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Went down to the IU orthopedics clinic yesterday. Exchanged my janky emergency room sling for a better one. Apparently the figure eight...

Pentax Q-S1 with 8.5mm f/1.9 lens. My name pronunciation guide. #tealcamera #pentax #pentaxqs_1 A post shared by Tamara Keel (@ta...

Neat video. It's a good explanation of the "why" behind why we don't use wide-angle lenses for portraiture (and it's...

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Ortho appointment scheduled for 2PM today. Here's hoping they can just set it and put me in a figure-eight brace and send me on my mer...

Bobbi commenting on how translations sometimes cause futon mouth: " * We don't use the word "futon" in English the same...

TFB reader/commenter Valorius shows off his @hecklerandkoch P7 with a custom chrome finish from Custom Creationz and custom light rai...

It's Bobbi's birthday today. Go wish her a happy one ! .

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So, one Michael Diamond recently wrote a chiding little piece about the dysfunction of American civilian gun culture, by comparing it to th...

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" Hi!  Thank you for choosing IU Health Physicians Orthopedics!  In order to speed up your check-in for your appointment on Wedne...

Putting larger sensors in smaller mirrorless bodies isn't necessarily a cure-all answer that creates the magically portable camera that ...

Lawnmower dude showed up. It's crazy expensive as a one-time service, but it looks like it could be scheduled weekly or bi-weekly for ...

On the one hand, I separated the fracture twice again today. Once trying to use a keyboard at my normal keyboard height and again cleaning u...

Some people have no clue how awful they come across, especially if 95% of the people they spend their time with are dependent upon them for ...

So with me being laid up for the nonce and Bobbi not getting home until 7:30-8:00PM on weekdays, we're having to explore alternate solut...

From Facebook at about 2AM this morning: Pretty sure I reduced the fracture today. There was a kind of grinding pop and I got all sweaty a...

When the Nikon Coolpix P7000 finally ground to a halt, I went for a while using a Ricoh GXR with the P10 lens/sensor module installed. I...