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The snowmen
Mar. 2nd, 2018 06:45 pmThe housegroup WhatsApp was full of people building snowmen (not to mention my FB feed), and it occurred to me that I had a balcony load of pristine snow.
( Snowmen! )
( Snowmen! )
The sky has fallen!
Mar. 2nd, 2018 12:00 pmWork is having a snow day - the boss texted yesterday evening to say "it's pretty tricky on the roads around there so don't try to come to work in the morning!" - so I went for a stroll with camera in hand...
( Snow! )
( Snow! )
Okay, now the sky is falling!
Mar. 1st, 2018 04:26 pmBoss: You may as well head home, the snow's getting worse and those with further to go are already leaving.
( The sky is falling! )
( The sky is falling! )
Red 0787: Brighton!
Mar. 22nd, 2017 06:25 pmToday's random film is Red 0787, a roll of Kodak MAX 400-8 dating from the winter of 2006-2007. This one seems to have rather grainy photos - yes, it's an ISO 400 film and fast films do tend to have more grain, but this seems worse than usual. I know Nikon scanners are known to suffer from some aliasing with film grain but here the same noise is present in the prints.
In some ways the grain adds to the charm of using film instead of digital. A lot of digitally-filmed big-budget films and TV shows actually have artificial film grain added in post-production!
( Photos! )
In some ways the grain adds to the charm of using film instead of digital. A lot of digitally-filmed big-budget films and TV shows actually have artificial film grain added in post-production!
( Photos! )
The sky has not fallen! Awww.
Feb. 3rd, 2015 06:11 pmThat was all rather anti-climatic. By the time I went out at lunchtime the clouds had thinned and the snow was almost all gone. Shame, really, as I was hoping to go for a stroll and take some suitably snowy photos.
I wish I had had a camera set up in the car on the way to work though. Once I reached 35mph or so the snow stopped landing on the windscreen and instead was blown up and over the car, as if I was driving through a tunnel of snow. It did look quite epic as I was trundling along the bypass and up Titchfield Hill.
Hmm... my grandfather did give me a couple of non-slip car/gadget mats over Christmas. Perhaps if I put one on top of the dashboard and then sit the 3DS on top to use as a camera? My main worry with those is I'm not sure how well they'd grip with aggressive cornering (there's a sharp right-left one in particular where a road leaves a roundabout and then immediately turns back on itself), or if I had to stamp on the brakes. Maybe I could anchor the 3DS to something as well?
I wish I had had a camera set up in the car on the way to work though. Once I reached 35mph or so the snow stopped landing on the windscreen and instead was blown up and over the car, as if I was driving through a tunnel of snow. It did look quite epic as I was trundling along the bypass and up Titchfield Hill.
Hmm... my grandfather did give me a couple of non-slip car/gadget mats over Christmas. Perhaps if I put one on top of the dashboard and then sit the 3DS on top to use as a camera? My main worry with those is I'm not sure how well they'd grip with aggressive cornering (there's a sharp right-left one in particular where a road leaves a roundabout and then immediately turns back on itself), or if I had to stamp on the brakes. Maybe I could anchor the 3DS to something as well?
Achievement unlocked: snow driving, level 1!
Not that it was that snowy - despite the snowfall getting much heavier, it wasn't settling on the roads (which were all treated on the route I took) and the only actual snow I drove on was the parking space at work. That said, it's still snowing outside (despite the weather forecast) and so the drive back might be a bit more interesting...
( More snow photos )
Not that it was that snowy - despite the snowfall getting much heavier, it wasn't settling on the roads (which were all treated on the route I took) and the only actual snow I drove on was the parking space at work. That said, it's still snowing outside (despite the weather forecast) and so the drive back might be a bit more interesting...
( More snow photos )
The sky is falling!
Feb. 3rd, 2015 08:09 amThe sky is falling!
( Fallen-sky photos )
While the snow is still falling a little, it's forecast to stop soon. Additionally the roads outside look clear and traffic is flowing well so I ought to be able to drive to work in it. Here goes...
( Fallen-sky photos )
While the snow is still falling a little, it's forecast to stop soon. Additionally the roads outside look clear and traffic is flowing well so I ought to be able to drive to work in it. Here goes...
Obligatory snow pictures
Dec. 2nd, 2010 07:03 pmObligatory snow pictures:
Snow, 1/12/10
Snow at Fareham Marina, 1st December 2010. This had all melted by the end of the day.
Snow, 2/12/10
Snow at Fareham Marina, 2nd December 2010. Just a little bit more than yesterday :)
Snowfall
Snow at Fareham, 2nd December 2010. I used the flash when taking this to pick out the snowflakes.
