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Dear BranBigBrain,

How bad is it when you research a topic before and as you make a post, just so that you know that you are accurate when you do post a post on Lit?

Signed,
A question too many
 

Oye como va mi ritmo

A girl can hope!

I'm working on 5,000. I may have to celebrate once I get there.

You only have a few to go!

Must watch that again.

Love Chris Isaak...and Helen Christensen is pretty easy on the eyes.

Dear BranBigBrain,

How bad is it when you research a topic before and as you make a post, just so that you know that you are accurate when you do post a post on Lit?

Signed,
A question too many

Pretty bad. It's the PG. You shouldn't have any fear of posting. The GB OTOH is a different story.
 
I dunno BBB as I get older it is getting a lot easier to pee my pants...lol
 
Maybe I just meant that I laugh easier now.....ok..no but I tried. :D
 
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November 1972 Lenna Sjooblom Playboy Centerfold

Contribution to science/technology: Lena is the name given to a standard test image widely used in the field of image processing since 1973.It is a picture of Lena Söderberg, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker, cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine.

Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague’s conference paper. They got tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.


The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512×512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject’s shoulders.

This scan became one of the most used images in computer history. In a 1999 issue of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing “Lena” was used in three separate articles, and the picture continued to appear in scientific journals throughout the beginning of the 21st century. Lenna is so widely accepted in the image processing community that Söderberg was a guest at the 50th annual Conference of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) in 1997.The use of the photo in electronic imaging has been described as “clearly one of the most important events in [its] history”.
 
I've decided to post only in the threads that I've started. I'm not interested in playing the games on the PG or in any of the "I love me post here" threads, I don't follow anyone in AmPics, there isn't much that I am extremely interested in the Fetish & Sexuality thread, and the General Board is the General Board.

So if you want to interact with me, this is probably the place. If you don't, then carry on with your lit life and have fun. :cool:
 
Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues

I’ve been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I’ve cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways

We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell

I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms

I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song
To all those little girls and boys

Sometimes I wake up in the morning
The ginger lady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I hear you talking in my head

I’m not singing for the future
I’m not dreaming of the past
I’m not talking of the first time
I never think about the last

Now, the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there’s a light I hold before me
You’re the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams
 
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