What bemused you today?

[ABERS]

Quote from the Bradford sage today.

''Drawing is 50,000 years old. You don't give it up just because a photograph comes along."

David Hockney

How true.

[Hinfrance]

Supermarket special offer today on shower gel: double 250ml pack for only €4.21.

The only slight problem is that one 250ml bottle is €1.56.

[Oldboy]

Supermarket special offer today on shower gel: double 250ml pack for only €4.21.

The only slight problem is that one 250ml bottle is €1.56.

We get that all the time here. 

[ABERS]

Getting an email telling me that a member is following me. Thinking it is someone of a discerning nature  I decided to look look at his photostream and then discover that that I have joined a total of 9,281 other people he is following 

Quite a discerning chap!

[Reinardina]

Getting an email telling me that a member is following me. Thinking it is someone of a discerning nature  I decided to look look at his photostream and then discover that that I have joined a total of 9,281 other people he is following 

Quite a discerning chap!

And I bet he has 43,786 (or more) 'faves.'

I don't know the maximum number of followers one can have, but I once got an extensive mail from a Portuguese photographer, who was bowled over by my photos and desperate to follow me. Sadly he had reached the maximum number of unilateral contacts the site allowed. But, if I made him a contact of mine, he could add me to his list.
I think he had in the tens of thousands contacts. I politely turned him down.

[Reinardina]

WBMT: being interviewed by the local news about Christmas things like spending, shopping, shops and the city's Christmas decorations (non existent). Apart from the fact I hadn't overspent this Christmas (as if I would tell them if I had!), I could only be negative about the rest, so I'll probably end up on the cutting floor.

[Graham]

 Whenever, and I mean EVER I look at my watch to check the date It is ALWAYS quarter past something and the little box with the date in is covered by the minute hand! 

[Reinardina]

Whenever, and I mean EVER I look at my watch to check the date It is ALWAYS quarter past something and the little box with the date in is covered by the minute hand! 

We've got Sod's and Murphy's Law, maybe this is Graham's Law?

[spikeyjen]

Whenever, and I mean EVER I look at my watch to check the date It is ALWAYS quarter past something and the little box with the date in is covered by the minute hand! 

We've got Sod's and Murphy's Law, maybe this is Graham's Law?

maybe you are just becoming a little paranoid... that minute hand is out to get you!

[Hinfrance]

Don't worry Graham, it's just the horological equivalent of cupboard suck: the phenomenon whereby any small dropped object is immediately sucked as far as it is possible to get underneath the nearest immovable object.

There is also a phenomenon known as Corvette suck which states that wherever in a car park you leave a Corvette, and for no matter how short a period, when you return there will be a battered white van parked so close to the driver's door that you have to think really really thin to get back in.

And you should never dropped buttered toast, because we all know what happens then. It's OK to drop cats though.

[Graham]

Don't worry Graham, it's just the horological equivalent of cupboard suck: the phenomenon whereby any small dropped object is immediately sucked as far as it is possible to get underneath the nearest immovable object.

There is also a phenomenon known as Corvette suck which states that wherever in a car park you leave a Corvette, and for no matter how short a period, when you return there will be a battered white van parked so close to the driver's door that you have to think really really thin to get back in.

And you should never dropped buttered toast, because we all know what happens then. It's OK to drop cats though.

  If you were to tape some buttered toast to a cats back, then drop it from a suitable height, would you get a perpetually spinning cat?

[Hinfrance]

Only if you make sure that the toast (with butter) has the same mass as the cat and you drop them from an infinite height.

[Oldboy]

The good news! 

From 12th March Hasselblad are giving away a FREE copy of Adobe Lightroom 4 with every H4D medium format camera purchase.

The bad news! 

The camera costs £34,794! 

[spikeyjen]

that's funny Oldboy...

[Reinardina]

I find it tragic.