Brian Johns

I don't care what he was primarily doing...as a straight man, he was _also_ checking out the woman in the red dress. - Ryan Kaisoglus

Well, yeah... - Brian Johns

So you think he's gonna go hiking on the Apallachian Trail? - Jim Norris

How about the San Jose Obon Festival? http://www.sjbetsuin.com/Events... - Stephen Mack

Or the Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival? http://www.acga.net/ - Stephen Mack

Rodin sculpture garden @ Stanford - Cyrus Lendvay

life, 24/7 - chaz2b

aerialists performing at Ruby Skye Saturday night at midnight and 1am. Bring your fastest lens. - Seth

Ohh Seth that sounds awesome! I keep meaning to ask you what lens you use to shoot the aerialists? I don't think I have an appropriate one for that. My fastest is my 50mm prime. - Rachel Lea Fox

I used to use 50mm @ f/1.8 for everything. Six months ago I got a camera with a full frame sensor and 50mm is often too wide. The 85mm f/1.4 is really nice, but such a wide aperture is a desperation play. With a depth of field that shallow and the subject moving so fast, many photos have focus problems. Lately I've been using a 70-200mm f/2.8 and either a higher ISO (more tolerable with the fatter pixels on the new camera), or a convolution filter in post-processing (at a cost of sharpness or resolution). - Seth

All that said, I have some photos I took at f/1.4 I'm very happy with. :) - Seth

Do you crop a lot (often I should say)? Your shots just seem much closer than the 50mm would give. I have a 50mm 1.4 and my D700 is rather fast and gives good quality at higher ISOs, but I often have similar focus problems with action shots. We used to have a 70-200mm f2.8 with VR but didn't use it enough so we sold it. We now have a 70-300 f4.5-5.6 also with VR, which I'm not sure if... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

totally cool! - Rachel Lea Fox

however as usual, the reviews say that the photo is mislead and this pool can barely fit a 2 year old. :( - Rachel Lea Fox

Cat^WCourtyard addition for summer? - Neal Krummell

Heh heh, how does Banzai continue to get away with this? Love this excerpt from the first review (both reviews are one-star): "The SIZE of the pool is a JOKE too. I cannot stand the way they photoshop the pictures to make it seem like there is oh so much room! I am contemplating contacting the BBB about this company. It is bad ethics and I wonder if something can be done? My daughter is a peanut of a 3 year old, 15th percentile for her height and she towers on the slide." - Stephen Mack

Family values FTW! - Ha3rvey

....I wonder if she's 20 or 30 years his junior..? - Terence

An affair the he enjoys over fathers day weekend while his family is at home no less! :) - Rachel Lea Fox

Rachel, but they knew, so it maes it ok. Or something... - Anika Malone from fftogo

You are right Anika... because knowing is half the battle! ;-) - Rachel Lea Fox

Hey, at least it wasn't in an airport bathroom this time! - Cyrus Lendvay

Thanks to John Nack for cluing me in to this. - Brian Johns

These always tear my emotions in two directions. Fun to watch stuff blend. But all the perfectly good stuff going to waste! - George Saj

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cool ending, but painful to watch on the way. - Rachel Lea Fox

<insert Olympus vs. Canon vs. Nikon vs. Sony comment here> - Brian Johns

"mmmm $thing smoke, don't breathe this!" - Neal Krummell

Thought it would be painful to watch, but can't help but smile. And the end result is good :) - Asgeir

My initial impression is that it totally (99%) kicks ass. A free (no subscription fee) Wi-fi enabled web-browsing, email reading, RSS-browsing, mini-tablet is a really cool idea. Apparently it's got an iPod built in too, but the headphone connector is too non-standard to work with any of my audio cables. - Brian Johns

Yeah that headphone thing is a pain. Roger has a ton of headphone adapters lying around. I can loan you a pair of compatible headphones too. One came with my new phone today, but I have no need for them. - Stephen Mack

An adapter would be cool, but I don't need the headphones. The only place I ever listen to music from my current iPod is in the car, through the tape adapter. - Brian Johns

Sometimes, I wonder if there's some cosmic force guiding events to happen just to set up puns. - Jered Hofker

Wow. I thought the photo at first was just a waterfall. - Anika Malone

Anika, me as well. At first glance I thought it was a high exposure photo of running water. - Aaron Kurtz

In a related story, Krispy Kreme stock is down 1.25% today. http://www.google.com/finance... - Cyrus Lendvay

was Homer Simpson nearby with a recently used spike-strip? - Neil Bernhart

...they're gonna have an ant problem... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

FF needs a "lick" button. - l0ckergn0me

Skeet skeet skeet! /Lil' John - Matthew DeVries

++Jered - Rachel Lea Fox

Sweet! - Tyson Key

At least it happened in a desserted section of highway... - Stephen Mack

Sweet! :) But what a waste. I trust the driver was all right. - James Stratford

A few years ago a truck carrying industrial adhesive crashed on a bridge near my house ... and glued itself to the pavement. It took the entire day to remove the wreckage. - DGentry

++ Rob. I was thinking exactly that! - Curtis Jackson

DGentry, I hope no one called it a "sticky situation". Because some puns should remain...uh...unpunned. EDIT: (Should have said some puns aren't punny.) - Curtis Jackson

It's still a school night though... - Brian Johns

Turned out that the excitement for the night was going to Costco. Maybe some Firefly later... - Brian Johns

They carry strippers at Costco now? - Stephen Mack

Dropped the wife off at the airport? I've heard of dropping the kids off at the pool, but I don't get this one. - Keith Pelczarski

i just hope ur wife is not subscribed to u :) - goutham

busted! - Erin "Wifey" Johns

Um, poker saturday night anyone!? - Georgia Diehl