel T2i camera. The lens is an 80-240 that came with the camera. The camera was set up on a cheap tripod (maybe too flimsy). I used a cable remote to activate the shutter. The camera was set on Shutter Priority. I took a series of the same shot. The settings were ISO 400, 800, and 1600. Each ISO got time-lapsed sh

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Re: Third-party, wired remote not taking pictures with Canon Rebel T2i - 9 days ago

Mystery solved! Loosening four small screws let me open up the plastic housing containing the wires and connections. Depressing the plastic button depresses (depending on pressure) one, two, or three metal springs that make electrical contacts. One of the wires inside the housing was between two of the metal springs. Moving the wire to the side—next to the other two wires—allows all thr

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Third-party, wired remote not taking pictures with Canon Rebel T2i - 10 days ago

What step am I missing to not be able to take photos with a KiwiFotos UR-232 remote cable switch? When plugged in, half-depressing the remote button gets the Canon to make the necessary meter and focus adjustments. Unfortunately, I get the same results when depressing the button all the way down. The camera never actually takes a photo. In low-light situations, the flash pops up and a flash

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Re: Who likes cute? - 14 days ago

Don’t let her go out in the rain without an umbrella (brolly). She’s so sweet, she may melt. Todd’s en pointe board

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Seeking advice for a memorial web site - 14 days ago

A friend of ours died last week. My wife and I are researching potential sites to host a memorial site/page. The host should be able to handle a video tribute (or link to a youtube page), photos, and comments. It would also be nice if people could upload their own photos/comments. I’m assuming these would be screened before going public. Any recommendations? (a modest hosting fee is okay)

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Re: Hand-washing instructions - In NOLA - 15 days ago

A couple of decades, ago my wife and I ate at Foti’s Restaurant in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Of course, we ordered crawfish. The waitress set down some newspaper and dumped a couple of dozen crawfish on the table. We both started laughing. The next time the waitress passed by, we stopped and apoligized. We did not know how to actually eat the crawfish. The waitress sat down, grabbed a

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Re: DVD player hangs up and freezes on several DVDs. I assume it's the player and not the DVDs. - 17 days ago

I was a fairly early adopter with a low-end Panasonic DVD player in the nineties. The sound that came out of my new 5.1 Take Five Energy speakers with an Onkyo receiver was fantastic. Movies looked great, when the player worked. This model of Panasonic was named in a class-action lawsuit about defective designs for DVD players. I could get the Panasonic to work a bit longer than most owners by

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Re: Soul-crushing news: Lean Pockets discontinued - 20 days ago

I’m still trying to get over the lack of Carnation Breakfast Bars and Space Food Sticks. Todd’s empty-cup board

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Re: Mr Forum Fit Club: Get ahead on losing weight - 21 days ago

Missed one day of pedaling for thirty minutes followed by a 10k row. Had to run errands one morning. If I don't exercise in the morning, it doesn't happen. Came to a realization. I watch either a Great Courses lecture or lynda.com course while pedaling. Listen to an audiobook while rowing. It's hard to imagine setting aside a half-hour block just to watch a lecture. Also, without something

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Re: New desktops for 2021 are here! - 24 days ago

Thanks from me, as well. It’s humbling to see what a good photographer can capture. Last night, I fired up my Canon X-some-model-that’s-more-than-understand to try and get some night photos of Christmas lights. I’d like to think with more practice I could at least remember how to set things. The truth, however, is to be reminded at how much there is to learn. Todd’s not-that-shar

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Re: I think I'm going to buy a lottery ticket - 24 days ago

freeradical, Again, not sure about a lottery ticket. However, would you be interested in joining my new tontine? Todd’s feeling-lucky keyboard

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Re: Merry Christmas to the forum! - 24 days ago

Echoing and amplifying the good wishes to all. If you folks knew how much you meant to me, you might become embarrassed. Should you have a bit of time, my annual card and year-end letter can be found here. Among others, this year’s challenge was to learn a new method to update my web site. Not only did the upgrade to Catalina take away my familiar use of Dreamweaver, the host provider cha

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Re: Dead People - 28 days ago

"Must a man be able to stand up to be counted?" IIRC, this line is from an old Harvard Lampoon that explored the same idea. Todd's nostalgia board

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Re: Raise a margarita in memory of our friend Gene L - 29 days ago

