My dog 'Fudge' fell in the canal when we were miles from home.......

....and I didn't have a camera.

There's not a more pitiful sight on the planet than a freezing cold saturated whippet.

B

Bob......Animal Cruelty is considered a crime in today's society :-)

When my baby was about 6 months old he came running towards me and jumped right into a pond/water feature thing in my complex - thinking it was a solid surface. He was shocked that it was not - it was water - and then the dec freeze of the water set in. He stood there literally frozen and would not move. I had to wade in and soak myself and freeze my toes off to lift him up.

Now of course he hates water and doesn't go swimming in the puppy pool at the puppy theme park when I take him there. And he hates baths:


Didn't ruin my day though. ;-)

Don't worry. She got her own back.

I bashed my knee dropping to the floor to grab her and a soggy glove & arm.

I also had to give her a shower when we got home because of the 'canal stink'.

Pesky critters ;^)

B

Me neither really. Just thought it would be a fun alternative thread to the 'made your day' one.

That is a look of pure contempt Richard.

B

He is half pekingese... I think all the peke's know is how to hold contempt for others... comes from 2000 years of being the regal pet of the forbidden city. It has been a hard readjustment for the peke race... ;-)

I went to the doctor with a cold and she found out I have THE FLU. Could anyone top that?

Just read in the Paper about a mother and a son somewhere, who had had THE FLU twice! :-(

Delivery problems for my ordered 7D....still.....aarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg - Finally want to get rid of my 400D :((((((

can't talk with someone I really care - and I don't know until when ...
that's ruined my day today

got a ticket for driving to fast! grrrrrrrrr ;(

Starter motor crapped out on me. Had to get a tow home. Then had to arrange a tow to the garage this morning. When the AA man turned up this morning the car started no problem. . . . Typical! So I drove it down there myself. . Oh well, have to get a new starter motor as i can't trust the one I have any more. . .

Oh yeah, and having no rejection email yet again! So I'm thinking that maybe it's a borderline case when actually it's an instant reject. grrrrrrrrrr

I like this thread! =)

First my hard drive with all my photos crashed, then I crashed with my car going home from the data recovery guy and also got a ticket from the police, so I qualify pretty well today...

Don't go out for the rest of the day! Get a nice bottle of wine, maybe two and watch a film. How dangerous could that be? :))) So sorry.
Phyllis

Feel better!! Rest.
Phyllis

Very dangerous ... i think Ralf usualy drinks bear, wine is very strong , or bottles of wine in Sweden are very small ? :)

Here in Portugal 2 bottles it´s enough to put a guy in floor :)

But that also depends on the "guy" - I'm well trained in drinking wine ;) Or do you have 2 litre bottles?

I would think drinking bear would be VERY dangerous indeed!!

1. I'm convinced you have a backup
2. Hopfully you still can use the car for transporting the photobooks to the post office (still waiting .. )
3. That happens often in young age, come to my age and the ticket amounts lower down :-)

Arrived at work today and learned to know that the desktop was gone and changed by an IGEL thin client.
Mr. Administrator blocked some sites (more to follow I guess). Pbase, flickr and all other photo hosts are qualified as porn and therefore blocked...
Browsing photo forums is fun when all photos hosted by one of those hosts aren't visible. :s

Oh and Mr. Administrator gave us a real cool browser...IE6... =()

@$!?!#)%£?@

someone has stolen my bicycle ...:(((( and 1X .... has rejected another my shot :))

Definitely my flu.

Bad weather ...

Thin clients rule. But when we deploy for clients we don't block sites - just filter for virii. Employees tend to be more productive if they ca be happy and do some personal stuff as well as opposed to leaving asap to go elsewhere to do it...

My son took my car, drove it to a friend and some ***** thought red lights were not for him, drove right through it. Result: my 2 month old car is now total loss!
Luckily my son is unharmed.
In my case a thread "what ruined your year" would be more appropriate, as this isn't the only thing that went terribly wrong this year :-(
Hey, writing this, helps ! Thanks !

A phone.......from school
that my daughter had an accident.....

