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BobHorowitz

@BobHorowitz@sfba.social

San Franciscan. Gay. Happy. Married. Snarky.

Retired IT manager.
Mouthy, unprofessional photographer.

Disclaimer: Mr. Horowitz regularly enjoys his martini hour between 5 and 9 pm. Posts originating during this period may contain flagrant errors and injudicious comments ranging from the amusing to the quite frankly libelous. Neither Mastodon, nor sadly Mr. Horowitz himself, will accept any liability for any consequences, real or imagined, from any of Mr. Horowitz's posts.

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The organ player at St. Mary's.

BobHorowitz,
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@DemocracySpot Thanks, Eddie.
I wish you could have heard Keenan play... sweet and gentle, then thundering... We chatted for a while after he was done practicing. At the time, he was still a student at Julliard.

There are some YouTube videos of him out there... hang on, gonna see if I can link to them.

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Telekinesis would be a cool superpower to have. So would invisibility, or even the ability to control the wind 👍

This, however, is just the stacking of two photos - one with Chris and an umbrella held high, and the other, taken seconds later, without them. I stacked and aligned the two shots in Photoshop, then erased Chris from his layer, allowing the path and plants from the other layer to bleed through. Easy peasy. And not AI generated.

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The track from Blairbuy to Dowies, across the heartland of the Machars. Lots of roe deer and badger prints in the mud.

BobHorowitz,
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@DarkGalloway Again, wonderful :)

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Caltrain.
35 seconds.
Potrero Hill.

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Life, through a crystal ball.

On a side note, it seems Mastodon has been unusually quiet recently. I hope everyone's doing well. Here, we are enjoying fine, spring-like weather.

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18+ elaterite, to roadtrip
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    BobHorowitz,
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    @elaterite This is very touching.

    BobHorowitz,
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    @elaterite It is nicely taken... and more importantly, by taking this picture, you honored the memorial.

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    Campus hijinks, 1973.
    Mary Donlon Hall student residence, Cornell University.

    SomeGadgetGuy, to random
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    When I can only share anecdotal experiences of working really hard on smartphone reviews only to have that content buried by Google and YouTube, I'm often told I "just need to make better content".
    Yet every day, we're hearing from more folks complaining about changes in search and algorithms harming smaller sites and publishers.
    This write up from HouseFresh is WELL detailed on how larger publishers are banking on their reputations to game Google search and sell garbage to their readers.
    https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

    You can't "better content" your way out of a problem like this when audience search is rigged against you.

    BobHorowitz,
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    @SomeGadgetGuy Oh FFS. The world doesn't need another listicle and sponsored content review site (CNET, I'm also looking at you).

    mumbles 10 Things I Hate About Listicles under his breath

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    🎬 Missing SF, watching TALES OF THE CITY (1993).

    ▶️ 3:18 scene with Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis plays in the post.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Uc-Y16cWo

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    @DemocracySpot I read the originals when they were serialized in the newspaper... and all of the books at least 5 times. And watched the series twice. This was our lives, Eddie. I can tell from your pictures you have published about your life in SF.

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    @DemocracySpot I used to say hi to Army when we both worked out at City Athletic Club on 17th and Market.

    And yeah, gay skate in El Sobrante, the nude beach at Lands End, the jock strap dance contest at the End Up, Hamburger Mary's, Grace Cathedral, Cliffs, the garden store on Clement, the rude waiter at Sam Wo's, the Sisters, Guerneville, Macondray Lane (Barbary Lane in the books), Brownie Mary... those were my life. And AIDS, of course. Tales got it exactly right.

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    @DemocracySpot oh cool... I saw Celluloid Closet, twice. Great documentary.

    The 1990s was a time when every gay person kept mental lists of who was a Friend of Dorothy :)

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    First bike ride in ages.

    Also, brakes no longer work..

    BobHorowitz,
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    @Rjdlandscapes They call it a ride, not a stop 👍

    BobHorowitz,
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    @Rjdlandscapes Please tell me you have an electric bike, RJD. Because you, of all people... ;)

    BobHorowitz,
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    @Rjdlandscapes 10K? Ouch.

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    Thanks, everyone, for your kind words. I started off feeling sad yesterday but, as the day wore on, I found myself at peace. We broke open a 2018 zin, made a toast to my mother, and then went about the day.

    Life's a journey.

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    Considering two major changes. Growing my hair out like LBJ in his last years, and watching the Star Trek movies in chron order.

    Not since the turn of the century have I not had a buzz cut, and I know bupkis about Star Trek.

    Feeling cute. Might delete later.

    BobHorowitz,
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    @DemocracySpot
    Hmmm. If it were me, I'd ixnay on the LBJ. And good luck staying awake throughout the original Star Trek Shatner movie. It was tedious.

    I recently rewatched all the Trek TV shows... excerpt the animated ones. Discovery was the best 👍

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    @DemocracySpot That's where I watched the series.

    BobHorowitz,
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    @DemocracySpot Also,
    Star Trek > Star wars.

    If I'm stomed, Tolkien beats them all.

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    On a deeply personal note, today would have been my mother's 98th birthday. I cannot shake her death 3 months ago from my mind. Especially today.

    At 3pm, my husband, my best friend, and I will make a toast and drink to her memory. Because mom liked her wine. The good stuff, not the stuff with bare feet and kangaroos on the label. And she liked the company it brought her. During the first Covid wave at her Independent Living Complex, when everyone was in lockdown and gatherings were forbidden, my mother and her friends would gather at 4pm in the fire escape stairwell and break out the good stuff. Imagine five old ladies, drinking wine, while a sixth (who wouldn't drink before 5pm) stood guard outside, on the lookout for the house staff.

    Anyway, we will drink to you, mom. You are always and will forever be in my heart.

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    BobHorowitz,
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    @yanncphoto Absolutely beautiful. And 10/10, would eat.
    Well done.

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    📷

    BobHorowitz,
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    @DemocracySpot Wow. This is lovely x 100.

    BobHorowitz, to photography
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    So I woke up to a stupidly saturated sunrise this morning... which fortunately didn't last very long because I really needed to pee, not stand outside taking pictures.

    Anyway, to make a long story short, I dropped my camera the other day... maybe two and a half feet from a bench onto the hardwood floor. The last time I did this, years ago, the lens mount bent and all subsequent pictures were slightly out of focus on the left side of the frame. I don't think that happened this time, but it's going to take some testing to be sure. This first shot looks okay, so fingers crossed.

    BobHorowitz,
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    @promovicz If I view this as "well, this is just a snapshot of what I'm seeing" then I'm okay with it. But if I get all "I wanna be Robert Frank" then I feel like I should heave my camera into the ocean and talk a long walkabout until I recover my senses.

    Anyway, since Mastodon has turned into more of a blog of stuff I see and bits of life, I try not to be too harsh on myself. Sunrises and sunsets are ok, though admittedly cliche.

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