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So I made it to my next destination which had a lot of people gathered together. I won't post most of my pictures here on PF due to the event's nature (it was inherently political -- maybe I'll post them on PF's sister site). But several people brought their puppies, so here's some pictures of...

'Took a new bus route to Balboa Park early in the morning. I missed my stop, requiring me to backtrack on foot an additional 1/2 mile (mostly) uphill to get to my planned destination. Figure 1. <Untitled> Leica Summilux-M ASPH 50mm. I blew some highlights on the puppy, dang it. -- I rarely...

Where's @zoobyshoe when you need him?

'More of an engineering joke, but we've all debugged stuff before.

Yes, it was (partially) illuminated with their red & green, holiday lighting. For other times of the year it wouldn't be quite so vibrant.

Mid December Balboa Park trip. I took the city bus again. Figure 1. Park Blvd. bus stop. I was waiting at the bus stop on the other side of the street when I took the picture. You can see my reflection in the window. Summilux-M 50mm ASPH. Figure 2. San Diego Zoo entrance. I didn't go into...

Figure 1. Emergency, makeshift "paper fortune teller," a.k.a. cootie catcher. Found in the wild. Leica Summilux-M 50mm ASPH.

Yep. I almost fell for one of these a few months ago. I clicked on a YouTube video (didn't recognize the author). The video was about some sort of modification made to the rear gunner sights of the B17 bomber in WWII. The YouTube video's graphics did not concentrate on the mechanism itself; it...

Figure 1. "All in a day's work." 50mm Summilux-M ASPH. No, that's not me. It's just somebody passing by. I'm not sure how the person is holding the guitar. I've had many acoustic guitars in my lifetime, but I've never carried one around quite like that. I suspect the person is gripping the...

‘Intoxicated’ raccoon passes out in bathroom after ransacking Virginia liquor store https://www.koin.com/news/intoxicated-raccoon-passes-out-in-bathroom-after-ransacking-virginia-liquor-store/

Maybe it's saying the cooks might sleeping when they make your food?

Yes, this was a thing back in the day. You can tell by the people who look exceptionally sharp in the photos. Those who were alive were a bit blurry (due to inevitable motion blur) and were subsequently often touched up by the artist/photographer with a brush/pencil post-print. But the one...

Yep. ISBN (numbers) for books have a similar thing going on with the check digit. (ISBNs are book identifiers. They're useful for bookstores, book sellers, book readers, libraries, etc, to help avoid errors finding and ordering a specific book.) The check digit is the same idea as with the...

Thanks! :smile: Did I mention that Balboa Park also has a Natural History Museum? https://www.sdnhm.org/exhibitions/dino-jaws/

... Continued from previous post (this post is part 2 of 2). Figure 7. "Broken bulb." 50mm Summilux-M ASPH @f/6.8 Figure 8. Untitled. 50mm Summilux-M ASPH @f/5.6 I posted a pic of the above location just over a year ago, but this picture was taken at a different time of day (after sunset)...