To find out, that the first serious night frost had caused the whole drinking water system in the horse-stable to collapse. I simply had forgotten to switch on the water-heating system! :-(
It costs 4 hours of work for me, my employee and an electrician, that thawed the waterpipe circulation system with 150 Ampere 50 Volt electrical power. We had to exchange 14 frost-damaged water-valves in the drinking-cups and I expect a considerable bill from the electrician! :-(
Now the heated water circulates nicely again. The frost has disappeared and I might not forget to switch on the water-heating system next winter - I hope at least! :-)

I can't decide what ruined my day, if it is almost only have gotten negative critique on one of my photos at 1x or that my tripod broke during a photo walk outside. The negative critique made me take the decision to not try again, and my money situation is currently not allowing a new tripod. So, I am a bit frustrated and whiny. :(

Monique, how is your daughter? Reading that put my whining into another light...

Anna, I feel partly responsible for your ruined day I guess with my critique of your image. Please don't regard my comments and other's as being intentionally negative though, I believe we were only expressing our honest opinions of your image. I would hate to think that you were giving up on trying that type of shot again or feeling despondant towards photography because of honest comments that we made.

I hope you feel better soon.

JP

Waking up.

I have a 'workplace psychopath' working for me.

She ruins most days.

A shame, that is my favorite part of the day :)


Sorry to hear, but I like the link

better than the alternative. . . . ;-)


Nasty. That link was depressing. I'm glad I never have to work in an office environment.

No, John, you do not have to feel responsible! I liked your honest respond... but yesterday came a bunch more and sometimes it is not so much fun just to get the negative side. I never will give up photography and I will certainly try again at that location if I get way, way up north again. I will just not try it on 1x. There are another site for me. That is just how it is. :)

Back to subject. The weather report promised a large sun today, were is it???? I had planned a photo trip... :(

Now she is ok......she crushed her head.....but she feels good yet.

thank you very much for interest.
it is nice to know that somebody is worried about her :)
Many thanks...
and i hope that the sun will finnaly shine for you today :)

Take care.

Monique.

That was not today, but it has ruined my month.

My dogs (a Husky and a Lab) were chasing each other all around the house, and I heard something falling down.
It was my tripod ... With my brand new 50D on it.
The glass (60mm macro) is dead, but the body didn't get a single scratch.

Still, I almost had a heart attack that day.

Receiving not so good news about my brother-in-law's newborn (3 days young) daughter... :(
A viral infection before birth...They did some tests and she has most probably partial or even full hearing loss.
Hope her sight will be ok...not sure yet.
We'll have to await the other test results.
A viral infection before birth is a bad thing...fortunately, her heart is ok and she has no paralysises. :)

That's really very sad news.

Sorry to hear that Tim, suddenly i have nothing to complain about when it comes to this day..

First a grandma with a femoral neck fracture .... than my mom to hospital yesterday and finally the repaired (2 month old but HD defect) - Sony Vaio arrived.....with now a fan as loud as an airplane - I'm really fucked enough for this week, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG

Complete loss of the heating system in our house during the weekend - f...ing cold - repaired by specialists on Monday - waiting now for the bill ...:-(

Sven that really sucks. Thomas maybe you can get one of those small electrical heaters, they really do a big difference, my father lives in the countryside and it's sometimes 14°C in the house when it's not been heated up recently. Slippers and thick blankets help too. Still not fun.

Personally, a one hour interview with Sweden's two and only intellectual property prosecutors recorded on my iPhone now says it's 0 seconds long, and this was the cornerstone of the essay which is the final for the whole semester and it's less than a week left until it has to be finished. =P

On a positive note, my crashed external harddrive with all my photos ever on was resurrected by a very skilled data recovery guy. It cost me $1000 though. Hmm, maybe not so positive after all. From now on I will always have backups on at least 3 harddrives and I would recommend everyone else to do the same!

Ouch, there is -1ºC outside, i know is like summer for some of you, but for me is for polar bears brrrrrr

There is no bad weather, just bad clothes like we say in Sweden! ;) (Well it rhymes in Swedish -Det finns inget dåligt väder bara dåliga kläder!

