Comments for Romantic Robot

Comment on If I had the money by Nick Momrik

Nick Momrik — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:44:35 +0000

I know a team you could make suggestions to. :-)

Comment on Bekah luvver by Terry

Terry — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:29:52 +0000

hmmm, birthday & Fathers day coming up…. :-)

Comment on Bekah luvver by Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:38:38 +0000

Terry - I found a mug for you!

Comment on Bekah luvver by Terry

Terry — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:35:10 +0000

if they’re daft enough to leave the password as password, feel good :-)

Comment on Data destruction by Terry

Terry — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:14:52 +0000

I’ve always liked seeing macro shots of liquid droplets. One of the best I saw was a strawberry dropping into some cream, know the guy that did it. http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=221396

Comment on Data destruction by Mark

Mark — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:34:58 +0000

I’ve a selection of tripods – a gorillapod, a sandbag type thing and a smaller one that the Ixus / Flip use. I’ll use these when I try the pics outside. Given they were taken inside with a spotlight and halogen on full they came out better than I thought they would.

I was quite impressed too :) I put it down to not being on the medication any more which gave me the shakes.

My favourite is the second last. The way the discs reflect the dull wall to appear matte works well.

(And as you’d expect from me nothing was sharpened. I resized them all down to 800px wide with quality set to 90% but that’s all)

Comment on Data destruction by Terry

Terry — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:26:26 +0000

Held by hand, that’s amazing results!! Do you have a small tripod? If not, I could send you one like this. (http://www.kudlian.net/products/minitripod/images/mripod.jpg) Have some spare at work.

Oliver kept the case for a money bank in his room. There’s a slot at the back where the DVI cable would go that can be used to put the money in, or even the disc slot at the front.

He’s taken everything off of the motherboard, so I was thinking of using the Dremel to make a hole in the middle to put a clock mechanism there for one for his bedroom.

Comment on Data destruction by Mark

Mark — Sat, 05 May 2012 16:55:08 +0000

Hah – sort of :) I used the Tamron 70-300 held by hand. Couldn’t get just what I wanted though so I’ve still got a couple to take outside and try in bright daylight one day. The 1.8 couldn’t get close enough.
I’ve 2 mac mini’s to disembowel. Haven’t yet found the wallpaper strippers to do this though. I want to keep the bodies so care is needed.

Shiny little things though aren’t they?

Comment on Data destruction by Terry

Terry — Sat, 05 May 2012 14:54:45 +0000

Any excuse to try out macro photography. Oliver has dismantled an old Mac Mini, he has the hard drive attached to the side of his bed as a mirror.

Comment on If you say What Gives by Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:16:37 +0000

The problem with ‘Thoughts?” is I don’t know what you mean because it is not a question. It implies that the question is already in there somewhere and if it is then why add this – if it is not then why not ask what the actual question is. “Thoughts?” is short shorthand for a question you have but are not articulating.

Examples I see:
“It has stopped working. Thoughts?”
“I went to this page and it showed me an error. Thoughts?”
(you could substitute “What gives?” there too)
These people do not need to know my thoughts or what I could give.

“Thoughts?” could get the responses
“Agreed”
“Maybe”
“Yeah”
“Me too”
and any other number of vague replies. As we generally ask questions to get answers it would seem to be better to actually ask a question – otherwise the reply to “Thoughts?” could be so vague that more conversation is needed to get to the result.