And the neighbour's cat. :P
All are welcome here!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
*Sobs*
Oh dear! I am so bummed about this. : (
I accidentally knocked my camera off a ledge this morning... it fell three feet and hit pavement, knocking the lens-housing off. With some fiddling, it still operates.... but no zoom, focusing is a pain in the neck, and all photos have that stupid black pseudo-vignetting around the edges! It is unwieldy, because I have to hold the pieces in place while shooting. Lol.
Eventually I will be able to get it repaired, but in the meantime... I'm distraught! I have been shooting with this camera for 6 years now, it has always served me well. My first camera, a hand-me-down from someone I love dearly, the camera I've learned with. And I busted it! :O
>_<
I'm getting a new one soon anyways, but still. : (
I had hoped to continue shooting with this one despite.
I accidentally knocked my camera off a ledge this morning... it fell three feet and hit pavement, knocking the lens-housing off. With some fiddling, it still operates.... but no zoom, focusing is a pain in the neck, and all photos have that stupid black pseudo-vignetting around the edges! It is unwieldy, because I have to hold the pieces in place while shooting. Lol.
Eventually I will be able to get it repaired, but in the meantime... I'm distraught! I have been shooting with this camera for 6 years now, it has always served me well. My first camera, a hand-me-down from someone I love dearly, the camera I've learned with. And I busted it! :O
>_<
I'm getting a new one soon anyways, but still. : (
I had hoped to continue shooting with this one despite.
Lost
In dreams it's come back to haunt me...
I wish I knew how you've been.
I just want you to know I still care about you.
Do you know how long it's been?
I wish that I could tell you,
I still think of you every day.
Will our paths ever cross again?
I hope they will someday.
Do you miss me, as I do you, and will I ever know?
A part of me fears you'll forget me... a part of me hangs on and says No.
I wish I knew how you've been.
I just want you to know I still care about you.
Do you know how long it's been?
I wish that I could tell you,
I still think of you every day.
Will our paths ever cross again?
I hope they will someday.
Do you miss me, as I do you, and will I ever know?
A part of me fears you'll forget me... a part of me hangs on and says No.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Darkness
A good group died today. :(
Flickr Central (Censored). Last night a large dispute broke out involving a rogue member who had previously requested a moderator position. Hurling insults and derogatory comments at myself, our admin, and several other moderators, he was kicked 10 times before banning. I think 11 chances is a lot, don't you?
We thought it ended there, but sadly... no.
This morning I logged on to find all of the threads had been deleted, barring one joke thread started 14 months ago by our admin, the thread was titled: "This Group is Horrible". I knew immediately who it was... the only moderator we didn't know well, he was apparently buddies with the rogue member.
I fumed over this for a bit... after messaging our admin notifying him of this occurrence, I started a new thread: "I know who you are..."
The content: "And when I get a hold of our admin, you are history. I hope you're satisfied. What you have done is incredibly juvenile and we are not impressed".
2 hours later it was deleted. One of my co-moderators in the group began posting other threads, all of which were deleted. I checked membership and found that ALL the members had been removed! I was furious...
After a few more minutes of posting and deleted, the co-mod and I began spamming. He kept pace for a bit, deleting our threads, but we got ahead. He gave up at some point, and when all was said and done, we had 260 threads. I then messaged our admin with an update. Then headed off to carry on with my life...
I came back on this evening, to find our admin in a heightened state of distress. He quit the group and it is now pretty much shut down. We had hoped to salvage it, but apparently this is not to be.
This has happened time and time again... so many groups hijacked by troll admins. I've never heard of a case where it was a moderator before!
Let this be a lesson to all... choose your administrative teams carefully!
Goodbye FCC, and all the fun we had there.
Flickr Central (Censored). Last night a large dispute broke out involving a rogue member who had previously requested a moderator position. Hurling insults and derogatory comments at myself, our admin, and several other moderators, he was kicked 10 times before banning. I think 11 chances is a lot, don't you?
We thought it ended there, but sadly... no.
This morning I logged on to find all of the threads had been deleted, barring one joke thread started 14 months ago by our admin, the thread was titled: "This Group is Horrible". I knew immediately who it was... the only moderator we didn't know well, he was apparently buddies with the rogue member.
I fumed over this for a bit... after messaging our admin notifying him of this occurrence, I started a new thread: "I know who you are..."
The content: "And when I get a hold of our admin, you are history. I hope you're satisfied. What you have done is incredibly juvenile and we are not impressed".
2 hours later it was deleted. One of my co-moderators in the group began posting other threads, all of which were deleted. I checked membership and found that ALL the members had been removed! I was furious...
After a few more minutes of posting and deleted, the co-mod and I began spamming. He kept pace for a bit, deleting our threads, but we got ahead. He gave up at some point, and when all was said and done, we had 260 threads. I then messaged our admin with an update. Then headed off to carry on with my life...
I came back on this evening, to find our admin in a heightened state of distress. He quit the group and it is now pretty much shut down. We had hoped to salvage it, but apparently this is not to be.
This has happened time and time again... so many groups hijacked by troll admins. I've never heard of a case where it was a moderator before!
Let this be a lesson to all... choose your administrative teams carefully!
Goodbye FCC, and all the fun we had there.
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