What would you do for a little Karma?

[awlrite4now]

eyphur said:

I took some photographs today and I wanted to share them. I hope they might be worth a little karma.
This is the tire swing out in my backyard.


This is our TV antenna. I live way out in the country where one cannot get cable so this is how we watch local TV.


And finally, this is a tree in my front yard.

Were you using the sepia mode in your camera, or did you do a filter in photoshop? Very nice job! I like the composition in your photos too. I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes to play with line and plane in photos. I'll have to find one I took of a VERY large antenna where I used to work. I did a solarized print of it, in a dark room with real chemicals. That was really fun, but stinky. Digital is a lot cleaner and environmentally friendly.

[awlrite4now]

I found it:



This is standing directly under the tower, looking straight up. The geometric lines fascinated me.

This is what it looked like from the road. The locals called it "the elephant cage". I worked in the building in the middle.

[Eyphur]

awlrite4now said:

Were you using the sepia mode in your camera, or did you do a filter in photoshop? Very nice job! I like the composition in your photos too. I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes to play with line and plane in photos. I'll have to find one I took of a VERY large antenna where I used to work. I did a solarized print of it, in a dark room with real chemicals. That was really fun, but stinky. Digital is a lot cleaner and environmentally friendly.

I used the sepia mode setting on the camera. It's a Kodak easy share camera. I don't know a lot about it but if anyone wants the specific numbers off the camera just send me a PM.

[inuvik]

I'll join the chorus here--karma for the poem! (and all your hard work with letters and addresses).

[inuvik]

#14 is my favourite.

Will post jokes for karma. Brother, can you spare a laugh?


Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace

1. BLAMESTORMING:
Sitting around in a group,discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3. ASSMOSIS:
The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

4. SALMON DAY:
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM:
An office filled with cubicles

6. PRAIRIE DOGGING:
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop over the walls to see what's going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO:
The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

8. SITCOMS:
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

9. STRESS PUPPY:
A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

10. SWIPEOUT:
An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11. XEROX SUBSIDY:
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

12. IRRITAINMENT:
Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The J-Lo and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael Jackson, another...Brangelina, etc, etc...

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE:
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

15. 404:
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.

16. GENERICA:
Features of the Canadian landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

17. OHNOSECOND:
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake) ha,ha,ha...

18. WOOFS:
Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING:
Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

[inuvik]

Believe it or not, I just found a blind cop joke--bet Marty would have enjoyed this one! (OK, blonde joke actually, but close enough)

I'll stop with the jokes...for now. That should get me karma too, ha ha!! ;D


Blind As A Cop


Returning home from work, a blonde was shocked to find her house ransacked and burglarized. She telephoned the police at once and reported the crime. The police dispatcher broadcast the call and a K-9 unit patrolling nearby was the first to respond.
As the K-9 officer approached the house with his dog on a leash, the blonde ran out on the porch, shuddered at the sight of the cop and his dog, then sat down on the steps.
Putting her face in her hands, she moaned: "I come home to find all my possessions stolen. I call the police for help, and what do they do? They send me a BLIND policeman!"

[Duchess of Lashes]

Okay, I'll join the karma fest - for #13, percussive maintenance - I've tried it many a time and it works well, especially on Canon copiers AND because GO! FLAMES! GO! brings back some really fond memories of our first year in Dallas (1989), a little sports bar in the north end of the City (at that time, nothing more than wasteland) that got far too much business from us, a really great group of students from Calgary, brooms, dustpans and a sweep by the Calgary Flames! What a spring that was!!

Karma, Inuvik!

[greenbeing]

awlrite4now said:

I found it:

Nice pic! Karma! I've always tried to do that with trees, but the trunks always get in the way!

--GB

[awlrite4now]

I like the assmosis one. I've known plenty of people who have risen to the top on that tide.

Percussive Maintenance. I'm well-schooled in this one. In the Navy, we called it the drop test.

I've never worked in a cube farm, but I've seen prairie dogging happen. It's a riot.

Great batch of terms.

[inuvik]

longlashes said:

Okay, I'll join the karma fest - for #13, percussive maintenance - I've tried it many a time and it works well, especially on Canon copiers AND because GO! FLAMES! GO! brings back some really fond memories of our first year in Dallas, a little sports bar in the north end of the City (at that time, nothing more than wasteland) that got far too much business from us, a great group of students from Calgary, brooms, dustpans and a sweep by the Calgary Flames! What a spring that was!!

Karma, Inuvik!

Aww, Longlashes, you never should have left Canada! Definitely a Canuck at heart! (Or a Flame actually, ha ha)

I'm hoping they will have a repeat of two years ago and GO ALL THE WAY! I am one of the many that said there never should have been a game 7, that there was that one goal that the ref's screwed up on. Did you see that one? In the slow mo replays, the puck quite clearly crossed the line ALL THE WAY before the goalie ejected it . The Flames were the champs two years ago in my heart. GRR. GO FLAMES!

