I just went through and checked out the site and hit a bunch of the links… Honestly, with the nature of the data, there really is no reason to have more than the basics. Also, think of what Berkshire Hathaway is about and as far as maximizing everything that they can for the stake and stock-holders, it makes sense. Focus on the investment essentials, not the window dressing online.
I wish more businesses were oriented this way.
Ah! Okay. Thanks for the links.
Nice lens on that second video.
That is SO glorious.
I’ve been in the trades since 1980, and I won’t have a house built after the mid-80’s. That’s when the last of the mature timber lumber supply ran out. Now homes are built with selectively bred loblolly pine that gets 30 years worth of growth in 20 and it’s light like balsa. It’s garbage and part of why so many developments and new homes put up since the mid-90’s are now falling apart. I see SO much sheetrock slips, cracks, nail pops and settling it’s scary.
Oh, starting on a hill is absolute shit if you’re not good wth a clutch.
The hardest I ever drove was a '72 VW Super Beetle and it would roll backwards the millisecond I took my foot off the brake… You couldn’t slip the clutch and have it grab fast enough. Did learn how to heel-toe the clutch and brake on that and the last year I had it, got so good with shifting by ear, I seldom used the clutch once the car was rolling. That was cool. Could downshift w/o the clutch as well. It was a 4-speed so it had a wider wheel speed/motor speed range to play with in each gear.
Was almost as good with the no-clutch shifting on my '82 Celica (I really, really loved that car… rear wheel drive so it was drift city before I even knew that was a thing… and you BET I did… Sport Rally 5 transmission for the WIN!)
Now I’m on my third Impreza and they have such grabby clutches, tight transmissions and small shift windows for no-clutch, that I’ve never really made inroads with it.
I still drive like a maniac however.
You can buy land on the spot with cash where I’m thinking of. What balance is left I could cover with my own money. Just need to go to the town clerk’s office to notarize the sale and the paperwork is filed with the state for taxes, before 4:00pm the day of.
I’d buy it as well. That 1900 house - AND the 1931 house were built with virgin lumber and chances are no drywall, but plaster and lath walls. Solid construction and NO modern building supplies outgassing chemicals.
There MIGHT be lead paint and asbestos pipe lagging insulation, but both can be dealt with in a pinch by encapsulation until you get the funds to have removal.
Really?!
What lens and for what camera? Honestly asking.
…So you need to be able to drive stick…
Wait… wat? You mean you can’t?
Dude, driving a stick is fuuunnnn. Also, kids that steal cars don’t drive sticks so it’s waaaay less likely to be stolen by some damn 13 year old.
Lots of kids in the neighborhoods across town wherre the families now live. In the part of town where I am where it is all rental units filed with childless professionals and retirement homes for affluent snowbirds, there was no trick-or-treating. My husband grew up here and in this part of town it used to be crawling with kids in the 60’s and 70’s. Then again, that was before rich people “discovered” our city and snapped up all the affordable rentals and converted them to luxury condos.
Oh man, is it. That is exactly what got me banned from Reddit after 14 years. I’m on old.lemmy.zip and starting to spread out and check other instances and am finding so much delightful stuff! All of it is drama-free and I love it.
LOL!
We’ve all been there…
Oh sweet Jesus! LOL! This is me, though not with Linux, but trying to use Macports to get some damn program running and failing miserably because I couldn’t get the permissions set on the dependencies correctly.
Rake right to the face. FML.
Get pictures when they arrive!
Oh wow! Yeah, that’s a gorgeous animal!
Thank you for sharing those beautiful pictures!
If you ever get a chance to see any of his works in a gallery or museum… do it! The colors glow like nothing you’ve seen.
When I was little, I had an aunt that had one of the prints called Ecstasy - from 1929 - in her home.
Faded and of course stained (even though it was under glass) from the chain smoking she did.
It was one of her most cherished things, so I learned everything she knew about Parrish - she had an encyclopedic book on his technique which I read from cover to cover and as I got older, I tried my hand at glazing - a fierce technique of layering transparent and translucent color onto panel or canvas.
Each color separated by a clear coat so you look into the image, like stained glass, layers deep.
Years later, there was a comprehensive show of his pieces that came to the Currier Museum in New Hampshire (early 90’s IIRC) and I got tickets for myself and auntie…
I got to his most famous image - Daybreak - and the colors in it are beyond anything that any online photos show.
Not even the NY Lithographic Society that initially had rights to the image come close.
Pinks and magentas in the trees that frame the image that take your breath away. I stood in front of that painting for a good 15 minutes and have the colors burned into my mind.
At some point, if I can find a good enough high-res copy, I’m going to try my hand at doing a CMYK color separation of the image (with Photoshop or GIMP) and readjust to what it actually looks like. No one’s gotten it right. I’ve always been a bit of a colorist and zoom in on tint, tone and shade, so this challenge is one that hits my artistic monkeybone, big time.
I won’t even get into the landscapes of the New Hampshire winters and the evening light he recreated in those images. You can fall into them.
Definitely, again, if you ever get a chance to see a real Parrish… do it. It’s absolute magic.
Could you post a few? I’d love to see them!
Maxfield Parrish’s use of color theory and it’s application in his glazed paintings made using most often (esp. for commercial works made for print) cyan, magenta, hansa yellow and lamp black pigments in a translucent medium.
I have a cup of coffee (milk, no sugar) two fried eggs and a piece of buttered toast.
Hmmm. Interesting…