- 1 °C ? Hmm ... That´s fairly well. In our place was Monday at night - 23 °C ;)) During the day was - 10/-15 °C
But now is warmth - out is raining and all snow is away :(

Today's the 20th anniversary of my mom's death... :-( Miss her...

nothing did

After reading this thread I don't have anything to whine about anymore. That my son lost his birthday money isn't such a big deal all of a sudden. Worth things could happen.

My best wishes to everyone and good health.

Anna

Yesterday grand-grandmother of my daughters passed away ....

Having ALL my photo equipment stolen...

OMG, sorry to hear that Thomas, hope you have insurance!!

Not sure it will cover it. It was stolen from our care when making a 10 minute restroom stop with my daughters coming back from new year break...

the nightmare of all photogs! very sorry to hear that. all the best

It doesn´t matter if someting bad happened to me today. Sure someone had a worst day somewhere, so nothing to complain, maybe I should feel even fortunate. Love.

Ouchhh, Thomas ... i think listen this ruin my day too ... hope insurance covers it, or police can find it :((((

In the U.S. with my insurance, yes it would cover such an event. Automobile insurance would that is. There may be some limit and it may not be enough but it would cover. I have auto ins with a company called Allstate.

my landlady is kicking me out in 20 days because she's selling the apartment where I'm living which is the coolest loft in the area. And it's so damn hard to find something as good. THis is a REAL bummer.
It ruined my last two days and will probably make a nightmare out of the next 20



I'm sorry to hear this Thomas.

and I thought Sweden was a place where you wouldn't lock your doors and was 100% safe, even from petty theft....

Oh, there are still places like this in Sweden. Just not where we stopped :-)

Sorry to ear this, the year started bad for you:-(((

When I bought a new Nikon D300 and lenses, it toked an insurance who covers even when I fall with the camera.
I think, I and you could have a problem with assurance, if you material was visual from outside the car and not the trunk.
That's was what a friend also said, when his photo material was stolen out of the trunk of his car.

Very sorry to hear this news ..yikes. The trunk part is important at least with my regular car insurance. Clyde's company is better than mine..I have Geico. If you remember now - you HAD IT IN THE TRUNK...you just forgot. :))

You can buy a rider in the States on your home insurance policy..for very little money...very stupidly I have not done this..the cost for about 10 to 20 thousand of equipment..was almost nothing in a year! :) So maybe for the future you can look into it? I think once you are burned it becomes more of a priority - insurance that is.

Again, I hope you will be reimbursed for at least some of your loss.

Phyllis

Wow, I'm sorry for you Thomas.
The only place I leave my gear are my home and my back (in a bag).

.....the news about the Sea Shepherd´s boat. It was sunken by Japan. But I´ll guess the gowerments around world will keep silence, in the name of trade and money.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8442808.stm

Damn! This will be a heavy blow against Sea Shepherd, I'm afraid.

The weather in Stockholm have ruined my day. -18 degrees. That is too cold for an old man.

It started early in the morning. Important project meeting, I'm the lead, so I arranged coffee, beamer etc in the meeting room. Five minutes before time my boss says, we need another meeting room on the floor below. Cool, I get everything and bring it to the other room.
Still time for a cigarette. I barely had it lit when the partners arrived. Had to threw it right away. Tantalizing pain.
We have four elevators, three big and a very small. We were seven people. Which elevator arrives? The tiny one.
OK, meeting goes its way, at noon I had to leave because I had to go to court. A mobile phone company demands 900 euros in unpaid bills. Too bad I only used pre-paid cards. No big deal, you can't scare a prostitute with sex and a lawyer with a court. I arrive in time, what do I see? 150 defendants round up in a small room - six of them were Europeans, the rest Belgians of various origins. After one and a half hour, the court was in session and the judge read out loud the names of each defendants. Poor judge had huge problems with spelling names names like Ngambo Mumba Sekusetokelele, and since 90 % of the names was like this, soon the whole audience (lawyers, defendants, assistants alltogether) were loughing out loud. Some ladies brought their babies who cried like hell and we agreed with a Moroccan guy that this whole mess is a multicultural festival Belgacom-style.
In the end, I had to wait three hours to be the 137. to be heard by the judge. I told her my version of the story, she promptly set another date for my case. It took about ninety seconds. Three hours waiting for this ninety (90) seconds. Cool.
OK, I called a taxi, waited half an hour, it didn't arrive. (This being in Brussels, it was heavily raining of course.) Called the dispatcher again, she said she didn't take any taxi order from my number. Since I can't curse in French very good, I just quit the line. Still better than last time when I called a taxi: at that time, when the dispatcher heard my not Belgian-sounding name, she promptly refused to take my order. I called her back to argue, what happens? She just smashes down the phone on me. Welcome to the capital of Europe!
I was hungry and wanted to have a burger. I go to Quick, the Belgian version of McDonalds, wait my long queue and when I wanted to order at last, the assistant says: sorry sir, this counter has just been closed.
OK, I made it back to the office, an email waits from the Sony Photo Awards. Heartbeat rate at 200: am I on the winners' shortlist? Of course not, but I could still buy discount tickets to their big event in Cannes. Put Sony Awards into the spam folder at lightning speed.
I arrive home. Wife says hello, food is in the fridge, and off she goes to her language class. Have to babysit until late night. OK, let's watch a 24 DVD. What do I see? Sweet little baby girl took out every book, CD, DVD and tape from the shelves. As if a bomb had went off in the bedroom and Jack Bauer had no time to defuse it. Now the little terrorist is sleeping and I seriously consider to jump out from the balcony.

