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[foxgrrl]

My life has been getting very interesting very fast. New boss at work – who was my old boss at a previous company. Oh, and Nyah is coming to stay with me ♥ ♥ ♥

There was a bee, taking a short bee-break on my car window at sunset. So I took her picture. (I only had natural light to work with here, so the images aren't as razor-sharp as usual.)


Here's a cropped image, that's scaled down less than the above. (The original looks just the the above. I was only using a reversed 50mm lens. so there is only one focal-length and magnification.)


I accidentially overexposed one frame, and – this may just be a reflection of the sky – but this bee appears to have blue eyes.


They – you know THEY – are shutting down power to our building, where I work, this weekend. So it's a perfect time to completely rewire the QA lab, and do some other IT stuff. Here are some "Before" pictures. Actually, about one third of the equipment has already been pulled out at this point when I took these pictures. So it's not nearly as impressive as it could possibly be... (Taken with my, widest angle, 18mm lens.)


For whoever it was asking me about the dust reference images: The aperture does matter when trying to image the dust on the CCD. (These were shot with the Nikon ED 55-200mm "G" lens at 200mm. I have lenses with worse vignetting than this. The effect is exaggerated here — I stretched out the curve.) (Yes I cleaned my CDD after this, this was from the recent trip to DC/VA/PA/MD/etc.)

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[maradydd.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* Um, if there does end up being room, can I jump in? I don't know as I'd call myself "thin" per se, but I squish easily and don't mind being cosy. (This is for Sunday right?)

[foxgrrl]

There is enough space for one more person, two people have called me in the last two hours for maybe-possibly needing a ride. So I'm still figuring things out. I think dv_girl has an empty seat too, so we can shuffle people around as needed.

This is for Sunday morning.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

If it would be possible for me to go with y'all, that would be super cool. You have my number, so feel free to give me a call and let me know what will work. I'm trying to avoid driving right now but could VTA/bike it to your place or some other suitable meeting point tomorrow AM.

[foxgrrl]

I had to search through some stuff, but I found your number (The 319NPA one?) Anyway, since you're in Mountain View, and I'm in Mountain View, and I'm driving, and I have to pick someone up from Sunnyvale... It should be easy to just pick you up at home.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, that works too -- /me was just trying to keep you from having to drive any farther southeast than you might otherwise have to, and come up with an excuse to bike ten miles at the same time. ;) But whatever works.

Yus, it's the 319 number. I forget, do you have my real email address?

[foxgrrl]

I thought I had your resume somewhere, but I haven't found it yet... So I only have your Gmail one.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Not especially hard to find; it's my initials at my domain name, and you can figure out both of those from the front page of my LJ.