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Blueberry Pancakes

But - this thread will be pretty darn handy when we all, make a couple of frittatas to take to the weekend crew at work. ... It could happen

After I just realized that this is a separate thread. Not sure how I did that, but it wasn't intended to be so.

I had extra frittata filling, so one more for myself and the neighbors. Spinach, bacon, broccoli, shitake mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers and onion sautéed in a bit of balsamic vinegar & herb crusted goat cheese. Before baking.

Thanks guys - got it now. Some of the MoFi stuff looks expensive on first sight. But vinyl records were always expensive. Back in the early 70's LP records were around (in US-speak) $6. since then retail prices have increased by 17 times. Which means the real value in today's money is $106. And those flimsy records came with pops and crackles from new. So MoFi's price of $125 for their virgin vinyl, 45rpm ultra high quality pressings is not much more we were paying in 1972 for complete rubbish.

I still have my Nak and every cassette I have bought since the early ‘70’s , but then I still have my Revox pr99.

Oh shit. Oh shit oh shit oh shit. 135L Oh shit. I mean the 2470LII is a far more useful everyday lens but the 135L is a special kind of magic.

Joanne made Ina Garten’s Seafood Gratin for Book Club

my daughter has the Frank Ocean album blonde on her Christmas wishlist. It's $160, which is nuts.

How Koenigsegg is taking over the Hypercar world

In the summer of 2007 I heard that there was a car show in the parking lot of a Walmart (ya rly) two towns over. Being as ADD as I am, I arrived entirely too late and got there just in time to see a bunch of cars leaving. I did hastily snap a bunch of photos with my 30D (not a particularly good camera) and its "better" kit lens, the 17-85mm (which sucked at the wide end.) I had the camera set for jpg+RAW and at the time I processed them as pseudo-HDR in Photomatix. I also invariably cropped the shots entirely too close (a bad habit that would take years to break.) I've revisited these shots a number of times in the last 17 years, most recently a few months ago. I now use Luminar 4, which makes use of its own pseduo-HDR math. Unlike Photomatix and every goddamn smart phone camera app ever, Luminar's faux HDR processing can be adjusted to remove most of the cartoonish qualities. Luminar also makes use of lookup tables, which are a lot of fun when used correctly. None of these shots are spectacular. I didn't know a thing about framing in 2007 (I still don't but I didn't then, either.) In almost every case I wish I'd back up a couple feet and gotten more of the background and people milling about. At this point the photos are a fascinating time capsule. 17 years is a long time. 2007 was after 9/11, but before the 2008 financial crash (two watershed moments that have steered us directly to where we are.) The 1990s were still a relatively recent memory. Most of the attendees are aging boomers and exactly none of them know what "social media" means. A global pandemic was the stuff of bad thriller films. The cars are timeless of course and made all the mores so by how, ahem, absolutely fucking hideous current vehicles look. The 30D's sensor (a permanent "unsharp mask" and the processing in Luminar gives everything a slightly dreamy quality. I quite like this photo set as both a moment in time captured but also a tone piece.

RIP Rickey Henderson at 65. All time base stealer whose record is likely bullet proof. He was a lot of fun to watch, even if he was on the A's.