{"id":1272,"date":"2009-05-20T18:09:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2009-05-20T18:09:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:09:41","slug":"nerdism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1272","title":{"rendered":"Nerdism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize this is not the sort of display behavior that brings all the girls to the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">yard<\/span> lek, but I&#8217;m OK with that. I yam what I yam, as a famous mariner once said. From back to front &#8211; fancy Swiss aquarium filter foam scraps I&#8217;m saving for God knows what reason, an envelope full of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/blubberbot\/\">Blubberbot<\/a>, on top of the bot &#8211; a transmitter for (next thing down) a remote bownet release and finally an aquarium controller that is tasked with turning the lights over the vivaria on and off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2471\/3549127505_73dfc3fb8a_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2471\/3549127505_73dfc3fb8a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m messing around with a macro lens &#8211;\u00a0 also trying out an extension tube that will allow me even closer shots, but I haven&#8217;t gotten as far as the extension yet. I need to work on depth of field; in olden times that meant shrinking the aperture\/cranking up the f-stop with an attendant longer exposure time (if I remember correctly). Some thing may have changed as we switched from film to CCDs, but I&#8217;ll bet optics remain much the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A bamboo shoot<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3339\/3549871960_f804d2dd88_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3339\/3549871960_f804d2dd88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A tree peony<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2432\/3549062049_a7875cc28c_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2432\/3549062049_a7875cc28c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize this is not the sort of display behavior that brings all the girls to the yard lek, but I&#8217;m OK with that. I yam what I yam, as a famous mariner once said. From back to front &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-gearheadism","category-information-sys","category-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sdqxx-nerdism","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}