Snow, 2/12/10
Snow at Fareham, 2nd December 2010.
Snowy path
Snow at Fareham, 2nd December 2010.
Christmas tree!
Snow at Fareham, 2nd December 2010. Now this is what a christmas tree should look like.
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Dec. 2nd, 2010 06:47 pmIn the end First didn't get any buses running between here and work, and work also said not to try coming in today (plan B was to get the train, but those weren't coping much better and neither station is particularly convient). Instead I used the wonders of the internet to VPN in from my desktop and get some stuff done that way. That lasted until around lunchtime, when support sent round an email telling people to stop hogging the VPN bandwidth. Spoilsports.
I'm not entirely sure what support were up to as I had no problems during the morning. Then again, all I was using was a remote desktop and a couple of ssh sessions. I used my laptop for internet traffic as well rather than have it go across the VPN and back out (remote access policies usually require *all* traffic to use the VPN).
As to tomorrow... well the forecast is that we've had all the snow for now, so instead we're getting lows of -6°C and lots of fog which will coat the roads with ice. That'll be fun.
I'm not entirely sure what support were up to as I had no problems during the morning. Then again, all I was using was a remote desktop and a couple of ssh sessions. I used my laptop for internet traffic as well rather than have it go across the VPN and back out (remote access policies usually require *all* traffic to use the VPN).
As to tomorrow... well the forecast is that we've had all the snow for now, so instead we're getting lows of -6°C and lots of fog which will coat the roads with ice. That'll be fun.
Today's achievement: zombifying pine
Mar. 3rd, 2006 03:41 pmToday's achievement: zombifying pine
Which isn't much, when you realise that I abandoned today at about 11:30 due to a mixture of:
a) whatever server responsible for DHCP at the uni deciding that my laptop (and apparently three-quarters of other laptops) wasn't worthy enough to receive an IP address, thus making all my internet connections implode
b) my deciding to go and upload the deliverables for Software Engineering to some webspace, only to find that only one deliverable was where it should be, and that whoever put it there forgot to set the permissions correctly
c) attempting to sort out some emails, and in the process managing to wedge one pine session over PuTTY, another logon prompt, and then wait a minute for a third PuTTY shell to login to the Informatics unix server
And I later completely forgot about the Software Engineering meeting (sorry folks), and only found out about it when an e-mail went round asking where all the programmers were. Oops.
Oh, and on the way back I managed to walk through a curtain of snow. I saw it in front of me, and over about twice the width of a road it went no snow -- snow -- no snow. Followed later by a small amount of near-horizontal snow, in March, with the sun shining. Ah well, this is England.
Anyway, Nick happened to log into the unix server just now, and did a 'w' to see who was logged in. I then asked if you saw everyone's processes with 'ps', to which the response was him typing 'ps -aux'. Followed by a few screens of processes from several people (not all of whom were actually logged in), including my pine process. Rather impressive when you realise that when I logged out, the shell *should* have killed anything it had spawned. Well, that explains some of the messages I was seeing with another pine session. One kill -9 later, and the uni has one less pine process.
Which isn't much, when you realise that I abandoned today at about 11:30 due to a mixture of:
a) whatever server responsible for DHCP at the uni deciding that my laptop (and apparently three-quarters of other laptops) wasn't worthy enough to receive an IP address, thus making all my internet connections implode
b) my deciding to go and upload the deliverables for Software Engineering to some webspace, only to find that only one deliverable was where it should be, and that whoever put it there forgot to set the permissions correctly
c) attempting to sort out some emails, and in the process managing to wedge one pine session over PuTTY, another logon prompt, and then wait a minute for a third PuTTY shell to login to the Informatics unix server
And I later completely forgot about the Software Engineering meeting (sorry folks), and only found out about it when an e-mail went round asking where all the programmers were. Oops.
Oh, and on the way back I managed to walk through a curtain of snow. I saw it in front of me, and over about twice the width of a road it went no snow -- snow -- no snow. Followed later by a small amount of near-horizontal snow, in March, with the sun shining. Ah well, this is England.
Anyway, Nick happened to log into the unix server just now, and did a 'w' to see who was logged in. I then asked if you saw everyone's processes with 'ps', to which the response was him typing 'ps -aux'. Followed by a few screens of processes from several people (not all of whom were actually logged in), including my pine process. Rather impressive when you realise that when I logged out, the shell *should* have killed anything it had spawned. Well, that explains some of the messages I was seeing with another pine session. One kill -9 later, and the uni has one less pine process.