Don't, you'll be sued for damaging the pavement.!!

"Funny" day indeed... and I think most of what you described happened to me once, though maybe not the same day (and BTW I did work in Brussels too). Especially your court story. It happened to me almost exactly the same about 10 years ago when I had a case with an employee. We had to wait hours for a previous case involving lots of people and different union reps, it was a mess and finally it took the judge 61 seconds to notify us that our case was delayed to another day...

Some fifty meter from me ,some one throw a grenade at a government police car,the car exploded ,and the whole army in the street start to shoot ,I have heard some thousand bullet shot,I took a shelter inside a shop of fresh vegetables about half an hour,until I saw some pedestrian come close the shop ,I just mix with them and fled the scene,it took me an other one hour to pass the check point.
arrived at home,do some little gardening and forgot everything about the accident, it is the eighth consecutive year of this series.
At night I checked my upload at 1x,and the grenade now exploded at me,my last upload was rejected.
To all,stay safe and fine.

Thanks for this, certainly puts mine and Balazs' day in perspective.

Al, I wish you all the best and I hope we could all tend our gardens (I don't have one but there is a little one at my parents home). I feel for you and I had similar days not far from that. Some years ago I woke up to the sound of rockets falling around my home in Haifa. We had to leave the house for some weeks and ask a neighbor to tend for the cats. We here in Israel have our own series and it seems it will never end.

I know the rejection at 1x can sometimes add to the misery of life, but Al, we both know this isn't real life and there are far more important things happening around us. Take care and watch yourself. I wish you (and me) a better future.

Yakov

Great post Balazs. Sorry to find it entertaining but I think that was your intention. A Kafka sort of day, or something like that ;-) We all get them, but hopefully not too often.
last night the train taking me and my wife back from London was delayed due to someone, somewhere between King's Cross and Cambridge, throwing themselves under a train. . . So somebody had a worse day I guess.

I can't imagine what it must be like Al, living where you do, but I wish you the best and may whichever deity is in charge watch over you ;-)
And everyone else as well. . .

Hey, Balazs, how old is your young one? ( boy?girl? ) I could send you some books ;-) in a variety of languages too. . .
Jon

Balazs, I think I can help you with that, and in Flemish too by the way...

My wife and baby girl went to visit the in-laws for a week... my daughter became ill, so they had to delay their return for a few days...

By the way, the only thing that made my day bearable was a co-defendant called Katrijn Jacobs - never seen such a gorgeous lady here. Looked like the young Sade. Maybe a relative of yours? :)


How I was hoping to see this conversation continued!...

I was at art school with the young Sade. . . she showed no signs of being able to sing. . . ;-)
Jon

This sounds like a scene from a comedy film. :) Thank you for the laugh..sorry for your time....there.
Phyllis

Thank you so much Yakov,though it seems that we live a story that will never ends,thanks to politicians.

It will never end,this I can promise since we share the same interest and we like life ,the safe and secure one.
I will request his friendship NOW.

