Since I am still up and do not know if I will get much time online tomorrow I wanted to start this thread!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSTY!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA!!!!

If I wasn't so tired - I would try to find some cool gif - I will leave that up to the gang tomorrow!!!

Some cakes please!!!!

To the both of you: Have a good day with lots of presents

Linda


Rusty


2 u both!

Happy Birthday Rusty and Linda!!!!

Well you beat me to it Mary Igor and Eileen, you guys sure are Early Birds!!!
I got up early to bake a couple of cakes and I must say I think they came out pretty good.. so without further ado......
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA H.
and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSTY C.

oops sorry Diana, didn't mean to leave you out..Good Morning to you all

Happy Birthday, Linda and Rusty!!!
LaDonna

Rusty & Linda ! ! ! !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSTY


HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA

sjoske

I'm so

You've warmed my cold winter birthday. You're in my heart, buddies!

Rusty and Linda, hope you have a great birthday. Stay warm and don't slip on the ice.

I'm bummed this morning, still having trouble with the computer. This Photoshop problem is still kicking my butt. I can't resize or sharpen both of which are pretty critical.

The other problems are still no progress on the job front and my car is having a problem. My heater fan only works in high and not on the other speeds. Good thing I'm an electrical engineer which has not helped even a little. You would think it's a fuse, NOT. Stinking Japanese engineers, there are fuses scattered all around this car and none of them are for the fan.

Enough of my problems, we had a great time at the Bett Midler show on Tuesday. She is a great entertainer and a hoot. Here's some pictures I managed to get (and through Photoshop, it only took three re-boots to get these).

glad you had fun Cecil and sorry about all your other stuff going on or rather not going on!!!
Hey the Divine Ms. M is pretty good for 59 years old!!!

Linda & Rusty!

May you both have an exceptionally wonderful day may all your birthday wishes come true.

Here's a present for you

Cecil, Bette is my hero. She is looking good! Did she do the mermaid in a wheelchair thing? LOL

Camera God - what can you tell me about digital cameras with telephoto? My Olympus macro is so wonderful but the 10x (really 3x optical and blah blah blah) zoom/telephoto really doesn't pull things in much. It's great for cropping scenery shots and far mountains but not for taking bird pix in a tree over there. Are they affordable yet?

I decided to take today off from working on my gravestone book and play. Dadz gave me a scanner a couple years ago but it was USB so I couldn't use it til I got my PC back from the dox last month.



So I decided my birthday was a good day to hippity hop down memory lane and pulled out a box of unorganized photos I haven't looked at in a decade or more. I didn't even know this photo existed - it was an 8x10 tucked in behind some of my parents' wedding pictures in an album.


Easter... don't look, Ethel!

Yes, Bett did a long section as a mermaid. "Fin on Broadway", very funny stuff.

Rusty, the short answer is NO. They make 10x digital but for wildlife that's not enough, certainely better than 3x. The only way to do that properly is to get a digital SLR and get a long lens. Big bucks, the camera is over a grand. Thats bad enough but to then take it under water will triple the price. What I keep meaning to do is use my old 35mm with a 500 mm lens.

Maybe down the road they will come down in price.

The other problem I forgot earlier is my camera is screwing up again. It's sticking in night mode again, it's always something.

WHOOOOOAAAAAAAA !!!

Is that you Rusty??????

Dang , do you look great in them boots .

Wouldn't that be a great thread: Embarrassing kiddo pictures???
( I'll have to go find some of me tooooooo

sjoske

Ain't there just something about a chick in cowboy boots, Jos! Yee-haw!

Cecil - but a 10x (say, one o the new Canons) would it be three times more zoomy than my 10x Olympus - (which ishave digital/half optical). Am I making sense? I don't really get the digital/optical thing yet.

I hear ya about the one thing after another. The roof is done ($$$$$$$), my car is dead for the time being, the PC didn't wipe us out but it wasn't a cheap fix. Hope I don't have go get a real job.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSTY AND LINDA!!!!

Cecil, hang in there buddy...

Birthday Girl... Here is the 'skinny' from the know-it-all (NOT!!!)

An optical zoom uses lens optics to bring subjects closer...as in a 500mm telephote lens used on a 35mm camers.

A digital zoom sounds really new tech, but it was a digital video invention. Digital zoom does not really zoom as an optical lens.

It simulates optical zooming by cropping a portion of image you see in the viewfinder and enlarges the image you see. This bit of trickery results in a loss of image res.

Go for a higher optical zoom.

Aunt Blabby

I ar a good spller toDAy.

Happy Birthday, Rusty and Linda!!!

Fish farting may not just be hot air... your science dollars at work!

NewScientist.com news service

Biologists have linked a mysterious, underwater farting sound to bubbles coming out of a herring's anus. No fish had been known to emit sound from its anus nor to be capable of producing such a high-pitched noise.

"It sounds just like a high-pitched raspberry," says Ben Wilson of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Wilson and his colleagues cannot be sure why herring make this sound, but initial research suggests that it might explain the puzzle of how shoals keep together after dark.

Grunts and buzzes

Fish are known to call out to potential mates with low "grunts and buzzes", produced by wobbling a balloon of air called the swim bladder located in the abdomen. The swim bladder inflates and deflates to adjust the fish's buoyancy.

The biologists initially assumed that the swim bladder was also producing the high-pitched sound they had detected. But then they noticed that a stream of bubbles expelled from the fish's anus corresponded exactly with the timing of the noise. So a more likely cause was air escaping from the swim bladder through the anus.

It was at this point that the team named the noise Fast Repetitive Tick (FRT). But Wilson points that, unlike a human fart, the sounds are probably not caused by digestive gases because the number of sounds does not change when the fish are fed.

LMBO Rusty!

Thank you, buddies! It was fun checking in all day to see who stopped by my birthday party. Wonder if Linda will remember me as she par-tays?

We even got to wear party hats today!



Thank you for the lo-tek explanation! As Ricky used to say, "Lucy, you splain good!"

Try again.

and

Rusty... My lo-tek pleasure

Tell us what you did to celebrate your Nativity Day!!

Aunt Blabby, spllr xtroordinair

Happy Happy Birthday ,Sweet Rusty!!

XOXOXO,
margarite

......and a very Happy Birthday to you too, Linda!!


margarite

Great photos of Bette's show! Rusty I like your photos! I hope that you both , Rusty and Linda, had wonderful birthdays today!

Happy Birthday Rusty and Linda! Gosh....I still have Decembers year in review on my pic's file and have no cake!!!!! Please forgive me! You know I love ya both......! Hope your dayz were great.....cake and wogga...cake and wogga!
Rusty...great picture~! I think we had those curtains also! Wish I could give you both a hug.....Ok!...consider yourselves hugged.....

I'm gif challenged - so just a plain ole Happy Birthday to Rusty and Linda!

I think it's still the right day...yup, it is...
and something fun
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUSTY and LINDA

HAPPY (Belated) BIRTHDAY RUSTY AND LINDA!!!!
Sorry this is so late.
Yanagirl