The Coffee House

vintagesnaps · Apr 19, 2018

I only have FB friends that are real life people I know (from local hockey, or we used to work together, etc.) so I mostly see hockey stuff or pictures of people's kids, etc. It has gotten more aggravating to use though. I must say I saw some of the hearing with Zuckerburg and did he drink a lot of water! kept sipping it the whole time. It was popcorn worthy television.

It didn't actually snow and the sun's out so I'm wearing the cute jacket and pretending it's warmer than it is. I won't actually be outdoors that much, if anything it might be cold leaving but I'll take along something warmer and leave it in the car.

smoke665 · Apr 19, 2018

@jcdeboever which part of FL thus time? Good time as most of our snowbird friends are headed home.

Nice in GA today. Sun is out, nice breeze comfortable weather. Just got back from exploring the area with some friends from MS. He's a photography hobbyist as well so it was nice having a shooting partner while the wives caught up since our last meeting.

SquarePeg · Apr 19, 2018

snowbear said:
Good afternoon, all.

It's in the 50s but rain is on the way. Spent a nice, but cooler day, in Hagerstown (Western Maryland) at a GIS meeting. I had a nice Cuban sandwich for lunch at 28South.
Tomorrow is clean up day, but I can't get away with jeans because I have to give a demo on one of our apps to a station, and I have a meeting with one of the Deputy Fire Chiefs. We are trying to get a standard procedure in place for the station people to request maps.

I'm thinking about dropping fb.

waday said:
snowbear said:

I'm thinking about dropping fb.

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I've been thinking the same lately.

I rarely go on it anymore, and when I do, it's just an echo chamber of similar thought processes. It makes me mad, so I sign off. I really can't stand the algorithm they use to shove similar thoughts in your face. IG is starting to be similar now. I hesitate whether or not I want to like or even look at a picture for more than a few milliseconds for fear of that person's stuff showing up in my feed more and more.

Curious @snowbear and @waday how many Facebook friends you have? I don't feel like I see a lot of outside stuff in my FB feed, mostly just posts from friends and family and Photo or Parenting groups that I am a member of. Maybe I just browse past it and don't realize it. I use the "most recent" newsfeed and like @vintagesnaps below, I only have Facebook friends that I've actually met and know fairly well and of course, my relatives. I currently have 122 people on my friends list. I know people who have 500+, even 1000+ "friends" which I can't even imagine what their Facebook feed must look like! I immediately block anyone who re-posts or shares stuff from certain alt right and alt left sites and anyone who posts too much about their personal problems. It's not Therapy people! I like FB to keep up with my cousins and their kids (I have 27 first cousins on my mom's side alone) and I get a lot of relevant community info about the schools and sports. Besides, without FB Community pages, how would I know who the local aholes are?

vintagesnaps said:
I only have FB friends that are real life people I know (from local hockey, or we used to work together, etc.) so I mostly see hockey stuff or pictures of people's kids, etc. It has gotten more aggravating to use though. I must say I saw some of the hearing with Zuckerburg and did he drink a lot of water! kept sipping it the whole time. It was popcorn worthy television.

It didn't actually snow and the sun's out so I'm wearing the cute jacket and pretending it's warmer than it is. I won't actually be outdoors that much, if anything it might be cold leaving but I'll take along something warmer and leave it in the car.

Sounds like it worked out for you weather wise. I didn't get to watch any of the Zuckerburg hearings. Was he as awkward as he seems like he'd be?

waday · Apr 19, 2018

SquarePeg said:
Curious @snowbear and @waday how many Facebook friends you have? I don't feel like I see a lot of outside stuff in my FB feed, mostly just posts from friends and family and Photo or Parenting groups that I am a member of. Maybe I just browse past it and don't realize it. I use the "most recent" newsfeed and like @vintagesnaps below, I only have Facebook friends that I've actually met and know fairly well and of course, my relatives. I currently have 122 people on my friends list. I know people who have 500+, even 1000+ "friends" which I can't even imagine what their Facebook feed must look like! I immediately block anyone who re-posts or shares stuff from certain alt right and alt left sites and anyone who posts too much about their personal problems. It's not Therapy people! I like FB to keep up with my cousins and their kids (I have 27 first cousins on my mom's side alone) and I get a lot of relevant community info about the schools and sports. Besides, without FB Community pages, how would I know who the local aholes are?