Found my external hard drive was completely filled up with back up files going back to May last year! Over 3 million files & I cannot find a way to delete all these files because each time I go to empty trash on my iMac it tells me ( and this after a day of the selected files being positioned ready to be trashed) that I cannot because there are locked items in there even using the Terminal application sudo rm -rf routine has failed to magic this stuff away. God knows I will never understand these infernal machines curse them once twice & three times. Sorry I cannot match Balazs for laughs or Al & Yakov for seriously real issues but please imagine size & comparison doesn't matter when you have a problem (when at Ford we used to have to call problems concerns) Anyway I off to have an early beer!

That was probably the most beautiful thing I ever saw.

My boyfriend is away and I really miss him. He left me waiting for 5 hours to see him on Skype. He had a good explanation for his delay, but it still upset me... But hey, telling the story here is helping...

Gerard, have you tried emptying the trash in stages, a bit at a time? You might be able to get rid of the unlocked stuff that way? Secure Empty Trash usually works too. Bloody computers!
A beer? Mine's a pint of Adnams.
Jon

I have the same problem, files I backed up from an old PC... CAN'T GET RID OF THEM. Seems that I will have to copy everything I want to keep on another drive, and format it (the first one ;-)

SONY ruins my day again today - Had to call for repair the third time already for a notebook only 5 month old -
Harddrive....Fan and now the display (An the device is just standing on a desk)
And these shitbags say they will repair 5 times until they give me the option for an exchange device!
What a disappointing company, such a big name and what a bad joke in the backyard....
They will never get any cent from me again!

Insane. 5 times? That is probably the worst policy I ever heard of.

Shame. Is this legal at all?

In Sweden it would be illegal. Retailers are allowed to attempt repair 3 times and then the customer can either request a replacement or full refund. Most companies have better polices than what the law requires and would replace if first repair fails.

/ Jacob

Stupid too, by the way - cost of replacing is really, really much lower than all the transport, repair, hours, administration, etc...
Good luck with it...

Sadly it is kind of legal, here in germany law says the same but only in case it is the same fault ....not for different faults, there is no rule.
But Sony should be ashamed of themselves and offer an exchange device.....and I'm sure most vendors do.

The negative highlight was that the guy had the arrogance to say If I'm not happy I should try to give it back to the shop I bought it....
I'm crazy that a company like Sony acts so bad, sure I will try for giving back to Amazon but I don't think the'll agree for full refund,
and sadly I can effort it otherwise I'd kick this shit away and buy a different vendor.

Only thing I can do is to avoid that any friends or people I know buy ever a Sony again.....


Exactly what I think!
And it's extreme with Sony, it's picked up with expresss shipping here in germany and travels to UK everytime!

Well, not that anyone has heard this before but being rejected once again ruined my day. I don't particularly mind being rejected, I'd just much prefer my work to be rejected by the community in screening. My rejection count is so embarrassing I dare not even mention it here but more depressing is that it's working out that only 10% of what I upload even gets into screening. I have a pretty large collection of photographs (in the thousands) but anything I cherry pick isn't getting "through". I don't think it helps that my rejection rate is so appalling and I'm beginning to worry that if I do upload something that does live up to 1X expectations it won't be seriously considered because of my previous work. I'm going to take a step back from submitting here, perhaps in a few months I'll have something worthy. On the positive side, after disabling the emails, my inbox is no longer filled with the dreaded message I was getting all too used to.

Don't consider this a rant against 1X, it's just me venting about the lack of quality or interest in my work.

well yet another of my photos (actually this was a 'painting') was rejected yesterday (or the day before yesterday, can't remember) also yesterday one of my colleagues at work behaved in a way I would describe 'unacceptable' (due to a private reason)... so I am fine today... I feel that the future might be 'brighter', in general... recently I upgraded RAM in our Siemens Amilo Pro laptop (can run Photoshop on it now :) ), looks very solidly built (though the 'spec' is nowhere near the state of the art)...

