Official "Hot-houri" thread

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

We took 15 minutes of video to get 10 seconds of action.

When I saw that title I was sure you are talking about Ronda's last match.
During the weight ins, when I saw how cocky she was, I prayed to my all gods she would get beaten hard. Which she did.
Kinda pity, we kinda liked her...
We don't know yet if it is all about money, as all money were against Holly, and some people make/made huge money from betting, we like to believe it was not arranged and she got it for good. This will make the future more interesting... (and we don't like the betting sharks too much...)

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by davar55

So I invented the word antidisuncategorizabilizationalismophobiatizinglynessmentarianism.

You forgot antidisuncategorizabilizationalismophobiatizinglynessmentarianismization...
That is the process to join the antidisuncategorizabilizationalismophobiatizinglynessmentarianism movement.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Pretty good. He isn't house trained (yet) so that makes things interesting.



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About the video- there should be a setting on your camera for color temperature. It is likely set to Daylight (5000K), but being shot in warm-tone light sources. It should be possible to have more natural-looking coloration, without the intense yellow cast. This is the sort of thing that might well be set in a menu. If you find the setting, and it is an option, try Auto White Balance. In the dog scene, Incandescent (2700K-3000K) setting would render colors much better.

The color can also be corrected, to some extent, even in fairly basic, and free, video editing programs.

[davar55]

Originally Posted by LaurV

You forgot antidisuncategorizabilizationalismophobiatizinglynessmentarianismization...
That is the process to join the antidisuncategorizabilizationalismophobiatizinglynessmentarianism movement.

Cool.

I of course neglected to give my definition of the first word.

But your extended word is certainly defined correctly in terms of the first word.

Very nice.

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by kladner

The color can also be corrected, to some extent, even in fairly basic, and free, video editing programs.

The program we are using has options to adjust the color but we have yet to figure it out. (We haven't tried reading the documentation yet.)

We learned how to render cheesy titles today. (The bone in the video is a Nylabone.)





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[kladner]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

The program we are using has options to adjust the color but we have yet to figure it out. (We haven't tried reading the documentation yet.)

We learned how to render cheesy titles today. (The bone in the video is a Nylabone.)



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Aw! That's sooooo cute!

For colors, adjust the Yellow-Blue axis towards the Blue until things are closer to normal, then play with Magenta-Green to reduce the overall warmth of the image. Correctly perceiving colors from an image standpoint takes practice. In small amounts, Yellow and Green can be confusing.

One important point: Only ever adjust 2 of the three complimentary color pairs. Doing all three is like turning up all the bands on a graphic equalizer. Some parts of your changes will cancel each other.

[davar55]

There was once a thread entitled something like "One Word Posts" in which each entry was
supposed to relate to the previous entry.and contain a single word. Someone got in trouble
for posting too often too fast, in particular hundreds of times in a short period - the content
met the criteria of the thread, but was too temptingly easy to create.

This thread is a better idea, and its post content signal-to-noise ratio, while lower than in that
one-word-post thread (relative to the thread's purpose description), has a higher absolute
content per post quantification. Still, with the forum maturity we've all now gained, perhaps
this old thread can be restored, or better still, a new thread could combine both ideas by
requiring a one-word connection from post to post (mod can impose continuity) as well as
some related content to keep us honest. That way, we have a connectivity between posts,
and a prod for new post-to-post-relevant content. Could speed up the climb to 1000 posts.
And once we reach that "limit", we should move ourselves kit-and-caboodle to another
similarly categorized and named thread. It's hard to know where we're going, but we
definitely know how to get there.

[only_human]

Duolingo added Russian lessons for English speakers about a week ago. Serious language learners (more so than I, anyway) may benefit by also using the Memrise website for vocabulary drills.

The Duolingo site currently has a bug in which choosing to be given sentences in the Cyrillic alphabet can only be selected from a desktop computer browser, but once that selection is made, it is retained for tablet browser sessions.

Here is my profile: https://www.duolingo.com/only_human
They don't breakdown statistics like they used to but language levels are viewable in a scrollable window on the far right.

My current impression of Russian is that spoken words run together much like in French and don't glottaly stop the way German or Tagalog does. One polyglot said that French sentences feel like they linger in the air after being spoken.

My college experience with Japanese was that using a Roman alphabet for the first semester was a crutch that wasted much time and hindered future progress.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by only_human

My college experience with Japanese was that using a Roman alphabet for the first semester was a crutch that wasted much time and hindered future progress.

Subscribing to this. Valid a lot for Thai. You can learn it much faster if you learn the alphabet first, to be able to read the things around you, like street signs, advertising, blah blah. My current problem with Thai is the vocabulary, or more exactly, its absence. For a while I could read anything (newspapers, etc) but I could not understand anything. Or almost. I learned the alphabet and reading rules like one would learn the Ascii or Morse codes. But vocabulary means a lot of practice, which, behind the vegetables market and restricted work-related stuff in the office... nothing. But once you know to read, you learn new words very fast, at least because you remember how they look when they are written.

[only_human]

I get a kick out of hearing "OK" in otherwise unintelligible languages.
How 'OK' took over the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK

[kladner]

Serious language learners (more so than I, anyway) may benefit by also using the Memrise website for vocabulary drills.

I'll have to check that out. Repetitive drills are incredibly valuable, not only for vocabulary, but for grammar. I long for the same background in Spanish that I have for French: hours of language lab tapes.