They named an airport for David Foster Wallace? That's nice.
I should mention that all the non-peace-sign fridge magnets—including the armadillo with a cowboy hat and lasso—went for eight bucks, so I think we caught a sale. Peace is cheap in Texas.
Isn't a Texas peace magnet going to be polarizing?
All we are saying is give Texas a chance.
Is there some meaning to the half-red, half-pink background in the lower aspect?
If the question is why do I feel miserable when I fly, it's probably part of the answer.
Only two things in the world are inevitable: peace and Texas.
I don't know, it just irritates me. What does Texas have to do with peace? Why does it say "Texas" at the bottom there? Can you imagine a like fridge magnet saying, oh, "New Jersey" below the peace sign? It would be weird.
Can you imagine a like fridge magnet saying, oh, "New Jersey" below the peace sign? It would be weird.
Well, the New Jersey flag isn't really simple enough for superposing a peace sign on it to work. Colorado might make an interesting one.
half-red, half-pink background
It's half-red/half-white. Like the Texas flag. I'm just a crappy cell-phone photographer.
I tried to take a picture of the Goodyear blimp with my cell-phone and you couldn't even see the blimp. I suppose without a zoom lens, it was a hopeless attempt.
13: Yeah, because blimps are so small.
13-14: I took a photo of the Goodyear blimp as it soared above the LA skyline. Said dirigible is notably smaller than the City of Angels.
The blimp was miles away. Width-wise, it probably occupied less than 1/20 degree of the picture.
It's surprising the focal length you actually need to create a decent frame filling shot of a blimp, or anything similarly distant. I've used a 300mm lens on an APS-C format SLR [so roughly 450mm equivalent on a 35mm camera] and that's not enough unless you are already pretty close.
I don't think my cell phone is 450mm thick.
Modern camera lenses use optical tricks to 'fold' the length of the lens, so a modern 500mm telephoto* lens isn't usually 500mm long. So small digital cameras can have lenses much longer in apparent focal length than you'd think. But yeah, 500mm equivalent in a phone would be daft.
* having a focal length longer than the physical length of the lens is what telephoto actually means. Older long lenses aren't actually telephoto lenses. A 90mm Leica lens is 90mm long.
My dad had one of these. The camera had a cord with beads so you could get the document the right distance from the camera.
Yeah, they are cool. A friend has one. I have negative holders for my enlarger that'll take subminiature negatives from cameras like the Minox, and the 16mm formats like the Minoltas and the various soviet 'spy' cameras although I've never used them.
Good quality subminiature cameras have to have amazing lenses as you don't have the leeway you do with larger formats.
10: It would be weird for New Jersey, but in Texas state symbols, outlines, etc. are so commonly used as to be essentially an upbeat backdrop. I interpret this magnet to mean "Yay peace, BTW I'm one of us and not a terrist."
On the subject of Texas, is there a whiplash lawyer in the house?
A man, a magnet, sex at noon, Texas.
Indiana haute cuisine
The cheeseburger fried between two Krispy Kremes or the deep-fried Kraft Mac-and-cheese? Can we haz ordurves?
12: It's half-red/half-white. Like the Texas flag. I'm just a crappy cell-phone photographer.
Oh! Sorry, then, nevermind.
23: in Texas state symbols, outlines, etc. are so commonly used as to be essentially an upbeat backdrop.
I was having a weird conceptual foreground/background problem about it: I chiefly registered "Peace!" and then was trying to fit "Texas" in with that, but actually I think it's supposed to be "Texas!" with Peace appended. Gotta try to think like a Texan about these matters.
It still looks kinda Commie to me, though. The more I look at it, the more I like it.
Someone is flying their freak flag, and good on them.
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['Us freaks have to stick together.']
In about 2006, Samsung did a mobile phone with a (then unheard of) 7 megapixel camera with a large zoom lens. It literally looked like the front end of a cheapish DSLR glued onto the back of a 2006-era smartphone. I almost wished it well just because it was so fugly.
I used to have a K800i, which had a surprisingly decent fixed-focal length camera on it. I mean, crap compared to an actual camera, but for snaps it was much better than the phones I (and my wife) have had since and it had a decent flash so drunk photos from the pub were pretty good.