[Duchess of Lashes]

inuvik said:

longlashes said:

Okay, I'll join the karma fest - for #13, percussive maintenance - I've tried it many a time and it works well, especially on Canon copiers AND because GO! FLAMES! GO! brings back some really fond memories of our first year in Dallas, a little sports bar in the north end of the City (at that time, nothing more than wasteland) that got far too much business from us, a great group of students from Calgary, brooms, dustpans and a sweep by the Calgary Flames! What a spring that was!!

Karma, Inuvik!

Aww, Longlashes, you never should have left Canada! Definitely a Canuck at heart! (Or a Flame actually, ha ha)

I'm hoping they will have a repeat of two years ago and GO ALL THE WAY! I am one of the many that said there never should have been a game 7, that there was that one goal that the ref's screwed up on. Did you see that one? In the slow mo replays, the puck quite clearly crossed the line ALL THE WAY before the goalie ejected it . The Flames were the champs two years ago in my heart. GRR. GO FLAMES!

Aw, Inuvik, I may have left Canada, but it hasn't left me - I will always be a Canuck at heart (even though I can't bring myself to cheer for that team!) Twenty years south of the border and I am still Canadian through and through - I always will be!

I agree, without a doubt the Flames did win two years ago - quite clearly - even though 1989 is their only official Stanley Cup win - and what a win it was! Since there is no sense cheering my beloved Maple Leafs because - there is just no way to put this politely - they stink - I'll jump right on that great Alberta band wagon and add my cheers of GO! FLAMES! GO!

[bjobsessed]

longlashes said:

Aw, Inuvik, I may have left Canada, but it hasn't left me - I will always be a Canuck at heart (even though I can't bring myself to cheer for that team!) Twenty years south of the border and I am still Canadian through and through - I always will be!

I agree, without a doubt the Flames did win two years ago - quite clearly - even though 1989 is their only official Stanley Cup win - and what a win it was! Since there is no sense cheering my beloved Maple Leafs because - there is just no way to put this politely - they stink - I'll jump right on that great Alberta band wagon and add my cheers of GO! FLAMES! GO!

I know the Leafs stink--especially this year, but once a Leaf fan always a Leaf fan unfortunately. I can't help myself. Like I've said many times over the years, there's always next year. And the year after that...and the year after that....

[Duchess of Lashes]

bjobsessed said:

longlashes said:

Aw, Inuvik, I may have left Canada, but it hasn't left me - I will always be a Canuck at heart (even though I can't bring myself to cheer for that team!) Twenty years south of the border and I am still Canadian through and through - I always will be!

I agree, without a doubt the Flames did win two years ago - quite clearly - even though 1989 is their only official Stanley Cup win - and what a win it was! Since there is no sense cheering my beloved Maple Leafs because - there is just no way to put this politely - they stink - I'll jump right on that great Alberta band wagon and add my cheers of GO! FLAMES! GO!

I know the Leafs stink--especially this year, but once a Leaf fan always a Leaf fan unfortunately. I can't help myself. Like I've said many times over the years, there's always next year. And the year after that...and the year after that....

You got that right. Once a Leaf fan, always a Leaf fan - I still am, I just don't think they gave us much to cheer for this year! No one will ever take the place of my favorite Leaf - Ian Turnbull, #2! I saved and saved and saved so I could buy an authentic #2 Leaf jersey at Doug Laurie's sports in Maple Leaf Gardens - back then it was well over a hundred bucks and about twenty extra for his name! I wore that thing til it was threadbare!

[bjobsessed]

Some of my favourites have been Lanny MacDonald and Darryl Sittler, Doug Gilmour. More recently, Mats Sundin and Ed Belfour although I think he needs to quit now with his back in the shape that it is.

Leaf Jersey's are still over a hundred bucks and that's just at a store like Joggers with no name! I have two--home and away.

Sorry Mags! I think we're getting off topic again. Back to Karma.

[Duchess of Lashes]

bjobsessed said:

Some of my favourites have been Lanny MacDonald and Darryl Sittler, Doug Gilmour. More recently, Mats Sundin and Ed Belfour although I think he needs to quit now with his back in the shape that it is.

Leaf Jersey's are still over a hundred bucks and that's just at a store like Joggers with no name! I have two--home and away.

Sorry Mags! I think we're getting off topic again. Back to Karma.

Me too - sorry Maggie - but you can't be Canadian and not discuss hockey any chance you get! But here's how we can get back on the topic of karma -- Anita, I think being a Leaf fan, especially a life long, die-hard, cheer em win or lose fan, like we are (Borje Salming, Inge Hammerstrom, Felix Potvin, Mike Palmateer, Paul Henderson, etc., etc.) deserves karma! What do you think?