Lament 3: Cry Hard With A Vengeance

[The Spartan]

I think I get what you're saying. "Black and white" is not the same as in the way we use "black and white" in colloquial usage which is actually grey?

[RyanThunder]

so I've been trying to be less angry at people for thinking so differently from me that I can't understand their wants at all.

it doesn't seem to be working

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I think I get what you're saying. "Black and white" is not the same as in the way we use "black and white" in colloquial usage which is actually grey?

This isn't difficult. Your black and white conversion sucks if there is not black and white in the photo. If black and white is not distinct and instead we see grey, you did it wrong.

[timmy]

Hence why weddings are jackpots for the classy black and white picture.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I'll post some of my photographs to see if you all get me.

Bad B&W:


The Lodge by JLTuckerPhoto, on Flickr


athena sad small by JLTuckerPhoto, on Flickr

Good B&W:


cami glamorous by JLTuckerPhoto, on Flickr


Thinking Man's Game by JLTuckerPhoto, on Flickr


danielle 1 bw-1 small by JLTuckerPhoto, on Flickr

[Oxymoron]

What's the difference here between "Athena" and "Danielle", in terms of good / bad B&W ?

[Agent Bert Macklin]

Athena has too much black and grey and not really instances of decent white. Look at Danielle's face. Quite a bit of white. Her left leg as well.

[Oxymoron]

So not enough contrast in the case of the first one, right ?

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I'd say so.

[RyanThunder]

Agh! My grandmother has Alzheimer's!

[Oxymoron]

Statistically, that, Parkinson or cancer...

That's a shit new to hear. Sorry for her.

[RyanThunder]

Honestly of all the ways a life could finish up, that is probably the worst I can conceive of.

[evilsoup]

yeah, sorry to hear that

[Phantasee]

My vent of feeling nauseous after eating a cheeseburger is pretty lame in the current context. Best wishes for your grandma, Ryan.

[RyanThunder]

A vent's a vent. Thanks for your well-wishes.

[Sandman]

I wish your family all the luck with this, and hope that whatever time you still have with her can be properly cherished.

[Gands]

I just farted and put a hole in my underpants.

I may be the greatest person who ever lived.

[Phantasee]

I just farted and put a hole in my underpants.

I may be the greatest person who ever lived.

http://youtu.be/PuWFH-fQ-CM

[xon]

Honestly of all the ways a life could finish up, that is probably the worst I can conceive of.

I had someone in my year group from highschool who was honestly smarter than me. Except after graduating he was caught in a car accident (as a passanger), and had to learn how to walk and talk again and now requires an adult caretaker for the rest of his life.

That type of mental crippling or degradation is frightening as all hell.

[Oxymoron]

Happy birthday to me.

woohoo

[evilsoup]

happy birthday frenchie

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u85wVlFBBW8

[Big Orangutan]

Terminal illness is still an on going blight despite our advances, I hope your grandmother departs with as much comfort and dignity as possible, RyanThunder.

I recently took a intelligence test in psychological survey exercise and I've perhaps got an IQ of 111 (with a verbal of 103). A bit above average, though I take the test's result with some caution.

[RyanThunder]

I don't really put any stock in those. Otherwise I'm in the top percentile of University of Toronto graduates. (and they did it twice! <_<)

[Infinity Biscuit]

From what I've read, IQ as a concept in general, not just the current testing, is bunk since there's no consistent form of unified intelligence. Like they did testing with brain scans and everything so it's tres science.

[Big Orangutan]

Yeah, like I said I take IQ scores with a degree of caution and its comes across as a form of reassurance. Also IQ results can easily be misused for dubious political purposes.