I got filters.
It’s been forever since I posted. Here’s an image I took after a fairly disastrous trip to Coolum with Luke.
It’s not a great image (and colour tuning was done on my laptop screen), but it holds the dubious distinction of being the first image shot using my new H250 Cokin filter kit.
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Sexy time!
This screenshot was spotted on Reddit this evening.
For those unsure, it’s from The Fucking Weather.
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Stadium Drift: Round 2.
Luke and I headed down to the Gold Coast to check out Round 2 of the Stadium Drift Australia championship. Most drifting in Queensland is done at night (empty industrial areas notwithstanding), so this daytime event was a good opportunity to try my hand at motorsport photography. The aim was not to create images of just cars, but ones that really showed what drift racing is like from the sidelines.
The best photos from the day are viewable on Fluidr and Flickr.
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Oh Jesus..
Can a fundamentalist get so far into their frame of reference that they don’t notice their “distended stomach” is more of a “giant cock”?
Yes.
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If you only read one essay today…
…make it Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist, by Bryan Caplan.
I used to have a half-interest in Austrian Economics. The idea that utility is unquantifiable always made me slightly uncomfortable with the seemingly-quantified way in which neoclassical microeconomics uses it. It had not occurred to me that whilst the simple charts and graphs we use imply ordinality they don’t necessarily imply cardinality. This made me feel a whole lot better. Utility functions are cool again!
There are other principles that are soundly destroyed in that piece (how Austrians address continuity etc.) that I hadn’t really considered (perhaps that’s a signal that I should be thinking more critically about what’s being taught to me?). In any case, it’s a good read if you want a perspective on some aspects of Austrian economics, and how they differ (or surprisingly, don’t differ) from neoclassical microeconomics.
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Things You Should Know: Relative Prices.
I’ve decided to add a new category to this blog: Things You Should Know. As you’d expect, it’s going to be about useful bits of information that I think everyone should know. I’ll try to add a new post every time I talk to someone who doesn’t know something that they should and also when I learn something new that I think is kind of important.
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Lrn2HDR.
It’s not often I get to drive through my hometown of Buderim. I took my brother back there today to visit a little nature reserve called Buderim Forest Park with our cameras. Mosquitoes notwithstanding, it was (and still is) a really nice area.
Since I was playing around with different exposure settings in my camera, I came home with a bunch of over- and under-exposed pics and decided to dabble in the black arts of High Dynamic Resolution images. Check out the two after the break and let me know what you think.
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Isaac Newton would fucking LOVE this guy.
I know it’s just carefully calculated physics and about a million hours of shooting footage, but this is still pretty amazing in my eyes.
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I’m Times New Roman.
This is stupid, I know. It’s facebook, spilling over into the internet-at-large. But I was curious, so I did the quiz. Suffice to say I have learned my lesson about taking internet quizzes. (No, I really haven’t).
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Bracketed Tax: A Guide.
Today I learned that not many people (even those around me who study business) actually know how much they get taxed, or how the Australian taxation system works. I’ve heard statements like “if you earn over $80,000, you’ll get taxed 40%, but under $80,000 you only get taxed 30%”.
If this was correct, a person earning $85,000 would take home $51,000, and a person earning $75,000 would take home $52,500. Why on earth would anyone accept a salary in between those two figures? I’ll tell you why. Because that’s not how the system works.
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