Flickr is 8 years old last week, and many people are posting their first photos they uploaded there in celebration. My first one isn't terribly exciting, but it's something!

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Spotted this by a doctor's office this morning. A bunch of other fun racks can be found around town as well.

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I can't recall if I've ever made apple pie before. I hope it works!

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For no particular reason, I just sat down and translated the first verse of Silent Night into Quenya. Calligraphy will be forthcoming if I can find the time, and haha maybe I should record this for my Christmas album.

quildë lómë
airë lómë

a fumë mi meneldëa sivë
a fumë mi meneldëa sivë

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FYI if you want to run Airdrop on a really old computer, you need to run the following two commands on both sending and receiving computers:


defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1
killall Finder


After that it should run normally. Not sure why this is disabled on older models, performance hit maybe?

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Super pretty high def motion controlled time lapse movies of Portland.

Found via reddit

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I took a couple of photos of the cleanup of the Occupy camps downtown the other day. Things sure got cleared out of there in a hurry. Currently the parks are all fenced off and guarded by many police.

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I'm looking forward to visiting my family around Christmas, but I am really not looking forward to going through security at the airport. Specifically I am really hesitant to put my self and family, especially my two children, through the scanners of unproven safety. The alternative pat-down is also an unsavory option, being invasive and humiliating. I wish taking a train were a viable option.

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Lucas here was born today at 11:45am pst and he was 9lbs 5oz and 20inches long. I do love him so.

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