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Post by timothylane on Jun 13, 2019 20:58:48 GMT -8
I'm surprised that's a temple. The enlargement looked like it was selling fireworks. Impressive photo, though.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 13, 2019 21:34:33 GMT -8
Excellent photo. And you're attachment works great.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 14, 2019 7:27:29 GMT -8
I'm surprised that's a temple. The enlargement looked like it was selling fireworks. Impressive photo, though.
Yes, it does look like a bunch of fireworks, but I believe most of that stuff is incense sticks and other such material which is constantly burned in temples and even small personal shrines at home and in businesses.
There might be some fireworks for special occasions to scare off evil spirits or dragons.
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Post by timothylane on Jun 14, 2019 10:01:39 GMT -8
Yes, I can see where incense could resemble certain fireworks. One of August Derleth's Solar Pons stories (Sherlock Holmes pastiches) involved incense pastilles (and their potential lethal use). I don't remember the title, though.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 15, 2019 7:12:31 GMT -8
Those do look like firecrackers.
Mr. Kung, we were cut off earlier. Let me post the instructions here for how to downsize your photos so that they can be posted via the "Add Attachment" button in the "create post" dialogue box:
1) Open photo in the ubiquitous Windows graphics program that comes with every Windows installation called "Paint."
2) I'm using Windows 7, so things could look a little different in Windows 10 (but I doubt it). Near the top left there is a button you can hit that is named "Resize." Click it.
3) The checkbox "Maintain aspect ration" should be checked. If not, check it.
4) The size limit for attachments here is 1 mb so you'll have to do a little trial-and-error for each individiual photo to see how much smaller you need to make it to fit under that limit. But probably by typing either "50" or "75" into those boxes will be reduction enough.
5) You're probably going to want to keep your original photo intact. So next choose "Save as..." using the very top-left icon and then save as a jpg (it may also be called "jpeg"). You're done. You can then go to Windows Explorer (the program for looking at files and folders) and check its size in numerous ways (such as right-clicking on the file and choosing "Properties").
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 15, 2019 7:15:18 GMT -8
Which as Dave Berry might say is a good name for a 60’s band.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 15, 2019 8:57:03 GMT -8
Makes me think of the song, "Incense Peppermints"
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Post by timothylane on Jun 15, 2019 9:08:28 GMT -8
I believe that's "Incense & Peppermints". Just a slight difference. It's on one of my anthology PD3 folders (The Best of Jukebox Rock 1967).
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 15, 2019 9:12:43 GMT -8
Good ol' Strawberry Alarm Clock Man, that lead singer has nice hair. He might have been a Prell user. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 15, 2019 9:18:03 GMT -8
Thanks for that. I liked that song for, among other reasons, its use of minor chords.
Watching that video clip reminds me of just how strange 1967 was. It started with Sgt. Pepper's and got stranger. Then we went into 1968 which was a horrible year. So does strange always precede violent in history?
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 15, 2019 9:35:13 GMT -8
Watching that video clip reminds me of just how strange 1967 was. LMAO. That's the comment of the day. Imagine drums rolling, horns blaring, and multi-colored confetti coming down. Watching that video (and those costumes) — ain't that the God's truth. A strange time. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 15, 2019 15:22:06 GMT -8
I think you indeed did, Mr. Kung. The previous post looks like it links to your Google Photos account. So I'm guessing that you successfully set up Google Photos, added a photo, and then used that translation site in order to grab a link that works in the "Insert Image" box. Well done. Another option (if you want to take people to a larger version and don't need it embedded in your post) is to just type a photo title (such as "Outside Steamboat,") select those two words, click the "Create Link" button in the forum's post editing box, and then paste in a url (one taken from the "create link" box at Google Photos). Like this (I hope): Outside Steamboat. Those are all the same steps you've done so far for the embedded photo that you did minus going to that translation site. It's nice to have different ways of doing it depending upon what you want to accomplish. |
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Post by lynda on Jun 15, 2019 16:52:53 GMT -8
"Watching that video clip reminds me of just how strange 1967 was. It started with Sgt. Pepper's and got stranger. Then we went into 1968 which was a horrible year. So does strange always precede violent in history?"
I would postulate that abundant freedom in a culture leads to strangeness, strangeness morphs into deviancy, and deviancy invites and enables violence.
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Post by timothylane on Jun 15, 2019 17:24:18 GMT -8
Deviancy and decadence are very popular, and judging from Berlin in the later Weimar era, I'm not sure how much freedom is needed. But at any rate, a libertine society is one where people are free to indulge their appetites -- which in many cases includes an appetite for violence.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 15, 2019 18:56:19 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 15, 2019 20:38:00 GMT -8
I would postulate that abundant freedom in a culture leads to strangeness, strangeness morphs into deviancy, and deviancy invites and enables violence. Your homework assignment is to create a color graph, complete with labels, arrows, statistics, and pie charts demonstrating that. Sort of like W. Cleon Skousen did in The 5000 Year Leap. He has a neat chart showing a scale that goes from anarchy on one end to complete totalitarianism on the other. The best line from a movie Mr. Kung recommended of late ("The Dark Valley") was after the good guy killed all the bad guys in the valley. Well, that didn't necessarily make him popular. As the narrator noted, not everyone wants freedom or knows what to do with it. What I will say is that we should model ourselves after the foxgloves. They spread themselves all over and yet stand formally upright, braced against the wind, and looking quite dapper no matter the conditions. They enjoy their freedom but are well grounded. Speaking of which, here's a shot taken from Green Mountain this afternoon: Backlit Foxglove |
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Post by lynda on Jun 15, 2019 22:02:42 GMT -8
It was so beautiful today, and that's a great picture you took of the foxglove while you were hiking.
I've been purposeful about staying home and enjoying my house and garden this spring. And it's been really a joy most of the time. But sometimes I look up and see Green Mountain standing in the distance, and I think about how peaceful and remote it feels, and I remember the smell of the warm dirt and the evergreens, and I long to hear the whisper of the approaching wind sneaking across the treetops.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 17, 2019 17:56:27 GMT -8
Thanks Lynda. I just saw that one can "like" things on this blog.
The photo was taken in 2017 out of the window of a Boeing 787 flying from Vancouver to Taipei.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 17, 2019 18:15:10 GMT -8
This is another one of Mr. Kung's travel adventures.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 17, 2019 18:51:24 GMT -8
Brad, I remember the first one very well. I think I must have been under the influence in the second one. Thank God I didn't see anyone out there on that flight to Taipei. It would have ruined a very nice photograph.
But this is the one I remember most clearly.
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