I have a little over 200, which is composed of family and friends. I do not accept requests from people I do not know.

One problem is when there's something big in the news (like there has been for the past 2 years). My feed gets spammed by friends that I don't want to block or see less of... I just don't necessarily need to see something get posted 15 times.

Then, there's the the "suggested" pages or news articles.

davidharmier60 · Apr 19, 2018

I got into the computer enough to do the go back thing. I went back about a month.
Next time it booted up it never came out of no input. I guess I need to look inside again and see if a video card can be installed.
Video is built into the motherboard.

In other news I repaired a sprinkler. I blamed it on the dogs. Dad allowed that he MIGHT have broken it. Oh well the glue seems to have done the job.

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davidharmier60 · Apr 19, 2018

The computer will in fact take a video card.
The biggest issue is where I'll get one.

Question. Is it likely that all this came on suddenly because of a virus?

Should I try the video card route?

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davidharmier60 · Apr 19, 2018

I wish you all a good night and a better tomorrow (Friday) for those who don't have to work Saturday.

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snowbear · Apr 19, 2018

I have about 50, including a few from here. I filter out most of the crap so that’s not a big deal. I find I use it 95% of the time for one hidden picture game.

@waday: check out Face Book Purity , a browser plug in that had some decent filtering.

Gary A. · Apr 19, 2018

Interestingly enough, Gary discovered today that Miss Maggie likes Yak.

terri · Apr 19, 2018

SquarePeg said:
I didn't get to watch any of the Zuckerburg hearings. Was he as awkward as he seems like he'd be?

There's an excellent meme of the Z dressed as the android Data from Star Trek, but I can't find it atm.

The resemblence is uncanny.

jcdeboever · Apr 20, 2018

smoke665 said:
@jcdeboever which part of FL thus time? Good time as most of our snowbird friends are headed home.

Nice in GA today. Sun is out, nice breeze comfortable weather. Just got back from exploring the area with some friends from MS. He's a photography hobbyist as well so it was nice having a shooting partner while the wives caught up since our last meeting.

Holiday, near Tarpon Springs. Not much bird shooting planned. I may get a few around the condo. I'm just not into birds in flight, I've tried some but not my cup of tea at this time. I'm more of an urban, street shooter. I will visit a botanical garden with tripod in hand. I am bringing my 23mm, 80mm, XT2, and Xpro2. I also packed the Nikon F / 35 f2, with a roll of Delta 3200 and 3 short rolls of TriX for Ybor City and Downtown Tampa. I plan on hitting Ybor at night, hense the reason for a roll of 3200. I am going for s l o w , real s l o w shooting. I'm working on framing / composition the whole vacation. Looking will be more important than shooting My goal is quality, not quantity. If I take 100 images digitally, I want a 100% keeper rate. I am going for the same keeper rate using film, I will force myself to shoot the entire roll of 3200 to free up the camera. My last two times out with film, I spent about 2 hours of time and shot 4 frames. I've been challenging myself to use my brain and be very selective.

smoke665 · Apr 20, 2018

jcdeboever said:
Looking will be more important than shooting My goal is quality, not quantity

Good hunting! Ybor City is such an eccentric area that I doubt you'll have to wait long. Downtown is also interesting.

Typically the Manatee would have moved out by now but the weather has been so crazy that you might still find them at Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River.

waday · Apr 20, 2018

snowbear said:
@waday: check out Face Book Purity , a browser plug in that had some decent filtering.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll have to look into this.

Fujidave · Apr 20, 2018

Good afternoon all, a lovely sunny day here in East Sussex. Went out early this morning and it was pretty warm then, only took a few shots in B&W and this time I thought about taking the shot, instead of just quickly taking it and I had fun.