Post by mrwizard on Jun 18, 2016 16:51:45 GMT
Looking like a deep space nebula, this "egg yolk jellyfish" (Phacellophora camtschatica is at the bottom of this post click on the image to enlarge) slowly navigates the finger piers near my house..Snapping several shots I almost forget that I'm in the water, cocooned in a full dry suit/snorkel and scuba setup and carrying my Canon 7d mkII/24-70mm f2.8 lens in a gallon size zip lock freezer bag, it's my favorite way of thumbing my nose at the clouds and rain in the Puget Sound. The freezer bag is another way of thumbing my nose at fate too...Hmmm, thumbing my nose is something I am doing more than ever this year as our weather has been one of the soggiest on record (thanx global warming...my bum) and I see my investments of specialized astro gear sit idle, grrrr!
Getting a chance to broadcast on the new NSN dot com is a real joy to me and even tho I've only been on a couple of times since the beta testing started, I could tell it (HTML5) was going to be much better than Adobe flash ever could be, eventually, as the bugs get corrected...I wonder about the new people logging in and finding that the changes are overwhelming compared to the point and click simplicity of another web site still up but under management whom I consider persona non gratis...I'd make friendly with Vladimir Putin before that bum ever again! (sorry)
I found, like many other users, that our XP machines were overwhelmed by the new site and needing an upgrade to not only a new OS, but an expensive new computer would become the best fix. Thank goodness I'm not in a third world country populated by 10 year old gear that to them is the newest and best available and that I have pockets without holes (for the time being).
Struggling with re-sizing unruly windows to fit my laptop screen is not something I like to do every time I log in to view or do a broadcast..I'd like to see them all pop up onto the screen in neat, evenly sized boxes that I can then adjust to my liking. Boxes that float about the page take some time to get used to like the rolling of a boat as it pushes out to sea. It would also help the guests and new users too if the onscreen boxes were less prone to floating away when adjusting them. I have just decided the rebirth of nsn dot com is not for the faint of heart or minds...
But I suppose you could say that the new nsn dot com has a built in I.Q. test, one that you need to pass in order to be accepted into the fold of active viewers (as I am on these many cloudy and rainy days) and/or broadcasters, (as I have been a few times since May)...I.Q. not being my problem at the moment, I paddle along the deep water cliffs 100 feet off shore of the boat house, an incoming tide is making it an easy swim today. I figure if I could go to space I'd enjoy it as much as the weightless feeling I have snorkeling or going full on scuba, but right now I'm worrying about those unfamiliar with the new nsn dot com and its idiosyncrasies that make the web site so much better than the old one but at the same time making it so difficult for some folks..
Geez, I'm looking face to face with a dogfish, it looks like it's a twenty foot shark but is actually only about five feet long and timid as it swims away just as I reach for the knife strapped to my calf. For some reason I'm thinking about how could NSN be better? I also think that I need to grab a breath and go recover my camera that is about 30 feet down on the sandy bottom of the bay which I dropped when the pseudo shark and I bumped noses...Life in the rain can be interesting at times as I do some unusual things for an old guy...I find my Canon 7d mkII unharmed and I promise myself to buy the proper waterproof container for it before my next dive, another cost of at least as much as the cameras.
It's a curse as the spending never ends if you don't enjoy being left behind and want to stay current with technology. A double curse for astronomers here in the Puget Sound where new equipment can cause a sunny day to go cloudy just as the UPS guy drives away...Sigh, I'll just thank my lucky stars that I have a place to go to view/or broadcast depending on whether the sky is cloudy or clear here in Tacoma, I paddle back to the finger pier where my gear cart is parked...What!? you think I'd carry all of this stuff back to the car? Popping up next to the finger pier I see that I'm not alone as a Sea Lion has decided to get a rain tan on the ramp, it's a dicey move but give him a blast from my canned air horn to scoot him back into the bay. They've been known to go for the diver but hes just a wussy and slips into the water as I jack myself out, wondering if my lunch is still intact in the cart?
Getting a chance to broadcast on the new NSN dot com is a real joy to me and even tho I've only been on a couple of times since the beta testing started, I could tell it (HTML5) was going to be much better than Adobe flash ever could be, eventually, as the bugs get corrected...I wonder about the new people logging in and finding that the changes are overwhelming compared to the point and click simplicity of another web site still up but under management whom I consider persona non gratis...I'd make friendly with Vladimir Putin before that bum ever again! (sorry)
I found, like many other users, that our XP machines were overwhelmed by the new site and needing an upgrade to not only a new OS, but an expensive new computer would become the best fix. Thank goodness I'm not in a third world country populated by 10 year old gear that to them is the newest and best available and that I have pockets without holes (for the time being).
Struggling with re-sizing unruly windows to fit my laptop screen is not something I like to do every time I log in to view or do a broadcast..I'd like to see them all pop up onto the screen in neat, evenly sized boxes that I can then adjust to my liking. Boxes that float about the page take some time to get used to like the rolling of a boat as it pushes out to sea. It would also help the guests and new users too if the onscreen boxes were less prone to floating away when adjusting them. I have just decided the rebirth of nsn dot com is not for the faint of heart or minds...
But I suppose you could say that the new nsn dot com has a built in I.Q. test, one that you need to pass in order to be accepted into the fold of active viewers (as I am on these many cloudy and rainy days) and/or broadcasters, (as I have been a few times since May)...I.Q. not being my problem at the moment, I paddle along the deep water cliffs 100 feet off shore of the boat house, an incoming tide is making it an easy swim today. I figure if I could go to space I'd enjoy it as much as the weightless feeling I have snorkeling or going full on scuba, but right now I'm worrying about those unfamiliar with the new nsn dot com and its idiosyncrasies that make the web site so much better than the old one but at the same time making it so difficult for some folks..
Geez, I'm looking face to face with a dogfish, it looks like it's a twenty foot shark but is actually only about five feet long and timid as it swims away just as I reach for the knife strapped to my calf. For some reason I'm thinking about how could NSN be better? I also think that I need to grab a breath and go recover my camera that is about 30 feet down on the sandy bottom of the bay which I dropped when the pseudo shark and I bumped noses...Life in the rain can be interesting at times as I do some unusual things for an old guy...I find my Canon 7d mkII unharmed and I promise myself to buy the proper waterproof container for it before my next dive, another cost of at least as much as the cameras.
It's a curse as the spending never ends if you don't enjoy being left behind and want to stay current with technology. A double curse for astronomers here in the Puget Sound where new equipment can cause a sunny day to go cloudy just as the UPS guy drives away...Sigh, I'll just thank my lucky stars that I have a place to go to view/or broadcast depending on whether the sky is cloudy or clear here in Tacoma, I paddle back to the finger pier where my gear cart is parked...What!? you think I'd carry all of this stuff back to the car? Popping up next to the finger pier I see that I'm not alone as a Sea Lion has decided to get a rain tan on the ramp, it's a dicey move but give him a blast from my canned air horn to scoot him back into the bay. They've been known to go for the diver but hes just a wussy and slips into the water as I jack myself out, wondering if my lunch is still intact in the cart?