Never had a chance to meet him in person. Enjoyed his posts on this forum. Gene made me want to visit southern California again. These days, that doesn't happen often. RIP, Gene. Todd's diminished keyboard

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Re: 18" Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy $6.80 - 4 weeks ago

99% Invisible has an interesting podcast about these air dancers. Todd's p.s.i. - board

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Re: Do you have an M1, intend to get one or holding out for now (poll)? - 4 weeks ago

Quotejdc QuoteTodd's keyboard Todd's surprised-at-how-soon-this-switch-came keyboard Based on your post, sounds likely you will never own an M1 chip mac. Yes, I've come to that conclusion. Back in the nineties, I needed to turn video clips into single-pane images to send to an illustrator. The illustrator would turn these frozen images into line drawings to support a how-to column for JUG

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Re: Do you have an M1, intend to get one or holding out for now (poll)? - 4 weeks ago

The early days of personal computing were driven by dominant application software. People bought an Apple II so they could run VisiCalc. Later on, people bought an IBM or some MS/DOS computer so they could run Lotus 1-2-3. Right now, I'm holding on to my 2011 Macbook Air so I can still use iTunes with my two iPod Classics and iPod Shuffle. The 2018 Mac Mini running Catalina does not recognize

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Re: Maths problem - 5 weeks ago

cbelts did an excellent jobs of showing voodoospaul a link to solve his problems. Howevers, I fears the jobs is only half done. Can somebodies please link to a converter from inches or centimeters to Imperial Furlongs, or whatever is in fashion theses days over there? Stodd's keys board

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Re: Dell Monitor U3415W does not play Apple Music 1.0.6.10 - 6 weeks ago

The Dell monitor is connected to the Mac Mini with an HDMI cable. Yes, the monitor was selected in System Preferences - Sound - Dell U3415W. Again, the sound was coming out of the Dell speakers when playing youtube videos or movies on the Mac Mini. It wasn't that the sound wasn't coming out of the speakers when playing a song in Music, it's that choosing the Dell monitor for sound caused Mu

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Dell Monitor U3415W does not play Apple Music 1.0.6.10 - 6 weeks ago

Don't know if this is new or if I had not noticed before today. The built-in speakers on the Dell U3415W monitor sound better than the built-in speakers on the Mac Mini (2018) running OS X Catalina 10.15.7. The Dell speakers work fine when I'm playing a movie or watching a youtube video. (Well, the volume controls are limited to buttons on the monitor. I can live with that.) Today,I need

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Re: Marketing: What do you follow Cyber Week with? - 6 weeks ago

Fortnight of savings

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Re: Annie Lennox Beautiful Piano Album...Any Others You Like? - 6 weeks ago

Private Music put out two albums, Piano One and Piano Two. After all these years, I still make a point of finding them in the playlist for a listen. Todd’s (other) keyboard

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Re: How to remove black background color in image (Photoshop question) - 6 weeks ago

Again, wow, and thanks. I am humbled by the collective talent in this group. Decades ago, I purchased Adobe Photoshop because I needed to create GIFs from videos of jugglers. Individual frames were selected to illustrators to make line drawings—with the immediate and following frames used to show motion lines to depict the path of the juggled objects. The drawings were used to illustrate a

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Re: How to remove black background color in image (Photoshop question) - 6 weeks ago

Wow, thanks for the feedback, with a special thanks to DP for showing a graphic difference. Might I ask, what step(s) did you take to create those differences, and about how long did they take? "Becoming better at Photoshop" is a bucket-list item. thanks again, Todd's black-or-white board

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How to remove black background color in image (Photoshop question) - 7 weeks ago

Every year I use Photoshop and InDesign to create a Christmas card. This means every year I have to re-learn how these programs work. This year it's a bit more severe because my traditional CS version no longer works on the new Mac Mini. I've had to download and use version 21.2.4 of Photoshop. I'd like to use this photo (below) as a small, a-bit-larger-than-a-postage-stamp size graphic for th

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Re: Random Late Night Thoughts... - 7 weeks ago

Wow! Who knew the city was so famous. I associate it with being the capital of the region of Champagne. Joan of Arc also passed through, but that was before my time. I used to live in Châlons-sur-Marne in 1989-90 (Professeur de Jonglerie at le Centre National Des Arts du Cirque). A couple of time the administration would call all the staff together to have “pot,” and we would all have a g

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