Don't think you are the only one in that! It is absolutely no different with me, only 5 published and TONS of rejections! (really, really, really)
The point is to try to "do" something with each rejection:

1 - wonder after the rejection if you still feel 100% certain you should have uploaded it or that maybe indeed it was too optimistic even to try?
2 - if answer above postive: submit for critique to see if people can provide you with new insights about the shot and points of improvement
3 - if answer above positive: verify if the possible improvements are post processing (or would require the shot to be taken again)
4 - if answer above positive: do the new post processing and reconsider the upload again
5 - LOOP AGAIN

And if anywhere in this algorithm, the answer is NOT positive, then that doesn't mean the experience wasn't useful or learning something new along the way. Because:

Ad 1) you've reached new insights about what is submit-for-screening material and what is not (you get picky'er yourself)
Ad 2) you feel a tiny bit more confident about the shot in the first place which kind of makes up for the Rejection ;-)
Ad 3) you know what to look out for if you are shooting it again or are shooting in a similar situation
Ad 4) you have improved your image but still (after the feedback) you don't upload again because you've reached new insights about it again

This is no recipe to prevent disappointment (my last rejection from yesterday was VERY disappointing for me and as soon as I have time I'll jump into Critique again to try the above procedure) - but it's something that kind of works for me along the way...

Oh well... 2 rejections without any word why... yep... that is frustrating and that's worst that happened to me today... that doesn't mean my day is ruined, though lol

Down with Sony! A friend of mine had a problem with the display. He brought it to Sony only one day after the warranty expiration. They didn't accept it. He paid over 300 euro and nothing happened!

I have a Lenovo (IBM) T61- meanwhile a little old - for over two years, crashed several times, covered three times with coffee, Latte macchiato and cappuccino, swam twice in water, almost never turned off and it still works like a wild bull. Check out youtube for lenevo and watch the tests. At the beginning I thought they are fake, but they are true ...

Viva IBM

Robin, I took a science test the other day and had absolutely no idea what any of the answers were. So rather then look hopeless, I decided to be entertaining. I wanted my science teacher to have a good time reading my test.
It's helpful to see 1x like that. :)

There was a funny hoax about a student answer to a physic exam which was about Hell being exothermic or endothermic. Did you ever read about it ? (the hoax was wide spread and "localized" in France but was possibly from US origin)

L?enfer est-il exothermique (évacue de la chaleur) ou endothermique (absorbe de la chaleur) ?
La plupart des étudiants ont exprimé leur croyance en utilisant la loi de Boyle (si un gaz se dilate il se refroidit et inversement) ou ses variantes. Cependant un étudiant eut la réponse suivante.

Premièrement, nous avons besoin de connaître comment varie la masse de
l?enfer avec le temps. Nous avons donc besoin de connaître à quel taux
les âmes entrent et sortent de l?enfer. Je pense que nous pouvons sans
risque assurer qu?une fois entrée en enfer, l?âme n?y ressortira plus.
Du coup, aucune
âme ne sort.
De même pour le calcul du nombre d?entrée des âmes en enfer, nous
devons regarder le fonctionnement des différentes religions qui
existent de par le monde aujourd?hui. La plupart de ces
religions affirment que si vous n?êtes pas un membre de leur religion alors vous irez en enfer.
Comme il existe plus d?une religion exprimant cette règle et comme les
gens n?appartiennent pas à plus d?une religion, nous pouvons projeter
que toutes les âmes vont en enfer.
Maintenant regardons la vitesse de changement de volume de l?enfer
parce que la loi de Boyle spécifie que pour que la pression et la
température restent identiques en enfer, le volume de l?enfer doit se
dilater proportionnellement à l?entrée des âmes.
Cela donne deux possibilités :
1 Si l?enfer se dilate à une vitesse moindre que l?entrée des âmes en
enfer, alors la température et la pression en enfer augmenteront
indéfiniment jusqu?à ce que l?enfer éclate.
2 Si l?enfer se dilate à une vitesse supérieure à la vitesse d?entrée
des âmes en enfer, alors la température diminuera jusqu?à ce que
l?enfer gèle.
Laquelle choisir ?
Si nous acceptons le postulat que Teresa m?a répondu durant ma première
année d?étudiant qu? "Il fera froid en enfer avant que je couche avec
toi" et en tenant compte du fait que j?ai couché avec elle la nuit
dernière alors l?hypothèse doit être vrai et alors je suis sûr que
l?enfer est exothermique et a déjà gelé. Le corollaire de cette théorie
c?est que comme l?enfer a déjà gelé, il s?ensuit qu?il n?accepte plus
aucune âme et du coup qu?il n?existe plus? Laissant ainsi seul le
paradis, ainsi prouvant l?existence d?un être divin ce qui explique
pourquoi, la nuit dernière, Teresa n?arrêtait pas de crier :" oh mon
dieu".

