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Wed, Dec. 17th, 2008, 03:56 pm
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How to pass six hours in a very stressful way.
As it turns out, if you run the scripts against the Active Directory for the migration process from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, it cleans up some of the permissions on the administrator groups.

So if you had removed some of the explicit denies - say for your WebDAV application to be able to write mail into the folder of a user different than the user it operates as - those explicit denies get added back in again!

I just reviewed a lot of code and tested a lot of silly things, saying "yeah, there is no way it could be this."

I am very stupid that it took 6 hours and the help of others through a thinking aloud process to track that down.

RAWK
While I was taking a shower this morning, I thought of my favorite band as a kid - The Cult. My favorite album was Sonic Temple. Other than every Beatles album, The Cult's Sonic Temple was the only tape I had to buy multiple times because I listened to it so much that I wore them out. Even bought the CD multiple times due to listening to it so much.

On the cover of Sonic Temple is the ultimate guitar player pose. It is a silhouette of Billy Duffy being totally awesome and windmilling his guitar. I used to draw that image on my folders in school, and it generally made me know deep inside that I would never be cool until I learned how to play guitar.

I went on to learn that Billy Duffy was basically copying Pete Townsend of The Who along the way of me leaning to play guitar.

I also came to realize that learning to play guitar actually didn't make me cool.

So as I was standing there in the shower, shampooing as it turns out at the time, it occurred to me that while the windmill is the ultimate in coolness for guitar poses, I wonder if other instruments have awesome poses you should really be hitting, particularly if you are playing live.

So I went through a series of them in my head and couldn't picture what they would be.

tuba?
bassoon?
clarinet?
french horn?

I'm fairly sure it is one of life's constants that there is just no possible way to play the french horn and look cool in the process.
There is no windmill for the bassoon.

Flattery Gets You Everywhere
I hit a new milestone that pleases me today. In the past two weeks, although particularly this week, I've had ten people ask me if I'm a pro photographer after seeing my extremely lame/small body of work to date. My usual response is "I wish" or "go fuck yourself."

The latter being my usual response to nearly anything, so it isn't really anything new here.

To blunt the high from people mistaking me for having another career than my real one, I also get about one or two people a day who friend me on Flickr and when I look at their images, they are either entirely composed of strangulation fetish images, or men dressed as women wearing stockings.

At least I have friends.
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Wed, Dec. 17th, 2008 09:43 pm (UTC)
[info]freelikebeer: Sax

You put one foot out in front of you, arch your back, and push the bottom of the horn as far away from you as you can. Definitively. No bassoons, though.

I'm ambivalent about your pictures. You definitely have skills [wasn't a big fan of the last model, though; she was pretty indistinct as a subject]. I'm waiting for you to lay a series on us, other than the 'On Black'. I want to see you take pictures of more things.

I cruised your flickr and saw a picture of your wife, and it was all blue and white, and close up. It was a completely different palette scale than I expect from you. I want to see more experimentation with distance. I also want you to come do my laundry and build me a new deck.
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Wed, Dec. 17th, 2008 09:53 pm (UTC)
[info]stenz: Re: Sax

I WANT A PONY!! lol

Yeah, I have all of these crazy ideas in my head, and if you just walk up to people and start yelling out the crazy ideas, they want no part of it. So I've found.

So I'm trying to work with the models so I have a group I can then later try out said crazy ideas.

Also, crazy ideas tend to require ... stuff. Like tables and broken glass, a horse, etc. I don't have that. Well, I have a table, and I can GET broken glass (I hope that doesn't come across like bragging).

I like hearing when things are bad. Hearing things are good tends to mean either:
1) people are just being nice
2) people have no concept of what is good
3) you are hitting the lowest common denominator
4) you have something good

And usually I'm not so good at #4, and usually unable to differentiate anyway.

I recently explained my art ideas to someone and they stopped talking to me, lol.

Well played, me.
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Thu, Dec. 18th, 2008 01:52 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous): Flattery

You photos *are* absolutely awesome. I used to think that I was a fairly decent photographer, but your model shots have made me realise that I am, in fact, pond scum.

Your "Twenty sided photography" logo is irritatingly large though.

Phil
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Thu, Dec. 18th, 2008 02:07 pm (UTC)
[info]stenz: Re: Flattery

Thanks!
I like to think that I'm pretty decent at drawing and painting, but horrible at photography - but I am trying to learn and basically approaching them all like paintings. (meaning that without Photoshop, 90% of my stuff is a lot worse)

The logo obviously would never be on there in any real versions of it, but when you give models the images, they rarely give proper attribution where it is used, and so you lose out on tons of potential contacts.
Similarly there are many cases of people claiming it is theirs.

I am under no illusion that anyone is going to steal it in such a way that I lose money off of it, but more just creative claim to it.

So unfortunately the watermark being annoying is "by design".

I debate not using it, or using a smaller one, each time I upload - and may still do.
I'm torn, as on the one hand, these are largely just studies and me testing out ideas for future shoots - so I don't feel too much attachment to them - which means I shouldn't even worry about anyone taking them - but on the other hand... I am/do.
I've had work (not photography, but sketches and paintings) physically stolen from shows in the past, and I considered it a form of flattery - but with the digital copies it could go anywhere and I suppose I greedily still want some control and/or recognition over that (which is arguably silly, but I am, if nothing else, arguably silly).
I am using it in the remote chance down the line that I will either need it legally, or if I want to start a side business thing, however silly that may be.

After Christmas I am going to get a bunch of these printed out and not have the logos on those (obviously just layers in Photoshop), and then give those to the models for their portfolios.



Edited at 2008-12-18 02:08 pm (UTC)
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