Always a pleasure to read...

... and no, I will not translate this ;-)

... I have something to add to this : assuming that there are not so many french girls who would say "Oh my God!" ("oh mon Dieu!") while having sex I believe this hoax is more likely of US origin... :)

By the way I found the EN text : http://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/hell.html

Revise young man! Revise! ;-) no but seriously. . . .

Yea the Thinkpads rocks! Actually it's the laptop of my wife -
When we bought it i suggested her to get a Lenovo but well, she did not like the design.... :)

Thank you - really made my day! :-)

Another rejection T_T ...
But a new slideshow fitur in homepage makes me smile :D

Thanks a lot for the translation (I told to myself I should have learned French), I find this essay very interesting, very interesting indeed...

If one would wish to be pedantic one could argue that the student should have assumed in his proof that there may have existed a third case (though statistically very unlikely) that Hell is neither exothermic nor endothermic, or that Hell is expanding at the exact rate at which souls enter Hell, but as he has proven that Hell is exothermic, this remark is only of 'academic' interest (though it may indicate that the question is not posed in the most general way).

I wonder during which year student wrote the essay, as, if I were the Professor, this could have affected his mark... ;) ...just joking I would have given him a+ for this essay regardless when it was written... :)

Hahaha, I sympahtize with you, this is harsh.. and they are NASTY indeed...

Well, I read that my critics had been rejected, not only my photos ! I suppose my english is to bad, I just cant write it good enough.
So now I cant upload any more photos. To me it seems like this site is for the " well spoken" people, or should it be the "elite"

I really must consider what´s important, try to publish photos or to write critic.

LeWe

Actually, it started the day before yesterday...

The server doesn't work at work... ah, the power supply (again!!!).

Plug the thing out, no network... aaaaaaaah... a few hours later, after testing every possible connection, cable... ah, it's the router! A server and a power supply on the same day???

Next day, setting up a new network (without one of the routers) for minimal service, and of I go to buy a new router etc... what do you think, puncture!!! Super! Can't unscrew the MF because the tool is totally rusted... one hour later I manage to change the tire...

Today, with the help of a new power supply, router etc... It seems that the hard drive is corrupted, had to copy folder by folder, and find out what's missing and try to recover from backups (I hope...we'll see tomorrow).

Anyway, what made my day (what makes everyday actually) is when I pick up my daughter at daycare, and she's jumping from happiness ;-)

Now, I can't upload anything to 1X... but that will not ruin my day...

School.
Mi profesora de español me dice que no puedo hacer su classe para los dos años que vienen porque escribi un examen de mal calidad. Jetzt muss ich immer noch Deutsch nehmen bis Juli 2012.
And I'm preparing to be rejected from taking art next year because I can't draw and chemistry because I can't count. Grrrrr....

Gut! :-)

We could also say: Bien! :-)

Stephan

Today in plane crash we lost our President ...
this is terrible....
hardly to find any words....

Very sorry to hear that Monique.

Do you suspect there could have been foul play or it's just a terrible accident?

According to the BBC (which I take with a pinch of salt) he was opposed rapid free-market reforms and favoured retaining social welfare programmes.

Best wishes.
Bob

Watching a programme last night about James Lovelock, the guy who put forward the Gaia hypothesis. A fascintaing and very clever man, but he has such a bleak view of what will happen to the Earth in the next ten to one hundred years, and he has a habit of being right. . . Thoroughly depressing.
I need to read some good counter arguments I think. There must be some people who have a more positive take on what we can actually do to prevent the awful scenario he is picturing. . .
Jon

ps, if anyone is interested, I did wonder about the place of man in his Gaia idea. I mean, if he is positing that the Earth is a self regulating system, then all life, including us, is a part of that. So what we are doing, (pollution etc) should presumably be considered as part of that system. (maybe mankind's self destruction is the best thing for the planet?) Unless he is saying that there was point at which mankind 'fell' in a biblical sense, and kind of opted out of the system. If so, when, why, how and who says so, and doesn't that mess up the theory?

Just arrived from Qatar in Muscat - unfortunately my baggage wanted to extend the stay in Doha :-(
Tomorrow morning I have very early a meeting with the royal architects - in Jeans and T-Shirt .....
Does anybody know at what time the shopping malls in Muscat will open :-) ????
Go sleep now ...
Thomas

Oh no Thomas :( That is real bad luck - Wish you the best for tomorrow!

That sucks Thomas. Maybe you tell them it's your religious attire and then they will respect it no matter how ridiculous it is. After all, they expect the same when they come to visit us :))) Good luck!

The paparazzi, that disturbed my model-shooting:



Anybody, who knows the intruder?

Lars :-)

You sure that's a documentary shot?? Looks staged to me...BTW, beautiful shot of a beautiful lady!

The heat, my swollen leg, and getting a mosquito bit on it. now it itches. Hey I hear if you scratch it you go blind. That's not good if you ant to see your images as you shoot. But if we do Juxtaposition, hell just point at a sound and someone can tell you you shot the most incredible moment of a truck honking at a moped rider in a short skirt.

Wings. Get some 'allicin' cream (or spray) for that leg and it'll heal up a treat.

All natural of course ;^)

B

My son was in a minor car accident today, he is OK but, LOOK OUT!! There goes my insurance premium!!

Glad he is OK Clyde.
B

The piece of dust which stood there on the sensor of my camera and I see him at every wonderful landscape I shoot and the nevereneding cleaning story goes on

May be the BEST part of having upgraded a couple of years ago to the D90...ultrasonic baby!!

No no Wings, too much sex and you go blind. Which I think must be true considering my eye sight has been improving lately.... :-(((

;-)

JP

See, I told you guys this community was not only perfectly capable of self manipulation, but also of self moderation...

No no, you get blind from "self manipulation" ;-)

To find the whole "I'm missing Onexposure" thread deleted.

You can't be serious !! Have you looked everywhere?

They would never have done that Balazs. I shall get into that forum archive and find it.

Yes - you seem to be correct Balazs.

Ralf or Jacob: did you instruct to have that thread deleted, and if you did, for what constructive purpose?

Surely I am entitled to ask for a reply. Not?

Andre

Alternatively: Please reinstate that thread. It was meant as constructive measure, and many members mentioned that it is good to hear others speak frankly and from the heart. Should this free talking somehow be a threat, then frankly I shall have to reconsider my enthusiasm to support you gallery as from tomorrow. And I really mean it. Surely that will come as no loss to you, but it will be a great loss for me.
I have been to boot camp, but I never envisaged that I shall be back there when I pursue a creative outlet.
Had I missed the tread in the archives, I aplogise. Had I not, please re-instate this as it was before in full.

WTF?????????????????????

On a second thought, seriously, this is like spitting in our faces, that one was a very constructive talk. What kind place is this? a Swedish gulag or what? Jacob, Ralf could you please explain what this is about and please, reinstate that full thread???

Hey my chicken critique got deleted. How funny. Well the owner and I have had a few laughs over the picture. What's clear to me are monitors have no clue of the good relationships people have here. Oh gee. I do like the monitors here as well. :))))))) and the Senior monitors too.

Closing the thread made sense because it was going very off-topic, but deleting it completely - and the "call for screeners" too, by the way - means that certain people want to clear all any and traces of our initiative.



No you are not, and this message (which I received not now but a while ago) should explain why:

"As the "big founders" sayd before, 1X is not a comunity site, but a company that give services to pay members, with internal RULES, and i agree with that RULES, AND i don´t be all the time reading idiot things about screening, screeners, policy, philosofic anarchysts, etc etc etc ."

Message from gulag headquarters :

Or this topic cameback to normal, or will be looked imediatly in NEXT OFFTOPIC POST. If you need to know what happens with killed threads, follow rules and just contact crew (founders) or moderators (can be me).

Thanks

Kiss my ass Rui.